Re: Looking forward to reading and posting in this group

[Guest guest]

Tuesday, August 17, 2004, 11:30:14 AM, you wrote:

S> The types of food

S> and amounts of food you all are eating are of interest to me. For

S> example, to begin with my doctor so no beef. I do eat loose ground

Does this mean your doc said no beef? I can't imagine why.

Personally, I do much better on most beef than I do on chicken breast

or some other things. The beef doesn't have to be soft or braised,

though that is fine too. If find that things that are " stringy " are

more of a problem than things that are a bit on the " tougher " side.

You do need to be willing to chew VERY well, and you do need to be

willing to discreetly put a piece of chewed gristle or fat on your

plate if it won't break down enough in your mouth.

S> beef (taco meat) but have not ventured any further. Do you eat soft,

S> braised roast? How about thinly sliced or shredded Chinese beef? I am

S> getting really, really tired of chicken. I would welcome some

S> suggestions.

My experience is that things that are braised or shredded or such are

usually done that way because they are cheap cuts of meat. I do

better with steaks and such, in small quantities, well chewed. Prime

rib and filet are my favorites. I also do fine with pork in various

forms as long as it is moist and not fatty.

I'd say try new things, carefully. If it works, great, if not, you've

had another learning experience.

dan

Dan Lester, Boise, ID honu@... www.mylapband.tk

Dr. Ortiz, Tijuana, 4/28/03

323/211/199 Age 61

[Guest guest]

I eat lamb all the time. It's my favorite meat. I have it in a kabob.

>

> S> The types of food

> S> and amounts of food you all are eating are of interest to me.

For

> S> example, to begin with my doctor so no beef. I do eat loose

ground

>

> Does this mean your doc said no beef? I can't imagine why.

....

>I am

> S> getting really, really tired of chicken. I would welcome some

> S> suggestions.

>

[Guest guest]

Sharon,

I am only about 7 weeks out from being banded but I have eaten beef

and do just fine. I think you just have to remember to eat slow and

to chew, chew, chew. If I get in a hurry then I have trouble. I think

everyone tolerates different things and like Dan said if it doesn't

work than you learned something. My doctor wants you to be able to

eat normally but just in alot smaller portions than what we were use

too. My eyes are still larger than my pouch and I have to continually

remind myself that I can order a small portion and it will be more

than enough to fill me up. But this all takes time. Best of luck on

your weight loss.

-- In , " Sharon " <srhea@r...> wrote:

> For> example, to begin with my doctor so no beef. I do eat loose

ground> beef (taco meat) but have not ventured any further. Do you

eat soft,

> braised roast? How about thinly sliced or shredded Chinese beef? I

am

> getting really, really tired of chicken. I would welcome some

> suggestions.

> Sharon

> 11-25-03

> Dr. Marquez

> 340/270/150?

[Guest guest]

There are very few hard-and-fast rules with banding! I've heard that

some docs say no beef - but there is no reason for this, IMO. ANY

meqat that is soft, cooked nicely, moisty, and chewed well should be

fine! Evern with my tightest fill, i loved stews with soft beef,

chicken, or fish. I found a crockpot was perfect, and easy to use -

throw the stuff in in the morning, eat the stuff when you get home

for dinner! Chunks of meat, carrots, peppers, 1/2 can mushroom or

onion soup, a couple potatoes, onions, fresh green beans - yum!

Ground beef of a good quality is ok too - it's the cheaqp, stringy

stuff with fat and gristle that can be a problem.

I found that i could eat ANYthing, as long as I chewed it well -

exceppt bread and the other useless stuff.

For lunch, I often have deli beef and lowfat cheese. Wrap a piece of

cheese around the beef to make a roll, and dip in lowfat miracle

Whip, mustard, mayo, etc - perfect!

