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I don't eat leftovers at all. I feel like leftovers are punishment. Also reheating food is so dicey when it comes to moisture content and being able to eat it. I like freshly prepared foods only. I was a snob about my food before surgery and I am even worse post-op. How popular meal prep has became is just mind boggling to me. Purposely creating leftovers is nuts.

I have been a Prime Member since it existed and I have shopped with Amazon since 1999. I'm done with Whole Foods, nothing will get me to shop there again. I like shopping at Lucky's Market. I completely gave up Trader Joe's and While Foods for Lucky's. The shopping experience is better, the sales are great and the regular prices are fair and affordable.

It is not precise but it is realistic for most people. Most people never get to goal or a normal BMI. Most obese people just get less obese. i exceed what that calc said for me, but if I ate the way most bariatric patients eat. I would have stopped losing weight where they said I would. The stricter you are in the beginning and the longer you stay strict, the better the results.

Bulletproof coffee is just coffee and fat. It extends your fast. You don't break your fast until you have carbs or protein. https://blog.bulletproof.com/bulletproof-fasting/ The whole point of bulletproof coffee is to extend your fast and give you energy. I don't drink bulletproof coffee. Post-op I have so much energy I don't need an energy boost in the morning. I think the calories in the coffee are a waste. I can drink black coffee and water and be perfectly fine until lunch. I used Bulletproof fasting to drop some weight a few years ago. It works but it isn't really necessary for a WLS patient. I have been 16:8 fasting for about 3 years. I work from home and I work late some of the time. 16:8 fasting stops me from eating/snacking at night and staying up too late. If I am hungry at Midnight I just go to bed, instead of cooking something and staying up until 2 or 3 am. Overall it has greatly improved my life. IF for me is just a calorie/behavior control method.

I had food funerals. Looking back it was kind of dumb. Pre-op I thought that my taste buds would be different post-op, they are the same. I also thought that I wouldn't be able to eat a lot of things. I can eat anything. So there was no need for food funerals. However I will say my food funerals helped me get through all the time I was on liquids, 10 days prior to surgery and 2 weeks afterwards. Over 3 weeks without really chewing will drive you nuts. I got through it by thinking about all the stuff I had before surgery and reminding myself of those meals and that helped me get through it. Everyone is different and you have to do what works for you.

What does he cook?

Like others said one slip up is not the end of the world. However, down the road this is something to be mindful of. You can easily graze like this post op. Those few bites while cooking can really add up in calories. Find someone in your family to be your designated taster or just learn to wing it when cooking. Tasting while you cook is a death to food tracking.

If you had a competent Dr they would know that when you are burning fat in your body your Cholesterol spikes temporarily. It is a "complication" of weight loss. Burning fat releases fat into your blood stream. You don't know if you have elevated Cholesterol until you have hit maintenance. Also all this talk about hearts in here. Unfortunately, if you are genetically pre-disposed to having a bad heart, no diet is going to save you. Drugs might prolong your life, but how you eat will be placebo effect at best.

You type the @ sign and then the name of the person and the forum start auto matching the name, then you pick the name I mainly eat veggies in the later afternoon pre dinner by about an hour, and post dinner by about 1.5 hours. Maybe 2 hours after lunch. I don't really have to space it out, they are slider for me. It is just a matter of not eating them with meat.

@FluffyChix I eat veggies but not with my protein. I eat my veggies as snacks between meals. I find that veggies make my protein less dense and filling meaning I could eat more. So I will have 4 ounces of protein by itself, and 85 grams of spinach (2 cups) by itself.

2 years later you can barely see mine. I used bio oil and vitamin E on them as directed by my surgeon.

I think it is because you are in Florida more than management level. WLS is definitely covered for ATT employees at all levels in Illinois. WLS is not considered and essential service by the state of Florida, so insurance is less likely to cover it. Plus Florida falls under the old Southern Bell, and they never had as good of benefits as Ameritech.

I was never given a goal by my Surgeon. When we first met, he asked my HS weight, I told him and he said he felt I could get back to that weight. Which I have, but I was never given a set goal. I think having a set WL goal early on is a bad idea. People get obsessed with it and it seems to cause a lot of stress and anxiety. My goals were to lower my blood pressure and reverse my diabetes, which I did early on. Everything else is just a bonus.

I never ate them before surgery at all. I started eating them last year because I needed more of a rotation in my meat choices. I like them because they are always on sale and the fat on them makes them easier to eat then most dense protein. I can eat pork easier than chicken and beef. So I eat it more often.

@sleevedshereen At 5'3 even if you lose weight, you are likely to still be curvy. If you really have boobs, you are going to still have boobs. My boobs are smaller (and not as heavy, thank goodness), but since I am smaller overall, my boobs look huge. I went from a 50DD to a 34F/G currently. Same applies to my hips and ass. They are a lot smaller, but I am curvy and an hourglass, instead of an apple. If you started off an hourglass plus sized, you will probably still be an hourglass, even a healthy BMI.

