I had been a vegetarian for 3 years, then I stopped for 3 years..now I feel like it's time to return to a vegetarian diet. however, my nutritionist strongly advised me not to go vegetarian until the summer. she said i need to get in a lot of protein once i'm sleeved and it'd be harder as a vegetarian. I'm at the point where just looking at meat makes me want to throw up. I'll grill some chicken and stare at it wondering how the hell am i going to eat this. anyone else have this problem?

I'm currently pre-op and I've been having such a hard time on here finding info about post-op veggie diets! Why is there no special interest group for vegetarians and vegans? I mean, they have them for all sorts of things. Is there a way to start one? Is that something people would be interested in?

Totally interested, I'm a vegetarian and my surgery is on the 24th!

Totally interested, I'm a vegetarian and my surgery is on the 24th!

So, now we just need to figure out how to make it happen. I've been looking around the site a bit, but I haven't seen anything...

http://www.bariatricpal.com/groups/314-vegetarian-sleevers/

Awesome!

Any vegetarian groups that had the bypass... Not the sleeve? Sorry I'm on a mobile device and it is a pain lol.

The sleeve group seems really inactive. There was only one post... I don't care so much about which surgery. I mean, I realize there are some nutritional differences, but it would be nice if there were an active place to talk about a vegetable based diet after WLS in general.

I was raised a vegetarian and am quickly going back to that lifestyle. I much prefer the taste and have found my food to have more protein, less fat and calories than meat. Here is my nutritional breakdown from MFP for today. Not one bite of meat.