There are millions of good types of fish - try them! Your market

probably has recipe cards. Soft fish is one of the easiest protein

sources fotr bandsters. Catfish is delicious - along with talapia,

tuna, salmon, perch, halibut. Just be sure it is moist - use

marinades, sauces, salsa, dips. Expand your horizons! :-) Sandy R

> Having been banded since 11-25-03, I was tiring of wading through

the

> pre-band questions (and all the to-do) on other boards. I look

> forward to this board. I am well restricted but, as others have

said,

> some days I can eat fairly easily and some days just nothing seems

to

> go down (assuming I am staying away from those badboy band foods

like

> ice cream!). I find that speed of eating is really important. If I

> get really hungry and eat too fast, I regret it. The types of food

> and amounts of food you all are eating are of interest to me. For

> example, to begin with my doctor so no beef. I do eat loose ground

> beef (taco meat) but have not ventured any further. Do you eat

soft,

> braised roast? How about thinly sliced or shredded Chinese beef? I

am

> getting really, really tired of chicken. I would welcome some

> suggestions.

> Sharon

> 11-25-03

> Dr. Marquez

> 340/270/150?

[Guest guest]

Sharon, can you eat flaky fish? I had lunch at Ivars today and the fish

was wonderful. I split a 4 piece with my dd, she ate 3, I had one.

I also like to make pot roast so tender that it falls apart (slowly

cooked at a low temp). We call it " string beef " around here, because

when you cut it, it looks like little strings when it falls apart.

Hope this helps.

Barb S.

barbooch@...

[Guest guest]

Hi Sharon,

My favorite breakfast right now is a Balance bar (triple chocolate &

other yummy flavors) or some Kashi Go Lean or Go Lean Crunch cereal,

dry. Often at lunch I have salmon (in the pouch), mixed with Miracle

Whip light, or tuna, or deli meat w/cheese. Those things all go down

easily for me. I seem to have a pretty good restriction right now.

I cook chicken breast in the crockpot with a little white wine &

cream of mushroom soup, and a few other variations. If you'd like

the recipe email me and I'll send it. I do also cook chuckroast in

the crockpot, but sometimes even that doesn't go down so well for me.

I substitute lean ground turkey for ground beef, for some reason I

always find gristle in the gr. beef, even the more expensive kind, it

gives me trouble. Pork tenderloin is one of my fav. things also

right now. It is very tender. Have a killer recipe for it for the

grill. I can eat *really* tender steak. For variety, I sometimes buy

Healthy Choice smoked sausage and cook that -- I just have to remove

the skin. Other than that, I am eating lots of fish. When I eat

out, I just naturally look at the fish first. I *never* used to eat

fish. Not that I didn't like it, just that I preferred other

tastes. Now I have developed such a taste for it that I can't seem

to get enough. Weird.

Hope this helps a little.

Betty

> I would welcome some

> suggestions.

> Sharon

>

[Guest guest]

I was at a Greek restaurant the other night and had gyro meat. I

forgot how delicious it is! I skipped the pita bread and just had

the meat and the onion with the Tzatki (sp?) sauce and how fabulous

was that! It is salty, but I think a little bit is not a problem.

And the meat is very tender so it went down with no problems.

Do you eat soft,

> braised roast? How about thinly sliced or shredded Chinese beef?

I am

> getting really, really tired of chicken. I would welcome some

> suggestions.

[Guest guest]

Oh ... you're making me hungry! lol

I'm going to a famous Greek restaurant in Utica, New York tomorrow.

I am VERY happy to hear the the gyro meat went down well. That is

what I was planning on trying. I'm at the 3-month mark (tomorrow!)

and am still adding a few new things in, here and there.

Hugs,

Banded 5-19-04

Dr. Weiss, stown, NY

5'8 " , 42YO

Highest ever – 330 lbs

Orientation – 296 lbs

Day of Surgery – 273 lbs

Today – 236

Goal – " Normal " Clothes

> I was at a Greek restaurant the other night and had gyro meat. I

> forgot how delicious it is! I skipped the pita bread and just had

> the meat and the onion with the Tzatki (sp?) sauce and how fabulous

> was that! It is salty, but I think a little bit is not a problem.

> And the meat is very tender so it went down with no problems.

[Guest guest]

Even though until Saturday I was a newbie, it's nice to have a group

just for already banded people. How many times can you answer the

question, " were you scared to go to Mexico? "

NANCY

8/14/04

> Having been banded since 11-25-03, I was tiring of wading through

the

> pre-band questions (and all the to-do) on other boards. I look

> forward to this board.