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Two thousand six hundred calories via 36 oz (American sized) slurpable empty calories. Another shameless American invention Ok, well im canadian and i just shared one of these babies with my Kid and her friend. For ME (and i realize its not for everyone), empty calories are ok so long as one isn’t consuming mounds of it. (we still managed to bring home about 1/2 of the cheesecake and 1/4 of the milkshake…and yes, it was DELICIOUS.) im guessing the whole thing was about 1250 calories. But i mean, even when i was obese, i wouldn’t have been able to eat the whole thing myself.

I looked it up on MFP, and the week of my 1 year anniversary, I averaged 2200 calories a day. Mind you, at the time, I was running min 5k almost every day, and some strength training, and a host of other activities keeping me active. I was 115 lbs at 1 yr (I’m 5’2” female). Today, Im 3.5 years out and i average about 1800-ish cals a day…adjusted because i am no where near as active as I used to be. This morning I weighed 118.8 (I’m still a 5’2” female, lol) Regarding calories, it’s actually quite easy to rack those up in a day. If you eat low-volume, high-calorie foods, you can reach 1700 cals in no time (nuts, oils, cheese, avocados, etc). Heck, I ate about a cup of chicharron/pork rinds the other day that totalled 600 calories…and it had 67g of protein and zero carbs, if that interests you. It will take time and getting used to, but you’ll get there eventually. So long as your labs come back fine and your doctor is not concerned for your health, i figure you should be ok taking your own time to reach calorie goals. Good Luck! ❤️

Yes, yes it is.

…and just like that, almost 600 calories in my tum in no time flat! chicharron (i.e., pork cracklings) are very sliderish for me, kinda like chips. I ate all of this save for 3-4 pieces that someone pinched from my bowl when i left it unattended lol 594 calories:

Just now:

I was smoke free for 10+ years before surgery (I was a pack a day smoker for about 20 years before that). Then at around 1 year post op, I had a stinkin' cigarette while on vacation, and have been quitting and un-quitting ever since...for the past 2+ years. Ugh. So my advice would be try as hard as you can to not pick it up again once you put it down (yeah, i know, easier said). P.S. The first time i quit for the long haul was surprisingly easy: I had moved to a different country for a year where the cigarettes were ridiculously expensive compared to back home, so I just stopped. It helped, i think, that I was in a different environment so there were no habits nor routines to continue, you know? Good Luck! ❤️

I’m 3.5 years out and I don’t really have carb nor protein goals anymore. I just try to stay at, or below my maintenance calories (yes, i count all calories ) So far, so good.

It is said that the first place you gain weight is the last place to come off. For me that meant my calves. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Oohhhh these look gooooooood!!!

Was out and about all day and managed to stop for a bit to eat one of these mushroom toasts for breakfast/lunch (pal ate the other one), and 2 yummer dark chocolate covered pretzels when I got home. 256 calories for what I ate. Not sure if I’m going to eat anything else today which is fine cuz yesterday it was food-a-rama: logged over 3000 cals yesterday (It was a total junk food day!)…so it’ll all even out, I guess 😇

Obviously im bored and am spending my time posting multiple pics of food today. I did end up eating almost all my earlier salad throughout the afternoon (estimating i ate about 3/4)…would have eaten it all if not for Mr. eating out if my bowl at the same time. So now im snacky and got out some pita crisps, one of the sweedish meatballs i made for dinner and s tbsp of chicken liver pate: 210 calories. i know, doesn’t look appetizing, but i also know i’ll eat it all! (i also has an espresso martini just now, so +141 calories to that)

Had fun prepping this salad, but despite feeling hungry at first, ended up putting it back in the fridge cuz i realized afterwards i wasn’t really in the mood. I’ll attack it later when i get hungry again…which will likely not be too far from now. 305 calories for the bowl, regardless.

