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Topic: RE: Salad?
-David
"Hello, my name is David, and I am a nutritional over-achiever..."
I can't think of any reason that this wouldn't be okay.
It's funny, you know, we spend years of our lives trying to eat large, bulky, foods low in calories, so we can feel satisfied, and still eat healthy. Now, after weight loss surgery, we need to do the exact opposite, and eat nutrient dense, rich, foods (not fattening...just...rich)...in order to get enough nutrtion in in the amount of food we can take in.
Congratulations on giving up soda (again.) :-) It's still the hardest thing, for me...
It's funny, you know, we spend years of our lives trying to eat large, bulky, foods low in calories, so we can feel satisfied, and still eat healthy. Now, after weight loss surgery, we need to do the exact opposite, and eat nutrient dense, rich, foods (not fattening...just...rich)...in order to get enough nutrtion in in the amount of food we can take in.
Congratulations on giving up soda (again.) :-) It's still the hardest thing, for me...
-David
"Hello, my name is David, and I am a nutritional over-achiever..."
Topic: Salad?
Is it ok to eat salad with protein on it (like turkey, chicken or ham) for 2 meals? I have started sipping protein drinks during the day and I am hoping to get enough protein from 2 shakes (throughout the day) and my 2 salads. My NUT said for someone my size 40 grams will be ok. I think I am managing about 40 with my 2 shakes so I will have more with my salads. I also drink water (because I have given up soda {AGAIN}). I am really trying to eat more closely to my new living style than what got me to be SMO. So any suggestions will really be helpful! Thanks in advance!
Topic: RE: Got a date!
Woo hoo that is wonderful wont be long now you will be sitting on the bench with the rest of us. Congratulation let the journey begin!!!
Topic: One year anniversary
So I have celebrated my one year RNY anniversary. I am a little disappointed with myself that I haven't been losing much weight in the last 6 months. I know what happened, I stopped exercising so much and let my calories go over. But when I went to the Dr for my check-up the scale was up by 1.5 pounds. I know it could have been worse. But now I want to really start concentrating on myself and my weight loss again. I just went back to college, so I am challenging myself while working my full time job. My kids are back home -one graduated from college and one moved back in to go back to college to get her master's degree. I love having my kids at home again. I need a plan to get myself back in the grove of seeing the scale moving down again. I do not think my habits are too bad-I do know that this time of year I crave foods and those craving are starting to come back. I am looking for some new low calorie foods-so if anyone has any ideas or some great recipes-please share. Thanks.
It was so worth it........I just need to keep it under control.
It was so worth it........I just need to keep it under control.
Topic: RE: Got a date!
OOps I think I accidentally deleted this. Date is Oct 11! I am very excited and nervous too! I can't wait to be on the other side.
Topic: Happy September
Hi all we had a great support group last nite at emmc.
My friend Barb's dad is in the hosptial there and so she came to support group for a bit and was surprized that it was not what she remembered. WE do have a good group and really we try not to judge. I know i dont. I want those on the outside to succeed and that means making the right choices and following the rules. I hope everyone is doing well. I would love to lose 30 more pounds but you know that means diet now since i eat enuf to keep the weight on.
But i will do it!!!
Have a great day
Patty
My friend Barb's dad is in the hosptial there and so she came to support group for a bit and was surprized that it was not what she remembered. WE do have a good group and really we try not to judge. I know i dont. I want those on the outside to succeed and that means making the right choices and following the rules. I hope everyone is doing well. I would love to lose 30 more pounds but you know that means diet now since i eat enuf to keep the weight on.
But i will do it!!!
Have a great day
Patty
Topic: RE: Making bad choices! HELP
I think most of us have had to fight that demon. But you can do it. Remember what i say about the rules. It is hard for us to follow them all the time but we have to keep trying. I got hooked on hard candy when i was driving. I had to just not buy them and now after a few months it seems i am over it. I drink greatfruit juice cut with water. you can do orange juice cut 50 50 or 25/75 if you need the flavor. Juice has a lot of calories so you have to watch how much you consume. Remember 100 extra calories a day is 10 pounds in a year.
If you need to add some carbs then plan them in and count the calories. Soda will stretch the pouch if you continue down that road. I do hope you do not. I also do vitamin zero water and i mix that 50/50 hope all our little suggestions help.
take care and you can do it!!!!
Patty
If you need to add some carbs then plan them in and count the calories. Soda will stretch the pouch if you continue down that road. I do hope you do not. I also do vitamin zero water and i mix that 50/50 hope all our little suggestions help.
take care and you can do it!!!!
Patty
Topic: RE: Summer / Fall
Hi David Sounds like you have a plan and are doing great. It has been a good summer and i wi**** would not end. I walked the Komen Race on Sunday in Bangor that is my 4th year and I would never of been able to do it before surgery.
Take care and have a great fall.
Patty
Take care and have a great fall.
