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Ah yes, exactly this. 🙄😂 ETA: for the same reason my nicer dicer and juicer are mostly sitting in the cupboard.

Yellow "chicken" curry (brown mushrooms, shiitake, broccoli, onion) over brown basmati rice.

Yeah well, that was long ago after I stopped smoking and still had a lap band. I don't know if it was 40 lbs or a bit less but it was a significant gain. I don't know if my answer will be helpful since when I stopped smoking my appetite went up and I started eating more. What got me "back on track" was getting into intuitive eating. I lost the weight without struggle but it took a while. Mind you, this was like 16 or 17 years ago so don't ask about details how long it took to gain and lose the weight.

I weighed about 3 kg more for several days after surgery. Greetings from the i. v. fluids.

This is absolutely not true considering that vegetables and fruits contain many phytonutrients pills don't provide.

No, and it's best to just forget this ridiculous kind of "advice".

If only there wasn't that lack of decent non-dairy cheeses... 😫

These Though I sometimes use this brand. Depends on what is available in the stores. Also tasty.

Can be the whey itself as well. Quite a few people have problems with it.

Im going for fake chicken nuggets, sweet & sour sauce, oven baked bell pepper and a dip:

There are ton of recipes for it, lol. Since we're talking about weird pizza combos, I could try to make pasta pizza for variety: Pasta Pizza Or if one is really brave: Pizza with Pasta AND Wuerstchen

Yes, Bratwurst on pizza sounds... interesting. 😂 But then again: Wuerstchenpizza

I don't really have a secret as well, I guess. With people around me wanting to lose weight or wanting to prevent weight gain, they sometimes ask the people around them about "their secret" (including me, even the ones who know about surgery, which strikes me quite odd). Most seem to answer with "moderation" and I see them eating salads and lots of vegetables but also sweets and pastries or French Fries etc. as well. Two petite women come to my mind when I think about this and one of the male colleagues in his 50s. You never know if they're struggling inside but they don't give the impression of doing so. At least there seems to be this interesting difference between them and the colleagues who e. g. are into the new weight watchers program. It appears... more relaxed. I can't pinpoint it, it's just some kind of vibe I get. Anyway, when I mulled this whole stuff over I came up with some "big three" so to say. Two might be seen as guidelines or rules, one is just the way things are (the secret??). 1) Whatever you plan to change - ask yourself if you're willing to change it forever. Going to the gym regularly five days a week for two hours straight might sound like a good plan for now but is it sustainable for you when considering the rhythm of your life? 2) Overall lifestyle and personality. How high is your NEAT? Are you a fidgeter and not able to sit still? How physically demanding is your job? Do you e. g. bike to work and like it? Walk to the grocery store, even if it's only because it's too much of a hassle to inch your car out of the underground garage, through traffic, the store's parking lot, go back through traffic and inching it back into your parking space at home to get a few bread rolls? Do you take the stairs just because when you see the elevator is on the 10th floor you roll your eyes because you know that it will take ages to come down and it gets on your nerves simply thinking about waiting for it only to find it crammed with people and damn thing holding at every damn floor on your way up? Are you a more nervous person that tends to move more, exercise more to calm yourself down and have e. g. better quality of sleep? 3) Only eat foods you like. Don't eat anything you don't like just because it has little calories. Nothing wrong with experimenting and if you find a substitute for a higher calorie food you really like and don't feel deprived eating it instead of the original stuff - go for it because why not? I buy new products or try new recipes as well. If it tastes good, is not much of a hassle to prepare and don't need to spend a fortune on one portion of it I'm going to buy/cook it again. If I don't like the product, no matter how little calories or how healthy it might be, I won't buy/cook it again. I might not throw it into the trash bin (depends on how awful I think it tastes) but I definitely won't have it again. Not eating foods you like and substituting them with foods you think taste awful will leave you feeling deprived. Diet fatigue won't be far away then.

Banana and coffee granola on caramel protein pudding.

Yeah, I guess I will be a self-pay, too. However, of course I'm going to try to get my money back from insurance.

In Germany admitting to this is about the biggest no-no ever. Insurance will send you happily to some nonsense psychotherapy then.

Plus one can always set lower goal weights later. (If one wants to, that is. The point of diminishing returns will come after all.)

That bread looks interesting. Now that I think about it I could get some Naan bread for variety. Haven't had that in ages as well because most of them contain some form of dairy. Hopefully there are some vegan versions floating around the market by now. I'm definitely too lazy to make my own.

Haven't gotten my hands on real injera in years (since I moved away from Frankfurt/Main in fact). I had some really good Moroccan corn bread lately I bought at a store near the clinic that does my follow up.

It reminds me of injera.

Crammed in the bottom: red batavia salad, an egg, cucumber and leftover steamed broccoli. Crammed in the top Caesar salad dressing from yesterday's batch, canned tuna and chickpeas. Here is aforementioned sandwich, btw.: pita, "Schnitzel", red batavia salad leaves, raw yellow onion, a bit of the Caesar dressing mixed with tomato paste. Not a good picture, sorry.

Yes, it gives the impression. Anyway, some people gain weight, some lose weight, others are not affected but I'm looking from inside a bubble as practically all of my friends work in the medical field so take it with a grain of salt. My own life didn't change much during lockdown so no change in my chaotic eating habits as well and not in my weight. Only thing I changed is that I started working out in the early morning instead of the evening (too many people on the streets stressing me out, plus summer heat). However, I didn't expect that so many people in general would be complaining about gaining weight. People already struggling with eating disorders, yes, but it really seems to run rampant. One might think that since people don't go to restaurants or bars with friends/spouses the calories would even out, even if there is some more snacking at home or less movement during home office time. Obviously not.

Workday was as awful and stressful as I thought it would be with two of five people on vacation. Had a 19.5 h unintentional fasting window, one successful intervention, one not-that-successful intervention that lasted for ages, ate my sandwich and salad and a piece of the fruit. Now I'm beaten. Whatever, it's sandwich time again since a pita package contains five pitas, my freezer and fridge are full, I want comfort food tonight anyway and I'm too lazy to whip up a soup. Here's a snap shot of the salad for tomorrow:

I think the important thing here is that they're talking about "long term". No offense, but while we have quite a few people on here who've lost 100% EWL and more there are at least two things to consider: 1) selection bias of internet boards. 2) the majority of the above mentioned users are less than 5 years out, some even less than 2 years.

I admire people for their commitment to WFPB. I'm not exactly a junk food plant based eater but I eat way too much fake meat/fish, also protein powders (at least lately). ETA: Do you eat cashew based cheeses, btw?