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Date candy in the glass. Dopamine rush and drooling in anticipation of tomorrow's dessert and all, lol.

Just some random thoughts: - big problem with regain is that the feeling of "having to do it allover again" is a crippling feeling - having to endure all of this not-eating and not-eating favorites and whatnot while still/again being obese is a double whammy and - again - a crippling feeling - that big momentum and rush of being immediately post-op simply isn't there, plus see the two points above - "going back to basics" without having a plan how to proceed further from there is pointless - it didn't lead to lasting success the first time. Why should it lead to success now? - don't get me started on that motivation and commitment crap when it comes to "sticking to the plan this time no matter what" - people swore that every time they started a new diet lifestyle change before WLS - "try harder" is bull crap, "try smarter" instead Going to bed now. Tomorrow is a new day.

It's what the "intuitive eating" and "normal eating" crowd is preaching for like decades now: make a food a forbidden food and you're going to binge on it/crave it like crazy. Make it an allowed-food you can have whenever you want to and it loses its lure.

I like them, too. However, they're not big and soft enough for a coconut filling. A medjool is big and creamy enough to wrap them around the coconut.

Yes, some of them are. IMO people are "toxic" if they continue their (abusive) behavior after having been called out on it, especially after telling them repeatedly that their behavior is not ok the way it is. They know their behavior is not ok but they continue to behave this way. I don't want to have overly selfish, manipulative, passive-aggressive etc. acting people in my life. There are people with some really sh*tty personality traits out there I don't want to deal with voluntarily. ETA: However, I also hold the (maybe not very popular) opinion that not all WLS peeps change for the better after having lost weight. Sometimes it's not "the others" who're the problem, but the person who've lost weight.

I covered part of the filled dates with 70% couverture. The dates:

Second meal for today (late shift, so having dinner at the hospital): sticky rice with furikake spice, trout and mackerel in black beans. Not pictured: sliced cucumbers.

Not a good picture. Walnuts, Brazil nuts, medjool dates, partly filled with coconut.

If you restarted "the plan" (I guess the diet you started out with after surgery?) again and again without much success it's time for a different plan. It's ludicrous to try the same thing over and over again without making sensible adjustments. What are your major hurdles? If it's portion size you might want to start eating more of the less calorie dense foods. If it's meal frequency, maybe IF is something to your taste?

Same stuff over sticky rice (lunch tomorrow).

Roasted purple and red potatoes, yoghurt sauce. Mock döner meat, green beans, shiitake mushrooms, chick peas.

Red lentil penne with some leftover tomato sauce and cashewsan. The majority of the penne went into the dish pictured above. I hate how much time food preparing needs. So this evening I cooked enough for several meals. Luckily I had everything I needed still at home. However, with the salad bar still closed the food at the cafeteria is not really what I'd call both healthy & satisfying (seems like it's either/or) and tomorrow I have another 24 h shift. Saturdays are usually the worst. Well, one can hope...

Red lentil penne with mock gyros meat, red onion, red and yellow bell pepper. Yoghurt will go on top tomorrow. Got three portions out of this.

"Currywurst" with red onions.

You can always eat quite a bit of the wrong things, lol. However, what one regards as "the wrong things"... that varies a lot.

If there was a surefire way to predict outcome insurance companies would have started using it against the patients applying for coverage long ago, lol.

OMG, I tried that once and it's nothing for European taste buds. ?

Curry again. With flat bread.

Pita pizzas before baking. Forgot to take a shot of the baked once, sigh.

Carbonated drinks don't stretch your stomach. It's a myth. Dr. Weiner made a interesting video about this.

Ah, ok. ?

Ok, we really see turkey, cheddar and chocolate covered pretzels in one bag? No?

Most likely if you start eating these foods more regularly you might finally start to crave them. It might be more subtle than the craving for higher palatable foods but it's going to be there.

There is still a difference between "hiding" and "advertising". Nobody wants patients to wear an "I had WLS. Kiss me!" shirt. But losing weight and giving people the "just diet and exercise, man" schlock is something that feeds into the lack of acceptance of WLS. There is always the middle ground. --- However, there will always be discussion about this issue and I think I have made my opinion on this clear more than one time in the past. In the end I won't change anyone's mind on this anyway. If people want to hide their surgery, they will hide it as best as they can. Some will be able to hide it, some will be outed and some will be talked about behind their back because people are not as naive as some seem to think they are.