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Truly accurate nutritional tracking app?
summerset replied to ShekinahST's topic in Food and Nutrition
CRON-O-Meter is a very good one. Available both as app and on the web. -
Food Before and After Photos
summerset replied to GreenTealael's topic in General Weight Loss Surgery Discussions
The problem is that not the head physicians are hiring staff. -
Food Before and After Photos
summerset replied to GreenTealael's topic in General Weight Loss Surgery Discussions
I doubt. The two other head physicians were more like "This won't work!" than anything else anyway. In the end this will hopefully be much-a-do-about-really-much, at least this is what I'm hoping for. Anyway, we demanded a simulation, i. e. a whole month's schedule WITHOUT violating the law regarding allowed maximum working time (including vacation time problems and maybe one person being sick) - ever single of these plans will crumble down like a house of cards! -
Food Before and After Photos
summerset replied to GreenTealael's topic in General Weight Loss Surgery Discussions
One of the head physicians (there are three of them for three different radiology sub-departments) talked about the planned possible new versions of the on-duty-schedule and all of them SUCK!!! making it worse for us so we gave him our quite strong opinions on this for about an hour this very morning during the meeting. We need 2 to 3 more coworkers, ideally already being able to do 24 h shifts - but even if not, they'll still be helpful during the daytime. Several people went away and nobody came for them so of course there're problems now! Give us more manpower again and the problems will be solved! Seriously, it's not that hard to understand. -
Food Before and After Photos
summerset replied to GreenTealael's topic in General Weight Loss Surgery Discussions
Awful looking but yummy. Rice, kidney beans, chick peas, tomato sauce and fake parmesan (nutritional yeast and cashews). Could only eat a few bites. I'm still fuming because the **** like really hit the fan at work today (so literally everyone is fuming). -
1400 calories for maintenance
summerset replied to codingirl79's topic in Post-op Diets and Questions
Nobody can tell what amount of calories is enough to maintain or not. It depends on too many things like age, sex, genetics, activity level etc. -
Big Pouch Days and Little Pouch Days
summerset replied to KT1981's topic in Gastric Sleeve Surgery Forums
Doesn't sound crazy at all. Don't feel the need to somehow justify that you're not logging your food by claiming that it sounds "crazy". -
Dealing with emotional eating etc.
summerset replied to Zemi's topic in General Weight Loss Surgery Discussions
Working though books about "normal eating" helped tremendously. -
Food Before and After Photos
summerset replied to GreenTealael's topic in General Weight Loss Surgery Discussions
Oh, it's not real yoghurt. It's the soy stuff. 😁 -
Food Before and After Photos
summerset replied to GreenTealael's topic in General Weight Loss Surgery Discussions
Ok, so I'm kinda hooked now. Food for today I'm taking with me to work: -
Food Before and After Photos
summerset replied to GreenTealael's topic in General Weight Loss Surgery Discussions
If I put the tofu/vegan patties on a sandwich depends. These little cubes would fall all over the place into every direction possible when being put between two pieces of bread so it's more of a convenience thing than anything else. If I wouldn't have eaten that with bread but with rice I would've mashed it all together in a bowl. -
Food Before and After Photos
summerset replied to GreenTealael's topic in General Weight Loss Surgery Discussions
Time to finally get that thing out of its package I guess. ROFL. -
Food Before and After Photos
summerset replied to GreenTealael's topic in General Weight Loss Surgery Discussions
So tell me what is less of a hassle to clean? An air fryer or a cast iron pan because 🤬😡🤬. -
Big Pouch Days and Little Pouch Days
summerset replied to KT1981's topic in Gastric Sleeve Surgery Forums
It's pretty normal. Everyone (surgery or not) has days with more appetite, more hunger, more cravings... and some people are reacting to this and eat more one day and less the other. However, people on this board here are so damn traumatized and terrified when it comes to food and eating that they hold the opinion only eating the same amount everyday, weighed and counted, is the safe way to eat. Appetite, hunger and feelings of fullness or the lack there of don't have a word in this thing. So many patients seem to choose overly restrictive diets (kind of like an overkill) without seemingly ever giving a thought about if that is sustainable in the long run. Remember, all this stuff didn't work in the long run in the past and got you (and me, too, of course) to a point where WLS was needed. Of course there will always be non-eating-disordered reasons to restrict foods, e . g. dairy if you can't tolerate it, animal flesh because you're a vegetarian, pork because of religious reasons etc. - that's not what I'm talking about. In sum I think it is very sad that only a scarce amount of WLS patients seems to try to connect to what they really want to eat, or to their hunger and appetite cues. Am I really hungry right now? More than usually? Why could that be? What tastes do you really like and eating accordingly to them instead of choking down the next piece of fat free prepared lean protein chicken with two broccoli spears on the side even though you might hate the taste of green vegetables. -
Food Before and After Photos
summerset replied to GreenTealael's topic in General Weight Loss Surgery Discussions
So, I bet y'all knew that I finally won't be able to resist. 😁 Almond-Nut-Tofu with king oyster mushrooms fried in coconut oil and seasoned with sweet soy sauce. Whole wheat bread with vegan butter and garden cress. -
Vets- opinions on short term reboot 5 years post VSG?
summerset replied to mi75's topic in WLS Veteran's Forum
My opinion is: find a diet that you really can stick to instead of "cycling it". -
Starches were part of the diet from the beginning, e. g. carrot or potato soups and in the mushy phase mashed potatoes. However, diets vary not only from country to country but also from hospital to hospital sometimes.
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Big Pouch Days and Little Pouch Days
summerset replied to KT1981's topic in Gastric Sleeve Surgery Forums
Most likely this won't go away. There will always be days when you'll feel more hungry, have more appetite, will eat more because there seems to fit more into the pouch/stomach. You'll probably notice that this feeling of "can eat more" is related to your activity level as well. -
Speak for yourself only, please. I had bypass as well and I'm fine eating carbohydrates and so are many other bypass patients.
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Realizing just how fat I was...and still am
summerset replied to MikeIL's topic in Gastric Bypass Surgery Forums
Weight loss is a b***h. The fat seems to be distributed kind of weird while and after losing weight quite often. It's royally annoying. You've definitely come a long road already. Your weight loss is clearly visible in your face (and without a doubt it shows on the rest of your body as well). However, you're still at a BMI of 38 after all. Technically that's class 2 obesity so it's quite normal that you still see yourself as "fat". -
No, some people have it without ever having surgery on their intestines.
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Restriction Feeling 2+ years out?
summerset replied to Brent701's topic in POST-Operation Weight Loss Surgery Q&A
One effect I can think of is that constipation is not an issue. -
Halo top, other low calorie high protein ice creams
summerset replied to Jessviera's topic in Gastric Sleeve Surgery Forums
Because food addiction? -
Restriction Feeling 2+ years out?
summerset replied to Brent701's topic in POST-Operation Weight Loss Surgery Q&A
I posted about what I eat here. At the moment it's working fine. So while it's not the pound of cure diet I eat quite a lot of fruit and vegetables. -
Restriction Feeling 2+ years out?
summerset replied to Brent701's topic in POST-Operation Weight Loss Surgery Q&A
Usually there will fit in more into the sleeve or pouch with time. There seems to be a growing in portion size up until to a certain point as it seems (everyone ist different though) and then there won't be much change. Dr. Weiner has interesting videos on this.