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Oven roasted pork with baby spinach, with as espresso martini beforehand: 383 calories. #stuffed 🤢

We’ve finally got a few vacay trips on the books after a 2+ year hiatus, so thats normal-ish. Hopefully i’ve got some new OOTD’s coming as im currently on a shopping spree for some vacay clothes. Yay! But in the meantime: more clothes pics, people! (Pretty please 😘)

Yep, still woking on that salad i made 3 days ago (and yep, i eat 3-day old leftovers) i ate 1/2 yesterday and just now ate the other half with another scoop of ground beef and some fried garlic: 178 calories for the bowl (I didn’t actually weigh the leftovers, just estimated, based on the data i logged on Wed.) As you can see, i ate it all…3-day old leftovers, yuuuum lol

Sexy mamma 😉

@SleeveDiva2022, From my perception of the tone of your post, you sound like you are taking it in stride (however miserable you are/were) and are more or leas easy going about this all. So im gonna go out on a limb here and assume you wont get offended…but when i scrolled through your before and after pics I totally laughed out loud, omg (im still smiling now as i type this): You basically captured in 2 pics exactly how i felt on surgery day! You will be glad you took you took these pics later when you lose a bunch of weight. Can you like re-create these pics (with the same facial expressions and positioning) as you lose weight??? You could make a photobook. I LOVE it. Good luck! ❤️ P.S. hope you feel even better soon, and if that painful incision starts to feel hot or has starts to weep, pls get it looked at. ❤️

RE: intermittent fasting some people swear by it, some experience little to no effect. I sort of did 18/6 intermittent fasting without knowing it. Even before surgery I never/rarely had breakfast…my first meal/food intake was always after noon. Dunno why, was just always this way since around my university days (like 30 years ago!) . Eating in the morning tended to make me slow and sluggish in the first part of the day. Anyway, after surgery, i still didn’t eat in the morning, but then i also stopped any food intake after 6-7 pm…this because i had one horrible experience of regurgitating my stomach contents in my sleep, and it was horrible enough for me to make sure i went to bed on a completely EMPTY stomach. It is worth noting (maybe?) that my weight loss finally stopped (around 3-4 months into maintenance) when i started eating again past 7pm. BUT…im not sure this was solely or directly because of eating in a time-restricted window. My thinking is indirectly, because since I allowed myself more hours in the day to eat, i was able to get in more calories overall. There is only so much i can eat in 6 hours, due to stomach size restrictions. Extend this window by more, and i can inevitably eat more. Soooooo, this was my long-winded way of saying achieving calorie deficit is the tried and true way to lose weight. Period. Intermittent fasting, (at least for me, and some others i know) is a way to structure your day that helps to make it a little easier you to achieve that. Of course if one is going to eat very high calorie foods in their windows, then that would defeat the purpose. Good Luck! ❤️ P.S. sorry this was so long.

YUM 🤤

3.5 years out for me; and my stomach, like @Arabesque’s is still talking its head off all the time. Yesterday i went for a massage and it was going on and on for 90 mins. At first the masseuse was quiet about it, but then I could hear her giggling about 30 mins into it. People don’t normally hear it/react to it, but it was quiet in the room…it was hard to ignore. 🤷🏻‍♀️ She asked me if i wanted some fruit. 😂

So that’s where the term came from! Learn something new every day

I made this salad earlier this afternoon, (311 calories), but then decided i didn’t feel like eating it so put it back in the fridge. Then Mr. grilled up some steaks a couple hours later, so of course preferred to eat that instead, so the salad is gonna stay in the fridge for tomorrow! Rib-eye, roasted potatoes and sautéed portobello mushrooms: 402 calories for the plate/saucer. OmG the steak was so good, i gave it the all-Canadian try, but this is as far as I could get. I already know someone is going to eat it, so im gonna adjust the MFP entry for the steak later. THE (uneaten) SALAD: THE (partially eaten) STEAK:

Not quite 2 weeks PO, but I went to an event at 3 weeks post op. It was about 5 hours long and i was just fine. Didn’t eat anything at the party, but that was expected (i brought protein powder with me to mix into my water). One week earlier (at 2 weeks), i was still taking naps though…but that may have been related to my complete lack of energy cuz I wasn’t really eating those first two weeks.

