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Hmmmmm, eggplant sounds good. Haven't made them in a while.... ? I'm going to roast a zucchini this evening and maybe cook up some sticky rice in the rice cooker. I have like a truckload of uncooked rice at home. (project shelf- and fridge-cleaning will take a while to accomplish)

Sate ramen (cleaning out shelves again) - got a bit too oily so I might adjust the amount of sate paste but in general it had a pleasant taste.

Sunday brunch. Tofu scramble with rye bread. Coffee, figs and papaya not pictured.

Junky Saturday evening. Kloßteigpommes with a cheezy sauce and jalapeños. Won't neither repeat nor recommend. The Pommes where too dry and didn't get browned in the oven. Kloßteig fried in the pan is way more to my taste. I think the sauce will enter the bin. I have no idea why other vegans on Reddit raved about that sauce. ? In sum it was a fail, lol.

It's fake tuna (that stuff is bomb, but IMO only good cold on sandwiches; won't make that again) with onion on one and vegan bacon and onion on the other on whole wheat toast.

This I understand. ?

Rewards for weight loss? ? The weight loss is the reward.

Junk food evening. I need to get rid of certain items past the best before date and cleaning out the fridge at the same time: It's the fake vegan stuff, just FYI.

IMO a major culprit is that people try to adopt unsustainable lifestyles in the beginning to lose weight as fast as possible and get down to that magic BMI number (we all know that number I guess), no matter what. And then they burn out after - what time? - 10 to 14 months post-op seems to be a critical timespan for this. I've also read "and then life happened and I've fallen off the wagon" way too often. A sustainable lifestyle is sustainable even when "life happens" and the **** hits the fan. Anything else is temporary.

The calculator in the link spits out an ideal body weight that sits at BMI 21. I'm at a bit more than 90% EWL according to this calculator at BMI 23 (which is an absolutely normal weight). I guess the second round of plastics will remove a bit more weight but not two BMI points. I'm like errr... no. Pretty triggering, this "ideal weight" stuff? Patients are driving themselves crazy anyway and EWL is another potential thing to obsess about. Bonus points if not reaching a normal BMI is used as a reference but this ideal-weight-thing.

Several years after surgery people don't really notice. I'm the nutty vegan, but that's it. People either already know I had WLS or they don't and have not really a reason to think so.

I need to make protein muffins again. My freezer is full with other stuff, however. ? I only bake when I can batch-bake and freeze.

Pimped vegan pizza I got at LIDL.

Asian soup with tofu and udons. Photographed in the kitchen. That's why no baby seals.

If it doesn't look infected, clean it with some e. g. Octenisept and apply new Steristrips to close the gap once the Octenisept has dried off. If in doubt go to your GP.

There are lots of plant based protein powders available. I use the 4k or 8k from ProFuel (the "original" I don't like) and Alphafoods, sometimes nutri+. If possible try to order sample packs before buying a whole tub because taste and consistency vary big time, even when it comes to the same brand.

I couldn't resist posting this picture I sent my husband yesterday when I made summer rolls for the first time. Long-timers on this thread can probably can spot why I couldn't resist. ?

That's how the date candies I recently posted a picture of look from the inside: Took one out of the freezer tonight.

I think the muffins would taste good with apple-cinnamon mix as well. Like using applesauce and a few pieces of apples. I mostly purred the banana except for a few chunks anyway.

Apple crumble cake in the oven. Used a mix of vanilla and salted caramel protein this time, also spelt flour instead of oat flour because I had an open package of spelt flour and an apple cake spice mix instead of cinnamon only. The unbaked dough was awesome. I'm curious how it will turn out this time.

Protein banana muffins. Cute liners, huh? ?

I didn't lose any weight before surgery. Started out at BMI 46, now it's 23 since a whole while (no plastics so far). Would BMI be lower if I had lost weight before surgery? Who knows. Can't go back in time to give it a try, right?

No, it comes in a glass just like e. g. peanut or almond butter.

The one that's made out of coconut meat only. I didn't know there are several kinds?

Medjool dates filled with coconut butter and coated with dark chocolate.