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The link between high protein diets and cancer
FluffyChix replied to Creekimp13's topic in Gastric Bypass Surgery Forums
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The link between high protein diets and cancer
FluffyChix replied to Creekimp13's topic in Gastric Bypass Surgery Forums
I believe perhaps you are forgetting to divide the weight in pounds by 2.2lbs/kg in order to get to weight expressed in kilograms. Don't worry, I forgot to do that all the time in 5th grade. 165lbs DIVIDED by 2.2lbs/kg = 165/2.2 = 75kg 75kg X 0.8g/kg = 60g of protein recommended. -
The link between high protein diets and cancer
FluffyChix replied to Creekimp13's topic in Gastric Bypass Surgery Forums
Let's do the math for a 200lb person. 200/2.2=90.9kg 90.9kg x 0.8g/kg=72.7g of protein This is for a normal person. Not a super athlete or someone working or working out like a beast daily. And LOL the rules ABSOLUTELY apply to me. They are universal truths. ROFL (almost--for normal people--not extreme cases (ie body builders, @skinnylife, @BigViffer, etc) I have no problem. But if you guys INSIST on mis-stating the truth, I'm calmly forced to show the actual scientific truth. Also you should know, sometimes writers shorthand stuff. The studies are actually based on "ideal weights" or sometimes "due weight". Sometimes LBM. So basically you figure the weight where you WANT to end up. Then you do the math around that end weight. A 500lb person is not a "normal" person. This does not necessarily apply to them. But their protein goal depending on height is probably about the same. When I weighed 287lbs guess what my protein prescription was from my NON low carb RD? Yep, 74g. Go figure. Time for the one finger salute! Congrats you're my first! I feel like such a virgin! 🖕 -
Food Before and After Photos
FluffyChix replied to GreenTealael's topic in General Weight Loss Surgery Discussions
I fell into a bowl of "carbs". hehe Sunday Lunch-a celery rib stuffed with my tuna salad (tuna pouch, 2% cottage cheese, WF Amazin Chipotle Mayo, dijon, Vlasic dill relish, s/p/g/op) + spinach salad with berries, bacon and egg. It looks big, cuz it is. hehe. But yay, I have b/a! -
Intermittent Fasting Daily Menu/Results/Accountability
FluffyChix replied to FluffyChix's topic in Post-op Diets and Questions
Woooohooooo! Can I just tell you guys that I love our little private Idaho over here? No fussing, fuedin, or kung fu fightin! I had a 16:8 today and will do a 20:4 tomorrow. I think I need 2 meals. I feel like I do need to try to get closer to 60g of daily protein and not jack with going lower for now...since I don't know if autophagy is happening on me? I love my definition of eating a "lot of carbs!" Here is Sunday lunch for me. I was hungry for my tuna salad and cottage cheese in a celery stick and also hungry for a big ol' spinach salad with berries, bacon, egg, blue cheese, and punkin seeds! YUM! B/As I guess I know that I'm having an afternoon snack...and what it will consist of. Ok, sometimes leftovers do not suck. -
The link between high protein diets and cancer
FluffyChix replied to Creekimp13's topic in Gastric Bypass Surgery Forums
Really? How do you figure? Let's do basic math. mkay? I weight 150lbs (this isn't even my ideal weight...it is just my current average weight). 150lbs / 2.2 kg/lb = 68.18kg (my current average weight expressed in kilograms). Now you're saying the researchers suggest 0.8g/kg of weight. So multiply 68.18kg by 0.8g/kg and you get= drumroll please!!!!!!!!!! 68.18kg x 0.8g/kg= 54g of protein needed. That is his recommendation. But the USDA puts about a 10% additional protein req on that "just to play it safe and not kill people" so it becomes rounded up to around 60g. (OK, forget biochem. Maybe you guys should start with 5th grade math skills class??) -
The link between high protein diets and cancer
FluffyChix replied to Creekimp13's topic in Gastric Bypass Surgery Forums
Except you and Summerset are misrepresenting facts. LOLOLOLOLOL. The % has no bearing in a severly calorie restricted diet. A 150lb "normal" human who it NOT engaged in intermittent fasting that includes autophagy, STILL needs roughly between 60-80g of protein per day REGARDLESS of the caloric intake. Just because the new anatomy allows us to consume a VLC (very low calorie diet) does NOT negate the need for "adequate" protein consumption. You protein needs are based on many variables: lean body mass, level of activity, extremity of activity, age, sex, genetic, amount of broken metabolism. MANY variables. LOL. You don't "suddenly" and mysteriously need less protein just because you eat fewer cals. ROFLMFAO. Good heavens. Go take basic biochemistry at least! Please???? -
Ugh! Halloween candy is here.
