Can You Eat Red Meat?

[amykins 202]

I've only had ground beef and chicken post-op. I find the ground beef to be much easier on my pouch. I eat meatloaf muffins for lunch almost every day. Chicken has to be very moist, like in Soup. Chicken breast by itself is just too hard to digest for me.

[mrs sandy r 152]

Thanks everyone for your input. Dr. said red meat is just to hard to digest. I was cleared to eat anything now, just no red meat. Maybe it was just his personal opinion. Guess I'll give it a try & see what my sleeve thinks. Thanks again

[GeauxForIt 659]

I just started on soft foods yesterday, and I had the tiniest and yummiest hamburger patty for dinner last night! lol

The leanest ground beef with a smidge of low fat cheese on top; chewed lime hell. Heaven for this carnivore, and Sleevester liked it just fine!

[Fiddleman 4,376]

It differs from person to person. For example' date=' I m unable to eat roast beef or hamburger at 4 months. It just comes up 20 minutes or so after eating. For this reason, I am sticking with chicken, pork and salmon. Good luck and hope it works for you. I am not sure why the doctor would say never eat it, but I know my digestive tract is not happy with it.[/quote']

I have found that i can get a modified beef stroganoff sauce with a light sour creme and beef to stay down. The beef is super moist and falls apart. That is the only way I can get beef to stay down for now. This might help others who struggle with beef as I have.

[Vicki3007 11]

I experimented with a homemade medium-rare steak today, cut it up in really tiny pieces, just had about 0.7 ounces and am full! it's not coming back up but have a nice sated feeling.

[Prilly82 7]

Im 8 wks post op. My sleeve doesn't tolerate red meat well. I can only have ground beef and small pieces of hamburger patty. ????

[emanomaly 10]

I was actually encouraged to eat red meat after I got to stage three because my Dr wanted me to take in as much Protein as possible. I started out with flakey fish and moved on to chicken then to red meat over the course of a few weeks.

It is definitely a learning curve. I have to take tiny bites and chew extremely thoroughly, or it gets stuck. Took me a while to get it right. Pros: I've noticed that after I eat meat I do feel full longer. Cons: pretty much if I eat meat with anything else at all (veggies etc) or overconsume by even a bite, I am guaranteed to get horribly nauseaus for a half hour afterwards.

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