How Long Post-op Until You Were Able to Eat Carbs & Fried Foods Again?

[sideeye 1,440]

You find out a lot of this stuff through trial and error, but: you have to be paying attention to benefit from those messages. If you're focused on the part of your brain that's craving and looking for a "fix", all you're doing is indulging an emotional trigger and that's going to be a problem in the long run. If you're focused on how your body reacts to what you're eating and making rational yes/no longterm decisions based on those reactions, then you're in better shape. You're a science experiment now, so roll with it.

I'm 5 months out so hardly an old-timer, but this is what I've figured out about my specific situation: I can't eat any part of a donut anymore without feeling positively revolting. In fact, anything bready in the AM is my kryptonite, especially sweet and bready - this has resulted in me starting off many days with a Protein Shake (good) or coffee (not so good) or maybe a boiled egg (requires prep, working on it). I cannot order fries anymore without having to throw 98% of them out, so now I steal off of other people's plates, but even then I know if I eat 4 fries I'm not going to be able to enjoy anything on MY plate because I'll feel full. I can't eat Cereal anymore without feeling gross, at any time of day. I can eat sushi, but have to be really premeditated with something like kimbap or bibimbap (no fluids well beforehand, very light other meals during the day). I can't have more than one coffee per day without feeling weird. Small amounts of nuts is fine, but goodbye to any quantity of Trader Joe's trail mix. Varying levels of success with fruit: I can eat it, but more than a couple bites and I don't feel fantastic for the next half hour.

You CAN eat carbs or fried foods as soon as you're cleared for solid foods, but you may regret the physical sensations immediately afterwards. The truly dangerous part of that is allowing your emotional centers ("I want to go to the cafe and eat a croissant in the sun while drinking tea and reading a book") to override your physical reactions ("...but I won't because even half of a croissant makes me feel queasy") and then basically training your body to push through the physical warnings through repeated exposure.

Get used to throwing perfectly good food in the trash. Embrace it. Yes, there's 85% of the bag of trail mix left, and yes you paid good money for it, but WHY would you keep it around to "try one more time" if you just had some and then had to lie on the couch feeling bloated for 20 minutes? Throw it away and cement that in your mind: don't buy trail mix because it gets thrown away. I just went on a family vacation and threw at least half a cup of my favorite ice cream down the drain after over serving myself and recognizing my body hit a limit (not dumping, just my stomach saying "you're done now") on spoonful #6. This is a good time to recognize counterproductive behaviors and tackle them. If that means giving up servings of croissants, pad thai, banana milkshakes and corn flakes, so be it.

[Sleevedincali 31]

On 8/22/2018 at 9:57 AM, Khloe617 said:

Girl your miserable. Who are you to say if her intentions were a bite or 100 got damn onion rings. Worry about your own progress. If she wanted to be lectured she could of asked her doctor. She came to a forum with real people asking for their own personal experiences. Not negative ass opinions.

its you're.....not your.

[Khloe617 21]

1 hour ago, Sleevedincali said:

its you're.....not your.

Congratulations YOU’RE late and I don’t care 👏🏽🤷🏽‍♀️

[sillykitty 10,787]

Late to this party, but WTH ... OP is probably not cleared for solids yet, most likely, so should be relevant

My sleeve handles everything, no joke, spicy, fried, whatever I throw at it, no issues

I LOVE ethnic foods, so I get missing them and craving them. Sometimes I have exactly what I am craving. But I usually try to get the flavor while still making better choices. Like getting an Indian curry, but just eating the meat out of it and having no rice.

But it depends if you have a slippery slope problem. Does making poor choices lead to you making more and more of them?

I'm fortunate, I am able to consistently reign myself in. I can eat poorly for one meal, or one day, or while on vacation, but then be able to get back on plan, and start losing again.

Who knows if I will be able to do so once I'm in maintenance. I may lose a lot of my current restriction and have to be stricter about what I eat. My hunger might return more than it currently has. If that happens I'll have to re-evaluate and adjust.

My point is, you can still enjoy some of your favorite foods, on occasion, and in moderation. But you will have to monitor if you can do so and still lose.

[FluffyChix 17,418]

I'm 6 months out and can eat every dry, dense Protein on the face of the planet without issue. LOL. But dammit Janet! Rocky. Ughhhh! Let me have 4 little chips with some queso and I'm ready to hurl my toes up!

