New Meal Ideas??

Happy New Year Everyone!

I am currently in the process of weight loss surgery. I have one more class to attend before I meet the surgeon. I have done very well loosing weight by calorie counting and a high protein diet. The holidays have been a little more difficult. I did not gain weight but I maintained the weight I was at my last Weight Management appointment. I was wondering if anyone had some low calorie/low fat/high protein dinner ideas for me? Right now I seem to be struggling with a variety of ideas for meals.

Thank you in advance for your ideas!

Good Morning and Happy New Year! Congrats on your success so far, it's great to be in the game before surgery. I found great recipes and ideas from theworldaccordingtoaggface's blog as well as the daily menu thread.

Thank you! I will definitely be looking at it for new meal ideas!

Right now I am on a chaffle kick. It can be used as a meal or as a low carb bread if you want to make some sort of sandwich. There are a lot of chaffle ideas out there. I just use one egg and a half cup of shredded cheese. It makes 2 using a small waffle maker.

Why did you choose mini gastric bypass?

I have never head of a chaffle. Thank you for the idea!

I actually am having the full gastric bypass. I must have clicked the wrong one when I signed up. I will have to see if I can fix that. My weight management doctor and myself felt gastric bypass is best for me. I have sleep apnea and can sometimes have acid reflux. It can help manage both of them along with weight management in the long run.

I am in the research phase of this but thank you for asking for meal ideas. It will help me to learn how to phase in to the new eating style there are some good suggestions with the replies you got.

Heather

Good Luck! It is definitely a journey but I believe it is well worth it! If you have any questions, please feel free to ask. I have not had the surgery yet but I am in the last phase before I have the surgery.

Thank you. I am really hoping to have surgery and definitely think this site is a huge benefit for preparing me. Is your dr. requiring you to lose weight before you have surgery? I was told that I might have to lose 20-30 prior to surgery. It will be hard but I am hoping with the help of meal ideas, recipes and such I can do it.

They do require me to loose between 10-20% of my starting body weight. They aren't extremely strict with keeping me at a particular number because everyone has a different metabolism. They are more focused on following the program they teach us pre-op. I will say once I met with the nutritionist and she explained what I should eat, the weight came off easy if I followed it exactly. I eat between 1200-1400 calories a day focusing on protein and I have been very successful so far.

I never cooked any new meals. I made the same meals I always did, but I did not eat the starchy parts. So if there was spaghetti and meatballs, I would have a meatball with sauce and my family would have the spaghetti.

At meals I ate the meat and non-starchy veggies and left the bread, noodles, pasta, potatoes, rice, for others. I did not expect family members to eat differently because I had surgery.