I have those! Been using them on my wedding and engagement rings for a while now and they perform their function well. I may just bite the bullet and get the rings resized proper? I wanted to get them re-set in a new style but Mr. seemed against it (i guess he prefers me to keep them in their original style that he oicked out 🙄)

An oldy, but a goody: Mr. (effortlessly) carried me up stairs last night cuz i was being sucky about stubbing my toe 😂. When he first did this a couple years ago during weight loss phase, I felt self-conscious and uncomfortable. Nowadays (3+ years out) im like: “Carry Me!” any chance i get 😇

Ignore, ignore, ignore. It sucks that they suck, but u can’t change them any more than they can change you. If you can’t just physically leave the situation, just let them say their peace and reply with something like “you are right, i’ll think about it”, or something equally non-commital. People love being told they are right. Then change the subject. Good luck! ❤️ We are rooting for you!

Some lose their hunger, some don’t. It will be in your best interest NOT to rely on your restriction (or lack thereof) to control your intake, as even if u get it, it will wear off eventually. Forming good eating habits will take u further and longer than tiny stomachs. Good Luck! ❤️

I buy the powdered cheese in bulk (at Bulk Barn…dunno if they have these in the US though?) to make mac n cheese for the Kid. It is much cheaper to just buy this and pasta separately…but mostly i do it this way to be able to adjust the amount of cheesiness and switch up the pasta kinds. I’ve made fancy mac n cheese with fancy cheese and other ingredients, but she prefers the bright orange powdered kind. 🙄

If it looks like I didn’t eat much of my salad, you would be right. Not that i was full or anything…just not in the mood today. Will try again later. 489 calories for the bowl. P.S. I put my “I’m sorry” flowers from Mr. in the background cuz they’re just so purty 😂

Honestly I mostly throw a bit of whatever i find in the fridge over a bunch of greens!

I use the paid version of MyFitnessPal. Though I could probably be just fine with the free version. I got the subscription cuz the macros info not provided in the free version was useful during weight loss phase (i am only concerned with total calories now). i may cancel someday if i ever get around to it, lol 🤷🏻‍♀️

My fam is not a big fan of leftovers…which often leaves me to deal with them before it goes bad. Which is fine cuz the majority of the stuff i eat is leftovers! Here is the meat off of 1.5 Church’s Chicken drumsticks plus some Frank’s Red Hot Sauce. I also had a espresso martini beforehand. Ate/drank it all: 306 calories total:

I don’t cook on the weekends (Mr. takes over feeding the fam Fridays to Sundays)…which means we have alot of takeout on the weekends lol. Today it was Church’s chicken. I served myself a chicken thigh, a biscuit and some cole slaw: 488 calories. I surprisingly did not care for the biscuit (given my love of all things buttery), so The Kid ate it. I did eat all the cole slaw and about 1/2 of the thigh (of which the remainder was eaten by Mr.) I ended up updating my MFP entry to 210 calories to reflect what I actually ate.

Another day, another salad. This time i just ate from the middle cuz thats where all the crispy onions were 😂 489 calories for the whole bowl, im guessing i ate about a 1/4 of it? Ill eat the rest later regardless.

It all depends on what that 1/2 cup of food is. And on the person.

Unless there are other mitigating factors (not related to the trauma of surgery), any hair loss will eventually come back. I started dropping carpets of hair round 3 months postop. Noticed the little chicken hairs sticking up over my head around 7 months post op. By year 2 all those chicken hairs grew to the same length as the rest of my hair (jaw-line length hair at the time). And density-wise it looked about the same as it did immediately before surgery. Though if anything it looked a tad thicker than pre-op (but this may just be wishful thinking lol) Mind you, i had thinning hair already pre-op, but at least any further thinning due to surgery was eliminated. As an aside, I’m currently in the process of getting SMP (scalp micro-pigmentation to give illusion of fuller hair..i.e., scalp tattooing)…will update on results when im done. So far so good looks-wise, but it effing hurts.