Bread...?

[JAnnette 1]

How long did you wait to try bread? I'm making my grocery list and I kind of want bread. What kind of break would you suggest if any?

[SleeveNZ 219]

My NUT instructions were 9 months for bread but ALWAYS avoid very fresh bread ... and 2 months for extra thin double toasted multigrain bread.

[danyelleb 386]

Hi! I would try to stay away from bread if you can. I don't know when your surgery dates was, but if it's within the last six months or less I would stick to Protein first and if there's any room have some veggies or fruit. Maximize your first six months. However, if you are going to take the plunge I would start really slow like 1 bite or so. For the longest I couldn't tolerate tortilla in the tiniest portions and bread was only okay if it was toasted.

Good luck!

[MOMW 71]

I am 8 months out and cannot to bread well at all. Try but it maybe hard. I had no problems with my band but a no go with slreve

[MoreganK 164]

I am one of those rare people I think, bread was ok with me at 5 months. But, I could only eat one (if that small slice). Stick to whole wheat, whole grain, or rye bread if you try it. There are some wraps from a company called, La Tortilla Factory that are low/no carb & high Fiber tortillas that my nutritionist recommended to me, and I love them. They're better for me than bread. I find them usually in Kroger's... don't know if you have those where you live. I think their website lets you store locate retailers that sell them.

http://www.latortillafactory.com/

[SeriouslyChange 319]

bread isn't worth it honestly. I was doing a bakery shift at work and just had a pinch of bread out of the oven. Then another. Long story short, I ate around 200 calories of bread. Thank god for scales in the bakery. And about... 4 or so hours later, I was starving, my stomach stopped hurting finally, and I was so tired! Bread gives you no energy and is a waste of sleeve space. Made me realize that my unhealthy obsession with bread explains my low energy levels for all these years.

If you have to eat bread, go for whole grain bread

[Butterthebean 8,146]

For sandwich meat, fajitas and tacos I've started using a lettuce wrap instead of a tortilla or bread. Doesn't sound as good but it's totally satisfying.

I'm 8 months post op and I've had maybe 3 bites of bread. None of them tasted as good as I remembered.

[Willow216 91]

It took me about 6 months but I usually do a whole wheat wrap, but I usually can't have more than a couple of bites. I was a bread, Muffin, etc maniac, I loved them, but after the surgery it changed for me. Now at about 10 months out every once in a while I may have a slice of wheat toast or I make a half sandwich with I slice of wheat bread.

[lilbearzmom 584]

I am almost 6 weeks out and I can tolerate small amounts of bread just fine. My NUT told us at 4 weeks we could start having THIN bread- wraps, tortillas, "sandwich skinnys", or bagel thins, as well as whole grain crackers. Problem is, I don't like the thin breads much, especially the low-carb ones. So I have not had much of it. What the other posters are saying is true. Not a great idea to start eating a lot of bread. Small amounts of whole grain breads and crackers are fine in my opinion if you can tolerate them.

-Kendra

[aliandrews 98]

My stomach doesn't want to tolerate bread. It feels like a brick in my stomach. I don't really crave it or miss it. I just use lettuce as the bread. It's really good.

[Pookeyism 1,143]

I just don't eat bread. I have made a (for me) important decision not to. For the food I have to put into my body, it is just not nutritious enough to be worth it. It triggers old cravings, too.

But that is just me.

[Chimera 644]

I am reading the book Wheat belly right now and I am so alarmed by what is in the book that I doubt that I will be eating much of anything that contains wheat from here on out lol, Not that i eat it often anyway, maybe once a month.It took a few months to tolerate - I am a carb addict so I stay away from it.

The wheat that is produced now is so genetically modified that it is thousands of chromosomal iterations away from the parent strains, even from just a few decades ago ( the bread I grew up on in the 70's) - and it has never been tested for safety in humans or animals. Makes sense - genetically modified strains of wheat started rolling out just when the population was starting to gain weight at an alarming rate - when we have always stayed within a normal, healthy range in terms of body composition for thousands of years.

[lessofmeismore 1,405]

I am reading the book Wheat belly right now and I am so alarmed by what is in the book that I doubt that I will be eating much of anything that contains wheat from here on out lol' date=' Not that i eat it often anyway, maybe once a month.It took a few months to tolerate - I am a carb addict so I stay away from it.

The wheat that is produced now is so genetically modified that it is thousands of chromosomal iterations away from the parent strains, even from just a few decades ago ( the bread I grew up on in the 70's) - and it has never been tested for safety in humans or animals. Makes sense - genetically modified strains of wheat started rolling out just when the population was starting to gain weight at an alarming rate - when we have always stayed within a normal, healthy range in terms of body composition for thousands of years.[/quote']

That's interesting and scary... I think I will read that book. Thanks for mentioning it!

[rockdutchess82 26]

I am 8 months out and cannot to bread well at all. Try but it maybe hard. I had no problems with my band but a no go with slreve

Why did you convert from band to sleeve ...in the deciding phase just curious

[MOMW 71]

I had a band for a year and was doing well. But it slipped and I could not eat or drink, so it had to be removed. After 3 months and healed, I was sleeved. This is by far the better choice for me. It was not an option that my team was doing when I had my band.