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Found this on another (shhh) forum, and its extracted from an article on weight gain after surgery.
Patients who regain some or all of their weight back after surgery seem to have one behavior in common which has been dubbed “soft calorie syndrome.” Symptoms of “soft calorie syndrome” include eating many soft or liquid, calorie dense foods that will pass rapidly through the stomach and leave you feeling hungry an hour later. Typical foods that fall into this category would be ice cream, sugared liquids, mashed potatos, juices and chocolate/sweets. However, any food that dissolves in water would be considered a soft calorie food. This would also include chips, biscuits pastry … I think you get the picture.
If you want to do a test on your own just take a cup of water, add one teaspoon of white vinegar to mimic the acid in your stomach that helps dissolve foods, and put a small amount of simple carbohydrate food (white bread, potato chips, pastry) into the water mixture. You will find that the food dissolves very rapidly. Now, put a piece of protein based food (meat, egg, cheese) into the water mixture and you will find that it will not dissolve for hours. This is not a very scientific test; however, the same principle applies to the way your new stomach pouch responds to food post-operatively. Protein foods will stay in the pouch longer, keeping you full longer.
Patients who regain some or all of their weight back after surgery seem to have one behavior in common which has been dubbed “soft calorie syndrome.” Symptoms of “soft calorie syndrome” include eating many soft or liquid, calorie dense foods that will pass rapidly through the stomach and leave you feeling hungry an hour later. Typical foods that fall into this category would be ice cream, sugared liquids, mashed potatos, juices and chocolate/sweets. However, any food that dissolves in water would be considered a soft calorie food. This would also include chips, biscuits pastry … I think you get the picture.
If you want to do a test on your own just take a cup of water, add one teaspoon of white vinegar to mimic the acid in your stomach that helps dissolve foods, and put a small amount of simple carbohydrate food (white bread, potato chips, pastry) into the water mixture. You will find that the food dissolves very rapidly. Now, put a piece of protein based food (meat, egg, cheese) into the water mixture and you will find that it will not dissolve for hours. This is not a very scientific test; however, the same principle applies to the way your new stomach pouch responds to food post-operatively. Protein foods will stay in the pouch longer, keeping you full longer.
