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

If you love some of these foods especially Cheetos or cookies, buy the Gerber baby food brand. I buy the Gerber graduates cookies and Cheetos and they are so good. There's almost no fat and calories and they r made for babies so they are good to suck on and the dissolve. I love sharing these with my nephew!!

Sliders are neither good nor bad - they just are. Most people focus on the bad sliders such as chips and twinkies (generally because the realization of their existence happens when we're early post-op) but there are many good foods that are also sliders - many essential veg, fruits, grains and nuts have a slider quality to them. I would never be able to get in anywhere near enough nutrition or calories to maintain a stable long term weight. The firm, dense meat type Proteins are still restricted to around 3 oz for me after 15-16 months, but I could never get in the 2000 calories per day that I need to be stable if I didn't use the slider quality of many foods - but those are good, high nutrition sliders rather than crap sliders.

Learning to use sliders for good rather than evil is one of the things that most of us need to wrap our brains around when it comes time to stop the loss and maintain a healthy long term diet over the long term.

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

Butterthebean is not 3 days post OP. Reread the post.

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

Totally agree...if you can't stay away from them early out, you are going to have a hell of a time later on.

Popcorn is a big one for me. I can barely get through a few spoonfuls of tuna fish before I'm feeling full but I can eat a whole bag of popcorn without much trouble.

I am of the mentality that I don't want to deny myself things that I really want. (That's food, of course. I really want a Porsche Caymen too but I will deny myself that one. lol) I love to have it when I go to the movies so I get the smallest bag of popcorn. No additional salt or butter. But thats the only time I allow it.

Slider foods don't have to also be "never again" foods, you just have to (like everything else with this surgery) be mentally prepared and willing to say no.