Hi Everyone,

I am on the 6 month pre-op diet/lifestyle change. My program is having me count calories as well as servings of Proteins, veggies, starch, etc... Does anyone have to do this? The calculating the servings as well and figuring the calories is frustrating..... (for instance, I have no idea how many starches and proteins are in a lean cuisine.....) :thumbup:

Thanks,

Kiki

I wonder if there is a speciality diabetics website that might be able to convert the numbers for you.

Preband I ate WW, Lean Cusine, etc all time (live alone never cook). One thing to keep in mind is that they tend to be high carbs low Protein which is not what you want post band. Even on their websites they don't even consider them full meals. They say that in order to get a completely nutritional lunch is to add a veggie or salad. Lean Cusine has a larger size meal in different flavors. For the average person including us preband 7 oz is not enough to fill anyone up.

My nutritionist is having me follow the post operation post liquid diet. And I do have to say it's working.

I have an apple and a cheese stick in the morning for breakfast. I have a low cal/carb high protien shake for lunch with some veggies. And for dinner 4-6 oz's of chicken/fish/game. Even if I make a casserole I can have a cup of it and some veggies. The basic breakdown is 30 carbs for breakfast, 30 carbs for lunch and 30 for dinner. 0-15 for a mid morning snack and 0-15 carb for afternoon snack.

The veggies I love are "freebies", like radishes and cucumbers. And even three cups of popcorn is only 15 carbs, and 3 cups of popcorn is a good size snack. I haven't been too hungry and it's been really easy to follow. If you would like some more foods that you can eat on this just let me know.

All prepackaged foods have nutritional data on the back of them...... starches are the same as carbohydrates. The protein will be listed as well as the serving size and calories per serving. A great site for keeping track and looking items up is livestrong.com. It can seem confusing at first, but you'll get the hang of it!!!!!! I personally try to say away from prepared frozen dinners. Too high in sodium. I take 30 minutes every day and make my meals for the day.... much more flavor than anything pre packaged and definitely fresher.