Hey everybody!!!! I have found recently that my sleeve is not happy with chicken anymore. I thought I was eating too fast or taking too big of a bite because it was kind of painful, but then my sleeve started to outright reject chicken (it was like it was pushing it out). Chicken is a great source of protein and getting all my protein is hard, any suggestions to help me out with this? I can still handle ground turkey and pretty much anything else I just don't want to get stuck with very few choices. I am 6 weeks out and down 30 pounds!!!! I am happy with my sleeve it's just the chicken thing has me concerned.

It might be to dry. Try eating it with a little gravy or something to moisten it. That's what my dietician suggested for me and it worked.

2 minutes ago, Lyndi84 said:

It might be to dry. Try eating it with a little gravy or something to moisten it. That's what my dietician suggested for me and it worked.

Thank you I will have to try that, it's rough when the sleeve starts to push it back out.

Same here, I have to rotate foods still at 10 months out to prevent aversion

Don't worry about chicken this early on. Try again in a month or so. Chicken (especially breast meat) is one of the more difficult proteins to handle.

13 minutes ago, Orchids&Dragons said:

Don't worry about chicken this early on. Try again in a month or so. Chicken (especially breast meat) is one of the more difficult Proteins to handle.

@Orchids&Dragons thanks, it had me a little worried. I'll try again at my 3 month mark 10/30.

1 hour ago, GreenTealael said:

Same here, I have to rotate foods still at 10 months out to prevent aversion

Glad to hear so I don't feel so alone. Like I said I'll try again at 3 months post op and see how it is.

At 6 weeks, you just might not be ready for it yet.

At the risk of repeating things you already know make sure you are chewing it well! You need to chew your food more now, than ever before. And eat slower. Your meal should take 20 minutes. Try smaller bites too. And make sure you are leaving time between when you last drank, your stomach needs to empty out before you try to fill it back up again.

Try making a chicken salad out of it. Dice it up and mix with low fat mayo, might help it go down easier.

I agree with another poster, dry chicken is much harder to go down, make sure you are not over cooking. If you are cooking too long to get center cooked, then chicken is too thick. I slice chicken breasts in half to reduce the thickness. Actually cut it into three parts,. I cut the tail end of, then slice the chicken in half along the table top so I have three generally even thick chicken parts.

6 minutes ago, wjgo said:

At 6 weeks, you just might not be ready for it yet.

At the risk of repeating things you already know make sure you are chewing it well! You need to chew your food more now, than ever before. And eat slower. Your meal should take 20 minutes. Try smaller bites too. And make sure you are leaving time between when you last drank, your stomach needs to empty out before you try to fill it back up again.

Thanks a bunch....I've done all you have suggested and I think it's just one of those phases my sleeve is going through. I'll try it again at the end of October my 3 month mark.

Not unusual, I can barely tolerate chicken breast meat at 11 months - no matter how I fix it? I can however do well with grilled thigh meat - yum. Also just now can handle lettuce, so thereis that too. It slimed before ?

17 minutes ago, Sosewsue61 said:

Not unusual, I can barely tolerate chicken breast meat at 11 months - no matter how I fix it? I can however do well with grilled thigh meat - yum. Also just now can handle lettuce, so thereis that too. It slimed before ?

Well I will not be trying again until the end of October at 3 months LOL.....I am dying for a salad, hope if I use spinach and spring mix it won't give me slime!

3 hours ago, Thatsexy_67 said:

Well I will not be trying again until the end of October at 3 months LOL.....I am dying for a salad, hope if I use spinach and spring mix it won't give me slime!

Stupid question- whats "the slime"?

Stupid question- whats "the slime"?

Everyone seems to call it something different. My dietician called it the foamies...its what happens when you eat something but dont chew it well enough or your stomach doesnt like it so it vacates it through making you vomit. Lots of foam and or slimy spit comes up with it.

13 minutes ago, Lyndi84 said:

Everyone seems to call it something different. My dietician called it the foamies...its what happens when you eat something but dont chew it well enough or your stomach doesnt like it so it vacates it through making you vomit. Lots of foam and or slimy spit comes up with it.

Yikes. Not looking forward to that experience!

Yikes. Not looking forward to that experience!

I never had problems. Just eat slowly

Yikes. Not looking forward to that experience!

I've only had it happen once where I actually vomited and it was the first time I ate corn. About 3 weeks post op..about 10 minutes after I ate it, it decided to needed to come back up. It was simply a matter of my stomach wasnt ready for it yet as I tried again a week later and it was fine.