CORN

[SHELLYROCKWELL 13]

WHY IS IT THAT WE CANT EAT CORN AFTER THE SLEEVE?

[VSGmary 418]

Oh i wish i knew the answer to this! I cant eat corn (in any form) broccoli and all green leafy vegetables (unless they are puree'd) , my sleeve just doesn't like them at all . I don't know if having my gallbladder out also has attributed to this. *shrug*

[Daveo 485]

we can't eat corn? I have no problem eating corn. Don't tell my sleeve!

[reree6898 1,164]

It may be because of the level of carbs and sugars in corn. Also corn tends to be hard to digest in a normal stomach. ????

[Babbs 14,680]

At almost 11 months out, I have no problem with corn. It's summer, and I loves me some corn on the cob! I don't eat it very often, though

[Menelly 56]

My surgeon said no corn for the first year. He claims it's digestable reasons, but my guess is it's easier to forbid it than to get people to understand it's a starch and a carb, not a veggie. So it doesn't fit into our diet till maintenance anyways.

[Bufflehead 6,358]

corn, like most other grains, is super high in carbs. It is also high in sugar, and his little other nutritional value. In my program, grain (and starchy veggies and refined sugar) are off the table entirely in weight loss mode.

[RickM 1,747]

I don't know - the sleeve doesn't care. Its often a no-no for the bypass due to the concern of it getting stuck in the stoma, but that isn't a concern with the VSG since we still have the pyloric valve in the system. Some maintain a belief that carbs are bad (much like fat was bad a few years ago....) so for them corn is probably out on that account. I didn't have it much while losing simply because its nutrition isn't all that high relative to its' caloric cost, but there was no physical reason not to have a bit of it during a summer BBQ.