I bought a scale to start weighing my food but I dint know how much it should weigh. Any advice???
I know I'm a little late considering it's been 13 weeks since surgery. But I just want 2 know.
I think that is a strange thing for the dietician to say. Just because you have had a sleeve, it doesn't mean that your body doesn't need vitamins and the water that comes from fresh fruit and veggies. You are a few months in from your surgery date, friends of mine in the same time frame as you are all eating normal food, just in small servings and are healthy and losing weight still. My surgeon said that the reason the sleeve is really good for some people is because they can resume a normal diet, without having to be on atkins forever, eat what they enjoy (within reason) and in very small servings, while being satisfied. Seems to work for his patients, and that's what I want my life to be after the sleeve. Perhaps a conversation with another dietitian would be good for you to get another professional opinion. You are doing well k_jo35, good luck with your journey.
My dietitian didn't tell me that fruits and vegetables were a waste of space, but he has said over and over that I need to always eat my protein first. I suspect that might be what k_jo's dietitian meant. More than anything else we need to concentrate on eating protein, and eating fruits and veggies takes up the space we need to be filling with protein. Right now I'm using beans (pinto and refried) as a compromise.
I had my bypass sleeve done 5 months ago and 80 pounds less. I was told to weigh 4 oz or a half a cup eat 6 times a day and make sure you get 60 grams of protein a day which is hard to do i use protein tubes that contain 26 grams in one tube they have a nother one out that is 42 grams. They have both at walmart where the protein powder is you have to look kind of hard to fine them.
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