VSG Maintenance Group
Adventures in Maintenance: I Really Can't Eat That Edition
I have a friend that lives two floors up from me. She's an outrageously good Italian cook. She had RNY ten years ago and still dumps. That makes it really easy for her to make sweet treats for her boyfriend because she can't eat them. Me? Every time I eat a sliver of her blueberry pie, I gain a pound!
You have more willpower than I do if you can pull off that menu!
HW: 249 SW: 229 GW: 149 Age: 63 - Body by Sauceda - 12/2011
I'm always making food to give away. White Chocolate Macadamia Nut cookies, cupcakes, Raspberry pound cake with Moscato cream icing.
For Halloween I am making allspice-nutmeg nougat covered toasted peiptas dipped in white chocolate. The for Christmas we are making our own candy canes from scratch.
Now that I think about it, I may be personally responsible for increasing levels of Obesity in Tennessee.
Uh-Oh - forget everything I just said, LOL. Seriously, I have more fun making the food than eating it. Even before surgery I never had a sweet tooth, it was the emotional eating that drove me to the large pizza and buttered popcorn every night.
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160 lbs lost. Surgeons Goal Reached in 33 weeks. My Goal in 37 Weeks.
VSG: 11/2/2011; LBL+Thigh Lift+BL: 10/3/2012; Brach+Mastopexy: 7/22/2013
I also didn't really do sweets before surgery either, give me bread or potatoes and I was happier than a kid on Christmas morning though.
And Rob, I KNOW I've been responsible for increasing obesity levels at work because of the cupcakes I take in all the time. I feel guilty sometimes, but it's not like I'm forcing anyone... Right?
Leah
Ice cream, on the other hand, makes me feel really really icky. Every. Single. Time. The only ice cream I can tolerate is low carb. This is a very good thing.
5'5" Goal reached, but fighting regain. Back to Basics.
Start Weight 246 Goal Weight 160 Current Weight 183
Starting size: 22, 2x
Current size: 12, L
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160 lbs lost. Surgeons Goal Reached in 33 weeks. My Goal in 37 Weeks.
VSG: 11/2/2011; LBL+Thigh Lift+BL: 10/3/2012; Brach+Mastopexy: 7/22/2013
1 cup yogurt (If you want it extra firm - drain the yogurt through some cheese cloth overnight)
1 teaspoon of hersheys cocoa powder
2 tbspoons ea of whatever sugar free flavor syrups you like (I use almond, caramel, and coconut for my Almond Joy Flavored Ice Cream)
splenda to taste. Usually about 1/2 a tablespoon for me.
Mix it up really well. Cover the surface of the yogurt in a bowl for 15-30 minutes in your freezer. It should be at about soft serve consistency. If you freeze it longer it will become like a rock but thaws out quickly.
You can try making it in an ice cream freezer, but you will have to add some fat to it and be very careful. Yogurt like this freezes VERY quickly and will jam up the paddles on most low end ice cream freezers.
This recipe with FAge 0% will be 140 calories and 24g of protein per cup of yogurt.
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160 lbs lost. Surgeons Goal Reached in 33 weeks. My Goal in 37 Weeks.
VSG: 11/2/2011; LBL+Thigh Lift+BL: 10/3/2012; Brach+Mastopexy: 7/22/2013
Rob, I used to bake like you before surgery although I didn't make butter from scratch...I do like my time-saving ingredients. Strangely, I don't really miss it.
