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I get my omega 3's in by eating 3 servings or more of fatty fish per week: sardines, salmon, tuna, cod, baramundi, monkfish.

Yay!!! Doesn't it feel amazing???!!!! I'm so happy for you and that you've improved your pain to the point that you can run!!! Woooot!

Call your doc. Time for an appointment.

You're doing great! Congrats! Continue with your healthy foods! Don't revert back to eating bad crap. You've now had 30days of clean living to help break that bond/habit. Right? So reverting will just re-awaken and reinforce the habit. Add foods slowly and one at a time. That way you can see and know which food affects you and how. I added eggs first, then a couple days later, I added poached/foil pouch white fish filets. I did well with both. Then I added canned tuna and canned chicken with low cal, low carb gravy. Or made it into an egg salad: 1 pouch/can tuna in water (or chicken/salmon/crab) 1 hard boiled egg, mashed with fork 1/4c cottage cheese (65g) 1/8c Greek yogurt (30g) 1 tsp Dijon Mustard 1 tsp dill pickle relish (optional) granulated garlic s/p Mix everything together and enjoy. I started with eating 1/8c - 1/4c of this every 2-3 hours.

Have a great first day of school work!!! You look perfect!!

Here you go. I just eat minimally of fats except the fat inherently in the food and a tiny bit of olive oil spray. Most of my fat is in the meat, or in a few nuts, or in an ounce of avocado. I have any other fat from my ass to feed me. No need to put it in my body and have to burn it off as energy first before I can burn my ass fat. This comes from Dr. Ben Bickman. You can YouTube him. He's brilliant. Approved-Foods-List_InsulinIQ_BenBikman.pdf

Thanks, so he wants you to actively puree your food? Or are you allowed to chew it to a pureed consistency? I just made foil pangasius (like tilapia but flakier and moister) which is perfect soft food stage. And it started out as a 5oz raw filet. It cooked down to 3oz by weight. And I flaked it and it fit exactly into 1/2 cup measuring cup. So for my food log, I put in 5oz of raw pangasius. I ate 5oz prepared from raw. Protein count on that is 19g. I would think that 1/2c volume would present an issue for you and leave with no extra room for any bite of veg. Are you not allowed to have 3 meals and 1-2 snacks? Cuz a better plan would look like 5-6 mini meals of a 1/4 cup each, to get your protein in. And even then, you might need to supplement with 1 shake per day to give you 30g of protein advantage.

Your satiety/fullness feeling will improve with denser foods. So like eating canned tuna will give you more satiety than yogurt. Cottage cheese will give you more satiety than either yogurt or protein drinks. Eggs depending on how you eat them will give you a lot more satiety than other proteins even. The wetter a food is, the more of a slider it becomes. So if you have trouble with meat sticking, one solution is "meat lube" to eat each bite with a low cal low carb gravy. And it goes down easier--cuz it's wet. And by the time you work up to the final stage of lean dense proteins, then you will or should have satiety in place after your appropriate size meal.

Can you take a pic and post some of their examples of appropriate foods for your stage III? One doc's stage 3 might be another doc's stage 4 and so on...thanks!

Wow! Thanks for posting this. Docs are SOOOO different! They are referencing 3-4oz by weight = about 21g of protein. But the crazy thing is that 3-4oz may occupy as much as 1/2c-1cup of volume!!! That's just nutzo and asking to stretch your tool, hon! Especially in the early days where you don't have a good grasp on satiety and a lot of what you are eating will be sliderish food. You can probably handle 1/2 cup of yogurt. But 1/2cup of cottage cheese might give you some issue. Right? You might do just fine with pureed cream of chicken soup, but 1/2 cup of refried beans will land you in pain before you realize you're full. Right? Hmmm. Dunno how to help here...

At 12 days? I don't think so. Take a pic of it and post it for us. At 12 days many of us were still on pure liquids. Liquids you might be able to do 3-4oz of a protein drink at a meal...maybe, maybe not. But solids it's 1/8-1/4 cup max volume. That is about 1oz of protein by weight. One ounce of protein by weight (think ground turkey) occupies about 3/16 cup (almost 1/4cup) of volume! I'm 18 months and my forever diet is supposed to only be 1 cup by volume. In that volume, I can fit about 3-4oz of protein by weight = about 7g per ounce of weight.

