What's on your Wednesday Menu?

I am so sorry that you have to give up your time off. I am so hoping you get the new position that you interviewed for. Also that everything is fine with your health and this was just a scary episode. Hope they get back the results of that test really quickly and it is good results. Waiting for the test results can be harder than waiting for the test.

Mernin' errybody! Sending you all the good vibes JB!

QOTD - Parks and Rec. I work for a local government entity. I am Leslie Knope. My husband works for same entity. He is Ron Swanson. I love it.

Breakfast - fasting so hot black coffee and water

Lunch - no clue, planned nothing, but hubs is taking me somewhere for lunch. Something veggie, something carby, I need sustenance. (Need to eat feelings today)

Dinner - nothing planned, but we are painting mother in law's rental property that is going going on the market this weekend (3 inner rooms) so again, something veggie, something out and fast.

I hope you all have a great day!

I?ve been having an unusually hard time eating recently.

I?m thinking- get tested for Delta Covid ( 24,000 new cases diagnosed EVERY DAY here in NY C-worst place 2 b in the country and of course I?m stuck here .

I have no working refrigerators in one home - no water ( toilet or shower ! ) in the other . Going nuts living like a semi-homeless person grrr.

yesterday I ate ( I swear ) a total of six bites ( 3 at lunch 3 for dinner ) of chicken breast Parmesan . At nite I snacked on fat free cream cheese everything bagel seasoning ( whose salt gave me horrible leg cramps because I barely remember to drink ) . Bought salad - left it in fridge . Making myself drink siggis fat free kefir w skim milk just to stop being too lightheaded to drive . Fresh Chinese chicken soup goes down well - so that's a staple .

I'm reading this and smiling - it's SUCH a symptom of chronic overweight that we're eating FINE and complaining lol!

last time I weighed - 157 I kid you NOT. Now back into short shorts and tank tops - maybe lost 15 ? Got plenty of spare calories in my rolls of tummy fat still ? lol. Doing ab lounge and a ton of gardening design jobs - very active physically finally ( hated sitting on my depressed and fearful but****ching endless tv in Florida )

Good morning. Good vibes coming at you JB for a good result. I don't pray very often and only for truly important reasons. I dropped a little prayer for you this morning. I always think God's really busy, so I save my prayers for huge things.

My house and yard are a mess like you cannot fathom. But stucco is progressing and the back side of the house looks amazing. It's going to be worth it, but it is stressing this "everything has a place and everything is in it's place" girl right the hell out of my mind. Should still be terrible today, but start to improve tomorrow. Hoping for a total wrap up and scaffolding gone by early next week.

My weight is up everyday this week. And I am not sure why. Calorically, I have stayed at or under my allotted 1100 calories. And I count everything I put in my mouth to eat or drink. Still weigh and measure 85% of what I intake. So why is it going up? I have no idea.

QoTD: I love Mom and Last Man Standing

Menu:

B: 1/3 leftover turkey and cheese omelet, 2 oz potatoes

L: 2/3 left over short rib taco, 5 chicharrons

D: roasted pork loin, grilled halloumi, tomato and avocado

S: 2 oz smoked turkey leg meat.

Peace Everyone!

could you be constipated? Or maybe eating more sodium than usual? Both can cause weight to go up - although neither are a true "gain"....

Thankfully, no on the constipation! (TMI everyone!) But possibly more sodium. I'll watch that. Though my zero calorie liquid consumption is also up. I'm 19 months out now and don't know if time passed since surgery impacts my intake?

The intestines are lined with hair-like appendages called villi. They grab the food as it passes through and hold it against the walls of the intestines so that calories can be absorbed.

During RNY surgery, many of those villi are destroyed. Food can pass right through and there is nothing to grab it and hold it in place to be absorbed. This is the malabsorption that occurs after RNY. People lose weight no matter what they eat, because the food does not get absorbed.

But the body is smart and knows that it is not getting the use of the food that is coming through. So it grows new and stronger villi. That happens about 18 months after the surgery. The loss of malabsorption results in weight gain even though the same amount of calories are being consumed. The period after malabsorption is called the bounceback regain period.

It is considered completely normal to gain 20 pounds of bounceback by the end of year three after the surgery. For me, the only way to stop it was to go to 900 calories a day, which stopped the regain and resulted in a pound of loss each week.

I now maintain 136 pounds eating 1400 calories a day. I need at least 30 minutes of cardio four or five days a week, plenty of water. I no longer eat high protein, due to kidney issues. That makes it harder to keep the weight under control.

Some surgeons do not explain how the surgery works. My surgeon starts talking about bounceback and encourages patients to lose to 20 under goal while the malabsorption is still there. I did not have any regain until 30 months after surgery and had convinced myself that I would be the exception. But I was not.

Good reminder information! I definitely went under my original two goals -- so I have room for bounce back, but like all of us, I just don't want it to be me with the bounce back! I am hoping that this daily increase is an anomaly, but it's been steady for a week or so at 1/2 pound a day -- putting me at my highest post goal weight yet. I promised myself I would not freak out, but it seems I lied to myself. I'm staying the course. I know I am putting good fuel into my body. I'm sure I'll be keeping everyone posted on changes. LOL. Thank you!

It could just be sodium and water retention. I was sure I would not let bounceback happen to me and at 30 months out I gained a pound a week. I was ten pounds under my goal weight, so not worried until one day I found i had gained 14 pounds in 14 weeks with no changes in diet and exercise.

I was eating dense protein with a few veggies and getting lots of exercise. But none of my clothes fit properly with the quick gain. Through the years, there have been gains and losses. I can lose if I regain, but it takes work. And sometimes seems harder each year. I think of myself on a diet that will last a lifetime. Much better than being obese.

I don't think this is correct.

"During RNY surgery, many of those villi are destroyed. Food can pass right through and there is nothing to grab it and hold it in place to be absorbed. This is the malabsorption that occurs after RNY. People lose weight no matter what they eat, because the food does not get absorbed."

The reality in RNY, is that many of the villi are BYPASSED (the bypassed part of small intestines). Some may be damaged in the areas that have not been bypassed, but not as many as you may think.

Over the time, the body compensate and makes more villi - making it denser, along the intestines that are not bypassed. That's why we can absorb more calories, but we still can't absorb some vitamins and minerals. Because the part of the intestines that can absorb those vitamins and minerals had been bypassed.