Eating with a DS: A Day in the Life (pics!)

Thanks so much, Norma.

I couldn't agree with you more about the approach to fat eating. It tends to lead to less processed food and greater satiety for anyone. As foods are made artifically "lower fat" carbs and other artificial stuff is added.

Anyway, I'm happy to hear you've found a style of eating that you can enjoy & that you've been so successful with your surgery.

Jenna,

I love this post.   I hope you do it more often.  I too would love to go to your house...yummy good stuff you got there.

You are doing great.

Great idea!!!!

Thank you so much! I wish I could invite the whole board over for dinner. I love cooking for people.

Great post Jenna! My eating style is similar to yours.  Some days I am SHOCKED how much I can eat and other days I just don't feel like it.
 I love that I can now stop when I am full. I didn't know what feel full was before. It's really liberating to not be such a slave to food.  I eat and enjoy , instead of stuffing my face , searching for that elusive full feeling.
  For Father's Day i took my husband the the famous Zuni Cafe in San Francisco and I ate bits of everything and was satisfied. We had brunch and I had Orange-strawberry scones, with fresh strawberry perserves, 2 mimosas..1 oyster, a potaoto, poblano pepper, and summer squash soup. A few bites of my hubby's cesear salad, and roasted chicken. And for dessert I had 2 bites of a strawberry/menerigue thingy. I didn't have to exert any self control. I just followed my body's signals. I was eating like all those stylish skinny chicks in the resturant! I love my DS!

Thanks again for this post...!

Firstly, your pictures are beautiful and each one of those meals are pretty much nutritionally perfect... and most importantly, obviously it's working!!

That being said, I think quite a bit of the way people react to seeing the pics is mental. Like for me, lifelong PCOS, lifelong on a diet, eight slices of bacon SOUNDS like so much. It does. I'm a vegetarian, but even eight slices veggie bacon SOUNDS like an enormous amount to me.

Of course, a month ago, when in the '@*&@%! the diet" mode, I could have sat down with a bowl of basmati rice (just buttered and salted, thanks) big enough to feed half a Chinese restaurant, and plowed through it. So maybe the other part of it is in the food choices. When it came to carbs I think I could outeat anyone.

I'm ten days postop and I don't find any difficulty with a six ounce teacup full of some kind of soup. It takes me half an hour, but I'm okay with it, and sometimes I'm full way before I get to the bottom. Either way, I'm good. I do find I might need a 'snack' (like say half a shake or so) a couple hours later.. I base it on how I feel, cause I don't get hungry, and if I'm planning on a walk or something like that I'll have a little something beforehand.

I am so anxiously looking forward to (get this) cottage cheese. Oh you have no idea. I mean it! Cottage cheese. LOL!! And your pictures have put me in mind of this place we go to on vacation that makes the most incredible portobello mushrooms in red wine sauce.. and the thought that I'll be able to have (some, the portions are huge, I couldn't eat them all in one sitting last year) and really enjoy them is totally.. okay, not totally, but going real far to make up for getting sick of popsicles and shakes right now

Thanks for the pictures. Down the road I'll maybe post some of my veggie bento lunches, when I get to the point of eating that way again

Yay for vicarious eating!! LOL

Jenna.... Love this post...!!! Your presentation is AWESOME....  Pics could have been found in any foodie magazine...very cool....
   THIS IS A GROSS AMOUNT OF FOOD???? DUH????
Maybe next time you should put a QUARTER in the pic for size comparison.....lol
Thanks so much....lovely

Yummy!  I have an idea...you cook for me (or let me move in with you).  Come on...whaddya say?

Oh for Christs sake give me a break already!

I am sorry that my OPINION highly offended anyone!!!!

I should have posted from the very start that in MY opinion that is a gross amount of food.  I have never in my life eaten 8 slices of bacon in one sitting.  I have never consumed that amount of fat grams in one day  therefore it struck me as a "gross" amount of food pre or post op. I also never  stated that I had to get surgery because I ate correctly as several have commented.

I also should not have expressed my opinion on "all DSers" on this thread as I was making a general statement of the observations of many of the DSers posting of their food consumptions in a daily routine.  

I apologize to the Op for making general DSer statements in her food porn  thread.  Nothing I hate worse on here is surgery wars as I think they are a total waste of time and energy and in a moment of weakness on my part I made a generalization that I have thought in my head for a long time leak out through my fingers on her post and I apologize it should have just remained in my head.

Just go about your postings, forget I ever made a comment. 

My, oh my, what a GRACIOUS bull**** apology.

You go on lying to yourself about how much you ate that made you so fat. Uh huh.

I am sorry I did not see you living with me prior to surgery.  I should have been a better hostess to you!