Miss Alexandra

I have a hectic schedule and 2 of my 3 jobs require a lot of driving, so I sometimes have little choice about eating fast food. At Burger King I can order a Whopper junior and eat half of the bun (or less) and that works OK. At McDonalds, the same thing with a small burger (I add tomatoes to it; if you order through their app it is very easy to customize anything). Arby's roast beef is pretty good and again you can eat half the bun or none of it. I always ask for no added salt, as highly salted food really disagrees with me now and fast food places load their burgers with salt. At Wendy's, I get chili. Fries make me feel terrible and I never order them; may eat 2-3 if I'm with someone eating them. I can usually find a Panera which has good salads, or I can opt for soup there and that works too. With breakfast sandwiches, again I eat at most half of the bread and sometimes just pick out the eggs and meat. On the rare occasion that I go to a real restaurant, I will order something that is basically protein and veggies and take half of it home a lot of the time. (I had shrimp fajitas yesterday; ate all the shrimp, some of the veggies and beans, no rice or tortillas.) If there is a heavy sauce I ask for it on the side and eat very little of it. Sometimes I order an appetizer if they have something appropriate, or a salad with protein. When I am with my son, we order one appetizer and one entree that are made of things I can tolerate and I eat around 20% of each. I don't ask for "no butter" because I can tolerate that as long as the food isn't drowning in it. I find I only have to ask for no added salt at fast food or low-end restaurants; a good restaurant will use an amount of salt that's not objectionable to me. Your mileage may vary.

I am two months post-surgery (March 30) and had almost constant problems with nausea. Most food made me feel bad (some more than others) and I felt bad even some of the time between meals. I found the answer this week: a CBD vape device. My offspring uses one for social anxiety, I gave it a try and it was like magic. The nausea is completely gone. Yet it does not negate the restrictive benefits of the surgery. I still feel full on very small amounts of food and it is still uncomfortable if I eat too much. It is not AS acutely uncomfortable but uncomfortable enough to be an effective deterrent without incapacitating me. CBD vape fluid does not have THC in it (or only trace amounts) and does not produce the powerful high you get from smoking marijuana. I get a mild feeling of relaxation and that is all. I cannot write (which is what I do for a living) if I smoke marijuana but the CBD does not inhibit me from working at all. I had lurked here before my surgery quite a bit and joined specifically to share this, because I know it will help other people the way it helped me.