It's pretty much a YMMV. My cravings have pretty much changed for the most part. But if I eat something/anything too carby, I end up not feeling so well and anything deep fried makes me wish I could die.

About 4-5 weeks most can/will start experimenting whether they "should" or not. LOL.

[sillykitty 10,787]

4 minutes ago, FluffyChix said:

I'm 6 months out and can eat every dry, dense Protein on the face of the planet without issue. LOL. But dammit Janet! Rocky. Ughhhh! Let me have 4 little chips with some queso and I'm ready to hurl my toes up!

But if I eat something/anything too carby, I end up not feeling so well and anything deep fried makes me wish I could die.

I wonder if that is a sleeve vs. bypass thing?

[FluffyChix 17,418]

51 minutes ago, sillykitty said:

I wonder if that is a sleeve vs. bypass thing?

I think so. She said I would have issues with sweets and fats. I'm too skeered to try to have something on with sweets, cuz the fat stuff sucks so bad!

or depending on how you look at it. LOL.

[sillykitty 10,787]

2 minutes ago, FluffyChix said:

I think so. She said I would have issues with sweets and fats. I'm too skeered to try to have something on with sweets, cuz the fat stuff sucks so bad!

or depending on how you look at it. LOL.

I think for most people, it's a good thing.

I think i had a different job I may have considered RNY, but I just really can't deal with potentially dumping while on the job.

[FluffyChix 17,418]

I can totally understand that one! That would be a deal-breaker! I didn't choose RNY on the basis of it causing dumping. I actually almost didn't choose it cuz of that--I am terrible at hurling. It is just a bad situation for me. But I feared GERD and having to do it all over again worse than the dumping.

Edited September 4, 2018 by FluffyChix

[insta_adventurer 1,046]

Yeah- idk. I think it depends. I’ve stolen a fry here or there from my husband, but haven’t like.. had a meals worth of crap foods. Thankfully- many just seem unappealing at the moment, because in my mind they’re going to make me sick. Will they? Probably not.

In my head, I feel like super doughy stuff like bread, Pasta, pizza dough would gunk up together in my pouch and get stuck. So, I haven’t had any of these things.

I did have the tiniest bite of cake and instantly knew my body was not going to handle it well, so I didn’t have any more.

I think it varies from person to person as to what foods they can and cannot tolerate afterwards. But I tell ya, nothing will kill a craving for something like vomiting from it a few times.

[Eva.delac 11]

French fries, tator tots, any potatoes really.... they just make me so full after one or two so I steer clear. pizza I will eat very sparingly, maybe a couple bites once or twice a month bc it’s easy for the family to just have a quick easy mess free meal. Fried foods I stay away from as they aren’t fulfilling and I like to fuel my body, not drag it. So no potatoes for me, def no fried foods. I stick to grilled chicken, lean beef, cooked veggies, fruit galore, Water water water, and frozen yogurt as dessert sometimes!

[sharonintx 1,275]

About 3 weeks post op I was eating small amounts of anything I wanted. It was trial and error as to which foods were disagreeable. I would try it and knew right away if it wasn't going to work out. Carbs, crunchy, and spicy never bothered me.

I had surgery in Mexico. I came back 1 day post op with no diet plan, no nutritionist, no nothing. It was trial and error. My eating habits changed because I could no longer eat much food, not because of a restrictive eating regimen.

It worked out fine.

[Metgirl256 15]

I’m only about 10 days out myself and dreaming of foods I can’t have. Some of them are things I rarely ate! As intense as these feelings are right now I’m assuming they will diminish some over time and be replaced by a feeling of accomplishment as we watch the scale go down and our health improves! My last Dr. visit before surgery there were some food magazines in the exam room, one featuring a beautiful dessert. When the Dr. came in I held up the mag, looked at him and said: Seriously???? He laughed and said “ Look. Your life is not over after surgery. You will be able to enjoy some of the things you Love now in moderation. “. We’re so new to this right now all we know is restriction. I’ve heard that your taste will sometimes change after surgery so once you try the foods you’re craving once again you might not even like them as much. For now focus on this wonderful opportunity we’ve been given and what we can do, not what we can’t have. I bet there’s some savory bites of a samosa in your future after which you will drink your Water and hit the treadmill !!!Hang in there!!! I know it will get easier!