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Omg I just ate (forgot to take fotos :p) but I drooled with this foto hahahahha You made one?

Yay!! That's what it's all about! Congrats!

If you're going to do that, then go for a conversion to vsg or rny from band. Just my 2 cents. Welcome to the group!

Congrats! What an amazing transformation!!! You nailed it!

Congrats! WTG!

Are they crunchy?

Wowza! You look great!

Sure. There will be little you CAN'T eat. The question is always gonna be "SHOULD" you eat it? I do a lower fat version of low carb. After my bypass surgery, I have a hard time with very fatty meals/foods. Steak does just fine with me. Love it. I can handle about 2oz of sausage if it isn't greasy and about 1oz of salami, but have to be careful with the cheese cuz it not only stops me up, but makes me hurl.

The 64000$$ question! The answer is I have no idea. I've had 2 episodes of late dumping (about 2hours after the previous meal). I didn't think either meal was particularly heavy in carbs. So it was hidden sugar that was the culprit perhaps? In general I avoid any meal with more than 5g of sugar per serving. I try to keep below 20g of total carbs in a 4-6 hour window with the idea that at least 8g of those carbs would be taken up by fiber. I don't have the nuts required to try anything more than one spoonful of rice or pasta or potatoes. I have had a slice of bread/part of a roll, but I am so careful about portion and it is very infrequent. I also use meal combining with fat and protein and fiber to try to slow how quickly it hits my blood stream. In general I eat pretty clean: dense protein, low glycemic veg and a tiny bit of lg fruit, small amounts of healthy fats.

Ok, re: bamboo tea. You have to be careful of using this tea if you have or have had estrogen/progesterone positive breast or other hormone positive cancer. You also need to be careful of it if you are pregnant or are trying to get preggers. Bamboo tea is frequently adulterated by carnation plants (dianthus) which looks like young bamboo shoots. And those have an estrogen effect and a utero taxing effect. Sad, cuz I would have tried it. But I stay away from phytoestrogens when known.

Can you throw some links up please? TY!

I use eye shadow for your scalp. I use Toppik. I use this sticky powder to volumize, hair products that thicken. And hair spray. LOL. And I take my vitamins and get my protein and pray. For tiny baby hairs.

Ahhhh PUI (Posting Under the Influence) Good times! Jazz hands! Congrats to you! Have you heard from your hub or kiddos? Are the girls ok?

Congrats! That's phenomenal! WTG you! Walk around inside your house of look up Walk Away the Pounds with Leslie Sansone - so much fun! She's on YouTube. Or look up doing pilates on YouTube and go buy bands at Walmart.

You just gotta ride the wave now. Pre-op Mag Citrate liquid was my go-to. But post surg, even 1 or 2 oz goes through like Sherman through Georgia. So fast. So painful. Fetal position rocking and moaning terrible. Once it's in you, nothing is gonna stop it until you get all the crap out of you--literally. Sorry. Hope it eases quickly. Make sure to get your fluids in. Keep trying to take sips of water. Now the key is to keep everything open and not allow yourself to go 14 days. That's just wrong. At 3 days no BM, I'm formulating a plan for day 4. But my recipe so far is: 17g Miralax 3 Colace 11g whole psyllium dissolved in 2 glasses of iced tea 1/2c yogurt 1 GG brancrisp cracker with 1tbsp almond butter before bedtime lots of leafy greens and broccoli and cruciferous veg 100oz water DAILY. Every. Damn. Day. I'm finally having lovely fluffy movements every day that I follow those rules. It was Rosemary's Baby bad before that.

What a blast! You're doing great. Can't wait to see more piccys!!!

That looks so good!!!!! Think I may try that next week. Don’t think my teenage boys will go for it but def for me and my husband Almond flour works as a great sub for the sesame flour. Or any kind of defatted nut flour--even pecan flour! Hope you like it.

Not to toot my own horn or anything, but these are totally the bomb.com. I want to try making them in the air fryer. http://fluffychixcook.com/crunchy-low-carb-fried-zucchini-grilled-cheese-gluten-free/

Congrats!!!! You look fabotastic!!!

You know there is a difference between "ideal" and goal weight right? Just to nerd out on you, "ideal" weight is a very specific metric based on pretty archaic insurance charts. And for women (don't know for men), you use this formula to calculate it: 100lbs for the first 5 feet. 5lbs for every inch over 5 feet. So for me, a 5'4" woman of average build, I have a theoretical "ideal" weight of ABOUT 120lbs give or take. I asked my cardiologist if 120lbs was a reasonable goal. He said, he doubted very seriously if I could get there and that he didn't really think it is do-able for most people, not just me. But the wls peeps use ideal weight to calculate your theoretical expected weight loss for your type of surgery and they also compute a theoretical "goal range" for most of us--whether or not they are willing to disclose that information, they still calculate and track it for each of us. My theoretical goal based on my ideal weight and based on my surgery was 156lbs. My 1st goal for myself was 150lbs. Now I'm going for goal #2 140lbs which puts me slightly under the mark on a weight chart where I'm in "normal weight range". My goal #3 is to get to 130lbs. My doctors think I should be able to do that if I really apply myself. So even at 130lbs as a goal, and even though I'm a "normal weight" for a woman my size, and even though I will have met and exceeded the expected/targeted % of expected weight loss...I will still be 10lbs heavier than my "ideal weight." This morning I am 32% fat (different than BMI) by Tanita and that fluctuates wildly with hydration. I go from 26% fat in the afternoons to 32% fat in the mornings. So by that metric, I have about 47lbs of fat sitting on my frame. Of that 47lbs of fat, I have what "they" figure is 13-14lbs of ESSENTIAL fat. That's the fat I must have on my body to continue to live. We all have something like that amount of essential fat. So accordingly, I have about 47-14=33lbs of excess fat left to lose. I think I can lose about 20lbs, but the rest of that seems impossible. And losing 20lbs still doesn't get me down to my ideal weight. Can I maintain it? I believe I can as long as I take each day as a new chance to live healthy and eat my best and exercise. I too am low carb/defacto keto, and get only "adequate protein". I also eat very low glycemic foods and try to get my daily 20g of fiber into the mix. Sorry for the book. (Oh I'm nearly 12months out and have lost 140lbs from my recent high weight.)

#5 Feb 5.2019 Three words someone who loves me (friend) would use to describe me: talented strong fun #5 Things that make me smile (pic-not a person): one word...memes (yeah I'm that chix)...just a few laughs from mah peeps.

Yep. I'm a great loser. I can lose like nobody's beeswax! But I needed the metabolic reset that my surgery gave me! I need this tool to help me stave off regain and to reset my body to really allow me to implement new behaviors with food in order to maintain this new weight for life.

Try opening the capsule of the omeprazole. My GI doc said we sometimes have trouble digesting the capsule. I take it in a spoon of applesauce (unsweetened). I take 40mg though. It made a big diff. You really need the EGD cuz of so many things. They need to see if you have eosinophils in your esophagus or if you have an ulcer, inflammation, hernia, etc. If you have eosinophils there it could be something like eosinophilic asthma or eosinophilic GERD. Totes worth $500.00.

^^^This! We want full disclosure, preferably with pics! hehe Congrats on being out of your funk. LOL. on reverse SAD. Is that a thing? For reals? So happy to hear about your shopping trip, your date, your Vaca date, and for being out of the funk!!! Wooohoooo!