Just so confused...

[storyboy 13]

Most of the commercial shakes taste disgusting and so fake, so for me the best thing has been making my own smoothies with fresh strawberries, frozen blueberries, baby spinach or kale, skim milk or almond milk and unflavoured whey Protein Powder. I hated the fake banana and fake strawberry flavours, and the chocolate flavoured shakes didn't taste 'real' to me.

Almost two years after my bypass I do still get cravings, and occasionally I eat something from the bad ol' days - switching your head around is harder than anything! But I get back on the wagon the next day, I don't stress out about it and feel guilty, and also watching the scale every day can be a bit demoralising. Some days I seem to have gone up slightly, and some days down - and the time of day influences it. But I am never going back to where I was before I started this journey. Hang in there! On the whole this is one of the best moves I have made in my life!