What and how much???

[Lisalu 89]

7 1/2 weeks out.

Yesterday I had:

(work Breakfast buffet)

1 scrambled egg white

1/6 strip bacon

1 T low fat sausage

2 1" cubes of watermelon

(lunch)

cheese from 2 pieces of a medium pizza (between 1 1/2 and 2 oz I'd guess)

1/4 cup lettuce with dressing

(snack)

3 1/2 calamari rings w/o breading

(dinner)

1 oz kippered herring

(supplements)

2 Protein shakes

My estimate is somewhere less than 800 calories and at least 65 gr of Protein.< /p>

[pcindy 8]

I am less than one week out. If you're not on a pre-op liquid diet, I posted my bariatric practice's diet in a thread somewhere. Also, If you go off it pre-op (as I did), do it with low/non-fat foods (air-popped popcorn, sushi). Doc said my omentum, liver and stomach looked good. As far as afterward, good luck to us both! I'm just beginning.

[Qured 3]

God, how I miss salad. Where I'm from they are big on locally sourced organic farmer's markets and I could have wept over the beautiful vegetables and fruits. I long for an heirloom Tomato salad, with balsamic vinegar and goat cheese and arugula and cucumbers and fresh cracked black pepper and high quality olive oil, weep!! My only real source of carbs come from my 1 TBSP serving rounds of Peanut Butter, could this very low carb diet be what is making my weight loss so slow? It's not on purpose, it's just that all the carbs on offer here are the very bad kind, even the yogurt is just all sugar and the milk has had all the nutrition sucked out of it. the cheese is that super processed pre shredded stuff that bears no resemblance to that which we call cheese. I decided to be decadent and forego the PB in favor of some ... mashed potato for dinner! :tongue_smilie: 2 tsp's worth later, I'm so over it. This crap is gross.

Ok, the salad you described must be my favorite one! We're gonna get there! We're gonna have our (small) salads eventually. I tried a tiny bit of cucumber yesterday (although I know it's too early for that) and it was so refreshing. About the Peanut Butter, I should try some, I haven't had any in ages (not that I need the extra carbs). I mostly eat Greek yogurt (which is unsweetened) and some baby yogurt (for a change, because I like it) and I eat cottage cheese (2%) and a couple of local relatively low fat cheeses that are actually nice. I was thinking of trying some mashed potato myself but for some reason it doesn't sound that appealing at the moment. I tried a bit of baked potato the other day, that was nice.

[Oregondaisy 2,021]

I am almost 16 months post op.

Today I had a Protein shake for Breakfast. I almost always have that but sometimes I have a Protein Bar. I have never been a breakfast eater.

For lunch, recently I have started having half sandwiches on that new

sandwich thin bread that looks like a really thin hamburger bun.Sometimes I have leftovers because I eat dinner out so often, I always have a doggie bag.

For dinner I have some sort of meat, about 3 oz and a bit of veggies. I snack on fruit or yogurt in between meals. I feel like I eat a lot, but I weigh every day, and I am staying right at 130 where I have been since Oct.

[Lookinupin2010 0]

1st week: Profect, broth and sf popsicles (may I never taste another Profect !!)

Weeks 2-4: 1 egg for breakfast

2 more Protein shakes for other 2 meals

Weeks 4-6: mushy foods for one meal, 2 Protein Shakes for other two

Weeks 6-12: One meal, (usually breakfast of 1/4 c eggbeaters with 1/4 c shredded lf cheese.) Sometimes could get it all down...sometimes not. 2 Protein Shakes for other 2 meals.

Weeks 12-now: I eat one meal (about 3 oz. of Protein, with some overcooked veggies) 1 Protein shake meal, and I juice about 5 veggies for the other meal and add unflavored Protein powder.

I'm not allowed to snack, I must walk 45-60 minutes a day and drink at least 64 ounces of Water a day.

I take 2 multi Vitamins, 3 Calcium (500 mgs. apiece) Biotin, vit c, B12, Iron, flax seed oil, B complex and just recently started adding Vit D (2,000 mgs) a day due to lab results.

This is my day...

[Qured 3]

Lookinupin2010: May I ask how come you have used so many Protein Shakes? Was it a nut's suggestion or it was easier for you to stomach them?