5 week post op (starting BMI 30) How im doing.

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So after my first week post op I stopped showing weight loss on the scale until the last couple of days. I can tell I have lost fat, but for whatever reason I wasnt seeing the scale budge, I know its impossible to eat the amounts and kinds of foods I am eating without losing body fat, so I havent let it get me down, just be awear if you are a low BMI'er that you might appear to stall out very soon after surgery!

Healing
I have healed up very well, I can already almost consume 4 ounces of mixed meat, veg and legumes. I havent had any food issues, no nausea or vomiting.
Bare in mind I have gone in to this at a low BMI and I am a non-drinker, non-smoker and relitively young (26).

My diet is pretty good, at first it was difficult to get much more than Protein in to my diet, but now I incorporate much more veg and legumes in to my diet, I also measure out one ounce of mixed nuts a day for between meals, which helps me to boost my calories by 200 quite effortlessly.
I eat a whole foods diet, with no starchy carbs and I am sticking to nutrient rich foods.

One of my stitches got infected, a tight knot was eating away at my skin and created a hole open from both ends. I syringed it with isopropyl followed soap Water and it healed right up.

A typical day of eating for me

Breakfast: Scrambled egg with leek, mushroom, tomatoes, spring onion, mixed spinach / greens and pressed cod roe (fish eggs), I find it hard to only make one portion so usually split it and keep another portion in the fridge.

Lunch: Sometimes I will have the second portion of eggs cold, or I will make a small salad with turkey, smoked salmon, legumes or cod roe.

Dinner: Turkey stirfry. I throw in whatever veg I have going, broccoli, colliflower, peas (in pod) spinach and mixed greens, squash, carrot, onions, leek etc. taking care not to overcook.

I cook enough for my brother who also wants to lose weight, we both really enjoy the new diet, Its much more varied than the bland boring diet I was on before surgery.

Between meals I will snack on my 1oz serving of nuts which I prep in the morning.

Other Snacks that go down well for me are cockles, they are very low in calories and high in protein, but right now I am trying to squeeze in more healthy calories so I am more inclined to incorporate them in to a meal than have them as a snack.

In the evenings I will enjoy a small cup of Decaf coffee, I used to be addicted to coffee, decaf has really helped me curb this, very pleased!

Habits

To make life easy I freeze a lot of small portions of veg / leafy greens and meats. Some vegs I wont freeze because they taste odd from frozen, like broccoli or carrots, which do last pretty well in the fridge or cupboard. Frozen leafy greens are great for throwing in with all kinds of meals so long as you are happy to have them soft. I keep some in the fridge raw, but the rest I freeze and you can easly grab clumps of frozen greens and sprinkle them in with your cooking.

I measure my portions in to small bowls at about 4 oz per portion, what I dont eat goes to the dog, I do now recognise when enough is enough, it took a few weeks, but now I can stop before I get full.

Lastly, I am still making bone broths, their just so packed full of nutrients that I think its worth incorporating in to my diet for life. I can make small cubes of broth to throw in with meals I pan fry to use less oil. I freeze my families left over chicken/ tuckey bones until I have enough to make a Bone Broth with throw in any left over carrots or onion thats soon to go bad and then freeze the stock in bags of 200g or in ice cube trays.

What I need to do

Its great for me to say all this, but if I slip back in to old habits it will all be for naught, I know my issue with food is largely lazyness, but by getting in the habit of making the right foods easily accessible I think I can overcome this problem, I have lost weight and kept it off for good in the past by changing habits, and I hope to do this again.
I am about to start a new business which will change my life forever, so very exciting times, perfect for breaking old habits and developing new ones!

One last thing

Sorry if I come across quite tactless and rude to some people, I have aspergers syndrome so my social skills are awful,

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