Goodbye red meat?

Well, I just had sixpie for lunch. Or maybe I should correct that to say: Well I just tried to have sixpie for lunch. Sixpie, one of my favorite meals ever. Seems I might not want to continue eating that though. It's something my father has always made at Christmas time and I now make as well. It's basically meat, salt, onions, pie crust and repeat. Soooo good.  However I have noticed that eating meats is a bit challenging with this lap band. Someone had mentioned that eating proteins was more challenging with a lapband, however I hadn't had an adjustment yet and I didn't think that that really was the case for me. I mean I had to eat slower, make sure that any protein I ate was chewed properly,  but aside from that I was fine. Well, I have now have now had two adjustments, and need to be realistic. I haven't really eating anything aside from chicken and fish since this all began. The occaisional ground beef for soft shelled tacos, but anything beside that does not go down well.  Really, it usually tries to come right back up.

Honestly, we have been moving away from all meats not chicken or fish for a few years now. I still loved a good steak, but that's about it. I think that with the surgery, came the end of beef for me. Same for porc. Bye, bye. I mean I'll let you know this summer how I fare with a ribsteak. I might have to only have beef tenderloin, but that is really hopeful thinking based on my reaction to the sixpie. I cut it up all tiny. Basically a bowl of shredded meats, that I would take a small bite of and chew carefully. I know that meat is hard swallow so I make sure to take my time. But even with all that, I blocked and spent roughly half an hour being sick. I still feel slightly crappy. So now I have a nice Zantac in my stomach and a spoonfull of peanut butter. Yum.

Like I may have mentioned before, I am not really sure how I am suppose to be eating. There are so many different opinions that I don't know what's right. The dietitian I met with in D-ville, wasn't really that helpful. From everything I gathered, I am to consume more or less what is recommend by the Canadian Food Guide (just smaller quantities). The weight loss clinic here in Ottawa is saying that I should be following a protein heavy, carb light diet. But that is for weight loss, not specifically for lap-band patients. So you can imagine how challenging that diet would be considering how hard it is to eat protein. Anyways.

Back to your regularly scheduled program.