Hey all! I may have mentioned this in prior posts, but before I considered weight loss surgery I was just trying to change my diet trying to eat better healthier foods. I didn’t go crazy at first. I started with buying better meat. I’d heard a blurb on the news quite awhile ago about how companies add something called “pink slime” to ground beef which is sprayed with ammonia. All I could think of was the smell of ammonia being made at my grandma’s cleaning business—made me want to puke. That being said I started buying mostly organic meat when I could get it then I started walking down the organic aisle at the food store just to see what choices they had.
Why am I mentioning this?? Quite a bit of the things I’ve eaten in the past couple of months have not been my norm. Yes this surgery is about making changes in your life and cutting back on sugar and carbs is a must. I also understand that sugar can be a huge issue for some bariatric patients and that many are unable to tolerate large amounts, but all the sugar free junk they tell you to eat can’t be good for us either.
I’ve already found out that I really don’t tolerate erythritol, which is to my understanding a sugar alcohol that our bodies do not process and is only excreted in our urine. My feeling sickly after ingesting it is not unlikely since I read that it does have many GI side effects. I want to be good I want to eat the things that are on the list from the surgeon/nutritionist but since doing more reading on erythritol, and since it’s added in to so many sugar free foods I’m pretty sure I’m boycotting the sugar free thing.
A little note about stevia–yes it’s a plant and it’s super sweet, but not all stevias are the same. Before I did any reading on artificial sweeteners I just picked a store brand off the shelf not even reading the label. Yes I was wasteful and tossed the whole thing in the garbage because it contained erythritol. I bought steevia in the raw instead because it does not contain erythritol and it’s non-gmo organic.
So I’m cutting out the premade sugar free foods, I barely use stevia except maybe in my decaf coffee/tea and even then it’s like a quarter of a packet. I was poisoning my body by being heavy in the first place I don’t want to poison myself with processing gmo foods too then the weight loss for me is pointless. Will update again soon happy reading!
Ask the nutritionist about coconut sugar. I use it in place of white sugar, and have cut back on sugar tremendously. It has a low glycemic index, subs for white sugar 1:1, and you can use it anywhere you would use white sugar… Coffee, baking, cooking, etc. Reach out to the girls on the 4th floor for tips on eating when you get back to work.
I do have coconut sugar—did not know you could sub it out 1:1 with reg sugar though. I happen to like it when I see the nutritionist in a week or so I’ll ask her what she thinks.