What's on your menu today (Photo Friday!) RNYers?

LOVE that sign!!!

Thank you! That is a great disclaimer for a scale! I should print one for my family dr. I think he'd love it.

Great sign! I've seen a similar one but yours is much better. Such a hard lesson to learn.

Wow !! My takeaway from this thread is a lot of rnyers are (seriously ?!!!! ) drinking their meals ... yikes !!

i totally get why making the ( huge ) effort feels totally worth it ... the alternative ( truly scary movie we all play in our heads ) is regaining all we lost . BUT!!!

you can eat like an average person and still lose!! You can drink alky-hol and enjoy life and not regain .

Geez.. would we really have had this extreme surgery without the hope( -and proven reality ) of feeling normal and healthy?

were not idiots ... we ( were thank God ) " just " fat .. but thank God not seriously stoopid

For me personally my pre-surgery diet calls for me to have at least one meal replacement (shake/drink)...and I know at least a couple of our posters here are still in the post-surgery liquid/mush phase.

post-surgery I look at it this way....you do what you have to do to get in your protein and maintain a healthy relationship with food and your body.

If it means you have to drink a shake, then by all means drink a shake. Since we're all different the cookie-cutter-guidelines given to us by our RDs and NUTs may not work exactly as they want it to, and it's up to each individual person to figure out what best suits their needs to maintain a healthy livable lifestyle post-surgery.

a lot of them are still pre-ops or new post-ops, so yes, they're still drinking protein shakes.

A lot of us are newbies, so protein drinks are a necessary evil. And as far as alcohol goes- I was never really a drinker anyway, and I don't plan to ever have it again.

I just had surgery Monday so I definitely have to be on just liquids for now. But starting 2 weeks after surgery I can start to add other things in. I think that is pretty typical.

It's definitely the norm. Hope fluids are going better today!

Yes, seriously.

It's quite common for post ops to rely on shakes for the first year or more to supplement. And many continue to for a variety of reasons, not limited to:because it suits their lifestyle, they malabsorb protein at a different rate than someone else, and still others because they don't like a lot of protein sources. But they all understand the importance of eating a protein forward diet.

Its not all about re-gain. It's about leading the healthiest lifestyle we can and maintaining the new behaviours and habits we develop throughout the pre and post op phases.

There are many good reasons not to rush back to the foods and habits that required us to have surgery in the first place.

I absolutely feel "normal and healthy" now. More so than I ever have.