snacking

[mountain_lover 3]

OMG I am SOOOO Right there with you!!! I am 9 weeks out and I definitely have had great progress but I know it could be better and I kick myself because the Cookies, the chips go down so easy in comparison to the yogurt the chicken etc. I think I am having more of a difficult time figuring out what to actually eat because I am getting so much indigestion and acid reflux from everything (Pasta and mashed potatoes = not my friends) that the baked lays and sugar Cookies are just easy stand bys but WOW MELODY talk about sabotage!!! Ugh so mad at myself. Need to stop it pronto!!! I need to figure out what else I can try to eat at 9 weeks and start focusing on that and leave the chips alone lol

Have you tried those Vegetable chips? My daughter is trying to get off of eating potatoe chips and cheetos ect. so she bought a bag of those. I looked at the saturated fats and they are really low and no trans fat. I think the brand name might have been TERRA. They had like 9 grams of fat, so I am thinking that they have some of the fats that are better for you. They tasted really good, they had alot of the root vegetables. They also were not real high in sodium. Maybe those would be a healthier snack, if you are having a hard time with the chips. A serving size was 1 oz. about 14 chips. It was enough to make me feel full. Very satisfying!!

[Mary Gordon 3]

i know i feel guilty when i try to eat something i shouldn?t. but then i take a look at a before picture of my weight and then i see how much better i am looking now, and then i go back to my usual diet and exercise.

[bigtex52 0]

If you have to have chips, I have seen some sort of Protein chips on the Bariatric Eating site that they say are tasty. I am sure that they aren't quite as good as potato chips and cheetoes, but the crunch means almost as much to me as the taste. Something comforting about crunching on something salty and savory. :crying:

[joon 2]

I agree about not beating yourself up about having a treat! We had this surgery so we could live and eat normally. "normal" people eat chips once in a while or a piece of chocolate etc. I also do eat crackers, bread, Pasta Cookies occasionally but again I just eat a small amount of it. I dont think people should feel bad or like they are sabotaging themselves for a little bit of something like that once in a while. I mean, regardless of what you eat you are going to lose weight if you are eating under 1000 cals a day ( if you can even manage to get in that much). If you try to make sure you get in healthy stuff for the most part then little amounts of the other stuff should not be an issue.

anyway, thats just my two cents. I have been living llike that after surgery for 6 weeks now and I have never overeaten to the point of throwing up and only once felt a bit overstuffed but that went away in about an hour. I have lost 24 lbs and feel really good. The only problem I notice is that I still eat too fast. Not too much but too fast and I get the hiccups. Looking forward to losing the remaining 36!

[lauramomof3 2]

cajun- did you have to start all over again with mushies? i know i am still having problems with muching on stuff i shouldn't be. especially at work. those girls have chips, cakes, Bagels, and all kinds of junk. i don't have any of the bad of stuff at the house but work is awful.