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I use MyFitnessPal, but the paid version.

Hi! I agree this is a good idea. Its very easy to underestimate when one is eyeballing and guessing. You would be surprised how fast uncounted calories add up!

From what I have read on this forum, this is def not the norm. As a sleeve patient myself (3 years post op) I average 1800-2000 calories a day, and have been maintaining my current weight for over 2 years (and I'm 5'2", 115 lbs) Everyone will have different maintenance calories depending on a whole slew of factors. Each person needs to figure out what that is for their own individual set of circumstances.

PART 4: Brunch at a popup. Over about a span of 6 hours, I ate/drank: one of the smoked salmon eggs benedicts (sans the english muffin) about 1/2 those fries on the other plate about 1/4 of a cinnamon waffle with maybe a tsp of maple syrup (not shown) a side garden salad with oil and vinegar dressing (not shown) 1 caesar, 3 sangrias, 2 vodka sodas Logged 1,505 calories for all of the above in MFP

PART 3: @Crick got me all into a cookie baking mood last week, so voila: Oatmeal Raisin Chocolate Chip Cookies! I don't like raisins, so I had I didn't really eat one save for a small nibble to taste for sweetness. Fam devoured them in one night though...will be baking another batch this afternoon (maybe a few WITHOUT raisins so I can sample a whole one?) I'm guessing my taste bite was like 45 calories???? Well that's what I logged it as in MFP regardless.

Part 2: Vodka Caesars that are really meals disguised as cocktails. First one: shrimp tempura with bacon wrapped scallop, Second one: Corn Dogs, Third one: Burger slider. I drank 2 of the Caesars, and ate 3 onion rings and one of the corn dogs with a sweet mustard sauce: estimated 476 calories Am including a pic of the MONSTER Caesar this place also offers, LOL. I really want to bring the fam back to this place to order that thing just so I can take a picture of it

Some food porn series from the past few days (NOTE: I also had several salads, but they all look the same so...lol) PART 1: A few girlfriends and I decided to go all fancy one afternoon and went to get our High Tea on at one of the old school hip hotels in Toronto. There were all these super cute sandwiches and finger foods and like a 32739239283 page BOOK of the different types of teas to choose from. I ended up drinking a mimosa, and eating a 1/2 scone with jam and creme freche (which I had actually dropped on my arm, but ate anyway, LOLOLOLOLzzzzz) Estimated for scone, spreads & mimosa: 450 calories

*raises hand* my hair is in a messy bun or sloppy ponytail almost ALL. THE. TIME. Even when I leave the house with it down, it ends up UP by the time I get home. 😂 That is so interesting...I've had super short pixie hair maybe 3 times in my life and I find that it actually takes waaaaaaaaay more time to style than longer hair! Probably cuz my hair is super straight and bed head is a real issue when I have short-short hair.

Soups is a good idea. Or just a wholE lotta coffees? Lol ..or maybe a nice gift to someone else?

I sort of have the opposite problem…i think i’m waaaayyy hotter than I actually am (even when i was obese…to a much lesser degree though 😂) Its all in the confidence ladies (and gents, and non-binaries). And the willingness to believe your inner hotness. If others show/don’t show their appreciation of you, thats ALL on them. You cant control other people’s thoughts and actions (so long as your safety and legal rights are not in jeopardy of course!) If you don’t like what someone is saying/doing, say something if you wish and leave it behind you. If you like it, same response, say something if you wish and leave it behind you. I read this on this forum ages ago and it resonated with me: “Don’t allow someone to live rent free in your head”. Golden advice, really.

You know I always get a little thrill when you say i have "legs for days", LOL. But truth be told, its all an illusion. I am super short, so my legs are pretty short as well. They just look long cuz (1) i'm standing by myself and (2) I have a pretty high natural waist. You would think that would mean I have long-ish legs for my frame, but really, I just have a long abdomen (and a long-ish a$$ LOLOLOLzzzz)! One day I'll post a pic with a regular-sized person standing next to me and the illusion will disappear and you'll see my hobbit legs in relativity. 😂

Blood thinner shots once a day for 7 days for me after WLS. Oh, and I also had to blow into a incentive spirometer thing they gave me 10 times every few hours for 7 days. P.S. Now when I had my plastic surgery, I wasn't prescribed blood thinners nor did I have to blow into that thing *shrugs*. But they did put these cool automatic leg pumping compression things on (oh, I loved them) for 2 days at the hospital, and then leg compression stocking for 1 week.