I'm pretty lazy with my food. I usually buy fresh meat for a day or 2 and work through that package. A day for me will be 4 oz of pork chops 4x a day every 2 hours from noon till 8 pm Black Coffee, as I want Or, 4 ounces of pork chops 6 ounces of Swai Fillet 4 ounces of pork chops 6 ounce of Swai Fillet Black Coffee, as I want This isn't just really a reset, I eat like this most of the time. If I go on vacation or have a lot of dates or something, this is how I eat after. My weight can fulucate 5-10 pounds. Eating like that after a gain, the weight just falls right off. However, I am not as far out as you, and I am keto adapted and I have never had significant regain. Hopefully someone further out than you, who has tackled regain weighs in and offers some advice.

Whenever I go up a little on the scale. Just eating dense protein for a couple days takes it right off. Your Dr is right, shakes are useless and will do nothing for you. Shakes are like water to me. They do nothing saiety or hunger. Try just eating dense protein, something you have to cut with a knife, and see what happens.

I'm late but we have had this thread over and over... Weight loss is almost entirely controlling your food calories. You can erase the calories burned working out for hours in a couple minutes with a bad food choice. Exercise is great for overall health and fitness. Exercise is great for mental health and physical fitness. Everyone should be walking. Walking is easy and low stress. Making sure you walk at least 2 miles a day is an easy way to achieve a decent level of physical fitness. Walking outside in a real environment is better and uses more muscles than walking on a treadmill. You have to know yourself to know if exercise is right for you. When I workout with intense cardio like Zumba (which I love), it triggers stress in my body and my body holds on to fat. It also increases my appetite. So Zumba, even though I like it, isn't worth it for me. I am better off walking 5 miles on a trail. I can lift weights, no stress triggers, no appetite increase, so weight lifting is fine. Intense cardio is just counter productive for me. I read this book several years ago, and then read it after surgery. Pre-op I found the diet choices for my blood type too hard to follow. While I could follow them not, the protein choices are too limited to work for me right now. What I did confirm was what I always thought before, intense exercise is not good for people with my blood type. http://a.co/8aMnFVC I feel like Dr V advice is dead on. I think that waiting to go hard on exercise at 6 months (you should be walking every day from day 1 of surgery), is the best advice. You can eat enough calories to actually support working out. You can drink water fast enough to replenish yourself and not risk dehydration at 6 months. You are healed enough with a daily calorie intake high enough that you can actually get something out of working out. Prior to 6 months, yoga and walking are great to get you ready. I lost all my weight with just walking every day and controlling my diet. I do weights some times, I go to yoga semi-regularly, and I randomly go to crossfit to troll for men. I lost the bulk of my weight in year one just with walking, eating lots of protein and not eating carbs. One of the best things you can do to really be successful post-op is to really know yourself, your strengths and you limitations. It allows you to make better choices and know what to avoid.

Check with your Dr. It will probably help you to have some stomach support if you are going to lifting the baby. A binder, or some moderate high waist shapewear should do the trick.

@SleeveMeAlone214 Pouch reset is just a fad diet. Just eat protein first and protein alone, If you eat dense protein (something that has to be cut with a knife) you will be full for longer, and your body has to burn calories to process that meat. It is a lot better for you than drinking calories. You can't live off a liquid diet forever, you can eat protein forever though, with lots of variety. You can't out exercise a bad diet. You can erase 2 hours in the gym in 2 minutes with a bad food choice.

Just keep losing, eventually your body has to burn the fat, even in the hard places. Just keep going it, comes off. No spot exercising is going to help. Cardio to burn more calories overall will, or just increasing muscle mass to burn more calories

I agree that not everyone is capable of cooking a great meal, but is a pretty basic skill that a lot of people (myself) learn as children. I think learning to cook, is helpful in eating healthy and maintain weight. I can start to finish from stepping into the kitchen be eating in 10 minutes or less. Cooking is not hard or time consuming especially for one person. It is fast and easy. We eat so little food, I feel like meal prep is an important part of a meal, and it adds mindfulness about eating. I like the idea of the services that provide the food and the recipes. I think that is a good way for people to learn cooking skills and new recipes. Meal prep, pre-packaged meals, are a special type to hell to me. No thanks. When I go to a restaurant my food is cooked to order, and what I don't finish, I do not eat. Pre-cooked and shipped food that isn't fresh doesn't appeal to me. Cost really isn't the main factor beyond, just paying for something inferior. It is like buying a super charged Dodge Challenger/Charger, when you can get a BMW or a Benz for the same price. This is the internet, everyone isn't going to agree with you. Don't come here pushing a product or service and expect that everyone is going to jump on board.

I think paying for leftovers is insane. Paying through the nose for leftovers is even worse. Premade food are just left overs. I eat for less than $5 a day and I eat about a pound of meat a day. $11 is $15 a meal is 2 to 3 days worth of food for me.

This is the internet and I can only go by your posts and your posts don't really express a clear motivation for success. Good luck

I was too afraid of dying to getting sick to really test my sleeve early on. I live alone far away from friends and family so I had surgery alone and recovered alone. I am pretty happy that I was so afraid, because by the time I introduced other foods. I had so much success with my weight loss, I wasn't willing to risk it for food. Just because you can tolerate foods, doesn't mean you should try them. You really need to get handle on your cravings because by the time you are 6 months you will be able to eat larger amounts of the foods you shouldn't be eating. At the 2 year mark I could easily eat 3-4000 calories a day if all I did was sit in the house and munch all day. Large pizza, family size bag of chips, unlimited cookies. All of that. In a day if all I did was eating. Nothing is going to stop you from eating bad foods but you.