Question:
Menu and Recipe Ideas

I am 10 weeks out and I still find myself not being able to find any good food to eat. I need something better than pizza and spaghetti to eat. Please Help! oh, and is 56.5 pounds pretty good for 10 weeks?    — Denise S. (posted on February 19, 2002)

February 19, 2002
Victoria Bowen has a cookbook and also posts recipes on the message board frequently. If you go to her profile, you can get more information on the cookbook. I would say that 56.5 pounds in 10 weeks is great. When did you ever lose 5+ pounds a week in any previous diet?
   — garw

February 19, 2002
For a really wonderful cookbook that is strictly for WLS people, email: [email protected] This man has had WLS and has lost about 300 lbs himself. The cookbook is wonderful. I use it all the time!!!
   — [Anonymous]

February 19, 2002
Allrecipes.com is a great website for recipe ideas. You can do a search in different ways including by meats or what kind of dish. It also gives nutritional value for a serving, and the recipes are rated by previous users. I use it all the time. Quick meals that I like to make just for myself include 1/2 grilled cheese with tomato soup, 1/2 english muffin toasted and topped with tom. sauce and grated cheddar, then melted in the micro. I also buy frozen pre-cooked, de-veined, peeled shrimp at Wal-mart and eat that for a meal with cocktail sauce. To fix all you have to do is run under cold water for 5 minutes and you have a quick lunch. I also like to buy the imitation crab meat and heat that up and have with a little lemon-butter. Yesterday I had a 1/3 steak and cheese sub. The whole thing lasted 3 days. I like to make the cheese stuffed shells for my family for dinner and for me I pick out the cheese, and eat the vegetable that I fixed with it. You can eat almost anything, but what I do is always pick out the protein first, then kind of pick at everything else. Try some crock pot recipes from the website, the meat is so tender and goes down great. Bon Apetite'!!
   — Cheri M.

August 1, 2004
That's excellant weight loss for 10 weeks.Have you tried grilled cheese with turkey slices yet.Wow is it good. I also like to fix one egg with a piece of american cheese on top.And maybe a piece of toast with peanut butter on the side.Of course you can't eat it all but what a meal.Lots of protein.
   — KatinPBCA