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Back at work. Same outfit every day, lol.

OMG, I just found this cashew camembert I tried during our vacation at the local tegut. 😁

Nonsense. Eating too much calories slows down your weight loss.

With time there are quite a few patients that tend to go out of their own way to rationalize their diets and/or food choices, like a guy I know rationalized chocolate milk "because of needing protein". It's normal, as much of a problem it might be. You can see some hints of this on every WLS board and/or weight loss board: people are looking for substitutes for their beloved foods. Artificial sweetener, low carb breads, no-fat puddings, keto brownies, protein ice cream, so-called no-sugar chocolate etc. - the ingredient lists often read like chemistry class, yet people rationalize that these foods are "healthy" because they are low calorie, low carb, high protein or low fat. The notion alone of wanting to eat so-called "bad foods" is often frowned upon on weight loss boards, BP is no exception here. However, people do want to continue eating these "bad foods", hence the threads on what low-carb, high-protein, low-calorie foods people found in the supermarkets that mimic muffins, brownies, bread, pasta, chocolate. Basically there's nothing wrong with that. But what rubs me the wrong way is that too many people actually think they're eating the "healthier alternative" (most of the times they're not) while wanting and eating "the real stuff" is often frowned upon. It reminds me of the veg-crowd who is on the lookout (Hi there, fellows!) for vegan cheeses, mock meats, yoghurts etc. - different reasons for eating the fake stuff but same reasons why so many veg-heads are after these foods: we want to continue to eat this tasty stuff!

That's your opinion and the opinion of your dietician. I'd say a strict low carb diet for weight loss is BS and so would my dietician. My BMI is 22.9 and I reached it without eating low carb and there are many more patients who did so. I'm with sillykitty: it's the calorie deficit, nothing else. If that isn't pushing low carb eating, then what is?

I'd say your host is a "food pusher". "Food pushers" can be annoying and while they definitely can come from a place of jealously, my experience is that they usually don't seem to mean ill.

I think there is a lot of food policing and food shaming on this board but also people IRL sometimes food shame and food police people so I thought your rant would be about this. Imagine you're invited to dinner and have a bit of dessert. Aunt Fanny says: "Oh, do you really think you should eat this?" - like WTH?? just STFU, b*tch! It's not your damn business! A user asks about eating bread or pasta: "WHAAAAAAT????! How can you even think about eating this!!!!!" --- That's what I'd describe as "food shaming". What you described was IMO more the reaction of a host thinking that you didn't like the food and maybe he felt like he failed to cater to everyone on his party, especially since you mentioned he's a very generous man when it comes to food.

Soy skyr with maraschino cherries and chocolate sauce.

When I read the title "food shaming" I had something completely different on my mind.

OMG! 🤤

Totally stole this idea, lol.

Lick-the-pan-clean dinner: mock chicken, red onion, frozen spinach in a sauce of soy cuisine, cesar salad spice mix and nutritional yeast over the rest of the red lentil penne.

It tastes good. lol

Most surgeons have a more realistic view on expected weight loss than their patients. That doesn't mean though that you can't get rid of 100% excess weight and maintain it. What makes or breaks this "100% success" I have no idea. From what I saw on the boards over the years it definitely is possible but I've also seen people who've never reached a normal weight or who've reached a normal weight and gained back some weight. In the end only time will tell and with time I mean "several years".

All the patients who're intolerant to whey... how do they make it through the first weeks after surgery? Luckily some of us have survived and we're here to tell our stories of having ingested non-whey protein drinks so they can be handed down from generation to generation.

I definitely had my share of complications (nothing life threatening) over the years and had more than one revision because of this but I don't regret it. The only thing I regret is that I postponed revision from lap band for so long. I don't know if hesitating bought me some complications that could've been avoided but in the end it's speculative so no reason to mull it over in my head. When it comes to "regret": I don't think you will get many "I regret it" answers for several reasons. 1) Most people on here are relatively early out. They're still in the weight loss phase when rewards are rolling in big or in early maintenance phase. That's too soon for e. g. long-term nutritional deficiencies or transfer addiction to roar their ugly heads. It's also too early for regain struggles. 2) There is high selection bias on internet boards. Here you either see "surgery newbies" or very successful people who want to celebrate their success and maybe make sure to stay on track by posting here or simply continue hanging around because they want to stay in contact with certain users. 3) People having serious ongoing complications or insufficient weight loss or major regain and therefore feeling regret don't tend to hang around here. Maybe they meet elsewhere or suffer in silence, I don't know. Once in a while you see a new user posting about regain and "wanting help". They make a thread, get several answers and seem to vanish into thin air again but they don't hang around so you can e. g. follow their journey for some months to come.

Boy, that will be a very depressing thread for a German...

No, both taste and consistency are way different from the konjac noodles I tried. However, I never had shirataki noodles that tried to mimic Italian pasta so maybe someone else can comment.

Food for today. Not pictured is soy yoghurt and leftovers from yesterday. Maybe I'm going to have a protein bar on top, depending on how long the day will be.

The texture is more chewy but I like that. It depends though. The penne are a bit closer to regular pasta regarding both texture and taste than e. g. the black bean spaghetti. Be warned, however, that I haven't eaten real Italien style pasta in ages (aside from some vegan tortellini or ravioli but I think that doesn't count when it comes to pasta texture). I might not remember the texture correctly. I either eat the bean pasta or some Asian noodles like udon, ramen or hokkien noodles. Same with meats and cheeses, btw. I'm not sure if I remember taste and texture correctly when I compare the fake to the real stuff.

I have the chickpea spaghetti and the fusilli sitting around. So far every Explore pasta I've tried has been really good. The black bean ones also go quite well with Asian flavors. The edamame ones not so much.

Calories slow down weight loss.

Tried the red lentil penne for the first time (Explore Cuisine). Rating: 5 out of 5 stars. Yum!

While this is true I hope he didn't stay silent on the possible negative side effects. There is no need for scaremongering but the more drastic the procedure, the more drastic the possible side-effects. Over on the "Obesity Help" board there are way more DS patients than on this board, most of them raving about how good the procedure is. However, even these patients are admitting that quite a few of them have to still watch what they eat. I'm not sure if I got this right. Is it correct that your surgeon seems to think that it's unrealistic that you're going to lose 160 lbs?