Ok so my nutritionist moved me up to mushy foods and the other day I had a plain baked sweet potato and had less than half of it.

Today is obviously Thanksgiving and I had some home cooked sweet potatoes...some may even call it yams. Right after I finished eating my heart started beating faster than normal for about 15 minutes.

This happened only one time before when I ate some scrambled eggs. Is this dumping? Should I be worried about a leak? Helppppppp!!

I'm not a pro so I'm going by my sleeve but that happened to me when I started eating eggs and it was just that I ate too much super fast

Classic dumping symptoms. Your body isn't ready for starches yet. Give your body time to adjust to the new way of digesting food before you add them back in and just stick to Protein for now.

I tried smushy cauliflower at that stage, and Miss Tummy made me regret it for the next four hours. If she does not like what I give her, she either does that or gives it back to me, or runs it through like a sieve. Introducing mushies, soft things, and regular food is going to be like a mad scientist experiment. You may not get the same results as you had with foods when you were pre-op. Make sure you weigh and measure for at least several weeks, and don't eat he last bite. Of course, if the pain is getting out of hand, call your doctor or go to the ER if you need to. I hope this helps. Oh yeah, I am closing in on my one year post-op, and I still have not had cauliflower again!

starches like sweet potatoes or Yams even are simple starches and as such as readily turned into sugar. After so many weeks of non sugar filled items, you gave your body a huge dose of good old glucose. When it hit your blood stream it kicked your bodies insulin production into high gear and your endocrine system moved adrenalin to the bloodstream to help the blood filter the insulin and sugar out, a side effect of this is flushed skin, increased heart rate or palpitations, sweating, irritability etc. Dumping is very much related to too much sugar and not enough protein to balance out how your body deals with it.

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Sweet potatoes eaten at Thanksgiving usually have a syrup with them and are topped with marshmallows or even a chocolate glaze! (Someone made that for our Thanksgiving). So it's going to be even worse than a normal sweet potato. Remember, starches/carbs are the last thing one needs to be eating. Focus on the Protein first and then vegetables. Starches/carbs should come last if eaten at all.

Thanks for everyone's responses!

I'm sure it was because it was wayyyy too sugary. I may have had 2 or 3 bites and said I was done.

I'm gonna stick to the regular plain sweet baked potatoes and small red potatoes.

I'm not on vegetables yet, so there's no eating the Protein first then vegetables then starches. The sweet baked potato is in the diet my dietician gave me.

My mom had the bypass years ago and I told her about this feeling and she said she gets that feeling when she eats ice cream.

I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving!