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Hm, that's not my experience. On the contrary, I've experienced some serious envy and bitchiness from the "weight strugglers" while the "never strugglers" are usually curious about the whole thing but that's just a generalization. In the end open mindedness and curiosity matters, the weight or the struggle with weight not so much. Most people who know about my surgery were quite curious about it, especially the visceral surgeons.

My ignore list seems to have updated on auto pilot this time though.

Yes, but unfortunately it gave me the runs. 🙈💩

Yes, unfortunately. It makes changing work places back to where I came from easier. On-call can be cruel as well (I had two shitty ones in a row Wednesday and Thursday for that matter so I'm especially amused that I'm on 24 h tomorrow; same procedure next week: Thursday and Wednesday on call, Sunday 24 h) but at least you can hope for a quiet night. It's only five more months of this drag. I will miss a few people quite a lot though but in the end contracts are contracts. 😪

Just prepared the food for 24 h shift tomorrow. It's kind of... scary how much one eats during 24 h. That's what several colleagues say and I agree, lol.

True. It takes years before it's showing clearly who's going to benefit from WLS long term or not. When I say "benefit" I'm not only referring to weight loss but also to ailments like diabetes, high blood pressure, osteoarthritis etc. and mental health (think depression, cross addiction).

Depending on in which place you are, self-help groups (be it IRL or online) can be highly toxic environments. When you're down and frustrated regarding your weight loss/diet struggles/body, a WLS community can be the worst of all places to hang around.

This and this. I don't comment on another person's weight. For so many people there are too many emotions attached to weight, losing or gaining and it makes them feel uncomfortable.

I don't eat dairy as well (neither can't nor want). There are truckloads of vegan and/or dairy free protein powders available. Unfortunately most of them only seem to be available online, though I guess this depends on the country you're living in and/or if you're living in a big city or in a small town. The consistency and taste of these powders vary a lot, so what you maybe want to do is getting some samples first before spending big money on a protein powder you abhor. Online shops selling sports nutrition are a good source for this. Some brands sell their whole variety as samples (e. g. profuel sells all their tastes in a sample package or at least they used to do this).

Put him on ignore or get used to comments like the one you reacted to, lol.

Made a tsatsiki style Krautsalat with green cabbage and ate it over a fried veg ground beef.

My basic recipe is: 30 g of protein powder 20 g of chickpea flour 1 tsp baking powder (varies on how much I want it to rise) 120 ml plant milk I mix from there: cocoa powder, dark chocolate chips, whole hazelnuts, blueberries, banana, apple-cinnamon etc. - I also use different protein powders. Sweeteners are usually not necessary because of the sweeteners in the protein. Microwave for 3 min on high but this is depended on your microwave oven!

Btw, the mug cake was 🤤.

Lunchbox for tomorrow. Tomatoes, cucumber, Pumpernickel, almond based herb spread, vegan mock liverwurst, tofu cold cuts.

Vanilla and blueberry protein mug cake. Added some dark chocolate chips. Cant wait for it to cool down and try it, lol.

Steamed brown mushrooms, shiitake, broccoli with sweet chili garlic sauce.

Stew with fennel, red bell pepper, eggplant, seitan, tomato sauce and coconut milk. Pita bread.

Tomorrow night I'm going to make a stew with tomato and coconut sauce. I planned to do a pita pizza with my leftover single pita but the vegetables and the coconut milk have to go first.

Lunchbox for tomorrow. Not pictured is a muesli with skyr and fruit and protein crisps. Except that I added a few blueberries it's the same as today.

Leftover brown Basmati rice with furikake spice. Smokes trout. Thawed edamame and wakame salad.

Mixed salad with an olive oil and dark balsamic dressing. Egg and tuna on top.

I'm on late shift so it's food for the whole day: Mixed fruit with skyr and a mix of chocolate granola and two types of protein crisps.