Question about (meal) Portions...

I tried that today. I had 2 shakes. But they are high in fat... so my fat was already up to 18g today with those two shakes. Isn't that bad? Someone else said to drink Soy Milk instead of water... what do you think? 

IM SO CONFUSED! LOL

Can you make your shakes instead of using the EAS?  The Optimum Nutrition and Injury are good IMO and my FAVORITE "milk" is Light 8th Continent Soy Milk.  Also the Calorie Countdown (Kroger and Walmart sell this for sure) and Mootopia (HEB only) are good choices too.

I do my shakes with the soy or with water and lots of ice, mixed in my Magic Bullet.  It is literally frozen like ice cream / yogurt and I eat it with a spoon.

Edit:  Again my opinion, We as RNYers malabsorp some amount of fat  but we DON'T malabsorp ANY carbs.  So those 18 grams of fat, again IMO is NOTHING.  I wouldn't worry about that.....I worry more about carb intake.  Although today my fat intake was higher than I like when I'm really focused on what I'm eating.

I will try it! Thank you!! I was only buying the shakes because I could not make them to a thin enough consistancy to where I could handle them. Even in the blender they were coming out thick and clumpy and hard to swallow. But it has been a month since I made my own, I can always try again.

Michelle

2 things that have come to mind reading all the responses-

1  and please take this with the caring regard it is ment with - you need to work on your food issues - hubby, a friend or a counsuler (the family consultant people on base are free, will meet you at any public place and keep no records) but you like myself and many on here have issues with food and eating - I would say 90% of people who have wls have food issues - duh we didn't get fat b/c we wanted to

2 try the EAS powdered shakes - I make the chocolate one with cherry crytal light or cherry sf energy drink mix and water and ice in the mornings
latter in the mornings  I mix up a cup of coffee-poured over ice to cool it down then add 1 scoop chocolate protien powder and a splash of sf carmel suryp - it is a cold tasty drink and ups my protien a LOT - 2 of those a day will get you 45-60 grams of protien depending on what kind you use

Thank you Danni!! I am so frustrated I cried my eyes out to my hubby a little bit ago. I am so frustrated. I keep changing what I am doing and I keep increasing and I can't help but feel I am over eating and yet my calories are 400-600 a day, 1/2 of what everyone else has and Im the one not losing. LOL...huh?? I have increased everything a LOT over the last few weeks. I feel guilty for having 18g of fat today and people say that I still need to increase. Ok, I had high carbs today, but that is because I had a handfull of baked lays chips. That is where my carbs came from. Usually I do not have many carbs. I am trying everything that everyone says, in hopes things will change and this stall will end. I will try to increase the protein shakes. I always thought over 20g of fat a day was BAD and that is why I was scared to incrase my protein too much. Believe it or not, I eat more now than I did before surgery!!  & I feel guilty about it!

I am having a hard time wrapping my mind around "eating a lot more now than before surgery" ! 

I ate BIG PLATES of food before surgery and now I gawk at how much people eat now (I try to hide it).

I don't obsess over fats now because (1) we need fat in our diet and I think the current trend in low-fat diets is unhealthy and (2) we malabsorb fats which is why our vitamin intake is so critical.

I hope you get this figured out and break your stall !!!!!

Sarah

Thank you Sarah! Before surgery, back when I was 13, I decided to start skipping breakfast because I thought I was fat. (I was not, I can't tell you how much I weighed, but I was not fat). By the time I was 15 and in Jr. High, I stopped eating lunch. I know I was 126 and a size 6/7. I swore I was so fat because the doctors office said I should weigh 124 for my height and I was really upset. That is where the trouble began. By the time I was in high school I was a "liquitarian" and I would simply go weeks with only drinking. Usually drinking water or soda. HORRIBLE. It carried on until surgery... I never ate breakfast or lunch because I was so used to not eating. I gained my weight when I would eat out with my husband and order a decent meal. By the end of our first year of dating I jumped up to 170lbs. By the time I got pregnant with my first son, I was 26, and I weighed 200lbs. I only gained 10lbs with my pregnancy and lost 40lbs within 3 months of giving birth. That was the only time I was ever able to lose weight. I went on weigh****chers and never lost anything. I would lose a pound or two and then go weeks without losing. They kept claiming I was not eating enough and I would get so upset because I was proud that I still had 10 points left or so at the end of the day.
I definately have eating problems. For me, I not only feel full quick after surgery, but my mind cannot absorb the fact that I have to eat so much and I freak out. I cannot possibly think of eating more than I am. Maybe it is an honest problem that I have, but I am really having a hard time mentally. When people say that I am not eating enough, I feel like that is impossible because I ate so much during the day! This is 3/4 times more than I am used to eating in a day.
It may not make sense to you, LOL, but I am thinking I should talk to someone. I really need to figure this out. I called my nut Friday and he has not returned my call yet. I guess I need to hear it is okay to eat more. My mind cannot grasp it now.
However... I did drink like 80oz of water yesterday and I am still peeing it out (LOL) so I hope that soon I can stop peeing enough to go weigh. I hope for some kind of loss... I will even take .5lbs! 

First of all FAT IS NOT BAD!  Our bodies HAVE to have fat to function properly and a very low fat diet is not healthy, IMO.  Some fats are better than others.  This is an interesting study where they asked women to consume around 2 tsp of safflower oil every day and not change their diet and exercise and they lost weight and lost it in their bellies:

http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/bodycomp.htm


If you are having salads, you could make up some dressing with safflower oil and vinegar and spices and try it for a few weeks.

Don't worry about the extra fat and calories in the protein drinks - your body needs the protein and will not turn it into stored fat.  I started losing twice as fast when I could get myself up to 800 calories a day.  I was low at first like you for the first 2 months - 500 calories a day or so - and when I upped it to 800 I was buying a pair of smaller size jeans every 2 weeks !