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A delivery from my favorite vegan online shop arrived just in time to have a feast: Delicious!

Ah, ok... Thanks. I'm wondering if some "Jägersauce" (kind of light brown gravy with mushrooms) would work... 🤔.

Doesn't poutine have a certain kind of brown sauce? Or is it variable and still called poutine?

I'm more or less down with shoulder bursitis. Mix of heal and junk food. Frozen and microwaved broccoli (I don't know, the package looked like I could get at least two portions out of it but when it was thawed...), topped with sweet chili garlic sauce out of the bottle, french fries, some mock fish sticks topped with Gouda's Glorie chemistry class and jalapeños. Abominable combination? Yes, absolutely. And I loved it, lol. Even the picture isn't as ugly as I thought it would be. 😂

"journey" "new me" "and then life happened" "back to old habits" "a tool" I can't stand these anymore.

A slight rebound is supposed to be normal. Where is your weight sitting now? So-called normal range? Overweight? As hard as the answer to that question might be to accept: are these 7 lbs worth the additional ongoing effort?

I also hate the word "obese". High cringe factor for whatever reason.

More Food for Future haul from Penny. Mock kebab. Best one I've ever had so far. Put it in the oven together with some zucchini and orange bell pepper that had to go. Put it on a roll with ketchup and curry powder. Hopefully that mock kebab will be a staple product at Penny. As I said above: best one so far.

The words "bari" or "bariatric". Seriously. Can't stand 'em.

Bananas, Alpro sykr, some quinoa granola and soy flakes: A vegan burger I got from Penny (Food for Future brand). It's ok but of course no gourmet food. Pimped it with raw red onions and some pickled cucumbers. I didn't have tomatoes or salad, unfortunately.

So someone dug out this thread: https://www.bariatricpal.com/topic/434528-i-am-a-food-addict-and-bypass-isnt-a-cure/ I saw several users wishing for more discussion on this. However, we don't have these discussions. If a thread like this pops up it gets some traffic and then gets buried under other threads until someone might dig it up again. So... what in your opinion is the reason we're not talking (a bit more) about this? Are people talking about these issues elsewhere? Are we too scared? Ashamed? Do we not really care? Or are we all cured after all?

Let me quote Blythe Baird: Nowhere this seems to be more true than in the WLS community. That's why I asked about sarcasm. ("Good bariatric patient" sounds too much like "good boy/girl" to be. That's something I would say to my dog when I pat him on the head.)

Sarcasm?

Most people I know hate this. "Pommes Mayo-Curry" was quite popular at a small takeaway I used to go sometimes before moving some years ago. Also the "Pommesbrötchen" was very popular. A white roll stuffed with french fries, mayo and ketchup. A combination that makes most people running away as I have learned, lol. I have to make that someday but you need the right rolls for it. Also the "Currywurst spezial" (I posted some pictures of that already) - I sometimes imitate that with a vegan Bratwurst.

Stop putting yourself under pressure. You won't magically stop losing weight after a certain time span. You stop losing weight when you're in a caloric equilibrium and you start losing again when you're in a caloric deficit (even years out).

You either love this or hate this. There seems to be no in-between. "Pommes Mayo-Curry" (French fries out of the oven with vegan mayo and curry powder):

Semi-junk food. Avocado on whole meal (that avocado has to go) and Ruegenwalder Cordon Bleu:

Indeed. It's way overlooked. Both too many patients and unfortunately too many treatment teams treat "nutrition", "eating" and general lifestyle issues post-surgery in a way that makes me wonder if that is one of the reasons for regain some years down the road, higher rates of depression or transfer addictions.

Fruit bowl with Alpro skyr, soy flakes and some quinoa granola (was on sale, it's ok but won't buy for full price):

Boring looking food edition: Avocado with spice topping on toasted whole meal bread.

Out of the ugly food edition: Small potatoes microwaved with the skin. Alpro skyr with a spice mix and raw zucchini and red bell pepper mixed in. Some vegan cevapcici.

Yes, it was when my band came out. It wouldn't have been able to do band removal and MGB in one session. I was devastated as well.

Alcohol hits people very differently post-op, interestingly enough obviously not only depending on the kind of surgery a patient had. I understand bypass being a problem but tbh not really why a sleeve should propose problems, aside from being drunk on less alcohol because weight already has gone down significantly, that is. I can remember that we were advised to be cautious with alcohol because it hits differently (or can hit differently) than before. The dietitian told us to "try it at home first". Tbh, I can't remember the recommended time span that should be between surgery date and first alcoholic drink (I clearly remember though that the time span was four weeks for "real" coffee because I'm an addict. First coffee after four weeks of that chicory imitation stuff asted so damn good, rofl) - it might have been 12 weeks because alcohol is one of the bigger irritants to the stomach lining but I'm not really sure. I didn't pay much attention to this part of education because I was never much of a wine, beer or liquor consumer. Anyway, alcohol hits me like a hammer and is basically always involved when it comes to the rare occasions of late dumping and heartburn so I'm not too fond of this particular liquid drug. When I drink alcohol I always pair it with hearty food, not with sugary foods.

You will "slip" again. And again. And again. And again. And again. Get used to it. Only if you don't learn how to handle the food world (including situations like the ones you described). Then there might be a not-so-low possibility that you're one of the people who're gung-ho during their first post-op year, then "something" happens, the weight first stalls despite "still wanting to lose these 25 lbs" and finally the weight gain starts, maybe gaining until they reach their starting weight again. That "something" seems to be some kind of burn-out after having gone full throttle for some months. Other people say that "life happened" (however, I think burning out and "life happening" are related closely).

Work was so damn exhausting. We're (chronically) short on staff and yesterday and today were the first two days since a long time when things were really going slow. I'm on vacation now until January 8th.