LadyIvy

The big problem is that I am getting him used to me being home to make him this awesome stuff and then I leave for grad school and to his own devices. I am going to have to figure out how to teach him to do this

O.T.R. I know plenty of mathematicians who would do exactly what you are suggesting if they had an outlet for it. It is just easier to be a grammar Nazi on a forum that uses English instead of math for their language. If someone was on this forum comparing, say light years to liters, you would be the first to jump in to say one is a unit of distance and one is a unit of volume so cannot be compared. It would drive you crazy not to say anything. Am I wrong? Everyone should care about basic grammar. No matter how educated or intelligent you are, if you cannot express yourself in the written word, you lead people to believe you are stupid. This is unfortunately the only interaction we get with people on this forum. Since I do not know these people first hand, I have to base my assumptions off of other factors.

My family and I just went to our first competitve jousting tournament. It was so much fun. I haven't done swordplay in years, but it was one of the competitive events. I helped some of the guys warm up and wasn't too rusty. I was only about weeks out from surgery and it was a great workout! I would LOVE if their were a troupe closer to home so I could go back to it. Do you compete?

Any reason given why you are suddenly experiencing vertigo?

This is right in line with the period for hair loss that I have been reading about on this forum. I hear anywhere between 3 and 9 months. Then it starts to grow back.

I found out after my mother passed that at some point she has a gastrectomy done as well. There is absolutely no one left alive that had any idea the procedure was ever performed. No one knows why, or when, so she would have had to have had it done during her short stint in the army before she got injured. That means that she had it for 25 years before she passed away. She never had any complications and was always thin. When I think back on it I never even remember her ever saying she was hungry, even though she cooked all the time. Her passing had nothing to do with her surgery. As a matter of fact, me finding out about her gastrectomy was the long term info I needed to make my decision.

I find it a point of pride to send my husband with yummy, healthy, food to work for the few months that I am home. This is tomorrows lunch: Ivy's Protenacious Fruit Salad Submitted by: LADYIVY79 Great lunch, high in Omega 3's. Minutes to Prepare: 5 Number of Servings: 5 Ingredients Cottage cheese, 1% Milkfat, 0.5 cup (not packed) Almonds, 0.25 cup, ground Walnuts, 0.2 cup, chopped Grapes, 0.5 cup, seedless Blackberries, fresh, 0.2 cup Strawberries, fresh, 0.25 cup, halves Cinnamon, ground, 0.5 tbsp **Flax Seed Meal (ground flax), 2 tbsp Tried something new yesterday so going to make the edit right here. Half a scoop of GNC Unflavored Protein Powder and 3 tblspns greek yogurt really raises the level of Protein, fills it out to 6 servings and is somehow even yummier! I served it to my son last night with a honey graham cracker and a tiny bit of Peanut Butter and he didn't want to share his "dessert"! Directions Mix all ingredients. Serving Size: Five half cup servings Number of Servings: 5 Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user LADYIVY79.

At 237 I was in a loose 20. That is about right I believe. You really lost almost 2 sizes if you were in a tight size 22. Sounds like you are doing well!

I still make those noises too. It makes my husband laugh. I don't mind too much.

If you are choosing fast food because of a financial situation you are wasting money. My husband and I were homeless at one point and during recovery from this, needless to say, we were pretty broke. Since I couldn't yet find a job and had some time, I really looked at the math and realized that fast food is ALWAYS more expensive than buying food at the grocery store (even if you are talking about the dollar meals.) As for hectic, I get it, I am a grad student, my husband is military and a student and we are raising our son. I found that the 9 dollar package of chicken breasts can go a really long way. If you just throw them in the oven and bake them, you can then make all KINDS of things that will be your protein for an entire week for both of you. I am just worried that if you stay on a fast food diet you will be low on your proteins. If you haven't had surgery yet, you may want to wait if possible until you can afford the appropriate supplements. Good luck!

Subway makes salads too. That way you won't be tempted by the bread.

You expressed my feelings exactly. Shame on Dr. A for spending his life helping people learn about proper nutrition and yet his own niece falls through the cracks. Kids at 12 should not have to worry about losing weight. I was severely overweight at that age and I can honestly say it is because no one in my family knew anything about proper nutrition and appropriate exercise for a 12 year old.

Crustless Spinach and Feta mini-quiche Submitted by: LADYIVY79 Crustless Mini-Quiche Number of Servings: 30 Tips Cook them slowly or they fall after you remove them from oven. Can add mushroom, onion, etc. to taste. Great for high Protein road trip food! (Put in cooler) Ingredients *Flour, white, 0.5 cup Spinach, fresh, 0.8 package (6 oz) Egg, fresh, 2 large Egg white, 3 serving Feta cheese, 0.5 cup, crumbled Milk, 1%, 1.33 cup 1/2 tsp baking powder 1/4 tsp salt Pinch of Cayenne Pepper 1/4 tsp nutmeg Directions Chop spinach into small pieces. Blanche spinach in frying pan until wilted. Mix all dry ingredients together, mix all wet together. Pour into mini muffin pans bake @ 350 for around 15 minutes until toothpick inserted into middle comes out clean and outer section is browned. Serving Size: Makes 30 Mini-Quiche Number of Servings: 30 Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user LADYIVY79.

