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Dude, don't blame the tool for a ridiculous recipe! LOL. Blenders rock. The thinking that went into formulating and executing that recipe needs to study how to eat before and after WLS!!! Seriously.

Blenders are great ideas. That recipe sucks big green donkey dicks!

This is an absolutely RIDICULOUS recipe and ill-advised for normie (pre-op) and most especially post op peeps! First off it follows a premise that "If a little is 'ok' or 'acceptable', then a f**king CRAPTON of the same things shouldn't be any big deal." Bull caca. Let's take a look at this recipe from MFP: That jug of liquid sugar/ "milk shake" probably makes a quart of drink, maybe only 28oz. And I will bet you dollars for donuts you drank it in 2-3 sittings within 2 hours of each other. I bet you did. You sent your blood sugar and insulin on a roller coaster! 123 carbs and 61g of SUGAR in it dude! Welcome to the obesity ball! Seriously! If you try to do that after surgery? OMG. I would be spiraling from dumping. WAYYYYYY too much sugar! WAYYYY too many carbs, and so many many many useless calories! GAH! Here's a very thick, lovely alternative that is more in keeping. It makes about 20oz. At 1 year, I will drink the whole thing as a meal then not eat or drink for 4-6 hours after that.

This is so sad! And the big take away for each of us should be, that they said “people who have regains of large amounts of their surgical weight loss may have a much higher risk of mortality within 2 years of the regain.” This is very sobering isn’t it? In other words, the stakes are very high in our obesity intervention, and we must change our lives for the better to guard against regain and high risk of death.

Congrats to both of you!!! That's fabulous!!! WTG! IDK what to do about summer beach body. I'm doing my walking and that's about it. I need to get back into doing resistance bands/exercises.

@Alpaca55 I'd talk to your RD if your program has one that works with the team? Or call your cardiologist's nurse maybe? I wish I could tell you but I just don't know! ((hugs))

Any protein clumps up in super hot things. Protein powders coagulate (looks yukky, tastes lumpy/icky, but is relatively safe) at around 140degrees. So you should only drink it "medium warm". LOL. I use an instant read on those occasions when I'm using it in soup.

Wow girl! Be so careful! I don't know about how this stuff affects A-fib, but you should def be working with your cardiologist's full knowledge of what you are doing diet wise! A low carb diet is very dehydrating. So you could have lower-ish potassium and electrolytes. Or it could set off electrical storms from the hormone disruption and increase in things like cortisol, norepinephrine, those things! Be careful and keep us tuned into how the ablation goes!!! I'm so happy you are seeing results and are happy! Just please be careful! (Oh, and post more!)

Wooohoooo! Congrats girl!!! That's fabulous news!!!

*drool* More soup for me tonight on account of cold, but next Tuesday? Color me taco flavored!

Wooohoooo! Good morning World! I'm dressed, make-uped, and adulting this morning despite fighting a fierce cold! It's 6:22am and I'm having a cup of black coffee and waiting to leave for the doctor's office for my 1 year check-up. Thanks to 3 solid days of 18:6 with great food behaviors, I am down to 142.2lbs this morning and met my "mini goal" for this check-up. I'm gonna call it as 80.2lbs lost since morning weigh in for surgery. That morning I was 222.4lbs and could not even imagine what it would feel like to weigh 150lbs. Now days, every pound lost in this weight bracket is a milestone. I haven't been this weight since that one week as a senior in high school, hopped up on Ionamin (legal weight loss drugs we called yellow mollies--maybe it's phentermine or some derivative--dunno--just say, "Speed" and you'll get it) and eating ice cubes, lettuce leaves and air while playing varsity tennis and swimming. Oh lort! I thought I was so fat then, cuz I outweighed any other female classmate by at least 20lbs if not 30! Feels good. I probably won't do a "1 year" post until I meet my 2nd goal. I hope that's by early next week, but who knows. The one thing I've learned in my life is that I cannot attach a goal date to a goal weight. The two never coincide! Nevs! How are each of you doing?

Show me tacos!!! How many can y'all eat? (crispy beef or chicken tacos) How much until you are "just" satisfied rather than "finished"?

Just lazy for me. Plus trying to refocus my brain to think: How much nutrition can I get into my body, for the least amount of food per meal? (ie How small a volume of the most densely nutritious and satisfying food can I get away with to take my hunger away for the longest amount of time?) rather than... How much food can I get into my body at 1 meal?

Wow @James Marusek! Great great responses!!! Sorry OP for the troubles you are having!! One thing to also bring up...is that GERD has a strong component in lung health or unhealth. GERD contributes or can cause pneumonia (from aspiration and micro aspirations of acid and food). It also keeps too much mucus going and can cause your body to ramp up the inflammatory process. All of it increases asthma/colds/pneumonia/infection, etc. My GI guy wants me to take my 40mg of prescription omeprazole by emptying the capsule onto a single teaspoon of unsweetened applesauce cuz it's easier absorbed. Since doing that, I feel my esophagus feeling better and my cough going away again.

