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Working though books about "normal eating" helped tremendously.

Oh, it's not real yoghurt. It's the soy stuff. ?

Ok, so I'm kinda hooked now. Food for today I'm taking with me to work:

If I put the tofu/vegan patties on a sandwich depends. These little cubes would fall all over the place into every direction possible when being put between two pieces of bread so it's more of a convenience thing than anything else. If I wouldn't have eaten that with bread but with rice I would've mashed it all together in a bowl.

Time to finally get that thing out of its package I guess. ROFL.

So tell me what is less of a hassle to clean? An air fryer or a cast iron pan because ???.

It's pretty normal. Everyone (surgery or not) has days with more appetite, more hunger, more cravings... and some people are reacting to this and eat more one day and less the other. However, people on this board here are so damn traumatized and terrified when it comes to food and eating that they hold the opinion only eating the same amount everyday, weighed and counted, is the safe way to eat. Appetite, hunger and feelings of fullness or the lack there of don't have a word in this thing. So many patients seem to choose overly restrictive diets (kind of like an overkill) without seemingly ever giving a thought about if that is sustainable in the long run. Remember, all this stuff didn't work in the long run in the past and got you (and me, too, of course) to a point where WLS was needed. Of course there will always be non-eating-disordered reasons to restrict foods, e . g. dairy if you can't tolerate it, animal flesh because you're a vegetarian, pork because of religious reasons etc. - that's not what I'm talking about. In sum I think it is very sad that only a scarce amount of WLS patients seems to try to connect to what they really want to eat, or to their hunger and appetite cues. Am I really hungry right now? More than usually? Why could that be? What tastes do you really like and eating accordingly to them instead of choking down the next piece of fat free prepared lean protein chicken with two broccoli spears on the side even though you might hate the taste of green vegetables.

So, I bet y'all knew that I finally won't be able to resist. ? Almond-Nut-Tofu with king oyster mushrooms fried in coconut oil and seasoned with sweet soy sauce. Whole wheat bread with vegan butter and garden cress.

My opinion is: find a diet that you really can stick to instead of "cycling it".

Starches were part of the diet from the beginning, e. g. carrot or potato soups and in the mushy phase mashed potatoes. However, diets vary not only from country to country but also from hospital to hospital sometimes.

Most likely this won't go away. There will always be days when you'll feel more hungry, have more appetite, will eat more because there seems to fit more into the pouch/stomach. You'll probably notice that this feeling of "can eat more" is related to your activity level as well.

Speak for yourself only, please. I had bypass as well and I'm fine eating carbohydrates and so are many other bypass patients.

Weight loss is a b***h. The fat seems to be distributed kind of weird while and after losing weight quite often. It's royally annoying. You've definitely come a long road already. Your weight loss is clearly visible in your face (and without a doubt it shows on the rest of your body as well). However, you're still at a BMI of 38 after all. Technically that's class 2 obesity so it's quite normal that you still see yourself as "fat".

No, some people have it without ever having surgery on their intestines.

One effect I can think of is that constipation is not an issue.

Because food addiction?

I posted about what I eat here. At the moment it's working fine. So while it's not the pound of cure diet I eat quite a lot of fruit and vegetables.

Usually there will fit in more into the sleeve or pouch with time. There seems to be a growing in portion size up until to a certain point as it seems (everyone ist different though) and then there won't be much change. Dr. Weiner has interesting videos on this.

Water retention and the body not being a machine. (and I always wonder how people manage to exercise while eating 600 kcal a day)

Hmmmmmmmm, what is my diet? I guess it is not particularly healthy. I eat too much sugar, consume too much vegan convenience patties, drink too much coffee and have erratic eating patterns in general. I also forget to drink enough water when the days get rough. I don't eat meat or dairy, animal protein rarely (the occasional tuna, salmon or egg). Lots of fruit, legumes and vegetables. Bread, rice, pasta is something I might consume comparatively a lot one week and almost none the other week, same with nuts and/or nut butters or protein bars. I do IF usually 14-16 h a day. I usually don't eat anything before noon. However, that is not 100% consistent because of several 24 h shifts a months.

Maybe you need a longer mushy phase. It doesn't seem to be that uncommon. I can remember that there was being talked about this and the dietitians simply said that you should introduce the solids slower. What doesn't work today might be working three days later. If you continue to have problems you should see your treatment team though.

This sex life thing didn't happen to me as well, lol.

This dieting burnout - one can see it quite often in the WLS community. Don't believe it? People on here usually refer to it as "having fallen off the wagon". Will there be WLS patients who'll do good on these kinds of diets in the long run? Yes, of course - if 95% of diets fail, 5% are successful after all. The thing with restrictive diets is ("diet" in the sense of the food we're eating every day) that they all too often cut out or restrict either macronutrients like fat and/or carbohydrates and/or everyday foods that we like to eat, that you're confronted with everywhere and that are considered pretty "normal" and not particularly "unhealthy" by the people in your environment. Most people will fall prey to these everyday and everywhere foods in the end. I don't know if I can bring my point across. I struggle with the words right now. Maybe it's also a thing that many Germans seem to have a different approach to eating and nutrition than many US-Americans? Though many US-American eating trends make it overseas in the end a few years later. Most Germans however don't seem to e. g. consider bread an unhealthy food in general. Many might consider "white bread" as unhealthy but not bread in general. French fries might be considered unhealthy but not potatoes in general. Sugar laden dairy = unhealthy but not dairy in general. With meat being the exception I'm not going to restrict my diet more than it has to be necessary.

I think this looks like some sort of... cake? ROFL.

I actually thought "How can she even stomach this while being on a high dose of PPI and having no acid down there?!" Oh well, I guess my stomach is just a Primadonna. ?