Do sleevers have to worry about Slider foods ? Having survey on August 7th and very new to this.

Yes .... we all have slider foods and try to avoid the LIKE THE PLAGUE !!! . for me it is popcorn and cheesepuffs.

yes, very much so...mines are chips, ice cream (in any forms), anything from starbucks, and popcorn...

Those are the ones I have to proceed with caution, because once I get a taste of it, I want more and more...

Ice cream is my slider. Oh yea oh yea oh yea !!!! LOVE IT!!!!

Can someone define what a "slider" food is??

I'm still new, but I believe that slider food is defined as something that gives you very little nutrition, but high calories (mostly, the crap that made us obese in the first place) i.e. Chips, icecream, candy.....junk.

It is food that slides down easily giving the sleeve no trouble but high incalories or bad fats and not good for us. Ice cream being a common slider food.

Any food that is not 'dense' and is nutritionally void. For instance, I can eat a HUGE (well, in sleeve standards) bowl of potato chips, Cheetos, popcorn, even donuts, but only a very small amount of chicken breast. So slider foods have a VERY HIGH caloric value, which is worse because we can eat more than other foods, and they don't stay in your tummy very long, making you feel full and satisfied like 'real food'. Hence, the name slider....they go down way too easy, and go through the tummy way to easy.

And, they're a very large danger to WLS patients because mentally we sometime still want to 'eat' or at least eat in quantity, and we can do that with slider foods, so it appeases the food addict in us. Many doctors/articles say its the number one reason WLS surgeries fail...we can 'eat through' our weight loss surgeries by eating and drinking sliders and gain our weight back. They are very dangerous...I know because I was stuck on them for quite some time and have not lost any weight in 6 months (especially Doritos and potato chips). Ugh.

Don't ever start with them, stay as far away as you can, or you may be like me and figure out, "Hmmmm, I can still eat these like before, and look, I can eat MORE".

Thank you everyone for your responses!!!

....And' date=' they're a very large danger to WLS patients because mentally we sometime still want to 'eat' or at least eat in quantity, and we can do that with slider foods, so it appeases the food addict in us. Many doctors/articles say its the number one reason WLS surgeries fail...we can 'eat through' our weight loss surgeries by eating and drinking sliders and gain our weight back. They are very dangerous...I know because I was stuck on them for quite some time and have not lost any weight in 6 months (especially Doritos and potato chips). Ugh.

Don't ever start with them, stay as far away as you can, or you may be like me and figure out, "Hmmmm, I can still eat these like before, and look, I can eat MORE".[/quote']

Please post this on all those "I'm 3 days post op, when can I eat pizza and hamburgers again?" threads.

Wow soon2be I've been on the same boat for 6 months how did u get back out? I'm 2 yrs in a wk.

R u serious butterthebean. You should take it day by day.

Thanks for this thread and the explanation - I needed it! I actually thought slider foods was like yogurt / prot drinks .. etc. Things that went down easy. But just discovered that I could eat corn chips/tortilla's as a slider food. Yikes! Wish I had never learned this. I will definitely move them to the "AVOID @ ALL COST" especially since I know they are a trigger food 4 me anyway! Back to the dense protein.

Here's another vote for ice cream - and I wasn't even much of an ice cream person pre-op, but now I find myself craving it way too often

Any food that is not 'dense' and is nutritionally void. For instance' date=' I can eat a HUGE (well, in sleeve standards) bowl of potato chips, Cheetos, popcorn, even donuts, but only a very small amount of chicken breast. So slider foods have a VERY HIGH caloric value, which is worse because we can eat more than other foods, and they don't stay in your tummy very long, making you feel full and satisfied like 'real food'. Hence, the name slider....they go down way too easy, and go through the tummy way to easy.

And, they're a very large danger to WLS patients because mentally we sometime still want to 'eat' or at least eat in quantity, and we can do that with slider foods, so it appeases the food addict in us. Many doctors/articles say its the number one reason WLS surgeries fail...we can 'eat through' our weight loss surgeries by eating and drinking sliders and gain our weight back. They are very dangerous...I know because I was stuck on them for quite some time and have not lost any weight in 6 months <img src='http://www.bariatricpal.com/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' /> (especially Doritos and potato chips). Ugh.

Don't ever start with them, stay as far away as you can, or you may be like me and figure out, "Hmmmm, I can still eat these like before, and look, I can eat MORE".[/quote']

Oh boy this is good info to have. I'm going to steer clear.

Im almost 7 weeks and cheetos are great, trying not to abuse them, there is not much space anyways, but dont want to create a habit. For the record I was not a ' cheetos lover ' before my sleeve. Just a happy slider! Lol

I'm still losing weight, 50lbs so far!