Have we seen this interview with Dr. Fung yet? It's about Leptin & Insulin Resistance? There was a seminal learning moment for me where he told the chief difference between a calorie restricted diet and intermittent fasting and why one drives your metabolic rate down over the long term and why the other (IF) does not! I swear it was a lightbulb moment for me.

Ok I get ya! ((hugs)) Hope you don't have the BRCA mutations...very prevalent in people of Ashkinazi descent... (Eastern European). I am only wanting "easy button" solutions to eating. I too find myself falling back into yogurt, and green smoothies cuz they are easy, quick, and the way I make them--filling. I wouldn't say I'm bored with food. Cuz I still love great food! I'm just tired of making stuff. Make sense?

Sorry for shorthanding. What I was implying is...without nuts as a source of protein, your soy consumption is going to go up. And as for my onc, he forbids his patients to eat phytoestrogens so that means the worst ones are: soy, flax, chia, hemp, Nigella seeds, lots of dairy. So if you have a history of hormone positive cancer in your family, it's best to stay away from eating things that contains these as much as possible. And for sure you should have to if you are BRCA positive. So even though I can't cut out dairy completely, I try to keep it to a dull roar.

Yeah. You know, the dose makes the poison. I'm a mid-hedonist, so on the very small times when I use AS, I use what works for the job. I still use SNL for iced tea. Love it. The pink packs. I'm a child of the 60s and 70s. I use some SF Davinci and Torani. I use some liquid stevia stuff. I use Swerve and things like that on the few times I bake and need the bulk of a sweetener. I doubt very seriously if anyone will be able to write on my tombstone: It Wot The Artificial Sweeteners Wot Dunn Her In LOL. But having said that, I eat very cleanly with few packaged productized food. So my dose is by my own hand, not a manufacturer who hides that crap in every damn thing whether it's sweet or savory. Some savory foods DO NOT NEED ANY SWEETENER OF ANY KIND!!!! (I feel like I'm yelling. Am I? )

So yeah...we all know that the current Dr. V. is kinda on a whacked journey. But he still has kernels of real knowledge. For all you doing a "5-Day Pouch Reset" cuz you think your tool is stretched out...you might wanna watch!

@GreenTealael I think I'm sorry to hear this from you!! Please at least tell me you have no hormone positive cancer in your family and that you've been tested for the BRCA genes?

There will be emotional rollercoasters girl! Hang on! But they pass. There is always an end to the moment!! And you will be on to living your fit fabulous life!

@GrandDivaFee Welcome! Hope you will come post and play with us! I'm a full believer in IF--especially with getting off the last pounds, but even more--in continuing the healing that comes from hormesis (WLS + IF) . My insulin levels went from the high teens down to a 2! A 2! I've never in my life had a 2 insulin! @GreenTealael OMG! Cabbage, carrots, and kale a trifecta of colon bombing! But oh. so. good!!!! Glad the Gas X works! I love the GasX strips (I buy on Amazon). Yeah...so OMAD. I think OMAD may only be made for normies? Cuz of their bigger capacity to eat. Cuz something I'm still confused about is...if on OMAD you're not supposed to gorge, just how do you satisfy nutritional needs? I gotta go back and listen to some of our boyz to figure that one out. Cuz it's just too much food for me and too much blood sugar/insulin spike. I think that may be part of my RH problem. I'm crying in my matcha over here about your losing that loving feeling for your nuts! I can only handle them in small quantities. They sit very heavy and can make me RH/dump with serious low bg and nausea. I'm gonna do a 16:8 today. Down to 143PP (pre-poopy) Wooohoooo!

Awwww! So sad about the gas girl!! What did you eat that set it off? How r u feeling now? I had to give up on OMAD cuz of some vitamin deficiencies. ? But today was shooting 4 2 meals plus a protein drink and couldn’t do it. Made it an 18:6 with an Ostrim stick plus leftover chix and green soup tonight. Ugh getting Mr. F’s cold.

Thanks lady! I love questions like the OP's thread. It helps me hold my "I'm failing WLS paranoia" to a minimum! I know my diet will never be able to emulate yours. You are an elite athlete and I'm just a shmo who struggles with the self-motivation to walk an hour per day! So my needs are few comparatively. But seeing/hearing your quantity helps me not to freak out that I feel like I am a little "hangry" with my little 1 cup of food at 1 year. And yeah, I also concentrate on protein first (lean, dry, dense etc.) and that does help for reals. But if I let myself I could seriously eat 1 1/4 to 1 1/2 cups of food at 1 year: lean dense protein + al dente veg + avocado/tomato

How are you doing? Are you still in the hospital? ((hugs))