FluffyChix replied to Healthy_life's topic in General Weight Loss Surgery Discussions
Hehehe...but I do say in passing...one of my old candy faves was butterfinger. I figured out a pretty smashing work around: Crush 2 Werther's Sugar free Hard Caramels in a plastic bag and transwer to a small microwave bowl. Nuke in intervals and stir in between, until melted. When melted, stir in 2 tbps peanut butter. Separate peanut butter candy into 4 pieces and place on parchment. Freeze for about 20-30 minutes. While candy freezes, in separate bowl melt Lily's sugar free dark choco chips with a tiny bit of cream until thick and melty. Drizzle with melted chocolate. Put back in the freezer for a butterfinger attack. Eat 1 at a time. -
Ugh! Halloween candy is here.
FluffyChix replied to Healthy_life's topic in General Weight Loss Surgery Discussions
Like you we just don't hand out candy. We usually go out to dinner somewhere, then come home and watch something like Rocky Horror. -
Do you take your props?
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Good times! I do have to say though, that I ended up using more metric stuff than I ever thought I would. LOL! And, I thought I could snooze my way through the math class that taught us how to use a ruler an the increments on it...thinking, "I will never use this crap in a meeeeeeeeellllllliiiiioooooonnnnn years." LOL. Jokes on me. I'm a graphic artist and use 1/64 ths daily. Bi*ch. LOL.
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Hahahaaha! LOVE!!!!! Good times!!!
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Amen my sistah!!! LOL Loved that movie and wondered if anyone would get the reference! LOL It's even that time of year!!
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For cottage cheese it could be either. Clear as mud right? Welcome to my hell!!!! I do everything by weight, but I also stick it in a measuring cup to doublecheck my volume limits of 1cup by volume per meal (or whatever the limit was for that healing period). The MFP says that 2% Daisy Cottage Cheese is 1serving of 1/2cup volume (which weighs 113g=4oz by weight, which also happens to equal 4oz by volume=1/2cup). I EXHAUSTED everyone and I do mean EVERYONE here on BP as well as my RD with questions like: "Is this by weight or volume?" "Do I weigh this one?" "This has got to be by weight right?" LOL. The answer to this is some things are 4oz by volume. Others are 4oz by weight. I tend to especially do protein by weight.
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I hear ya. I'm sick of the 150s! Dammit Janet, Rocky, UGGGGGGHHHHHH!
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Intermittent Fasting Daily Menu/Results/Accountability
FluffyChix replied to FluffyChix's topic in Post-op Diets and Questions
PP=Premier Protein. In my opinion for what it is, we all have normal stalls along the way. Two months, your surgery is not even considered fully healed nor is it close to being "mature." So starting IF at 2 months, you are usually not even eating enough to be able to IF. I would say IF would be at a minimum (for me at least) of 4-6 months. I could see starting a 16:8 (16 hours fasting with an 8 hour daily eating window and no restrictions for calories other than what your surgical team gives you) if and only if you can get all your fluids, and your 60-80g of necessary protein in for the day without relying on protein drinks. Supplementing a tiny bit of missing protein is fine, but not depending on it to carry your protein needs. If you can do that in 2-3 meals, then it would be a sorta-safe thing to do IF. If you can't, then it's something to think about adding for that last 20-30lbs of loss once you have a fully healed mature anatomy. -
Holy moly! What a great 6 month report! Congrats girlie!!!!! You look fabulous!!!!
