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You could do that with Cod. Personally I hate baked Cod but grilled Cod I love... If you have a gas grill and a cast iron skillet you can grill fish fast an easy. I do this all the time and I am eating in less than 10 minutes start to finish. https://food52.com/recipes/58018-skillet-grilled-fish-tacos-with-cilantro-lime-crema By the way that recipe is really good, just skip the tortillas and sugar. I won't do boneless skinless chicken. It gets way too dry. Someone might have a good recipe to keep it moist. I guess you could cook it in tomato sauce (purchase it plain, seasoned by you) and sprinkle some cheese on top. This is my fav oven baked chicken wing recipe. Basically you cook the chicken slow at first which renders the fat and then when you turn the temp up it fries that fat making them crispy. The issue with wings is they are really hard to track. I put them in a bowl, weigh them, then put the bones back when I am done and subtract the weight of the bones to track them. Because it is such a pain, I don't eat them that often, but these are really delicious. http://www.recipetineats.com/truly-crispy-oven-baked-buffalo-wings-my-wings-cookbook/ I also suggest you invest in some really good spice mixes. This will allow you to season your food and create variety even if you are eating the same things. https://www.penzeys.com/ They have lots of sugar free spice mixes. Almost all the spice mixes in stores have sugar and other additives.

People that say that ish are just haters. I went from an apple to an hourglass. I walk and do yoga. I do weights some of the time but not really. I have way more muscle mass than a person who was never obese because I was obese and my body had to adapt to carry it. I don't have to add muscle just maintain what I already have. The people that look like who did it and what for post-op either were bad bodied from jump and nothing was going to save them, or they ate the bare minimum protein and it shows. You can always see it all in their face. If you have a figure you will still have a figure. I had a big stomach that overshadowed my breasts, hips and butt. When I lost the stomach all of that was able to shine. And yes I lost all over, but I still am shapely. People can still be shapely and be smaller. All you have to do is be proportionate. None of this is to discourage you from working out or adding weights etc but losing weight should not equate a fear of losing your figure. Those are just things that people tell you to hold you back, project their own feelings on you, usually because they are afraid you will be smaller and more attractive than them. I am all for being body positive but this idea that obesity is curves is lunacy.

I have had maybe 2 or 3 tablespoons of grits. I love them but they don't really have any nutritional value.

Sleep naked, weigh naked. Normal life. I would never weigh myself in clothes, because that would be too much of a variable.

See your Surgeon ASAP.

This that put a lot of pressure on your sleeve will give you heartburn. I have to make sure my bras are are position properly and if I wear shapewear I have to be very careful in the amounts that I eat because any eating close to capacity hurts. The best thing about having weight loss surgery is don't have to use hogwarts tricks and potions to lose weight and shape up. This is like a regular diet, The weight comes off. I have a defined waist, no trainers used, and I don't even go to the gym. All I do is control my food.

@moniwood28 Have you tried different temps of liquids? Cold things felt like daggers to me at first, I had to drink warm fluids and get my protein in with either room temp shakes or broth with protein powder. Different people have different levels of pain after having a tube down their throat. Mine was sore for 2 weeks, at least it didn't feel normal.

@Carissamarie92 I sent you a PM OP, but it corrects itself over time once your weight loss slows or stops.

@Sheralyn2017 I have it in my signature, but the first month I lost 20/21 pounds something like that. The next month I lost a lot was month 4 but most months I lost in the 10 pound range. That includes lots of stalls. I had a period every 2 weeks for over a year and that made me stall out every month all the time. So I would stall/gain, then drop 10 pounds. It was not an every day or every week loss but it added up over the long term.

Well weighing yourself every day, even morning and night helps you learn more about weight flucuations and not put so much emphasis on the scale. I gain 5 pounds every month with my period, sometimes it is just 3 but usually it is 5. The only reason I know that is because I weigh myself every day and have for the past 2 years. When I see the scale go up the first thing I think about is if my period is due. I weigh more at night than in the morning. Right now it is the middle of summer, I am retaining small amounts of water, gain. Also if you weigh yourself every day, and you know you have been eating properly, you realize how ridiculous the scale can be. You don't lose every day or every week. Even if you aren't losing pounds you still might be losing inches or your body might just be resting. When I was losing I would stall a lot, a week or 2 at a time. Or bounce around between 2 pounds for weeks, then I would suddenly drop a lot. It isn't about losing all the time, it is about being consistent. If you are consistent with your food, the weight will come off. This is a life long thing, not a diet.

@up4challenge First, you probably need to be measured and fitted properly. I started off a 50DD and I wear a 34F/G (depending on brand) now. All the sizes in between have not been uniform. At first I was not not losing evenly. Now I am just pretty much only losing band size and my cup is the same. Are you sure you are a 40 band? What are your above and below the band measurements? At your height and weight you might be a 38 or a 36 and instead of a DD need DDD. I am just guessing... I really like Soma bras, specifically Stunning Support, they can fit you and work with you and they have some with great lift and back smoothing. https://www.soma.com/store/category/stunning-support/cat8589275?CAWELAID=120218660001718742&CAPCID=92514671312&cadevice=c&agid=24207423872&catci=aud-297954731427:kwd-179058265472&gclid=Cj0KCQjwwevLBRCGARIsAKnAJvfEKf7eKOsPLgYHLMTRYcLQQBe8IJLi9p9UdNlLURrIfjBN8E9gLlEaAq9OEALw_wcB If you do not live in an area where you can go some place and be fitted then try using the guide here... https://www.reddit.com/r/ABraThatFits/wiki/beginners_guide Do all the measurements to the best of your ability and use the calculator to see where you are. As far as the pain, that incision I had near the bra line healed very well, I can't even see it now. I was able to wear bra comfortably after 2 weeks. I kept it covered with gauze until that time so it had cushion. Have you asked your Dr about it? Also a bra that fits better might solve the issue. Good luck

