what foods were easily introduced? What foods were difficult? - ThinnerTimes

livin_large · 02-12-2008, 12:11 PM

so, I am interested in knowing what foods were hard to reintroduce after your bypass. Also, what foods were easy?

Mavisavis · 02-12-2008, 12:16 PM

Deep fried foods made me sick in a few small bites....even now, I can only eat a little of anything breaded and deep fried. I ate eggs easily.....softly scrambled.....a LOT of soup.....things like cottage cheese, oatmeal, chicken. Everything had to be eaten in small bites, basically chewed to a puree form, then eaten slowly. I also couldn't tolerate things with cream.....too rich, or sugar....although now I can do waaaay more sugar than I wish I could. I drank lots of warm beverages with dry milk added for the first several months. It helped me get my protein when it was so hard to eat enough.

CeeCee · 02-12-2008, 02:26 PM

Cottage cheese, home-made chicken soup, chili- all good.
For some reason, deli meats were, and continue to be, a no-no.
Fresh cooked chicken is good, but left-over chicken tends to get stuck, probably 'cuz it's drier.
Ricotta cheese with Splenda and a little vanilla extract- wonderful stuff!
Bread- bad. Toast- good (but go for a good, whole wheat, high protein-type if you must even have toast.) *This should be waaaaaaaay down the road; 6 months for some, a year or more for others.*
Remember, you must always be thinking PROTEIN first!

MiladyB · 02-12-2008, 08:22 PM

For me the things that didn't go well at all were eggs, bread, rice, noodles, salmon, tunafish and left over meats. I am now 2 years out and can do all of the above but I STILL haven't braved salmon...it made me so violently ill. I limit my rice, bread and noodles but can do them in smaller amounts.

What went well? Yogurt, cream of wheat, cottage cheese, ricotta cheese, most soups but especially pea soup, chili, chicken thighs, salads. These are still the foods that I go to when I don't feel much like eating.

LisaBoston · 02-15-2008, 07:33 PM

At 2-3 weeks, I lived off yogurt, jello, cream of almost anything soup. Then I did shrimp, grilled cheese, eggs and did the layering effect....ie: bite of protein, then mashed potato and a bite of veggie and then repeat.

I too didn't do too well with salmon and its still a hit and miss thing. Chili was and is still a staple for me. Started this at 4 weeks out...small bites only. Boiled egg whites or omelette were good too. Could never do cottage cheese, except for in Beth's cottage cheese pancakes. Cheese has always been good to me too. Chicken is a rough one...a little stringy and if dry, very hard to get down. Keep all your food moist and chew the heck out of it.

I have a silly pouch...its very happy with heavy foods like pork and beef. Not as good with fish, salads or soups (other than cream soup). I eat pretty darn good....meat, veggies and some good starchy carbs.

chiquita · 02-15-2008, 07:58 PM

I am almost 6 week post op. Doctor put me on a liquid diet for 4 weeks post-op.
I did yogurt, every morning would have a 5 oz yogurt, took me a long time to eat it so it didn't all went at once in my pouch so it did not stretch because at the time of ending some had gone through,, at first I couldn't get it all eaten.
Isopure was a savor in the protein department. I did some cream cheese, that was ok. lots of soup broths and egg flower soup, and I hope I never have to take a spoonfull of that

Milk based protein shakes don't seem to agree with me post-op, might change in time.
after 4 weeks. I been doing still my yogurt, V8, cottage Cheese, custards, Pepper jack cheese, Chedar cheese, Deli Chili (hate the cannes stuff but Safeway sells some real good stuff), pork, bacon, hard boiled eggs, moist chicken. The inside of a KFC Chicken pot pie last me two meals skiping the gravy as much as possible, eating mainly the chicken from inside the pie and some veggies. Taco Bell Rice Bowl, I was out of town earlier this week and had to eat something so I got this and ate the chicken and cheese from the top and that about filled me in. Taco Bell Refried Beans-fat free.

What has not agreed with me: Skillet cooked eggs, Processed meats of any kind like lunch meats, or canned meats just don't do it really. Tried Tuna but did not agree with me. Melba Toast will have to wait a couple more months. I don't eat Salmon, I have never liked it and probably will never.

One thing I was craving for some odd reason, is shrimp cocktail, so for the first time since I was 15 I made me one. One small can of cocktail shrimp drained, one small can of V8, and lots of tabasco, something about spicy food I really seem to be craving, I think is because the taste last for so long, makes me feel satisfied. Oh yes and the juice of one lime. Had half one night, half the other and tossed leftover juice. Next time however I will get me the fish department shrimp, not the canned, I think it will be much better.