What are slider foods?

[babyk 1]

It's probably a silly question but I've heard so many different things-so what are slider foods?

[Jachut 487]

Anything that goes down easily for you and that you can therefore potentially eat in excess - so it can be anything. Typical slider foods are ice cream, chocolate, Cookies, milkshakes, chips, and other junk, for some reason its so easy to eat whilst an apple can be so hard! Lots of healthy foods are sliders too, and you'll probably find that over time, they become favourites without you realising it - yogurt, Soup, for me Pasta is always an easy meal. Sometimes, without realising you're too tight, you can become aware that you're avoiding a large variety of foods and choosing easy stuff and maybe not losing like you were - you may not have reflux, pain, vomiting like you would expect without being too tight but if you're eating more calories because you're living on sliders, you can sometimes do well to have some fill out and go back to foods like salads, fruit, lean Protein etc.

I've been unfilled for six months, and I was thinking about this - today I had oatmeal with some chopped dates in it (the real oatmeal, cooked from scratch, not packet stuff), an apple mid morning, a tuna and salad sandwich for lunch and we're having a barbecue for dinner - so a piece of steak and a big serve of salad. That's a healthy maintenance day for me (and I have to eat bread, Pasta, rice etc for other digestive issues) - six months ago with 2.8ml in my 4ml band I would be having coffee for Breakfast, a couple of rice cakes with butter and vegemite or Peanut Butter for lunch, a few Cookies or such with coffee during the between meal periods and pasta for dinner. I was thin, I was maintaining my weight and I *could* eat anything when I made the effort to, but I was always slipping back to this kind of carby diet becuase it was easy - I was TOO TIGHT, although I've never had vomiting or reflux. I had to be unfilled for another surgery and it took that for me to realise it, if I ever do refill it wont be to previous levels.