Please follow your surgeon's and RD's post op progression diet complete with quantities. 1/2 cup at 12 days is way too much food and can damage your tool, or cause complications. Each doc does it differently. But at 12 days post op, I was on 1-2oz of food by volume. That is maximum of 1/8-1/4 cup by volume MAXIMUM at each meal. Do not exceed your rules hon. You are early out. And the nerves were cut. So your pouch won't/might not signal satiety right now. I think I was 3 months out before I felt cues from my pouch that I was actually full. Until then, I just followed their volume guidelines explicitly.

I'm scared to ask where the graft came from...my PS and I have a strict "no who-ha" zone pact between us.

We really need a "shocked out of our minds" emoji for this.... OMG. I'm supposed to go in sometime next year to discuss fixing my capsular contractions and finally getting nips put on the barbie foobs...and now I'm like...crap, maybe tats WOULD work afterall?

TF???????!!!!! 😯

I'm the calorie whisperer. It's my super power. LOL. I can pack super volumes of food into 650-850 calories. And right now, I'm intentionally trying to see how much I can eat per day when I don't restrict. I still find myself preferring lower fat food choices. I just feel better after a meal than if I eat a meal with lots of fat. So 1000-1200 cals is totes do-able for me. It's so wild how our minds do change the more we encourage those new neural pathways!!! Why are you gonna eat sliders until tonight? Congrats on your new low!!!! Woot!!!

Sorry to bear bad news, but seriously, the surgery is a tool. They operate on our tummies. It does NOTHING for our mind. I really encourage you to see a counselor and start working through your food issues and compulsive eating. You will have way more long term success with or without surgery. Also having a local support group--maybe even look into OA? In the past 2 1/2 years (actually much longer than that), but that's how long I've been pursuing this new WLS life (the lead up, surgery and post surg life), I've had to work continuously on developing new habits with food. And relationships. I have had to amend how we stock our pantry, fridge, and freezer and had to also work to get Mr. F. on board with living a healthy life. I believe that's what most are gonna need in order for long term success. I don't believe in the myth of restriction and malabsorption, nor do I depend on it.

@Sheribear68 So sorry about the sore tooth/gum! WTG on the fasting. Make sure you have feast days. Part of the IF is the INTERMITTENT part. ((hugs)) I do experience less interest in food, the more I do IF. But I still struggle with portions. If that makes sense? Yesterday was a hungry heifer day. No IF. No restrictions on eating. And here's what I ate: 8am 1st breakfast - Psylli Wrap Eggwhite Veggie Breakfast Taco with Cheese (127cals; 12g prot; 7g f; 2g nc) 10am 2nd breakfast - Strawberry Chia Protein Pudding with Nuts/Blueberries (293cals; 21g prot; 14g f; 12g nc) 2pm lunch - tuna salad in lettuce cups with cucumbers (120cals; 17g prot; 3g f; 5g nc) 7pm dinner - foil basa fish with zoodles in lite alfredo sauce and chopped salad (268cals; 28g prot; 11g f; 10g nc) 1st dessert - sugar free jello with greek yogurt topping 2nd dessert - gg brancrisp with lacy swiss and peanut butter (235cals; 17g prot; 13g f; 5g nc = 1st and 2nd desserts combined) Totals for the day: 1043cals; 95g protein; 48g fat; 52g carbs; 18g fiber; 34g net carbs) I'm 134.6lbs today.

Yikes! So...this would be exhausting, but what would happen with 6 meals rather than 5? And 1 or 2 of those meals are a protein bar like a Robert Irvine one that has lots of cals (300cals/bar) and is made from "better" ingredients? Like you eat the snack after working out and make it have 25-30g of protein in it?

So you dumped between the afternoon snack and your 11:45pm dinner? Or you dumped in the middle of the night?

So is that substantially less than it has been? Like, could you previously eat the amount of meal I described in my dinner last night? One thing that I find hugely confusing is the surgeons all seem to say "1 cup of food per meal by volume." And the RDs parrot this. Then they give specific examples of a forever diet. LOL. And it ALWAYS ends up being more than 1cup of food by volume. There is a huge cognitive disconnect with this issue. And what they don't seem to understand is that they have a group of compliant patients that are doing their best to figure out forever diets based on their recs, but lacking restriction. So they don't have the benefit of "feeling" when it's time to stop, cuz their tool tells them to stop. Right? So it's like, fu*k me! What do I go by? The sample meal plan that ends up being about 1 1/2 - 2 cups of food? Or their rule of forever diet = 1 cup per meal by volume?