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  • Food Highlight: Radishes

    Food Highlight: Radishes

    Radishes may be a vegetable you aren’t very familiar with. Maybe they were just that vegetable you pushed to the side when you ate a salad or saw on your plate as a garnish at a restaurant. But radishes can be a vegetable that can stand on their own. In fact, for gastric sleeve, gastric bypass, and gastric band patients they can be a good choice.

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  • Nutrition Content of Different Ground Meats: A Handy Chart for Bariatric Patients

    Nutrition Content of Different Ground Meats: A Handy Chart for Bariatric Patients

    Ground meats are often well tolerated by gastric sleeve, gastric bypass, and lap band patients. They are readily available, cook quickly, and are quite versatile. You can make them in recipes that add moisture so that they are more easily tolerated than dry meats like chicken breast or steak.

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  • 5 Ways to Stuff Chicken Breasts Differently

    5 Ways to Stuff Chicken Breasts Differently

    Chicken can be a staple of many gastric sleeve, gastric bypass, and lap band patient’s diets. It’s a great source of high quality protein, often low in fat, low in cholesterol. A 3 oz portion of boneless, skinless chicken breast has less than 130 calories, 24 grams of protein, 3 grams of fat, and no carbohydrates. That makes chicken a great food choice for bariatric patients to meet their protein goal while keeping their calorie intake low to promote weight loss.

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  • 6 Ways Gastric Sleeve Patients Can Use Trader Joe's Everything But the Bagel Seasoning

    6 Ways Gastric Sleeve Patients Can Use Trader Joe's Everything But the Bagel Seasoning

    Are you a fan of Trader Joe’s Everything But the Bagel seasoning? If you haven’t tried it yet, it’s like eating an everything bagel without the calories and carbs of a bagel. This makes it a great choice for people who are trying to lose weight, like Dr. Shillingford’s gastric sleeve, gastric bypass, and lap band surgery patients.

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  • Quick and Easy High Protein One Pan Meal

    Quick and Easy High Protein One Pan Meal

    Looking for a high protein meal that you can have prepped and on the table in less than a half hour? Look no further than this Ground Turkey Hash.

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  • Lower Sugar Ways to Fit Pumpkin Into a Gastric Sleeve Diet

    Lower Sugar Ways to Fit Pumpkin Into a Gastric Sleeve Diet

    It’s fall time and that means people are pumpkin obsessed. No doubt you’re finding pumpkin-related pictures and posts filling up your social media feeds.

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  • If Solid Texture Proteins Are Not Going Down Easily, Consider These Questions

    If Solid Texture Proteins Are Not Going Down Easily, Consider These Questions

    Each bariatric surgery patient is different. Similarly, each bariatric surgeon has slightly different recommendations for a post op bariatric diet. Each surgeon has different guidelines for when to start purees, soft foods, and solid foods, as well as which foods fall into which categories. Eating a food too early can result in nausea, gagging, vomiting, diarrhea, or quesiness. It’s best to follow your bariatric surgeon’s advice for when and how to progress through the stages.

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  • What Protein to Eat For Breakfast When You Can Not Tolerate Eggs

    What Protein to Eat For Breakfast When You Can Not Tolerate Eggs

    One side effect of bariatric surgery can be changes in food preferences. This can be especially true in the early stages after gastric sleeve, gastric bypass, or lap band surgery, but may also persist.

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  • Five Foods You’ve Probably Been Storing Wrong

    Five Foods You’ve Probably Been Storing Wrong

    Do you come home from grocery shopping and put all of your fresh produce away in the refrigerator? Do you put your fruits and vegetables in their respective crispers? Or do you leave your produce on the counter? Turns out some belong in the fridge and some belong in the crisper.

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  • Have You Tried This High Protein Snack? Parmesan Crisps

    Have You Tried This High Protein Snack? Parmesan Crisps

    Bariatric patients are encouraged to eat their protein first. With a goal of 60-80 grams of protein, gastric sleeve, gastric bypass, and gastric band patients have to pay attention to what they are eating to ensure that they are meeting their protein goal (without exceeding their carbohydrate goal).

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