@DanielleMc79, it may be misleading to compare 1st month weight loss without taking into account surgery day weight (and height), as well as if a person lost a considerable amount of weight already before surgery. All these factors (and more) will affect how much a person will lose. With that said: I'm 5'2". Surgery Day weight was 223.2 lbs. Lost 11.8 lbs in the two weeks immediate prior to surgery on the liquid diet (no other loss before that). At one month post, I was 201 lbs, so a total of 22.2 lbs lost (ASIDE, its funny because for the past 3 years I always thought I lost 21lbs tat first month, but I just checked my records, and looks like I've been lying all this time!!!) How tall are YOU? Surgery Day weight?. Any weight lost before surgery?

Do you happen to have link to this article? I would be interested in reading it. My initial response would be: if you are following your program, try to give it time, people lose weight at different rates, and is probably a little early at 6 weeks to think this isn't going to work. But I get the anxiety, you will read pages and pages of other people who feel the same way. With that said, to better offer suggestions (just suggestions, mind you as we are mostly not medical professionals and cannot assume we would know what is best for you based on a post on an internet forum)...what are your stats? Starting weight, height? How much weight lost so far? What is your daily average caloric intake?

Well, if by taste bud changes you mean changing from wanting to eat everything to nothing at all, then yes, for me it was as soon as I woke up from surgery. I had like total food aversion for about 2 weeks....I barely ate anything (we're talking like 300-400 calories in a WEEK, yikes) It slowly got better, by around month 3 i would only happen maybe 1/2 the time. Food aversion aside, I did notice immediately that I couldn't stand sweet stuff (i.e., that effing protein shake). Mind you I have been sorta cured of this by now (i'm almost 3 years out). I love me some desserts, but i prefer less sweet ones. If I do have a super sweet, say butter tart, I'll have like 1 bite, maybe 2. Any more and I'll get sick. I also noticed that I reeeaaaallly liked salty stuff when a hint of an appetite made an appearance after 2 weeks (still like salty stuff today acutally). And while I enjoyed the salads regularly pre-op, it is now my go-to meal. Used to like creamy dressings, now I only like vinaigrette. Started eating salads almost every day around 4-5 post op to today.

Ohhhhhhh Yeeeeaaaaaahhhhh. Now we're talking. Those look amazing. I swear I can smell them off my screen.. More dessert porn please! Sincerely, The Dessert Lover.

That swimsuit is adorable! you look FABULOUS.

Damn, Jake. You keep getting hotter and hotter.

I'm doing a Mud Run in a couple weeks and I confess that I have spent more time trying to figure out what to wear that weekend vs actual training! Got these running pants and sports bra delivered today and decided this is what I'm gonna wear. Suitable for getting muddy, yes? I guess now I can spend more time preparing for the run! 😂 P.S. Yes, I still wear scar tape on my arms!

Today's breakfast/lunch/first-meal-of-day: I'll call it a breakfast buritto. 1 egg omelette with 3 slices of bacon, a bit of onion, cooked in a bit of butter wrapped in a torilla then seared in the pan for some crispiness. Topped it with some crumbled blue cheese. OMG this was so delicious its not even funny (i think it was the blue cheese, it makes everything yummy to me..and of course BACON, lol): 431 calories. I ate roughly half of it (its surprisingly filling), but totally intend to eat the rest later, so logging the whole amount.

@Arabesque, YIKES! talk about food-related injury!. Hope you heal quickly! I like the idea of sweet potato in the quiche. Gotta try that!

Today's GINORMOUS salad that I already know is going to take me until tomorrow to finish (unless someone in the fam give me a helping hand) Romaine, carrots, cucumber, mushroom, pineapple, feta, anchovies, watermelon, coleslaw, kimchi, proscuitto: 476 calories. P.S. yes, it looks pretty much the same as my other salad from yesterday...but still yum.

Whats the rock looking things in the thermos on the right? Ice? the pattern of the bottle? millions of dollars in emeralds???? lol

Ok, as is always the case, when I come across something I never heard of before, I google the sh*t out of it. My preliminary searches could not find the condition that you describe...do you happen to know the name of it? I'm totally intrigued. I'm assuming its the opposite of malabsorption?? True, salads are usually made up of greens, but can still be nutritious by adding some yummer toppings (other veggies, proteins, fruit, etc...). I would think that the concern about the filling-ability of salads is more a concern in the immediate months after surgery (due to limited stomach real estate) than at 10 months post. Does your surgeon still recommend against salads currently? But I'm no medical professional, so don't listen to me, lol. There are alot of GENERAL calorie intake calculators out there, but you would probably be better served by a doctor or dietitian or nutritionist or dexa scan to determine YOUR true numbers. An online calculator is waaaaay too generalized. BUT, if you are curious, you can check this one out for funsies: https://www.calculator.net/calorie-calculator.html