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Hi jennmc79,
More and more weight loss surgery members are asking about non meat alternatives. Here is some research I did for you, I hope it helps.
I did a search for you and here are some other members inquiring about vegetarian and vegan.
http://www.obesityhelp.com/search/?q=vegetarian
I know there is a difference between vegetarian and vegan but thought you would find this interesting too.
To Be Vegan...or Not To Be Vegan
I am sending you some other information via PM (private message)
HW:330 - GW:150 - MW:118-125
RW:190 - CW:130
I love to cook. Even after having my stomach reduced from XXXL to "minuscule", I still enjoy my time in the kitchen. I am also somewhat impatient when it comes to meal time. I have a habit of working right up to the point where I need to eat RIGHT NOW. So if I don't plan ahead I get myself in trouble.
My solution has been to cook up "vats" of stuff, stick them in the refrigerator, and then have several choices for the next week or so. Mrs. LittleBillJr is on board with this style of food prep for a lot of the same reasons, so we spend time in the kitchen together as a form of recreation as well as tending to our daily needs. She is also on board with the whole careful eating plan, and has shed a bunch of pounds herself just supporting me in this WLS stuff.
One of the things we do is weigh everything when we create a recipe. This allows us to get a fairly accurate determinations of things like calories, carbs, protein, so on and so forth. It also helps to determine serving size, although we often combine it with volume measure for that.
I love to cook, and I hate washing dishes. But with this weighing thing, I have found myself washing more dishes. This is mainly because I will stick everything in whatever vessel I am using to create my next culinary masterpiece without weighing it (the vessel, that is). So I end up dumping stuff in and out of other containers for the purpose of weighing the container itself, and sometimes the particular ingredient, if I forgot that part.
This morning, I was making up a batch of chicken salad, and it finally dawned on me. If I were to TARE all my containers, bowls, etc, I could save myself some time and some elbow grease at the sink. As of today, I am embarking on a plan to tare each vessel, and store it in the notes section of my smart phone, along with a description of said vessel. It may not be a big deal, but it made me happy to think of it. Some of you reading this may say, "I've known that for years!" Others may say, "That boy's a genuis!" I am not waiting for the latter. I am just happy to have hopefully made life a little easier in the kitchen. Now I am off to put some beef into the dehydrator for jerky.
on 2/13/17 1:31 am
I recently became a vegan, and very hard to give up the familiar food. I want to learn a lot of information about proper nutrition because my body needs food harmful. But I know that I'm on the right track! I read a lot of different articles and can advise me something like this article???? http://happybody.tv/vegan-diet-and-weight-loss/
I'm curious where the 'lose 35# before surgery' came from. Is your doctor giving you 15 days to do this or have you had a while and what you were doing didn't work?
A lot of us are put on a "shrink your liver" diet the 2 weeks before surgery, which is pretty much where you are. If you do that, you are likely to lose at least some weight, depending on how overweight you are.
Mine was: 3 Premier Protein shakes, 1 Lean Cuisine, 1 cup non-starchy vegetables (no dressing or dip, just the veggies)
The prepackaged food is all about portion control. It's not healthy in the long run, but for 2 weeks, doable. The frozen meals had to be higher-protein ones with
Band removal & RNY Feb 1 2017
You're very welcome. Sounds like you got a lot on your plate, with moving, your loss, and trying to get your health back in order. One day a time is all you can do. I'm happy to hear you are trying to join activities. Sometimes it's best when we do that, keeps our mind in order too. Good luck, and again, message me if you need to talk.
Stacey
I love soda. I have never like coffee, so for me, my caffeine fix has always ALWAYS come from drinking soda. Somewhere in my teens, I switched over to diet soda, and in the last decade, it's been pretty much coke zero or diet mountain dew (the diet dew is my go to, but love the cherry coke zero too).
Was told by my surgeon that drinking diet soda in moderation is fine. No worries about stretching your sleeve or any of that junk. Just to hold off for a few months and make sure I was drinking enough water/water based liquid to compensate for the slight diuretic effects.
So still drinking away on my diet soda, around 3 cans a day. And here I am just over 2 years out from my sleeve surgery and still flirting with my goal weight. Within 10 pounds - almost single digits for heavens sake!
My exercise is on point. I just recently joined a gym, and have added in weight training to my usual walking, biking and swimming and yoga. Because I want to be strong and cut the fat down even further, I know I have to lift actual, heavy weights. SO that's what I'm doing now, and very happily too.
But I start taking a HARD look at my diet, because I'm still not seeing the fat melting off and I have points where I am a bottomless pit of hunger and that should not be happening. I track every bite and sip still, so I know my calories were fine most of the time for the amount of activity, but in the last year, I kept creeping up on the calories and stalling out on losing and carrying around a larger amount of fat since I end up eating too much often (even was eating an additional dinner a few hours after my real dinner because I felt soooo hungry). I wasn't regaining, but it definitely was happening much too often for me to ignore and I figured something had to give if I wanted to stay on track.
I decided to cut back on the soda. Partially because of the cost factors, but I also wondered if there would be any nutritional benefit to stopping the nasty chemical ****tails I was addicted to. So the last 2 weeks, I've switched to coffee (sigh) for my caffeine fix, and have had maybe 1 can of soda every 3 days. The results were shocking to me: I have to remind myself to eat again. I can sit down super hungry feeling and eat SMALL portions and feel completely full within a very short period of time. I don't want to consume junk - cravings for crappy stuff is dialed waaay back again.
It's like I got my sleeve reset to how it was in the first year. I am eating proper portions, feeling sated longer, full faster, and the cravings are reasonable and easily ignored if I don't feel like eating crap. And I can tell the difference between being hungry and being thirsty again too.
I hate that I may have to seriously watch my soda intake forever, but then again, how awesome is it that I figured out something relatively simple that I can cut back on (or cut out completely) and have great results with?
I am getting used to the coffee and in the last 2 weeks have seen gains in muscle and lost 3 pounds. I'm now 3 pounds away from my original surgery goal. And I have every confidence I'll hit it and blow right past it as long as I'm working on the weights and watching the foods. But I'm also eating foods I love in small portions and not feeling the least bit deprived or like I'm on a diet either.
Not saying this will be the same for everyone, but I was really surprised at how much of a difference it made for me, so thought I'd share and see if it can help anyone else that might be struggling. :)
FINALLY MADE SURGERY GOAL: 130 pounds gone as of 4/5/17!
New stretch goal: lose 150 pounds - 20 pounds to go!
Yea, I'm fully aware that it is definitely not the "easy way out" I just shared what I've heard many naysayers say.
I mentioned it because there are a lot of stigmas surrounding baratric surgery.
This decision is 100% my own choice I'm looking to change my life for the best.
Now for myself my confliction is due to trying to lose weight the tradition way and a decade later still being at square one. I have my doctors approval due to the fact that I'm in great health and a balanced diet (per my labs). The problem is the weight is still not coming off and I finally made the choice that maybe it's time to do something different. This surgery will be a lifelong tool yet on the flip side is surgery the best route to go because one is struggling with fat loss.?
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