dacer123

I never would have thought of fat free evaporated milk. Good idea!

I love having several cups of coffee in the morning. I don't eat a lot in the day and I just realized that my coffee is sabotaging my efforts. I don't actually love the taste of coffee, but I do love it sweet and creamy with creamer. Does anyone have any ways to make my coffee like I enjoy it but with less calories and sugar? My friend uses monkeys fruit as a sweetener. What about that? I love spends but I heard it can be bad for sugar substitute.

Thanks Judy. I'm going to dry that tomorrow for sure. I don't know if I have any decaf in the kitchen but maybe just a little regular coffee won't hurt things. It's been so long since I went through this that I forgot what recipes to use. Everything I've come across is so sickenlingly and artifically sweet that by now I could just cry at the thought of one more day of this day. I'm trying really hard to be strong though.

Yeah I'm trying really hard not to move ahead too early. I talked to the on-call physician at the hospital since the clinic doesn't actually have anyone you can talk to on the weekend. She said that I need to actually include some peanut butter into my smoothies to help my level. At first she said to put some sugar on my tongue when the symptoms happen but when I told her I already was using glucose tablets then she suggested the peanut butter thing. Everything I've been using has been very low sugar or sugar-free per the nutritionist, but I think I need to go get some things with a little real sugar in them. I think I'm going to at least pick up some fudgesickles or popsickles.

I had my surgery this past Monday (today is Saturday) for a slipped lap band. My band had been slipped for a long time but wasn't showing very well on testing. Anyway, I'm really having a hard time with basically Protein drinks and broth. I was told to drink some milk when I get hypoglycemic and to chew a glucose tablet. As of two days ago, I feel like I'm in a constant state of hypoglycemia with weakness, sweating, and dizziness. I just finally added some Peanut Butter to my Protein Drink in the blender with milk so hopefully that will bring me out of it for the morning. As of this Monday (two days away) I get to have thinned oatmeal or maltomeal, ricotta cheese, cottage cheese, pureed Soups (per nutritionist: creamed soups pureed), and thinned corn grits. I'm seriously considering moving on to that phase today, two days early, as I know the little bit of carbs will help my hypoglycemia. Does anyone have any insights that might help me? Six years ago when I had my original band, which was put in my another facility/doctor, I felt the exact same way and didn't pull out of it until i went on to pureed food. I specifically remember pureeing a can of campbells vegetable Soup (can't remember if it was vegetable beef though) and I immediatelly felt better with more energy. I'm also so sick of all the sweet Protein Drinks.

Right after I had my surgery I lost weight even without trying. I did walk for exercise but not religiously. I think that might be why I struggle now too, the fact that I let the band do all the work and never really learned to eat properly. I'll keep you posted on how the therapy goes and how Curves works out. I'm hoping maybe if I start exercising that I'll fell better and that then maybe I'll be more motivated to eat better.

I'd need to lose about 30 pounds, but I would even settle for 20. I just joined Curves this week, so I'm hoping that will motivate me some. I'm not on anything for my PCOS. Since I had my kids they don't seem to be too concerned about it. I think you're probably right though about the PCOS being the main problem with it. I think the hormone issues from it are what make my cravings so much more intense. I'm not much of a bread eater myself either. My weakness is ice cream and chips. I also love frozen coffee drinks like the Frappe's from McDonlds. I'll figure this out eventually and I actually started seeing a therapist as well, so hopefully that will help me get my head in the game.

Wow I didn't think anyone else would understand what I'm going through. As embarassing as it is, I have to admit.....I'm about to say it.....I love to eat. There I said it! lol I too have PCOS and even though I'm not diabetic, I struggle with feelings like I've got hypoglycemia. I think I need to get rid of the sugar and carbohydrates in my life, but it's so hard to get it out of your system and the withdrawal process for me is terrible. when I'm going through the withdrawal process, I can't focus, I'm grumpy, lack energy, get sleepy, etc. I just dread putting myself through that again. That's the only thing I think would help me though.

I'm 4 years out from my band surgery and up until last year I've done really well. Last year I had my son and I really tight afterwards and just kept getting tighter for no reason at all. I started to get some bad pains in my side and the doctor thought it might be my stomach causing the pains so he took some of my fill out. I was also suddenly getting explosive reflux when I would lay down at night just as I would drift off to sleep. It was so bad the first time that I thought I was having a heart attack because it burned so bad and I couldn't breath very good because i think I actually aspirated some of it. The doctor has taken out quite a bit because we just couldn't get the reflux under control completely. He finally put me on either Prilosec or Prevacid, but I can't remember which it is right now. If I don't take it daily, I get heartburn but no backing up of food. I had a barium swallow two months ago and it came back fine with no slippage. I think I've dilated my pouch, while the band itself is still tight. The reason I say this is that I can eat like I did before surgery and can't seem to stop, but sometimes it takes a long time for the food to actually go down, while other times it goes right through with no problem. I can't seem to stop thinking of food, especially ice cream and sweets. I can't seem to stop this "Oh I'll just take a couple more bites because this is so good" even though I'm getting full. However, I can't seem to get satisfied when I eat. It's almost like I've never eaten before and now that I can I can't seem to stop. I'm afraid to get another fill because I'm afraid I'll get that explosive reflux again. I can't do the roux-en-y because of a possible medical problem in our family that would be horrible to treat if I ended up with it after having had a bypass. I'm thinking of the gastric sleeve but I think I'd fail that too. Can anyone relate to what I'm going through? Does anyone have any suggestions or maybe some thoughts on what's going on?

So Brad I need to clarify something I read earlier. Out of seven days of the week, you eat low calories for six of them and then have one high calorie day? I'm curious, what do you consider high and low calorie amounts for you? This is intriguing to me and something I'm considering trying. I'm thinking if that a one high calorie day may be just what I need to not feel deprived so much.