I have met the enemy....

Ok so I took this trip back to the motherland. We went to Trader Joes and my mom ( who has advanced Parkinsens disease) and is very thin now, wanted some mini chocolate peanut butter cups. We do anything to get more calories into her so we got them. Now before vsg, peanut butter cups were my worst weakness and I hadn't had a single one since before surgery - nearly three years.

But here were these mini ones singing to me. So I ate two of them. Guess what. They weren't that good. I didn't eat anymore even though they were in front of me for two more days.  It was always my fear that peanut butter cups would send me over the edge and spoil my vsg.   Not true. Didn't happen. NOt going to happen. I feel good.      Diane

 
I'm going through something similar with my mom as far as weight goes........ Keep an eye on her weight so it doesn't go to low........

It's kind of a mind twister...... but it's easy......

I buy her everything that is level 8 and above on my no-no meter........

Oh.... cream puffs.... get-em......ice cream, she like that.....mochi (think pounded rice with a sweet bean.... deadly)...... I pick up Chinese food for her......she like cake.....

I have this fear of shopping for my mom.......turn the corner and run into Dr.C and I'm gonna have to say...... "It's for my mom???"

frisco

That's got to be difficult - dealing with encouraging calories for her while watching them for yourself.

Isn't it amazing how our tastes change? I like things much less sweet than I used to, even foods like my shakes can't be too sweet.

I'm pretty confident you've got this - if for no other reason than you do pay such close attention to yourself and what's working and not working.

Oh how I hear you!  and Frisco !

When my dear Mom was alive she developed anorexia in her later years.  A control thing I believe as everything else was slipping away.

I too did everything to try and ' fatten' her up.  One day I had ice-cream, strawberries, whipped cream, butter, chocolate and a host of other foods.    I was nearly at my highest weight then.  

The cashier looked at me, looked at the pile of foods and sniffed.

I remember the burn from mortification and humiliation.   And like a fool I fumbled an explanation. 

Our dear Mothers. They are so precious.  I miss mine every single day.

You got this.  But don't get too ****y, it's the things you didn't realize would be trigger foods that often really get me.  Too much sugar is no longer the problem but carbs with salt on them are the devil. 

You did great, as usual.  Really, I never would have even doubted you.  I hope your mother and you had a great visit.

Its so peculiar to deal with a person who needs to have more calories pushed on them. And my mother was at one time obece - maybe not morbidly but pretty chunky and always battling weight as far back as I can remember. The weight came off in old age after two cancers and then the Parkinsen's.  This disease gives a false sense of satiety and she has trouble understanding that she needs to continue to eat. So we just try to get calorie intense things. Fortunately she likes ice cream and cookies and I always send boxes of those fancy nuts from Sunnyland Farms. Ditto cheese. And she likes the extra calorie Ensure and we give her whole milk. But I am 2000 miles away though she lives with a great friend/caregiver.  I didn't have much trouble resisting all the ice cream and cookies and I fixed dinners that hubby shrinking nerd and I could eat with ways to put extra cheese and calories in her stuff.   Must be really hard for those of you who have families with high calorie needs.

I can see the disease is advancing from my last trip 8 months ago so i guess I will be traveling more. Good to know I can do it without blowing my weight loss.

Which brings up Halloween and we get 300 kids. Going to buy Skittles and other non chocolate candy that I hate. still gotta stay clear of those peanut butter cups.       diane

Good for you Diane!