@Mersh If you are healing well, that is how you are supposed to feel. I didn't take pain meds once I got home. On day 3 I drove myself and got my nails done. I was able to meet my protein goals the day after surgery. My Dr requires that you be able to down at least 1/2 a protein shake before you can be discharged. The people that are miserable and can't eat or are too lazy to try and eat dominate the boards. Those are the people that post the most and stand out the most. No one cares about the person that is healing well, has a high pain tolerance not being tempted by McDonalds and Pizza. There are a few guys that post here but not many. There are fewer every day just because this forum and the WLS community in general is not geared towards long term sleevers.

AMA is from Reddit, it means Ask Me Anything. https://www.reddit.com/r/AMA/

This is good but... You have to use your sleeve or it stays swollen. It is a kind of use it out lose it kind of thing. If I don't feel well or I am stressed and don't eat, my sleeve tightens like a drum and I am 2 years from surgery. The only way you get to the point that you can eat or drink more is by eating and drinking more. So don't depend on this IV infusions and stop trying as hard to get your fluids and nutrition in.

I am not criticizing your choices at all. I don't think you should have to disclose your choices to your boss or your co-workers and if you worked some place with better protections, or if we had better protections in general in the US you wouldn't be in this position. You told a cover story to get time off and now you have to stick to it. Adding more layers to it, makes it more complicated and more likely that you will be detected. I completely understand why you said hernia not VSG but your boss and co-workers might not be as understanding, at least you don't think they would be or you would have told them in the beginning. No one should be in a situation where they have to be dishonest about taking a proactive stance on their health. Good luck OP.

Keep good options at your desk. I worked in an office for a little while recently and all the food around was mind boggling. One thing that helped was most of the people that ate that food looked like. They were overweight, bad skin, always had colds and in general poor health. Everyone eating cake and donuts? I grab a protein bar, sweet, but not as bad as the other options. People snacking and eating chips whatever. I have Quest chips. Then I just take a moment, and think about my health pre-op how bad it was, how my knees and ankles hurt, and then how hard I worked post-op to change my eating habits. Count to 10, temptation has passed.

You should be find for travel and for eating in restaurants. I chose not to eat in restaurants at 6 weeks but you can do it if you want. If you are traveling in the US, I would get protein shakes and keep them handy. You can offset your calories eating out by using protein shakes.

Did you have complications? Why were you in the hospital 3 days? Or is that standard policy where you have surgery. I spent about 26 hours at the hospital.

I am glad to know I am not the only one with a loud stomach. I thought mine was so loud partially because it is no longer buried under so much fat. I wonder if our stomachs are louder because they are concentrated to such a smaller area and the part we are left with is the more muscular stronger tissue not the thinner looser tissue that is cut away.

It helps to find someone to talk to. Therapists are usually useless for specific weight loss related issues, but they might be able to help you with just general identity issues. I never had good luck, but you might find someone better.

Cruises don't interest me as a world traveler because of their track record, I would never go on one, especially not as a woman. My opinion is based on the fact that there are always lots of cruise and food questions posted on WLS forums (just like this one). No one ever posts that they went rock climbing, swimming and had a blast or talk about their excursions (these are all some of the things that are available on cruises), not to mention the entertain shows on board. All people do is whine about the food, and drinks and try to figure out how to drink alcohol even before they are 6 months from surgery. You made a thread about cruises and food, but you are complaining that someone is asking questions about cruises and food? If there is more to do on a cruise than eat, why are you complaining about the food situation on the cruise? If food wasn't an issue or you had such a great time, why would the wait staff asking you a few questions be worthy of a forum post and a youtube video? You are making it seem like food is the central attraction and issue on a cruise. If everything else on the cruise made a greater impression, you wouldn't even care about the food issues. I went on vacation this summer and food was not the highlight of my vacation or a major issue (and I had lots of delicious food at some great restaurants), I went hiking, kayaking, shopping and a lot more. Food isn't my focus, I eat to live, not live to eat. So why all the cruise and food and alcohol posts? Why a cruise when you can just fly somewhere, and stay at a resort with activities?

@lisaBme I guess it depends on the type of attention and if you had attention before. I always had a big personality, and I have always kind of been the center of attention. The attention I get now is slightly different but it is not more, if anything in some situations it is less because I fit into normal society so much better. Can you elaborate?

I have never been on a cruise but I have a question for people that go on cruises. Why put yourself in a gluttonous environment that is not conducive to your new lifestyle? These cruises are like putting a heroin addict in a drug den. I do not understand why people make these choices, then get upset when people react to them acting abnormal.

I had BCBS of Illinois. I was approved in less than 5 business days. It was a quick and easy process. No supervised diets. I went from first Dr visit to surgery in 8 weeks. How easy or hard your process is depends on your insurance plan and also the program you select. Some programs make you do 6 months so they can suck as much money out of you as possible, even if your insurance doesn't require it.

It isn't that necessarily. If you have ever used clothing patterns or have experience as a seamstress, the cuts of plus size clothes are completely different and allow for more weight fluctuations, also currently most clothing has a touch of stretch in it which also allows for weight fluctuations. Which is why personally I am so against wearing things like leggings and stretchy clothes all the time. They allow you to gain weight and not feel the effects. Even jeans have stretch now. Clothes without stretch, the slightest weight fluctuation, you feel it right away. It is a good way to keep yourself in check.