Jayes Microwave Protmeal Submitted by: LADYIVY79 oatmeal loaded with Protein! Minutes to Prepare: 5 Minutes to Cook: 6 Number of Servings: 8 Tips If oatmeal is a little runny let sit for a few minutes and it will firm up. Also, add fruit or Cinnamon to a half cup to keep calories low and get extra nutrients! Ingredients Old Fashioned Quaker Oatmeal- Plain (1/2 cup dry), 4 serving Country Crock, Shedd's Spread Country Crock Light (Soft), 1 Tbsp, 2 serving GNC 100% whey Protein, 2 serving Directions Add all ingredients together. Add Water until desired consistency. 2 minutes on high temp microwave; stop and stir then 2 more minutes high temp microwave; stop and stir then 2 more minutes; stop and stir. Serving Size: Makes 8 half cup servings. Number of Servings: 8 Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user LADYIVY79. Nutritional Info Servings Per Recipe: 8 Amount Per Serving Calories: 115.0 Total Fat: 3.3 g Cholesterol: 10.0 mg Sodium: 32.5 mg Total Carbs: 14.8 g Dietary Fiber: 2.0 g Protein: 7.8 g

Flax Corn Muffins Submitted by: LADYIVY79 Minutes to Prepare: 10 Minutes to Cook: 20 Number of Servings: 30 Ingredients **Flax Seed Meal (ground flax), 4 tbsp *'jiffy' corn muffin mix, 6 serving Milk, 1%, .33 cup Egg, fresh, 1 large 1/2 tsp vanilla Extract Directions Make as listed on box. Serving Size: 36 mini-muffin sized servings Number of Servings: 30 Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user LADYIVY79. Nutritional Info Servings Per Recipe: 30 Amount Per Serving Calories: 12.6 Total Fat: 0.6 g Cholesterol: 6.4 mg Sodium: 14.9 mg Total Carbs: 1.3 g Dietary Fiber: 0.3 g Protein: 0.6 g

Cornbread Mini Love Muffins Submitted by: LADYIVY79 Cornbread muffins loaded with omega-3's. Goes great with Turkey Chili. Minutes to Prepare: 10 Minutes to Cook: 10 Number of Servings: 24 Tips Cook time listed is for mini-muffins. Regular sized muffins take 15-20 minutes. For nutritional value for a regular sized muffin, multiply by 4. Ingredients *'jiffy' corn muffin mix, 6 serving Milk, 1%, .33 cup Egg, fresh, 1 large **Flax Seed Meal (ground flax), 2 tbsp Chia Seed Nutiva, 1 tbsp *Splenda, 1/4 cup 3/4 tspn Almond Extract 1 tspn red food coloring Directions Mix all dry ingredients together. Mix all wet ingredients in measuring cup. Mix wet and dry together. For best crown, leave sit for 3-4 minutes, stir again and then add to muffin tin. Hint: Spray each muffin wrapper with a small amount of non-stick spray. This keeps them from sticking to the side of the wrapper. Serving Size: Makes 6 regular muffins or 24 mini muffins Number of Servings: 24 Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user LADYIVY79. Nutritional Info Servings Per Recipe: 24 Amount Per Serving Calories: 15.7 Total Fat: 0.7 g Cholesterol: 8.0 mg Sodium: 18.6 mg Total Carbs: 2.0 g Dietary Fiber: 0.4 g Protein: 0.7 g

Great advice! My mother was a terrible cook, but I learned to be a great cook. I have looked at this surgery as a new opportunity to take other peoples delicious recipes and make them taste great and healthy too. As someone who taught herself, you have to realize that in order to get better at cooking, you just have to do it! There are a million mistakes to make, but with each one, you won't make it again. I also watch food network to get ideas. The other night they gave me the idea for MD shrimp cakes and blackbean quinoa for example. Start with simple things, like not overcooking basic meat recipes. Get a meat thermometer and trust that for a while until you get the hang of it. Start really basic and then start adding spices you are familiar with. The rest comes with time. This means you will wind up eating a lot of meals that are simply ok. After a while you will get a bunch of "this is pretty good" meals and it will get better and better as you figure it out.

Believe it or not. A biscuit is going to use up a lot of your daily calories and make you hungry again sooner. You need to examine the post op diet and try to live that way now. There is a reason we eat the way we do. Ditching the simple carbs now will make life A LOT easier for you.

My energy level was fine by about 3 weeks out. However, I broke a stall and started dropping a lot of weight in the past week and now I am REALLY tired again. Enough that I actually feel drugged. I am 2 months out on the 9th. Apparently, it goes up and down for some of us for a while.

I have vomited twice at two months. Both times it was after I ate and sat at the desk and drank what I had sitting at my desk. I brought up a couple of tablespoons of fluid and then I was fine. That is completely not normal.

My NUT told me to focus on my 70-90 g protein daily, she didn't give me a number for carbs and said not to worry about calories (eating the right things and using your tool is most important) but thought it usually averaged between 700-900 calories a day. I have found that I don't lose a lb if I get less than 1000 a day.

I'm not going to read this whole thing, but I just wanted to say THANK YOU!!! This is one of the top 3 things I see about this site that drives me bonkers!

Great article. It just makes me so much more thankful that I got the sleeve. The women in my family are genetically predisposed to getting VERY large. Before surgery I already exercised regularly and ate like a nutritionist (with the occasional not so healthy food). Yet, every time I worked hard to lose weight it would come back and THEN some. I was told by many doctors that I was misrepresenting my actual intake when I showed them that I was journaling everything that passed my lips and still managed to be gaining weight. It seems my ideal intake for weight loss is 1000-1200 calories a day because I am so very active already. Any less and I stop losing weight, any more and the same happens. I learned a long time ago the doctors obviously didn't know enough to understand me and had to learn what my body was telling me. I know genetics plays a BIG factor for me, but I'm not going to let them win! The surgery is a major help to make it permanent.

She was actually on the news a long time ago. I am from Baltimore and what the people said about her was thoughtless and rude. She has worked very hard and is in great health thanks to her hobby. She may be big, but I am glad to see she went ahead and decided to compete!

omg. Yum! thanks for the great recipe!