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Hangry, my dear, hangry!

Don't bet on it. Boredom eating (or any emotional eating for that matter) is alive in practically everyone. This "food for fuel only" schlock is only the wet dream of the dieting/WLS community. "Elimination" of emotional eating is just not possible. Also, physical and emotional hunger are entangled all too often. When I e. g. eat after a complicated intervention that lasted for hours I'm usually eating out of both physical hunger (it's afternoon and lunch is like really late) and emotional reason (need for relaxation) and I'm definitely not in the mood then to analyze and evaluate what "might be the stronger reason for eating" or "if I should've eaten something different" or "if I should've stopped eating earlier" or "if I should've eaten at all before having done a meditation session to relax" or whatever. Does it seem like calories are over the top? Was it an out-of-control-binge? No? Then I won't waste another thought on it.

This board is proof. Lots of hangry people on here sometimes. 😂

Edamame Fettucine with a vegan bolo sauce (vegetables being baby spinach, red onion, red bell pepper, mushrooms this time). Topped it with cashewsan.

Some pretty steep assumptions. Like... just wow.

"Cashewsan" 115 g cashews (give or take a few gram) 4 tbs nutritional yeast 0.5 tsp onion powder, garlic powder, salt Throw into blender and swirl for a few seconds. Store in an airtight glass in the fridge. I found it to be good tasting even after four weeks (though it usually doesn't last this long, lol).

You are NOT "addicted to sugar" or are you sneaking into the kitchen, pouring tablespoons of plain sugar down your throat?

In my experience it depends a lot on the brand.

There is no gold standard (even though some might claim that they've found the holy grail). IMO that's one of the reasons patients are so afraid of "doing something wrong". In the end there are patients adopting elements from several plans, creating the most restrictive plan possible because they only look at what other treatment teams label as "forbidden" and not what they label as "ok". One team says "NO!!!! NEVER AGAIN!!!" when it comes to coffee - there goes the coffee, even if your own team says it's ok in moderation. Others say "NO!!!! NEVER AGAIN!!!" to carbonated drinks - there goes the carbonated water, even though your own treatment team doesn't mind it. Just for - you know - safety reasons. A team says "NO!!!! NEVER AGAIN!!!" when it comes to bread - you plan to never touch a slice of bread again, even though your own dietician says you can start eating whole grain breads 6 weeks after surgery, just to be... safe because there is this talk about lack of weight loss because "carbs". And that list goes on and on and ON endlessly. In the end you've become the prisoner of your new "bariatric lifestyle".

Nice to see you back, btw.

"Damn, this part of work is boring... aren't there some crackers in my desk? Or maybe I should take a stroll for coffee to the kitchen? A diet coke might be nice as well. Not, that I'm really thirsty or anything." "Feeling pretty tensed tonight... why does this Turkish delight seem to be calling my name all of a sudden? The open package is sitting in there for a week and I didn't give a single thought about it?" "I'm freaking tired today... no chance to squeeze a nap in though. Am I working up an appetite right now?!" --- Some more typical examples of head hunger I think. Though external triggers are a major problem as well of course. Maybe worse than the internal ones after a while. At least sometimes I think of it this way.

"Being fearful" is not the point here. The point is that many patients claim that "they can't have food X" while the truth is "I never tried food X because I'm too afraid to try", therefore spreading misinformation.

Does it really matter? The video is about pouch stretching myth.

You might be careful with the spaghetti first try - a shape like penne or fusilli is easier to chew well IMO.

What people can or can't eat depends on the individual. Some people can eat food X. Some people can't eat food X. Other people fear to even try food X because they heard some stories about how WLS patients "aren't allowed to have it" or that "it doesn't sit well in the pouch" or something like that (some of these people even claim that they can't eat food X even though they never tried to eat it which doesn't make any sense to me - you can't know before you have tried).

Pre-made salad box with a cashew dressing. Cashew nuts, ketchup, water, Caesar salad spice mix.

I highly recommend watching some of Dr. Weiner's videos for myth busting around WLS. I've read about "stretching the pouch" too much on this thread already.

Rice would be my go-to diet food. Fills me up in no time and for long with not much calories. When it comes to protein oats or soy skyr, I can eat a truckload. 45 g or 50 g of protein in one sitting? No problem. People simply need to try what slides through and what not.

If you're concerned about protein: try bean pasta. I actually prefer it over "regular" pasta.

Basically, yes. With rice you simply have to cook it in enough water, same with e. g. oats. Pasta, I'm more a fan of bean pasta, but I ate and eat "regular" e. g. at restaurants. Breads, no problem (started with crisp breads though). Sugary stuff I have to be careful because there could be dumping, but yes, I eat simple sugars. Some people shun carbohydrate rich foods because they think they "make/made them fat" or that they "slow down weight loss". I'm not one of them. I believe in CICO, not in low-carb or keto magic. Eat less than your TDEE and you're going to lose weight. But what about "the insulin"? Protein rich foods cause release of insulin from the pancreas' cells as well. Look for "insulin index" on a search engine about this one. Beef, fish and cheese cause more of an insulin spike than pasta. So much for this.

With "inflammation" - what do you mean? Activation of arthritis? Rheumatoid arthritis? Something else?

What's their reasoning for this? How can pasta, rice and bread stretch your pouch but not other foods? I smell bullcrap. I ate all kinds of carbs during weight loss phase. But that's me. Everyone's different.