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Be prepared for the dietitians advising against a 100% plant based diet though.

Soy milk latte with coffee spice.

There is some fruit that has to go. So nothing fancy but even the dog thinks it's Yum!

Never seen Tofurkey so far. However, there are quite a few decent tasting vegan and/or vegetarian cold cuts available. Not every store carries a good variety though.

That reminds me of the fact that I wanted to give a vegan high protein "cheese"cake a try since like the neolithic revolution came around or so.

Hubby made a snapshot of his burger as well. ?

Self-made burgers with veg-patties and truckloads of onion, cucumber salad and batavia salad. Wrapped the whole thing up because mess, lol. Hubby had his with a fried chicken style veg patty.

Really? Peanut butter? Interesting. I need fast acting sugars then. Doesn't need a large amount but it has to be sugar because of, well - low blood sugar!

Ah yes, one can find some TJ products in German ALDI markets as well, especially nuts. Never seen something like bagel spice in an ALDI market though. I sometimes use this mix by justspices on my sandwiches but that's the only spice mix I've ever seen marketed for this purpose so far in Germany.

Never seen this. I guess they have quite a few of US specific products?

What exactly is bagel seasoning, btw?

Nah, the feeling of really low blood sugar is some trembling hands, being sweaty and being able to kill for some instant sugar. It's gone within a few minutes. It's majorly annoying when it wakes you up.

Salad bowl with Moroccan cornbread.

Hmmmmmmmmmm, are you sure it's head hunger and not more subtle hunger signals than you're used to? Also what exactly do you mean by "eating a lot"? When you take a look at your intake from an outside-WLS point of view: would it still be seen as a lot? Views on portions sizes are quite often pretty warped in the WLS universe, same with the amount of calories people refer to as "a lot", that's why I'm asking. Your BMI is about 26-27 if I calculated that correctly (sorry, metric girl here). It's harder to tolerate a caloric deficit the lower your weight is. I became pretty much intolerant to a calorie deficit myself and I definitely would be f*cking starving on what some people on here refer to as "a lot of food". I'm maintaining at a BMI of 23 but I agree: sometimes it feels indeed a bit scary.

Meh, I usually only get the shakes when I eat too much sugar and alcohol is involved. My liver having to break down glycogen for stabilizing blood sugar while having to activate alcohol dehydrogenase at the same time doesn't seem to like that. And now guess what combo I had today, lol. I don't seem to learn that lesson, too, but I'm prepared to experience the late dumping and don't do that kind of thing in the evenings but at noon or early afternoon so I get any adverse reactions during the (early) evening and can react accordingly.

Anything with dairy in it I used to like and doesn't have a non-dairy substitute I like. The non-dairy substitutes of cheese e. g. are just awful tasting to me with the exception of cream cheese spreads. Sometimes I crave my grandmother's "Frikadellen" - though even if they would be available now I most likely wouldn't eat them because meat. I wish there was a decent vegan substitute for tuna to eat once in a while. (Unfortunately chickpeas don't do it for me.)

That's indeed very good news.

Boring stuff today. Mixed fruit, red and yellow bell pepper. Will get something at the cafeteria today.

That's the fake salmon I talked about. Whipped up a honey mustard sauce and made a sandwich kind of thing.

Portion sizes must be big enough to meet nutritional needs during the feeding window. Early out that's most likely going to be a problem.

Garden Gourmet Falafel with self-made tzatziki.

Comfort food after 24 h shift.

Welcome! ?

Not really. I'm cold when I'm getting tired in the evening and sometimes in winter during the fasting window.

This is true and I wish treatment teams would be more flexible when it comes to the care of their patients because a guideline is different from a fixed rule you have to follow. Albeit they're often treated as such, especially by patients and inexperienced clinicians ("but the guideline says..." - I'm not able to count how many times I've heard this). However, in the end an evidence-based guideline is only as good and reliable as the people who're involved creating them, the processes that are used to get to an agreement and as good and reliable as the studies they are deciding they're going to use (again: cui bono? much too often for my taste). Making myself this clear after being very into EBM for quite a long time was quite sobering. I tend to take guidelines, systematic reviews etc. with a grain of salt long since. Given the fact that many clinics have their own in-house guidelines for something. Usually these in-house guidelines are in reality SOPs but for many this doesn't make a difference and it's kind of annoying a lot of the time. Yes, hijacking threads is annoying. My apologies as well.