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I wanted to know if anybody has had an egg mcmuffin from mcdonalds and how long are you out I'm craving 1 so but I'm only a month out so I know I cant have it so please let me know if anybody had 1 at all

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You can't have the muffin, but you can order the egg and the meat and just eat that ;-)

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It's amazing how surprised you will be once you start trying all your favourite old foods and cravings........there's a good chance you won't even like them anymore! I've tried a number of "old favourites" (usually just one or two bites), and I didn't even enjoy or like most of them!

Your tastes change, your tolerance changes (I still can't do breads/pasta, etc. and probably have eliminated them for the most part for the rest of my life!)

When you're more stable (8-10 weeks post op), you can consider trying a bite of the McMuffin (if that falls within your Dr.'s post-op eating guidelines, of course)....just don't be surprised or upset if it just doesn't have the same effect on you as it had before!

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Yeah when I hit a certain goal...my reward was a Gigi's cupcake...one of my all time favorites. I cut it in half and gave my hubby the other half. I took one bite and it was way too sweet...raked the frosting off and took a bite of the cake...threw it in the garbage can! I just didn't care for it...it wasn't what I expected it to be. I would rather step on the scale and see more lbs gone!

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I'm 4.5 months out and I did try an egg mcmuffin at about 3 months out. I only ate it with the bottom piece of bread and I was only able to finish about 2/3 of it.

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I have an egg Mcmuffin every morning, the only thing is I really can't eat the muffin part cause breads are too heavy on my sleeve still but I eat the inside, besides by the time I finish the egg and canadian bacon I am stuffed, since the egg mcmuffin on whole is 300 calories it kinds gives me an idea of the carolies I eat in the morining without any worry since I really don't eat the bread part. So try it out it won't hurt. :D

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I forgot I had a recipe for it.... http://www.verticalsleevetalk.com/topic/49534-egg-mcnuthin/

Not as glamorous or whatever as mc'ds but.... is better for you and helps you fit in smaller jeans! :)

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For some reason the english muffin is very dry and dense and not very tolerable for most people. I often have an egg with canadian bacon combo at home to get the taste I crave without the carbs.

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Eating more that 1/4 of the English muffin would make me hurl - literally. I stay away from McDonald's like I would the plague. Nothing for me there. Like Katie I do a home version, but with scrambled eggs.< /p>

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I had one at about 6 weeks. Had one bite of the whole shebang just to get it out of my system. Then just ate the egg & canadian bacon to finish up. Only got through about 2/3.

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McDonalds = unsweet tea and that is ALL!!

And the parfaits are good too

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I wanted to know if anybody has had an egg mcmuffin from mcdonalds and how long are you out I'm craving 1 so but I'm only a month out so I know I cant have it so please let me know if anybody had 1 at all

At 6 weeks you should probably start getting back to a more normal, a NEW normal diet. You've had the majority of your stomach removed, so that early out, I suspect you'll be able to eat about a third of an egg mcmuffin.

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I had one but only take a few bites of the bread so I can get the taste then eat the egg. :D

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The nice thing is eggs are filling, plenty of Protein, and you wont take a huge calorie hit if you use the egg substitute.

If you can handle any carbs go with a wheat tortilla instead and do a Breakfast burrito with fake sausage, turkey, chicken, low fat cheese, salsa, etc.

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