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I eat them all! But I'm very partial to leafy greens and the cruciferous/sulforophane families with special interests in onions/garlic/asparagus and mushrooms of all kinds. (Oh and avocados = fruit. )

@sillykitty I'm so happy for your mommy!!! That's fabulous!!!! And who cares why she's doing it--she is certainly getting he benes of autophagy. And somewhere and somehow, when she's ready, she will make that longevity connection. It's only a matter of time. It first started for me as just a way to lose weight, and maybe get off asthma meds! And now look how far down the rabbit hole I am. That's amazing progress she has had and she is really lucky to have you to mentor/live vicariously through! And too awesome about following our post WLS forevs diet! Cuz the cal restriction is also adding to her autophagy!! @GreenTealael - you just heal, heal, heal right now!!! There will be time for IF when you're ready to do it again! Congrats on aging backwards. You do look INCREDIBLY young to be xyz! Is that a thing? Can you be "too young looking?" @AZhiker It does really sound like your circadian rhythms might be off. SIM Land writes about that a lot as does Jason Fung. But he also talks about having so much energy that you just get up and work! Keep hacking to try to find the solution hon!! I do know it feels like it gets better with time? Maybe try doing a "high carb snack" just before bed: like 1-2oz Granny Smith apple slices with a tbsp of almond butter or something like that. See if it helps? Today is Day 1 for me after the surgery. I think it's gonna be "hellah hard." Cuz I've been eating weird for weeks now. Way too many carbs, eating whenever I'm hungry and I'm def not in ketosis. So *gulp* I just gotta put mah big girl panties on and drink that water and green tea and walk when I feel like eating. Should be a busy day at work, so that hopefully helps!!!

Today I'm back on my IF schedule. I plan to do at least and 18:6 or maybe a 20:4 today with water, decaf black coffee, decaf green tea. I really think as @AZhiker said, IF is my longterm tool for WLS success.

Ok, so had a full party party weekend with food. 😕 Saturday lots of snackiness at night, but oddly 2lbs down Sunday morning and then Sunday we took a day trip to Chappel Hill which was a lot of fun. Ate breakfast at the Paradise Breakfast Cafe. (It wasn't Paradise...lol, but it was good.) I ate crap I do not normally eat. And the scale is just still sitting squarely at 135.8lbs this morning. So here is yesterdays accounting: 5"4" 👵 17m PO (WLM) 135.4lbs (pre-poopy) Sunday August 4 Menu: 6:00am B1 - black decaff coffee 11am B2 - 1/3 of a beef fajita 3 egg white omelet with 1/8c guacamole + 1/4c pico + 2 bites hashbrowns with ketchup and 1/2 flour tortilla + decaff coffee with half n' half 3pm AS - 1 Armour Luncheable (it was all the CH Walmart had! No P3s anywhere!) Had a RH event probably from breakfast so dove headfirst into what I could tear into at the store. Oh and CH Walmart...I'm sorry for blowin' up your bathroom, but I'm sincerely glad there was nobody else in there at the time. (Note to self: order Poo Pourri today...) 7pm D - smoked turkey chopped salad with low fat blue cheese crumbles + 2tbsp lite blue cheese dressing (arugula, baby spinach, radish, red onion, red bell pepper, cucumber, baby carrots)

Happy Monday everyone!!! @ms.sss Sunday menu sounds great! Congrats on partying and having fun on 1300 cals girl!!! WooT! Way to get your totals up!! @AZhiker Good to know about the probiotic root veg! I sometimes do turnips and rutabagas mixed with cauliflower roasted and smashed. Good stuff - perfect fall food! I stay away from soy and am trying to do yogurt a few times a week. But I hate that it really ups my carbs. So it's a balance. @Stella S Your menu also sounds great!! I love peaches. They do not love me. 14g. 14g!!

Hope it's not Rock Creek Park. hehe

Head hunger sucks. Drink water when a craving hits. Avoid commercials. I would mute TV and close my eyes. I broke up with Food TV. I also used to get up and walk during commercials. Lots o' walking going down. It gets better with time. Hang in there and follow your doc's plan!! You can do this.

Ok, so this is getting so weird!!! Sorry for your struggles! ((hugs)) I "think" I know EXACTLY what you are describing. I'm now seeing 2 people with this same thing that it felt like I had! I just had surgery about 3 weeks ago for a sudden internal hernia and twisted small intestine. They had to go in and physically touch and inspect every inch of my bowel before putting it back into my "gut sac". And the bowel doesn't like that. It causes it to "shut down" or go to sleep. And it caused what was termed an "incomplete ileus" which is kinda synonymous with a partial bowel obstruction. My symptoms (that were seen on CT scan and dx'd as a partial ileus/bowel obstruction) were kinda like yours. Everything that went down my piehole caused TERRIBLE nightmare cramping, pressure in my esophagus, shoulder pain, and Big D with terrible odor!! My tummy gurgled and boiled like "look out Big D is headin down the tracks". But it wouldn't necessarily cause me to go immediately. But when it came, it was sudden, and prolific and could happen 10-12 times per day. So I started treating it with raw sauerkraut juice (you should ask your doc if you can have that cuz it's acidic), kefir, yogurt with live cultures, and probiotic pills (you can sprinkle them in smoothies). And then follow your diet progression. Now after 3 weeks, my intestines are finally getting back to normal! Woooh! Big relief. No more pain, no more cramps, no more huge Big D's. I do take a 40mg of ppi that I empty from the capsule onto a spoon of unsweetened granny smith applesauce. And I avoid any kind of drug that slows down the intestines. Hope that helps you!!!

