What AREN'T you eating today?

 I like to do these every once in a while. Because sometimes the most effective way to tell how much you’ve progressed is not by measuring what you do now, but what you DON’T do that you used to do.

 

So…think about your absolute WORST pre-op eating days and tell me…what AREN’T you eating today? What did a bad eating day look like for you pre-op? (I’m willing to bet this will make your post-op bad eating days look like the Atkins Diet on crack. Or, conversely, it might reassure you that you weren’t all that terrible an eater to begin with and thus cannot be a horrible eater now.)

 

I’ll do mine in a separate post. 

If I'm completely honest with myself, I think my issue with food was that I didn't like to cook it (imagine that!) so I relied a lot on processed stuff and take-out.

So here's what I'm NOT eating today that Ye Olde Nikki would have eaten:

Breakfast: Nothing. I rarely ate before lunch. I may have had a few sodas, which count as calories (although I did not really know that back then). My poison of choice was Pepsi. Ah...how I miss you some days!!!

Lunch: I ALWAYS went out to lunch and it would be no thing to have a whole big plate of Pad Thai or curried chicken with white rice from the Chinese place or a foot-long meatball sub from Subway with chips and...yet another soda! (I liked water pre-op but curiously I did not drink a lot of it).

Snack: Whatever someone happened to bring into the office. If there were cookies, I'd have cookies. If there was a meeting with leftover sandwiches, I'd have one, etc.

Dinner: Oh we were the poster children for themed take out nights. Today is Wednesday so it would have easily been three helpings of whatever the old ladies served at church dinner (which is usually carby...that has not changed, I've just changed my eating the rest of the day to accommodate that) but other days included pizza night, Chinese night, PF Chang's night, etc.

Dessert: A whole damn row of Oreo cookies with a big, cold glass of milk! No kidding. I loved me a soggy Oreo cookie! This is probably why I HATE nearly all cookies 'n cream protein shakes. It just ain't the same as slurping up the sops of wet cookie when I was done and drank my milk. Sigh....

I am not eating a BigMac (ever again actually as when I finally got around to trying one post op it was so salty and nasty I had to throw it out- LOL)

I am not eating a tub of ice cream

I am not eating a bunch of cake

I hate french fries

I hate bread most of the time

I hate breaded things that just spand in my stomach and give me pain

I can't eat hot dogs or sausages, I don't digest them well, I absolutely do not miss them

My last taste of soda of any kind was 1 year and 11 months. I absolutely do not miss it!!!

Entire 6-packs of Reese's Peanutbutter Eggs!  I was so proud of myself at Easter time this year.  I did not even have a bite of one, although I was very tempted by the after holiday clearance at Target.

There are a bunch of other things, but this food was a huge addictive thing for me.  One bite in, and it was all I could think about--getting more of those peanutbutter eggs into me.

I like this idea.

The most I can think of eating was a medium pizza, garlic bread, wedges, and chicken wings. Probably not in 15 minutes but maybe over the course of a movie or something like that.

 Its hard to believe for me now.

I have had ZERO chocolate so far today. REALLY REALLY REALLY trying. At work, which is with roofers, we have a chocolate jar that I have to fill everyday... So tempting!

I would have had a large bagel for breakfast, heaped with cream cheese.  Lunch, I did pack almost every day -- carby leftovers -- I'm mostly vegetarian (eat fish), so it was almost all carbs, no protein.  A carby dinner (mac-n-cheese / spagetti / potatoes / rolls), followed by pretzels for a snack and something sweet to go with the salt (usually ice cream).

I had the Go Red for Women luncheon and back in the day, I would have stopped by for a second lunch afterward on the way back to the office : )

Not today! But guess who was the guest speaker? Antone from Biggest Loser!

What!!!  That is amazing!

I can't believe some mornings I used to eat a half a loaf of Italian scali bread toasted & buttered.  How did I fit it all???   I shudder to think of it (even though I'm only 8 days post-op).