I measured every Wednesday and it was one of my favourite pastimes back then, lol. And yeah, nobody noticed (or at least didn’t say so out loud) until I lost about 50-60 lbs. Which was fine because soon after that everyone and their mother would say something or other Every. Single. Time. for the next few months. Which got pretty annoying. Im 3.5 years out now, and me and my weight loss are now old news, thank goodness.

Yep, i agree (for me). I didn’t get to 1200 calories per day until about 3-4 months into maintenance (which translates to about 10-11 months post op) P.S. to keep things in perspective, I’m barely 5’2”

I was told to try to get 1200/day in, but I was more like 400/day at 2 months

So this was the breakfast i made for The Kid this morning. It looked (and smelled) so good that i had to swipe a triangle to eat. Now i am almost never hungry/cravey this early in the morning nor do i eat before noon, but man, toasted brioche bread is like what i think Perfection smells like, if it had a smell. French-style omelette on a slice of toasted brioche which shaved Parmesan. 1 triangle == 91 calories. Already in my tum digesting.

So i thought about this and i think for about a year and a bit after weight loss phase, i would feel “fat” every single time i ate something….because you could see the food in my stomach cuz it literally pops out from the food. You could feel it too…my tum is hard/firm when there was food in it. My fam jokes that they can tell when last i ate by looking at my stomach. It aways went away after i digested. Now that i think about it, this may be a contributing reason why i ate very little back then? I dunno, just thinking. Anyway, im 3.5 yrs out now and it doesn’t bother me anymore, its been long enough now that I trust that bit of bloating eventually goes away.

First crack at my salad this AM. I had to tap out after eating most of the cut-up chicken pizza crust i threw on there. Man that stuff is filling. Will def eat the rest of this later and even warned (threatened? lol) the fam to keep their paws off it. 353 cals for the whole bowl.

Nobody from the show. Her name was Christine. But while i was there, I actually didn’t recognize ANYONE from the show, which makes me suspect the on-air consultants are paid actors. Which is somehow a bit of a let-down!! Sweet. Now i NEED to see them paired with an outfit pretty-please.

Yep, Body Dismorphia. Take a pic of yourself now. Put it side-by-side with a pic of you in your heavier days. You may find yourself in surprise. While we may lie to ourselves, pictures won’t. P.S which is why i like to advocate taking pics of yourself before and regularly during. It helps to keep things in perspective. Good Luck! ❤️

At 3 months, Probably 3-5 fluid ounces at a time (approx 1/2 cup). Lower end it it was meat, higher end if it was yogurt or something “looser”. Now this amount was about the volume to eat that would satisfy as well as not feel any discomfort.

Im think I’m gonna have to agree with @Tony B - NJ here.

This is just another aspect of my Costco shopping problem: when I see a mob of people gathered around a product, I’m all, oooohh something must be good, i should get it too! Online orders. Brilliant. If I can’t see it, I can’t buy it!

I was today years old when i learned prawns are not the same as shrimp 😳 Courtesy of Google: Also…YUM

I’m 3.5 years out. Well first depends what you define as a stall. I went by the definition whereby: Stall = 7 consecutive days of no net weight loss AND no inch loss in that same period. By that definition, I didn’t have any. There was one week in month 3 when I thought i was going to record a stall, but I ended up losing less than 1 lb that week, and on “measurement day” (for me it was Wednesdays) i ended up recording like tiny fractions of inch loss in various areas. So technically, not a stall. But that didn’t mean I wasn’t semi-disappointed that week and that the familiar fear of regain didn’t rear its ugly head. And wondered, yikes! is this it? Stalls, excess skin and hair loss, the holy trinity of WLS fears. They happen to most more often than not, and become non issues at the same frequency. Stay in your calorie deficit and it’ll come of. You sound like you are taking it in stride though (vs panicking and suffering in angst)…so you are already ahead of the game ❤️ Good Luck! ❤️

It was a Costco shopping day and the Kid specifically asked for Costco Hot Dogs for dinner (which i concede to her opinion that it is actually THE best hot dog of all time). I had mine bun-less with ketchup, mustard, cheese and crispy fried onion topping. An an eye-widening 617 calories! Basically cleaned my plate (saucer) save half the hot dog, so im gonna adjust the entry to 432 cals later cuz i’m watching Mr. sneakily eat my leftovers in the kitchen as we speak. Like i can’t see you! Lololzzz. P.S. anyone else go to Costco and end up buying 5x more than you intended??? It happens to us Every. Single. Time. 🙄