By Kaye Bailey
For most people eating sliders is a good thing. Popularized by the American
food chain, White Castle, a slider (originally slyder) is a miniature grilled
hamburger or cheeseburger on a steamed bun often served with onions and dill
pickle and other condiments. They originally sold for a nickel a piece in the
1940s making it affordable to add a side of fries for just pennies. By all
accounts this is a good kind of "slider" food.
To the weight loss surgery patient slider foods are the bane of good
intentions and ignorance often causing dumping syndrome, weight loss plateaus,
and eventually weight gain. Slider foods, to weight loss surgery patients, are
soft simple processed carbohydrates of little or no nutritional value that slide
right through the surgical stomach pouch without providing nutrition or
satiation. The most innocent of slider foods are saltine crackers, often eaten
with warm tea or other beverages, to soothe the stomach in illness or while
recovering from surgery.
The most commonly consumed slider foods include pretzels, crackers
(saltines, graham, Ritz, etc.) filled cracker snacks such as Ritz Bits, popcorn,
cheese snacks (Cheetos) or cheese crackers, tortilla chips with salsa, potato
chips, sugar-free cookies, cakes, and candy. You will notice these slider foods
are often salty and cause dry mouth so they must be ingested with liquid to be
palatable. This is how they become slider foods. They are also, most often, void
of nutritional value.
For weight loss surgery patients the process of digestion is different than
those who have not undergone gastric surgery. When slider foods are consumed
they go into the stomach pouch and exit directly into the jejunum where the
simple carbohydrate slurry is quickly absorbed and stored by the body. There is
little thermic effect in the digestion of simple carbohydrates like there is in
the digestion of protein so little metabolic energy is expended. In most cases
patients in the phase of weight loss who eat slider foods will experience a
weight loss plateau and possibly the setback of weight gain. And sadly, they
will begin to believe their surgical stomach pouch is not functioning properly
because they never feel fullness or restriction like they experience when eating
protein.
The very nature of the surgical gastric pouch is to cause feelings of
tightness or restriction when one has eaten enough food. However, when soft
simple carbohydrates are eaten this tightness or restriction does not result and
one can continue to eat, unmeasured, copious amounts of non- nutritional food
without ever feeling uncomfortable.
Many patients turn to slider foods for this very reason. They do not like
the discomfort that results when the pouch is full from eating a measured
portion of lean animal or dairy protein without liquids. Yet it is this very
restriction that is the desired result of the surgery. The discomfort is
intended to signal the cessation of eating. Remembering the "Protein First" rule
is crucial to weight management with bariatric surgery.
Gastric bypass, gastric banding (lap-band) and gastric sleeve patients are
instructed to follow a high protein diet to facilitate healing and promote
weight loss. Bariatric centers advise what is commonly known among weight loss
surgery patients as the "Four Rules" the most important of which is "Protein
First." That means of all nutrients (protein, carbohydrates, fat and alcohol)
the patient is required to eat protein first.
Protein is not always the most comfortable food choice for weight loss
surgery patients who feel restriction after eating a very small amount of food.
However, for the surgical tool to work correctly a diet rich in protein and low
in simple carbohydrate slider foods must be observed. The high protein diet must
be followed even after healthy body weight has been achieved in order to
maintain a healthy weight and avoid weight regain.
Kaye Bailey 2010 - All Rights Reserved
Kaye Bailey is an internationally recognized writer, speaker and weight
loss surgery advocate. She is the author of the highly successful weight loss
surgery back to basics plan: 5 Day Pouch Test and the 5 Day Pouch Test Owner's
Manual. Her follow-up book, Day 6: Beyond the 5 Day Pouch Test, was published in
December 2009. It provides guidance for long-term weight and health management
with all bariatric surgical procedures. Ms. Bailey is known for her powerful
"you can do this" manner and her belief in the power of personal responsibility.
She is the founder of LivingAfterWLS, LLC parent company to the
LivingAfterWLS.com and 5daypouchtest.com websites. Supporting both websites is
the LivingAfterWLS Neighborhood, an online compassion-driven community for
weight loss surgery, gastric bypass and gastric banding patients.
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