Patty
Topic: RE: Making bad choices! HELP
I tell you that carb monster is not very nice is it. LOL I am 6 months post op and doing well. I wasn't much of a soda drinker before surgery so I haven't craved that too bad. Once in a while it is a passing thought when I see my husband take a drink of his that I kind of crave the taste of pepsi and think I would like to have a sip but I just say no and move on. Now as far as carbs go I am struggling with that because I have lost all of my weight and Dr. Toder has been concerned about me loosing too much now she has told me to be a snacker, wants me to add more calories and carbs into my diet. She said my body is requiring me to eat little meals/snacks several times a day inorder for me to try and maintain my weight. Now that being said I feel like that I am constantly having to put something in my mouth whether I am hungry or not. I feel like that is sending me into bad habbits but she tells me it is what my body needs right now and if we need to nip it in the butt later on we will. I said easy for her to say because it will be me who has to fight those demons not her. I wish I had a solution for you. Just try and have some veg and some fruits on hand, nuts(almonds) are a great source to snack on. As for drinks do you like tea? I can't drink stuff that has aspertime in it either. Be careful the crystal light packets have that in it and a lot of the sugar free stuff will have that in it. I do like truvia for my sugar subsitute. Have you tried that yet? I also don't mind vi****er have you tried that? G2 is good tropicana 50 lemonade or orange juice is good in moderation. Dieticians recommened that to me. Also diet cranberry juice. Not too bad. I hope my suggestions have helped. Good luck and we are here for you.
Topic: RE: Making bad choices! HELP
-David
"Hello, my name is David, and I am a nutritional over-achiever..."
Hi Jeanine!
Good to hear from you!
I'm sorry to hear that you are struggling. I know how that feels. Soda...BAD. Good for you for re-stopping it. I LOVE soda. I was (am?) addicted to it. Badly. I used to drink as much as 6-7 liters per day, so you can imagine, I know how it feels to crave that. I'm 6.5 months past surgery...and the only thing I -crave- from before surgery? Fountain soda. Man. What I wouldn't give for that...
So, establishing that I feel your pain! :-)
Have you looked at those small individual-sized packets of Wyler's drink mixes? Like Kool-Aid? Crystal Light, and many many other brands. They seem to be very popular right now, and can be found in all kinds of places. Reny's, Hannaford, Shaw's, Ocean State Job Lots, even in plastic dispensers on the glass cooler doors in convenience stores (so when you buy a bottle of bottled water (please don't...so environmentally unfriendly!), you can buy that too and pour it into your bottled water for flavor.
I've gone a little overboard on those, and I have, oh, probably HUNDREDS of them, stashed around home, at my desk at work, in my glove box...they come in such a wide variety of flavors. Peach Ice Tea, Peach Lemonade, Lemonade, Cherry, Grape, Lemon Iced Tea, Cran-Grape, etc...they are wonderful...
Also, the new stuff "Mio", which comes in a small plastic bottle, and you squirt a few drops in. It's expensive ($3.99/bottle), but, you only need a few drops or a small squirt, and you can make it as strong, or as weak, as you like. They have Strawberry, Mango, Pomegranate, etc...
Try one or two, see if you like it. Then, if you do, stock-up when it's on sale...keep a wide variety of flavors...it helps with the boredom factor.
Give it a whirl, see what you think?
-David
Good to hear from you!
I'm sorry to hear that you are struggling. I know how that feels. Soda...BAD. Good for you for re-stopping it. I LOVE soda. I was (am?) addicted to it. Badly. I used to drink as much as 6-7 liters per day, so you can imagine, I know how it feels to crave that. I'm 6.5 months past surgery...and the only thing I -crave- from before surgery? Fountain soda. Man. What I wouldn't give for that...
So, establishing that I feel your pain! :-)
Have you looked at those small individual-sized packets of Wyler's drink mixes? Like Kool-Aid? Crystal Light, and many many other brands. They seem to be very popular right now, and can be found in all kinds of places. Reny's, Hannaford, Shaw's, Ocean State Job Lots, even in plastic dispensers on the glass cooler doors in convenience stores (so when you buy a bottle of bottled water (please don't...so environmentally unfriendly!), you can buy that too and pour it into your bottled water for flavor.
I've gone a little overboard on those, and I have, oh, probably HUNDREDS of them, stashed around home, at my desk at work, in my glove box...they come in such a wide variety of flavors. Peach Ice Tea, Peach Lemonade, Lemonade, Cherry, Grape, Lemon Iced Tea, Cran-Grape, etc...they are wonderful...
Also, the new stuff "Mio", which comes in a small plastic bottle, and you squirt a few drops in. It's expensive ($3.99/bottle), but, you only need a few drops or a small squirt, and you can make it as strong, or as weak, as you like. They have Strawberry, Mango, Pomegranate, etc...
Try one or two, see if you like it. Then, if you do, stock-up when it's on sale...keep a wide variety of flavors...it helps with the boredom factor.
Give it a whirl, see what you think?
-David
-David
"Hello, my name is David, and I am a nutritional over-achiever..."
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