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Slipping back to old habits - scared
FluffyChix replied to amandalp1021's topic in General Weight Loss Surgery Discussions
Second the need to call your doc/team and get going with therapy. Congrats on your initial losses and on catching this at 15lbs regain!!!! You CAN turn this around. You have the power. What's changed to throw you off track like this? I mean so completely off track. -
Intermittent Fasting Daily Menu/Results/Accountability
FluffyChix replied to FluffyChix's topic in Post-op Diets and Questions
OMG! Just checking back to tell you...I'm so converted! I'm a tea-girl! Who knew sesame green tea would taste so amazing? Fantastically amazing actually!!!! I'm in lurve!!!! -
Medications with weight gain side effect
FluffyChix replied to tnks2hp's topic in Gastric Sleeve Surgery Forums
This is such a lovely and well-written response!!!! Listen to this lady! She knows what she's talking about!!!!! Unlike me, who should have her Jr. Dr. Kildare license yanked for giving med advice on a support board! My apologies! I did just assume with multiple psych meds you were quite likely dealing with a more complex issue. I so agree with her about how exercise and diet are even better than many mood meds and also that you SHOULD take control of your situation and believe you have the power to effect changes without the use of more medicine than you might need! ((hugs)) -
One word...LUBE. (warming is more bettah... )
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Medications with weight gain side effect
FluffyChix replied to tnks2hp's topic in Gastric Sleeve Surgery Forums
Ok, so here's the deal. Most meds will not "make you magically gain" if you don't actually put the extra calories in your body that are gonna drive weight gain. I say this cuz I know first hand. One of the worst drugs ever for weight gain cuz it def drives up cortisol and insulin is prednisone and even worse, IV prednisone! I was on IV prednisone for 3 months and during that time, actually LOST weight--about 60lbs. BUT, I was doing IF plus caloric restriction. And because I cut out high glycemic carbs and only focused on good lean protein, leafy greens, and low glycemic veg with a tiny bit of healthy fats, I was not hungry at all. I went into ketosis and that helped curb the hunger effects from the prednisone. I am also on Femara (a cancer drug that shuts down hormones and makes you hungry and increases insulin). I gained a crap ton of weight on this drug when I gave up and was eating my crappy diet. But in the last 18 months that I'm back on low carb/modified keto and eating a calorie controlled diet and doing IF -- I've lost 135lbs. So it is possible. My weight loss is slow. Only about 70lbs give or take since surgery in February. But I'm about 2lbs from first goal of 150 right now. It can be done!!!! Hang in there. Take your meds, feel better, move more, go low carb!!!! Eat those leafy veggies and lean protein and a bit of healthy fats!!! Drink lots of water!!!! You got this! -
Intermittent Fasting Daily Menu/Results/Accountability
FluffyChix replied to FluffyChix's topic in Post-op Diets and Questions
I have my annual on Nov 7 and plan on asking him to recheck my insulin level. But I don't know that it will tell me specifically about the golden milk. But I can check bgs with it. The fasting insulin will tell me if the surgery and the IF are doing it's job to bring down the fasting insulin and also the CRP. -
Dr Vuong seminars, who has been, what are they about?
FluffyChix replied to elcee's topic in General Weight Loss Surgery Discussions
I wonder if he was asked to leave Lovelace Clinic in NM and is not being allowed to perform surgery any longer? So he's desperate to generate money with "exciting new multilevel marketing opportunities" LOL! *sigh* So very sad really. -
Intermittent Fasting Daily Menu/Results/Accountability
FluffyChix replied to FluffyChix's topic in Post-op Diets and Questions
OK, for a 1/4 cup of Golden Milk, it has about 12 cals; 0g protein; 1g fat; 1g carbs; <1g fiber; 1g net carbs. Sooooo I'm not gonna split hairs and will still count this as fasting. What is your consensus? I will have a second serving (1/4cup) in the Matcha this afternoon.