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Agreed. No way it's anywhere near that!

Hey who's joking? I'm dead serious dude! LOL. I wake up thinking of one and every time I look in the mirror I shrug, say "Meh," wish for a waist trainer, then spit in my hand and turn around 3 times. (Oh and I don't want a girdle. I want one of those magic Susan Somers contraptions like a thigh master that will help me burn fat off my waist and shape it!)

To this day at almost 7months, I'm a member of the Clean Plate Club. I have never knowingly or willingly sent food to the starving kids in China. Even post RNY. LOLOLOLOL. I do hate unintentional leftovers cuz I'm sick to death of them. But I "plan" strategic foods that can be repurposed and disguised as a different kind of meal entirely. And then I'm all like, "Cool beans!" I do the following and part of this comes from now knowing and understanding my tool. But you can ask any intermediate post op here how grueling that was for me to learn those lessons and calm the fu*k down with life. LOL! I now know: 1. How much volume and/or weight in grams to serve on my plates. 2. I use tiny appetizer plates or bread plates for meals and tiny bowls for anything runny. 3. I ALWAYS weigh and measure my foods--especially for new meals--so I know how much to serve myself next time. I rarely get full (unless it's high fat meals), so I take my portion only. 4. NO SECONDS. Never. 5. No meals closer than 3-6 hours together and no snack closer than 2-3 hours of a meal. No continual snack buffet. 6. Make half the amount you expect to need. 7. Plan your meals. 8. Make simple meats/protein and meat/protein bases bases and keep fresh and frozen veggies on hand to make all sorts of things. Also keep strategic and choice low calorie, low fat, low carb, no/low sugar sauces in the pantry to disguise things. 9. Don't start counting on shredded cheese to "cover" up leftover tastes!!! Avoid cheese bombs. You will go to The Hell if you don't. 10. Start small--work slowly--progress only at YOUR pace and that of your doc/RD. Don't wing it.

Ok, now get us waist trainers @Alex Brecher!!

Good times! ROFLMAO! Laughing so hard at all of this! This thread just won the internet today.

^^^^^^ AF!!!!! (I don't care who you are!) And btw? WTG on 62g of protein girlie!!!!

Can you do us all a solid please and go up to the Profile area and fill out your information with a weight ticker so we can help you? It would also help to know what specifically a general day looks like to you from a food standpoint--your meals and snacks and drinks etc. Welcome, btw.

Matt thank you for speaking up and sharing your feelings/needs with us. IMHO that's a very rare gift. So if I steamroll or ignore, please shout out to me so I can make sure to try to change things!!!

IKR!!!! Bahahahahaha!

Matt, congrats on busting your stall and I hope it helps you get to goal like a beast!!! OMG I love that you brought this up. This is absolutely my experience too--about the more I eat the more I want! I think you have SUCH a tough job being in the food industry and still needing to interact heavily with luxe food while losing weight. I'm actually so happy you have a tiny tummy as a tool!!! And oy veh on the poor choices. I know something of those too!!! ((hugs)) WTG!

I love that IF appears to be working to meet each of our needs! WTG on getting the hydration under control and isn't it SUPER to feel the fat leaving your body?

Hahahaha! IKR? LOL. But to put perspective on it, don't give me too much cred--their grilled chicken and veggies is seriously legit delish! Maybe up there with some of the best. And the last time we went, I had a Bill's Burger of which I ate one bite with the bun, then ate the insides out of it without the bun and only was able to eat 1/4 of it cuz of the grease and it being undercooked. (Even though I'm a rare steak girl or Pittsburgh style rather--raw burger at a FF place skeezes me out a little.) Then 30 minutes later, I was nauseated all through the game cuz of the fat in the meal. I honestly think my gallbladder may be on its last leggies.

Hahaha you must be in the Paramus, Upple Saddle River area of NJ? ROFLMAO!

I seriously had to put myself in Time Out. Seriously. Then I said, "Nothin's EVER easy," under my breath all day. WTG on springing back so well and so gracefully! (yeah yeah get a room, I know!)

Where's our huggy emoji when we really need one?!!! ((hugs)) my friend! Stay strong!!

Can I just say that eating at 11:30pm was not the brightest decision last night? Damn and no alcohol was involved in that decision--just a poor habit of a lifetime following going out to have fun--late night eating! At least I made a healthy-ish choice with Bing cherries (5) and 1/2oz almonds. But still. It's majorly FUBAR'd my schedule today! It's 11:15am. I'm hungry and I'm JUST NOW at 12 hours (coming in 15 minutes). Then I need to go 2 more hours to my first meal. It can be done. One of those hours will be spent walking, the other will be spent working and hydrating. But still. GAH! le sigh.

