Re: Forgot something..

[Guest guest]

Applesauce is good but it sometimes has a lot of sugar in it so be

careful about that. I was told to keep my sugar content under 15 gms

per serving but I always stuck to under 10 for the first several

months plus I could never eat what they considered to be a whole

serving of anything anyway so keep that in mind as well when reading

packages.

Do you know if you will be on a liquid diet for awhile or just a

soft diet? Every surgeon varies on this. I was on a soft diet after

I left the hospital for about 2 weeks and then I went to a " as

tolerated " diet but was told to stick to protein first and be very

careful and introduce foods one at a time in very small amounts to

test out the effects on my pouch.

I ate a lot of peanut butter on toast, nuts, cheese, seafood (which

I tolerated better than anything else believe it or not), and yogurt

w/cereal.

I looked in the grocery store for the lowest sugar content of

everything I ate and I was careful when I ate any fruit to have it

in small amounts because of the sugar.

It turns out that I never dumped from sugar even once but I wasn't

willing to take the chance plus I thought it would create good

habits for myself to watch the sugar intake.

As for soft diet items when you first get home to have on

hand...thats a toughie because I found that my tastebuds were all

off and the things I " thought " I would like to have when I got home

were not at all what I wanted.

My tastes totally changed around for the first 4 months so my

suggestion would be to just have a minimum amount beforehand to come

home to until you find out what you can tolerate and what you will

feel like eating.

Hope this helped. I know I tend to ramble.

Colleen

Lap-RNY 11/03/03

315/195/???

> Another question.. anyone know a list of things that I should buy

to

> have to eat/drink when I get home from the hospital?? I'm sure I

can

> figure it out, just wondering if any suggestions..

[Guest guest]

Thank you bunches Colleen.. I will be on a liquid diet while in the

hospital, will be in for a total of 4 days and then a soft/pureed

diet afterwards for a few weeks.. Just bought a new blender, so just

dealing with the wait period now..

> Applesauce is good but it sometimes has a lot of sugar in it so be

> careful about that. I was told to keep my sugar content under 15

gms

> per serving but I always stuck to under 10 for the first several

> months plus I could never eat what they considered to be a whole

> serving of anything anyway so keep that in mind as well when

reading

> packages.

> Do you know if you will be on a liquid diet for awhile or just a

> soft diet? Every surgeon varies on this. I was on a soft diet

after

> I left the hospital for about 2 weeks and then I went to a " as

> tolerated " diet but was told to stick to protein first and be very

> careful and introduce foods one at a time in very small amounts to

> test out the effects on my pouch.

> I ate a lot of peanut butter on toast, nuts, cheese, seafood

(which

> I tolerated better than anything else believe it or not), and

yogurt

> w/cereal.

> I looked in the grocery store for the lowest sugar content of

> everything I ate and I was careful when I ate any fruit to have it

> in small amounts because of the sugar.

> It turns out that I never dumped from sugar even once but I wasn't

> willing to take the chance plus I thought it would create good

> habits for myself to watch the sugar intake.

> As for soft diet items when you first get home to have on

> hand...thats a toughie because I found that my tastebuds were all

> off and the things I " thought " I would like to have when I got

home

> were not at all what I wanted.

> My tastes totally changed around for the first 4 months so my

> suggestion would be to just have a minimum amount beforehand to

come

> home to until you find out what you can tolerate and what you will

> feel like eating.

> Hope this helped. I know I tend to ramble.

> Colleen

> Lap-RNY 11/03/03

> 315/195/???

>

>