mistysj

Welcome! A sleever called Shell used to post here and I think she lives out that way. Maybe she will pop in and say hello.

I eat food so spicy some Indian people won't touch it. No problem. I eat habanero slices soaked in rice vinegar. I eat sriracha like ketchup. My sleeve is fine.

Woohoo congratulations! We are doing well. I'm looking forward to getting back in my normal routine but enjoying the break too, especially silly the break from work! I rode my bike to and from mass today (about 20 minutes each way). Not too bad but I'll stay inside out of the heat the rest of the day! Looking forward to running tomorrow but I will need to do it early. Anybody have plans for NYE? We are going to a dinner concert at the Brisbane Jazz Club which is right on the river, so as a bonus we get to see the fireworks at midnight! I am so excited about the dress I bought and will have my husband take a photo when I am all dressed up.

Wow that is over the line rude! Sorry but I would have lost my shitted.

I have gone from a 7 to a 5 or 6 depending on the shoe. My feet have really narrowed! My PF is gone too!

Bumping this to say that I have found Musashi P High Protein (not the Low Carb) to be the best value so far in Australia. 170 calories and 30 grams of protein in 45g of powder. The instructions say to make it up with 300 ml of milk or Water. I have tried the iced chocolate so for and found it too watery with 300 ml. 200 ml is perfect for my taste, still quite thin like chocolate milk and not a very strong of protein-y taste. I haven't tried with milk as I don't want the extra calories and have read that the body can only handle so much protein at once. It mixes up easily and leaves no sludge. You can get it pretty cheap from Chemist Warehouse. I was previously using Optifast VLCD at 152 calories and only 17 grams of protein. I think this is cheaper as well. I will be ordering a big tub of chocolate and a small one of vanilla to try (I have a tough time with vanilla but I will try it).

If you are hitting your calorie and protein targets, it is really hard to go over 100 grams of carb a day in my experience. I found this to be true on 800 cals and 40 grams protein, and I find it true now on 1200 cals and 60+ grams of protein. I am almost always under 60 grams of carbs.

Cottage cheese Puréed tuna salad Refried Beans with a bit of cheese banana mashed with 1 tbsp smooth Peanut Butter

You are not joking about that. I have a harder time finding shake mixes with a good balance of calories and carbs here in Australia (you are so lucky in the US to have such a huge (pun intended) market for bariatric products), so I started looking to see if I could find recipes to use WPI and make my own shakes. Well it turns out that lots of people's idea of a healthy protein shake has 500+ calories for like 10 grams of protein!? I did find a brand of shakes I can tolerate for 170 calories and 30 grams carbs and not super expensive (called Musashi High Protein) so I am super happy about that!

You can log just using the computer too. It is a website.

Very powerful! And that is sort of how I felt when I got so upset yesterday. "You loved me 70 lbs ago so what is your problem now??" I think we all tend to be the food police sometimes especially after we have been successful. There is no non-smoker more annoying than an es-smoker in the first year, right?

Thanks for these. Especially the first one made me say Wow! I used to get so annoyed because there would be something nice in the cupboard and I might get one taste, next time I went back it was gone. He is a real "finisher" and nothing is ever safe if it is open and he wants it. I just never made that connection before. For me, I would typically moderate myself because of guilt. That is, unless it was secret food. In which case all bets are off. So I know he doesn't hide his eating but I never cottoned on to the fact that if it is open maybe he can't resist. I just chalked it up to thoughtlessness and greed. I guess we will see how it goes with those chocolates.

Thanks for your perspective! And all the best for your surgery tomorrow. Congratulations!

I get what you are saying. I need to learn to express that thought in a loving way, I think. I don't want to be mean.

Thanks for the support Bec and you are right, I think he thinks he is giving me helpful nudges. He has a pattern that he gets more judgey when he is in a watching-weight phase. I guess we all do that. I will try to be patient while still stating my boundaries.

I want to run in a 10k race in 2014. I want to reach my goal weight in 2014. I think it's reasonable to lose 30 more pounds in a year. If not, I want to be closer than now! I want to ride my bicycle at least once every week in 2014. I want to begin to tackle some of the tough problems that I used to mask with food. There is a book on my shelf that I have been too scared to read but I will read it in 2014 and start healing.

