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@@Countrygrrl, excellent! What other kinds of food would you like to see by the by?

New recipe posted. Grilled chicken strips Moist, flavorful additions to your salads, pizza, sandwiches, whatever. Oh, and it doesn't have any of the junk you find in the restaurant-kind, nor is it dry like the your standard baked chicken breast. Oh, and they freeze & reheat well for up to a year.

@@heartonmysleeve61115, CONGRATULATIONS and good luck! You're in for a bit of a roller coaster, but really it's quite the treat. As you're prepping for pre-op and once you're post op, check out: Smye's Bari Delicious Food for food ideas and easy recipes to add to MyFitnessPal

I absolutely second @minski and the miso soup too!

@@jas84047, I'm a big fan of the lemon tea, and using a shaker bottle fixed my foam and clump problems completely. Avoid GENEPRO - it's impossible to have 30 g of Protein in 15 g of powder, their labelling is misleading and no studies to date have shown their 15 g of protein to be better absorbed, etc, than other protein isolates. Another, savory option, is

@@wascott, that looks great! @@BigDaddyJG, absolutely not! It's just combination of moderation & content. Using the recipe that wascott posted, you can have pizza as soon as day 1 of phase 4 - though I'd give it a bit longer to make sure your stomach can handle all of the ingredients. As for beer - hold off on that for a good long while. But if you like it flat, then, after checking with your NUT, go for it. Other drinks that won't have quite the same 'bomb' effect on your body might include homemade kombucha (again, gone flat) - it can taste shockingly like beer (not the storebought stuff) and is actually quite good for you.

@@wascott, no offense to your surgeon, but blech! I rarely go over 40 g carbs, but that Atkins thing would be hard for me to bear, especially with all of the artificial junk in so many of the Atkins products. Good call on the omelets though - sounds good to me!

@@wascott, per pancake. Another recipe I'm working on is slightly junkier, more work, and not yet had all the bugs worked out uses an egg, some Protein powder as the flour, Water for the liquid, and a mashed banana for texture. You could always play around with that - depending on which ingredients are not allowed at the moment.

New recipes: Almond pancakes and berry Syrup

What procedure did you chose and why did you chose it over the other options? The sleeve - I chose it to avoid the malnutrition issues of other procedures and the inefficacy (statistically speaking, obviously some have great success) of the band What was the general reaction from family and friends? HOLY COW! YOU'RE MELTING! What was the biggest surprise during the process? The nausea day 1 post-op How long was your recovery? 12 days and then back to work full time How fast did you lose the weight? 101 lb in the first 3 months so far How has your life changed since having the procedure? Not siginificantly thus far, feel better though Would you do it again? In a heartbeat Any regrets? Just that all the new clothes are ridiculously expensive What should I be aware of? That there will be people who see you losing weight and shame-spiral themselves which can be pretty uncomfortable. What, if any, foods do you miss that you can no longer have? None, just had to get creative. Check out my recipes

@@wascott, you sir, are brilliant. That would be excellent!

@@proudgrammy, Holy cow, what a story! Thank you so much for your willingness to be vulnerable and share your story with us! You're doing amazing work and your life is astounding. Keep us posted on your continued success and have a blast in Alaska, I'm super jealous! My partner and I are coming up on 7 years though, so I suppose there's plenty of time for us. And thank you for the support & congratulations, both here and elsewhere - I'm thrilled you're here.

@@BLERDgirl is dead on, the stevia is indeed incredibly strong. I keep a small jar of dried powdered leaves in my tea cupboard and use 1/16th tsp for a cup of tea when I want it sweet. And, yeah, ragweed. Forgot about that one.

New recipe posted Paella, the quintessential seafood dish of Spain and the ultimate sensory experience in a pan.

As others have said, honey will get you. Overall you're better off to work on weening off the sweet, but in a pinch some powdered stevia leaf is a good bet. Not the overly processed white stevia powder from the store, but the leaf from a stevia plant - you can buy them at most hardware and gardening stores. OR - a sorbet I make for my partner that's not terrible is 1/2 frozen banana, 1/2 cup frozen blueberries and 1 scoop

@@naomi6929, I've got a lot of recipes on my blog barideliciousfoods.BlogSpot.com that fit into Phase 4 readily. Check it out and let me know what you think.

@@jess9395, I understand it's pretty user specific. However, my own surgery story left me nauseated to the point that, for the first time in my life, I would have preferred to die than spend another day like that. At that point I was on the Scope patch, emend, zophran and dexamethasone. Once I got the Phenergan, however, everything was right with my world. Now I just use zophran every once in a blue moon for nausea that's bad enough to keep me from doing my daily routine but nothing so bad as when I needed the Phenergan.

New Phase 1 Recipe Protein Gela-o A few other updates to the blog: I've added pages for each post-op phase in the tabs. There's not a lot in them yet but more is coming I've added a WHAT'S COOKING? page for you to see what recipes and other projects are on the horizon, how far along each recipe is, and add your own suggestions

@@VSG_Hopeful, I hope you like it, let me know if you have any feedback or ideas for other things you'd like to see there. Also, check it again in the next few days as I have a few new features up my sleeve that I think will make it MUCH more usable. @@wascott, HA! Thanks so much for posting that For future readers, I've now embedded links in the text as well, the blue words are all links to the blog.

@@ShellMilliner, I'm thrilled to hear you like it. Let me know what you think of the recipes you try - the more feedback I can get the better future posts will be. Also, do let me know if there's something you're not seeing that you would like to try. Keep up your good work!

New recipe posted: Chipotle Philly Cheesesteak - somehow it's good for you 

@@Shakti, I'm with wannabthinsoon on this one. I can try to find you the research jennifer Minton mentioned if you like.

@@wascott, thank you! As you can imagine, I'm pretty pumped right now. It's weird though to think that only 3 months ago, I felt like I'd never get there.

@@wascott, either way good luck and keep us posted. You'll get through and it's well worth it! Just don't forget to ask for help if/when you get frustrated or stuck

@Italian Gal, I'm glad to hear it. Let me know if there's anything in particular you'd like to see.