RVAGirl

I can't believe your eating bread. I'm almost 2 months out of sleeve surgery and my surgeon wont allow any bread, chips, or crackers. The reason is the bread fills you up and you wont be able to get your Protein in. Also you shouldn't be eating anything over 4 ounces in a meal sitting. It should be taking you about a hour to eat your meal. I can also eat mine faster if I wanted to but the thing is you have to pace yourself. You are in control. You have to teach yourself new eating habits that will make your weight loss successful. The slower you eat and the more you chew your food the fuller you feel. Just because you can eat normal and fast doesn't mean you should. You could make yourself really sick doing that. The surgeon should have gave you guidelines to follow for each week. The first 2 weeks out of my surgery I was on liquids only, the next 2 weeks I was on mashed or mushy foods. Then the 2 weeks after that I was allowed moist meats. Each meal was to be no more than 4 ounces. You should be measuring everything you eat. I can tell you aren't because I'm pretty sure you're not stuffing your Sub into a measuring cup. I was in the hospital with a lady that ate food she wasn't suppose to and it caused some problem with her and she had been in the hospital for 4 months because of it. She scared the crap out of me. I didn't want to be that person. If you're going to be successful with your weight loss and lifestyle change you MUST follow the measuring and food guidelines set by your surgeon. If you find you can't then you may have a food addiction or what they call "head hunger". It is when your head is telling you that you are hungry and you see all the "no no " foods and want them really bad, however your actual stomach isn't hungry. You can pop the staples in your stomach so I urge you to be careful and discuss with your doctor everything you're doing, your hunger level, and how you're feeling. Go to a food addiction counselor if you have to. I went a few times pre and post surgery to help with my head hunger and it made a huge difference. I wish you the best!

I'm a month and a half out of surgery and I think my surgeon would go nuts if I told him I ate Pork rinds. I've eaten them pre-surgery time to time but never post. I stick straight to the diet and eat only the foods given to me on the approved list. I'm just now getting into the "moist meats." I think chips and stuff like that are so high in sodium and personally I wouldn't want to go back to eating things that really don't serve my body any nutritional purpose. I can get Protein from a source with way less sodium then pork rinds. I personally don't think it's a smart idea. It's like resorting back to pre-surgery eating habits. I'm trying to use my surgery as a tool for a change of lifestyle and don't want to go back to all those old Snacks. I don't think I'd even be able to swallow one down even if i chewed it up to crumbs anyways.