Most of the carbs in beans are not highly available to the body. It would probably be even less with the malabsorption after DS. Beans are extremely low on the glycemic index.

I don't know about this study, but I asked my surgeon about re-operations. He said that other surgeries count, such as hernia repair or gall bladder removal after the initial bariatric surgery. And some sleeves are revised to RNY or DS because of reflux problems or not enough weight loss. Those would all count as re-operations, I believe.

You mean like potatoes, which are full of essential vitamins and minerals? I know I still have potatoes occasionally (more like 1/4 of a russet).

Hi all, Please visit these four threads and add your favorite and most reliable foods and recipes during each phase of the post-op diet after the sleeve. Links to recipes you found elsewhere would be great too. This is the number one question asked by new pre-ops and post-ops and we would like to have lists available to them. These threads can be found in Main Gastric Sleeve Forums -> food and Nutrition -> Pre-op and Post-op Diets, and they are pinned so they are easy to find. Thanks for your help! http://www.bariatricpal.com/topic/292196-staple-foods-for-pre-op/ http://www.bariatricpal.com/topic/292197-staple-foods-for-the-liquid-phase-phase-1/ http://www.bariatricpal.com/topic/292198-staple-foods-for-puree-phase-2/ http://www.bariatricpal.com/topic/292199-staple-foods-for-the-soft-food-stage-phase-3/

Hi all, Please visit these four threads and add your favorite and most reliable foods and recipes during each phase of the post-op diet after the sleeve. Links to recipes you found elsewhere would be great too. This is the number one question asked by new pre-ops and post-ops and we would like to have lists available to them. These threads can be found in Main Gastric Sleeve Forums -> food and Nutrition -> Pre-op and Post-op Diets, and they are pinned so they are easy to find. Thanks for your help! http://www.bariatricpal.com/topic/292196-staple-foods-for-pre-op/ http://www.bariatricpal.com/topic/292197-staple-foods-for-the-liquid-phase-phase-1/ http://www.bariatricpal.com/topic/292198-staple-foods-for-puree-phase-2/ http://www.bariatricpal.com/topic/292199-staple-foods-for-the-soft-food-stage-phase-3/

Hi all, Please visit these four threads and add your favorite and most reliable foods and recipes during each phase of the post-op diet after the sleeve. Links to recipes you found elsewhere would be great too. This is the number one question asked by new pre-ops and post-ops and we would like to have lists available to them. These threads can be found in Main Gastric Sleeve Forums -> food and Nutrition -> Pre-op and Post-op Diets, and they are pinned so they are easy to find. Thanks for your help! http://www.bariatricpal.com/topic/292196-staple-foods-for-pre-op/ http://www.bariatricpal.com/topic/292197-staple-foods-for-the-liquid-phase-phase-1/ http://www.bariatricpal.com/topic/292198-staple-foods-for-puree-phase-2/ http://www.bariatricpal.com/topic/292199-staple-foods-for-the-soft-food-stage-phase-3/

You haven't blown it! Quite a few vets have regained weight and successfully taken it off again. Look for posts by Georgia, oregondaisy, feedyoureye, and others here. There is no expiration date on the sleeve and it will work for you if you work your program. I am sure some of the vets will chime in and give you specific suggestions. You have taken the biggest step by reaching out for support!

I tend to agree, but remember there was a low carb "craze" in the 90s and still people kept getting fatter than ever. Lots of people,think they are cutting back on carbs when they really aren't. I know lots of folks who think they are eating pales but they aren't. I guess the problem with low carb is what do you replace it with? It seems to me that bariatric surgery forces us to eat an ideal diet of high protein, low carb, and moderate fat. Maybe if people could do that on their own they could keep the weight off. But that's basically South Beach and how many of us tried that without long-term success pre-op? I'm still not sure why it took surgery for me. I wouldn't recommend surgery to my husband who has a BMI of 30, but what SHOULD I recommend? It's a tough one.

I loved that part of the program where every run was proof to myself that I could succeed! Congratulations!