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I do lots and lots and lots of cheese. I stick with full fat cheese, in fact I just had some Tilamook Cheddar as a snack. The only light cheese I use is cottage cheese, I eat 1 percent low fat cottage cheese.

When starting out try light string cheese and make sure you chew it very very well. In the beginning I could maybe eat a half stick.

Cheese is good for us in small amounts. Decent Protein.

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I do some light cheeses.....mostly deli strike cheddar or Babybel. Otherwise I eat full fat. I find satiates better.

Since I rarely eat bread, I don't eat cream cheese except on rare occasion.

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I'm a cheese lover too, and get a decent amount of my Protein from light string cheese sticks from Trader Joe's, low fat or fat free cottage cheese, and mozzarella shredded cheese. :D

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Well I am ten days out I been eating for the last three days because I am onnpuree stage one a day laughing cow cheese yumm!! I could put cream cheese on my mashed vegetable that's how much I love it

How many string cheeses do u do a day??

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The only low-fat cheese I consume is Cottage cheese and only because I just prefer the texture over full fat Cottage Cheese.

I have been eating cheese since post-op day 8. I started smearing cream cheese and Laughing Cow Cheese on thin slices of deli meat (turkey or chicken breast) and now I will smear it on half a WW English Muffin toasted really crispy. I also eat string cheese, most Tillamook cheese slices, shredded cheese on my scrambled eggs and Swiss cheese melted on roasted chicken breasts. I eat a lot of cheeses and have had no problems. But I also eat small amounts of complex carbs to ensure I get Fiber and energy from healthy carbs. A lot of people refuse ANY kinds of carbs but I my NUT, my surgeon and my own personal needs don't cut out complete food groups.

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i want to share an issue i had with shredded cheese. the additives they put into shredded cheese to keep it shredded( potato starch, corn starch anti caking, anti mold etc.) have given me a real run...to the bathroom! I can eat CHEESE, but these additives...ARG! "milk, salt,and enzymes", THAT is cheese. i thought i had food poisoning for two weeks.

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I do plenty of cheese, mostly full fat bc it's lower carb without the additives. I do do the light laughing cow and light cream cheese, the rest full fat in moderation.

I love the Sargento ultra thin sliced sharp cheddar! It's so flavorful you just need a tiny bit. I put a half a slice in a slice of turkey with some cilantro or green onion, squirt some mustard on it---I love mustard and have like five different kinds I cycle through---and roll it up!

Also love Bleu cheese, goat cheese, Roquefort, Gorgonzola--all those big flavor ones you can use small amounts of and add for a BIG flavor!

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Wow that sounds awesome Jess how far out are you?

I'm almost two years out almost a year at goal, but I've been doing cheese since about three weeks out!

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I eat a Light Babybel nearly every day and 2% cottage cheese a couple times per week and do very well with both.

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2 percent cottage cheese and weight watchers colby jack singles

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