It's almost two weeks until I can eat solid food again and I've been thinking about diets. Dr. Aceves' eating information is kind of freewheeling. His recommendations are to attempt to eat small amounts of Protein foods, veggies and fruit and to limit carbs because most breads and rolls and etc are hard to digest; stay away from sweets because of blood sugar, stay away from crackers, and you know -- junk.

That's not exactly a low carb diet although I've read some people here who seem to be on a serious lowcarb diet and I was wondering if there was a specific recommendation from your docs about that.

Also I've read almost nothing about fat. Cheeses, nut butters, olive oil, avoado and etc.

So what I want to know is how many people are flat out lowcarbing and how many people are just eating whatever will fit in their sleeve and gives them energy -- and also is there a problem specific to the sleeve when it comes to fat?

My program was pretty close to Aceves with a little more wiggle room for carbs, but I restricted carbs to no more than 30gr per day.

I had no fat guidelines, fat is needed for the body to process and function normally. I even remember through WW needing to get so many effin points from "oils/fats".

I low carbed it because I knew that is what would work for me. The body turns fat and Proteins into glucose for the brain to function so the controversy continues on if the brain needs carbohydrates to "function", or if limiting carbs forces the body to produce it's own glucose for brain function. I can tell you that my brain function wasn't effected by low carbing it, I was full of energy, and alert.

I never ate low or fat free. When evaluating nutrition labels, the carb, sodium and sugar counts of these products were sometime double the full fat version because they had to do something to make that fat-free crap taste good.

You may find a book I am reading helpful to you. It is the "Complete Idiots Guide to Eating Well after Weight Loss Surgery". If you are not familiar with the "Idiot's Guides" books, they are very similar to the "Dummies" books. I have learned a lot, and I thought I had been on enough diets that I really didn't need to get it.

It's almost two weeks until I can eat solid food again and I've been thinking about diets. Dr. Aceves' eating information is kind of freewheeling. His recommendations are to attempt to eat small amounts of Protein foods, veggies and fruit and to limit carbs because most breads and rolls and etc are hard to digest; stay away from sweets because of blood sugar, stay away from crackers, and you know -- junk.

That's not exactly a low carb diet although I've read some people here who seem to be on a serious lowcarb diet and I was wondering if there was a specific recommendation from your docs about that.

Also I've read almost nothing about fat. Cheeses, nut butters, olive oil, avoado and etc.

So what I want to know is how many people are flat out lowcarbing and how many people are just eating whatever will fit in their sleeve and gives them energy -- and also is there a problem specific to the sleeve when it comes to fat?

I'm not sure if I qualify for a "serious lowcarber" title but I keep carbs to below 30 gm/day. My doctor actually recommended more carbs (no specific number, but more veggies, bread etc.). It was more of my personal taste and I didn’t really feel like eating breads or rice etc. I can be happy eating protein all day. I'm around 4.5 months post op and even now pretty much all my carbs come from fruits or nuts. I've personally felt that my energy levels are more a factor of getting enough protein in. The low carb aspect hasn't really bothered me.

If you eat the way most of us do, i.e. protein first, then veggies, then carbs, your diet naturally becomes low carb--because by the time you get to them you're almost full. You do need fats, and lots of fluids (you don't have to just drink water, though.) Don't stress too much over the numbers, counting carbs or calories, or fat grams. This way of eating is easy to remember and works well.

I eat basic low carb, but I have added a little bit of oatmeal (plain) every day. It seems to keep things moving, if you know what I mean :-)

My personal guidelines: Protein first - usually meat or cheese. I don't pay any attention to fat content - that means regular cheese, 4% cottage cheese, regular cream cheese, etc. The only vegetable that I really get in occasionally is avocado and only a slice. I don't eat any bread, Pasta, rice, candy, sugar, or cake. Right now, I am pretty satisfied with my routine and have not had any overt craving for those things. To be honest, I'm scared that bread will give me a terrible stomach ache and I am trying to eat with comfort in mind, more than anything.

The guidelines I got from my regular doc had me adding toast and bread pretty early and it just didn't make sense to me.

Like other posters say above, you eat so little that once you have your protein, there isn't really room for anything else.

Good luck--

Lara

how many people are just eating whatever will fit in their sleeve and gives them energy -- and also is there a problem specific to the sleeve when it comes to fat?

I'm essentially eating whatever fits in my sleeve and gives me energy, although I try to eat more Protein, choose whole grains rather than refined, drink no-sugar-added juices or smoothies instead of pop, etc. But I'm definitely not on any sort of diet, I've had enough of those over my lifetime.

I am following a sort of South Beach diet style, low glycemic index rather than strictly low carb.Im a lactose intolerant lacto/ovo vegetarian, so low carb is pretty hard to follow.