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On 7/19/2024 at 8:34 AM, JennyBeez said:

--- It could be that a lot of people (like meeeee) may have been attributing symptoms to dumping syndrome when it was foamies, IBS, food intolerances, etc.

But also just from a social-stats standpoint, people are more likely to complain about their bad times than come Celebrate when things are just progressing normally/fine/ok.


As for fruits, my personal experience would caution that as you're introducing new fruits to your diet, eat them with a Protein you already know you tolerate well. The Protein could help the fruit's sugars from just hitting your stomach straight up. And at first at least, maybe lean more towards fruits with good fibre content? I had a lot more luck with blueberries, raspberries and blackberries at first than other options. Even now, I can eat black cherries if they're mixed into some greek yogurt, but if I try to eat them on their own or with oatmeal it's just too much on my system (at this stage).

(And just FYI: blueberries with natural Peanut Butter? So fricking satisfying. On it's own, or on a cracker / toast if you want that bit of crunch)

I put blueberries and natural PB on a rice cake OMG! But for a "healthier" less calorie PB. Try mixing 1 bottle of vanilla Fairlife Protein Shake and 8oz container of PB2 (powder PD) mix together OMG! 72ish calories for 2 tbls and 9g protein!

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On 7/23/2024 at 11:06 AM, AmberFL said:

I put blueberries and natural PB on a rice cake OMG! But for a "healthier" less calorie PB. Try mixing 1 bottle of vanilla Fairlife Protein Shake and 8oz container of PB2 (powder PD) mix together OMG! 72ish calories for 2 tbls and 9g protein!

Ooh, I didn't think about making it with a Protein shake! That's frigging brilliant.

It's weird -- I think of adding Bone Broth powder to basically anything savoury but I never think about using a Protein Shake except for as a milk replacement in coffee, Cereal, oatmeal, etc. Meanwhile, my milk is the protein-forward Fairlife already too, so replacing the milk should really be the furthest thing from my mind since it's already buoyed up. Why is it so hard to re-train the brain? LOL

I use a different PB powder, PB&Me is more readily available in my part of Canada. (I was using the PBFit immediately post op and it was fine, but once I switched over to solids the miniscule amount of coconut palm sugar in it gave me tummy troubles, lol). Powdered PB in general though is probably one of my favourite things right now. I love how much control it gives me over the consistency of my PB, and it's so easy to make different dressings and dipping sauces.

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26 minutes ago, JennyBeez said:

Ooh, I didn't think about making it with a Protein shake! That's frigging brilliant.

It's weird -- I think of adding Bone Broth powder to basically anything savoury but I never think about using a Protein Shake except for as a milk replacement in coffee, Cereal, oatmeal, etc. Meanwhile, my milk is the protein-forward Fairlife already too, so replacing the milk should really be the furthest thing from my mind since it's already buoyed up. Why is it so hard to re-train the brain? LOL

I use a different PB powder, PB&Me is more readily available in my part of Canada. (I was using the PBFit immediately post op and it was fine, but once I switched over to solids the miniscule amount of coconut palm sugar in it gave me tummy troubles, lol). Powdered PB in general though is probably one of my favourite things right now. I love how much control it gives me over the consistency of my PB, and it's so easy to make different dressings and dipping sauces.

I drink fairlife milk too or when a recipe has milk I put the FF one in there. but for sweet Desserts the Protein Drinks hit a different part of my soul that I always knew needed attention LOL Last night I made these PB balls. PB2, oatmeal, honey, Water and Lilly chocolate chips. I was able to 15 balls out of it for 68cal each. So Ill eat 2 for a snack. I'm at the point where I am keeping track of Carbs but not limiting them under 60 I am noticing now that I have been eating fruit and veggies again my BM are more regular. LIike you said so hard to re-train our brain!! I immediately go omgsh carbs bad, but not all are.

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Some people experience more harsher dumping syndrome symptoms than others. Thankfully, I don't experience much in the way of dumping syndrome despite eating a high level of sugar content. That said, I do experience daily Constipation and can't get a decent amount of volume down me.

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