Try buying raw sauerkraut in your store and only drinking a spoon of the fluid, or using kefir in your smoothies. It will do the same thing as the raw kraut juice. I hope you don't have an infection. They tested me for the bad bugs and luckily I turned up negative on them! Woooh. Big relief!! Sorry for your struggles. I'm still hoping it's a partial ileus and dairy intolerance for you!!! Big D is not fun!

REally dense foods can weigh as much as 10oz for a cup of volume. Think tuna casserole, chicken enchilada casserole, etc. Anything gooey ooey and cheesy is a gut bomb on weight but still fits in 1 cup of volume. Even cottage cheese is heavy by weight versus volume.

I love the Celebrate 500mg Calcium Citrate Chews. Love all of the fruit flavors, but especially adore the watermelon. Like Starburst candy.

Mine was also 4 weeks or until scabs were off.

Yes me 2 girl!I also did soft scrambled eggs and soft boiled eggs and foil fish and canned chicken, fish, and low cal, low carb, low sugar premade gravies and zero cal dressings.

Hahaha funny you posted here. I decided it's been enough time since the surgery, to go back to my weekly rotation with IF. Gosh, I've missed it and I honestly think my body needs it to stay "normal." Are you doing any kind of TRE or IF? Is anyone still really doing it? I'm gonna start again on Monday. I think I'm just gonna do my baby steps and try to do an 16:8 or 18:6 and CRE of 500cals. Then have another DD on Tuesday to make it about a 60hour period. Then Wednesday would up cals again.

Hey hon I this video Dr V is talking about going to the gym and doing power workouts and hard core classes. He totally wants us to walk daily in the beginning.

I'm more compliant when busy. But I have to pre-plan and pack meals if I want them. Otherwise it's easy available stuff for b/l and super KISS leftovers for din with only a nuked veg. So it's bare bones eating.

It took a long time to understand this concept--and I'm fairly smart. So for me: VOLUME is KING! I am not to exceed 1cup of volume per meal. (or at least that's the story)... So, I put a 1 cup measure on the scale and first I'll weigh the protein into it--cooked. Then I add the cooked measure of al dente veg that is allowed. Then I will add anything extra such as my avocado/tomato garnish which is actually a slider food that I eat at the end of dinner. Cuz um, I can. And now days, I know that 1oz of cooked protein measures close to 1/4c (ground meats, diced chicken breast, cubed roasts all take up about 1/4c of space). So 3oz of protein is "about 2/3-3/4cup of volume. (I don't eat many composite meals that are very calorically dense or weight dense: ie chicken pot pie, chili, casseroles, pastas, beans/rice combos, stews, chicken and dumplings--that kind of high reward food. Because for 1cup of food, it likely weighs much more than 3oz.)

Totes norms. Search for "3 week stall" here and on Google.

I think you should block me for your emotional health. Safe journey! Good luck to you!

Follow the plan but don't force it. If you aren't to 1/2c. Thank GOD and move on. Don't eat if you aren't hungry. Get your protein minimum in each day and make sure to hydrate. As the others have said, use this time to your advantage. Get the most weight off that you can during this time!!!

Ok, Happy Saturday to all!!! ((hugs)) Busy day today. Just finished a 35 minute "run" or ralk if you prefer (3mph). LOL. Am having a quick cuppa then off to get ready to go HEBing and run errands. Then back to clean house, have a repair dude coming to fix our shower and bath plumbing. Ugh. Hate having workmen in the house! Read a book: I got this book as a gift from a friend, long ago. And I pulled it out last night and am actually starting to read some of it. https://www.amazon.com/You-Are-Special-Americas-Neighbor/dp/0670854123/ref=sr_1_9?keywords=fred+rodgers+inspiration+books&qid=1564838439&s=gateway&sr=8-9 Staying in tonight with Mr. F. and finishing binge-watching the "Dead To Me" series with Christina Applegate. So so so good! Will grill salmon and asparagus and have our fav avo/tom salad. Have a great day everyone!!

They warned us up front that the most weight loss would happen in the first 2 months post surgery, but not to expect wildly huge numbers of monthly loss. That we would average anywhere between 2-4lbs per week. There is an extremely small subset who genetically are not really impacted by WLS. But it's very rare. Make sure you are following your surgeon's plan to a T, and get walking. My doc wanted 10K steps out of me at your point every day in addition to eating only between 500-700 cals at that point. But I had lots of stalls too!!! Hang in there and stay focused. You haven't failed WLS!!!

Sorry! Glucose meter. Glucometer and test strips. We use the Fora brand=cheap and reliable. We get ours at HEB.

High five!! LOL!

So excited for you to research this and can't wait to follow your journey!!