Way to be resilient girlie! Wooohooo! Now go do that same thing with egg whites. You talk about some potty mouth goin' down in the hizzouse! ROFLMAO!

I started IF cuz I'm a follower of @GreenTealael and @sillykitty hehe. Seriously though, I used to do IF a long time ago and it helped my insulin resistance tremendously and helped me lose weight in addition to my low carb lifestyle. FF to today and even though I've had surgery and am losing, every pound lost is hard won. I was eating between 600-800 (about) and if I went up closer to 800/day for an extended period, I either stalled or gained. I also know my insulin is still higher than I'm comfortable with. I am on a wonderful anti-cancer drug that shuts down my hormones and puts me in super menopause. It works, but the side effect is no hormones and weight gain. So I decided to try IF again. I do know of the great metabolic and health benefits of IF from reading many books/studies about the subject. But even more importantly, I've experienced these improved health benefits in myself: improved asthma, better/deeper uninterrupted sleep, less pain/inflammation and fewer lymphedema events, lower bp, lower A1c, lower bgs, weight loss. And in the past couple of years it has gained momentum and popularity. I want to have days where I can eat 1200 calories without gaining 2-6lbs! I want to have days where I can eat 1200 cals and not stall. I want to speed up my loses. Recently I've gone down to losing about 4-6lbs per month. That makes weight loss very difficult for me from a compliance stand point because one meal could conceivably wipe out an entire month of effort and so it really reduces my motivation levels! So I just chose to go back to the kind of IF I'm used to doing and that is Dr. Johnson's regimine of alternating DDs and UDs. Edited to Add: I weight daily--sometimes thrice daily. hehe. I was crazy long before I started this practice, but it keeps me honest. I am recording my weight here weekly on Mondays cuz it's gonna happen that the day after an UD I will be up on the scale and the day after a DD, I will or should usually be down or the same...

WTG! I think you will hit goal way before 61 days! Congrats!!

Ok, well yesterday I had zero. Count them. Zero problems doing an UD. LOLOLOLOL. I had over 1200 cals I think? Most of it was good-for-you-stuff, then there was the budgeted cheese popcorn and peanuts at the ball game. I'm not hatin' it. This morning, I woke up and did my core strengthening exercises and weighed. After yesterday's UD, I'm only up 0.4lbs. Hells I will take that as a ginormous win!!! Today I'm gonna do a DD of 500cals. I am gonna delay eating as late as a I can. I ate until 11:30pm last night (last night had a late night snack of cherries and almonds--unplanned but enjoyed). We lost thank you very much. Playoffs start next week. So we will be going. Think it's a Thursday night game? We had dinner at Beck's Prime (a burger place) and I had one of their dinners: Robert's Chicken and Veggies. I ate half the breast and 1/3 of the veggies. Very good stuff. Sorry no pics. We were with friends and I didn't want to be a tool and take pics of my food. They don't know about my surgery and I want to keep it that way. I did well, but I did have one french fry and one sweet potato fry. Meh...they weren't in the budget. But I still count it as a win. L-l/o chicken saltimbocca AS-Asian salad with l/o grilled salmon (photo taken while having my rest and watching a Hallmark Movie wrapped up in my fake fur Blankley. Here's yesterday's Ugly Food Log (click to enlarge)

Off Topic = OT ; hehe

OT, but hey @Matt Z love the new avi!

Oh, I also read somewhere about a study that found almost no correlation between pouch size and weight loss success after bariatric surgery. So consider your bigger pouch a gift! :-) Yes, I believe the study showed no correlation up to being able to eat 9oz maybe? I can't remember if that's by volume or weight? I can eat 9oz of volume. LOL. I can eat probably 12oz by volume. :crap:

@Sosewsue61 Yummy dinner!!! LOL on the wine! What happens at Quilt Week? Very inventive use of the hotel girlie. WTG! Do they have "suites" where you are? They are hotels that have a little sitting area/kitchenette with a stove top and sink--even an apartment sized fridge and dishwasher! Many come with the plates, forks, and glasses you need too. They are less expensive that "nice hotels" even. $80-$119/night? We love staying in those types of places cuz of being able to cook. Your food looks and sounds delish!!!

I also have a very generous capacity, but my doc does not seem concerned. I just make very sure to eat lean protein, low fat, low calorie, low carb, lol low everything! And I eat my 3oz or 4oz of dense protein first, then fill up with low glycemic veggies and salads that are pretty low in fat (a tiny bit so I can assimilate the fat soluble vitamins in them). So far it's working. But yeah, I envy those with tiny pouches.