Hi all,

I'm still pre-op (only for 12 days more, yay!) but I'm posting here because I think I'll get a better response - basically what I want to know is:

What is a 'slider' food?

I have seen this term used a lot and I don't know what exactly it means. It's not a term my NUT uses.

Any help would be appreciated. I feel dumb not knowing.

Thanks!

I think we all refer to slider foods as foods that go down easily, we can eat a lot of them, and they have no nutritional value. In fact, pretty much all bad snack foods that keep you from losing weight, like:

• Potato chips
• Popcorn
• Ice Cream
• Cake/Cookies
• Crackers
• Candy

The healthy stuff like chicken will fill you up very quickly, but these slider foods seem to fit very well in our tiny tummies with no problem!

And make sure you avoid them as good as you can!! They most all have high calorie counts and add up quickly b/c they go in so easily and don't upset your stomach. I got stuck on a potato chip kick for days and it was ugly.

What I understand "slider" foods to be are foods that fit into the sleeve easily because they are soft and not porous and lack Fiber, so that would be anything with a lot of fat and little nutritional value -- like -- ice cream, pudding, Cookies, and last but not least cold pack processed cheese "food" in the container that I ate almost all over during a day the other day before I realized what was happening.

Slider foods go down fast and easy with very little complaint from the stomach but they contain way too many calories to be something you should really be eating.

These vary from person to person. For example an above poster mentioned popcorn -- not a problem for me, I couldn't eat popcorn without a tummy problem before I got sleeve, I haven't even bothered to try to get them in me now. However I've found lighter chips and Snacks to be a problem -- like pirates booty which I can eat a LOT of because there's just really not much to the stuff besides carbs and flavoring.

I wouldn't call pizza a slider food because that crust can get stuck, expand in your esophagus, and shut down the crazy pretty fast. But you might not have any such luck with a malted milkshake.

"shut down the crazy"-----------I am totally stealing that line! LOL

Thanks all for all your responses! I have a much better idea of what this term means now.

Have a happy holiday weekend!

Bryn

I always thought of a slider food like a bean burrito. Something you don't chew much and it just slides down. Same as a high calorie shake. Mac n cheese would be a slider food.

What I understand "slider" foods to be are foods that fit into the sleeve easily because they are soft and not porous and lack fiber, so that would be anything with a lot of fat and little nutritional value -- like -- ice cream, pudding, Cookies, and last but not least cold pack processed cheese "food" in the container that I ate almost all over during a day the other day before I realized what was happening.

Slider foods go down fast and easy with very little complaint from the stomach but they contain way too many calories to be something you should really be eating.

These vary from person to person. For example an above poster mentioned popcorn -- not a problem for me, I couldn't eat popcorn without a tummy problem before I got sleeve, I haven't even bothered to try to get them in me now. However I've found lighter chips and Snacks to be a problem -- like pirates booty which I can eat a LOT of because there's just really not much to the stuff besides carbs and flavoring.

I wouldn't call pizza a slider food because that crust can get stuck, expand in your esophagus, and shut down the crazy pretty fast. But you might not have any such luck with a malted milkshake.

This is what I've read too. puddings, ice cream, cream cheese...things that "slide" down the throat. I've also heard of gravy and ranch being used to coat things to make them slide easier.