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Yes protein shakes are a better choice than cream soups for sure.

I third this advice.

Three years out and I still haven't eaten a potato.

I kind of embraced the boring. It was my time to work on behaviour change, and breaking the patterns that led to my disordered eating in the first place. We don't get to go cold turkey. This is as close as it gets.

at 15 days out, I was still having protein shakes for 2/3 meals. Looking back on MFP, The third one, would be a very conservative portion of (1/4 cup):

soft scrambled egg

egg salad with mayo

ham salad with mayo

black bean or lentil soup

steamed and puréed cauliflower with cheddar cheese

a piece of cheddar cheese with hummus

cottage cheese ( this is a quasi trigger food for me, so I don't eat this often)

french Onion soup, not the bread part, and a bite of the cheese.

when I introduced something new, I always did it when I knew I had no obligations, in case it made me sick. Also, by trying only one new thing at a time, I never had to question what it was that I didn't react well too.

good luck, keep posting. It really helps, as there are not many people in our daily lives who can actually relate to what we're going through.

Yep. My mantra from the get-go was "I had a good run with food but now it's time to pay the piper"

and now I can kind of eat normally. I eat a lot of delicious, healthy things in smaller amounts. I'm a born again eater.

I was the same! I was a MACHINE until I got to goal. If I ever felt sorry for myself, like "ohh boo hoo I can't eat a pizza" well, I figured, I had MORE than my fair share of pizza in my many years of being SMO!

I didn't even think of French onion soup, thank you for the input

I have no idea how anyone is supposed to get enough protein the first couple of months without protein shakes. Trouble getting off of them? LOL I couldn't stop drinking the nasty things soon enough! But I sure needed them at the beginning. Once I hit about 2.5 months and was eating solid proteins well, I stopped them and haven't looked back!

"...but I'm bored with yogurt, oatmeal, jello, pudding, soups."

Here's the trouble with your thinking: food isn't supposed to entertain you. That's the mental view that got most of us obese in the first place.

You are eating for nutrition.

As stated above, cream soups, potatoes, oatmeal -- all things I wouldn't touch --

If that isn't the God's honest truth, I don't know what is!

I am 5 weeks out. I never did pudding, cream soups, jello or oatmeal. I did protein shakes, yogurt, cottage cheese, eggs and bone broth mixed with regular broth. I was desperate to eat something else too though. It was hard but at week 5 I can eat so much more variety. It'll be better before you know it!