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Looks great!

Stop it! Anytime you post amazing stuff like this, if you do not follow immediately with your "Where's Waldo/What Changed" pic of your afters, we're gonna have to severly fine you 15 yard for penalties in the backfield. That looks seriously...SERIOUSLY ahhhhh-mayyyy-zing!!!! Hell, I'd get up for that "breakfast!" Wait! Maybe that IS a pic of your afters? bahahahahaha!!!

How's everyone doing? Anyone IFing? I am not IF today although I did make it 14 effortless hours. Then I ate all of Houston. Tomorrow though I've got a heller IF schedule: clear liquids all. damn. day + 2 bowel preps + craptons of water, green tea, black coffee, non-red/orange (what other forking color is there?) sf jello/liquids. This will last a minimum of 36 hours, but I'm thinking it will be more like 40-48 hours. Wooohooo! Good times. I'm sending a steak down tonight to do recon!

Woohooo! How did everyone do? So Saturday (Day 7 for me) ended up with me face down doing obscene things to a sausage on a stick and a giant pretzel with mustard. German Christmas Market here...did so well until then. I ended up this morning with the following stats: Start: Day 1 Weight: 152.4lbs Waist Size: 29.5inches End: Day 8 Weight: 151.6lbs* Waist Size: 29.5inches (This is a temporary fluctuation from Saturday's poor choices. I was down to 149lbs on Friday.) Sooooo...even after my transgression on Saturday I ended up a little lower than I began. I have to say, it's a great plan if you're someone who hates veggies. For anyone else, it's sheer torture. And not worth it. I'd much rather do Atkins in any derivation. Not that eat so much contraband, so sugar alcohol subtraction doesn't trip me up or fool me into thinking I can lose weight while eating junk with 100s of grams of sugar alcohols--I do believe that most of us can safely subtract the fiber in veggies and things like psyllium, etc. So I will continue doing my low fat Atkins (with a lower CCL than usual) and will probably net it out. Cuz um, I rationalize. Have I mentioned that? I wish I'd stopped to take a pic. This was brekky this morning and it was VLC (very low carb, super low cal for the protein buck) and I was perfectly satisfied. No angst or carb/veggie envy at all. To me, this is just the "balanced approach" that works for me. It was an egg foldover - like a fluffy egg taco that you fold in half and eat with the guts of turkey, lite cheese, and arugula. Yummy! Edited: It was actually arugula but I clicked on the wrong button cuz I'm so used to having super greens rather than arugula. But they're pretty much the same macros.

New Crush (I've had it for a long time, but it's just a re-awakened desire for the peppery little feathery leaves!) Who knew baby arugula was such a beguiling and charming little coquette? I will add it to everything that stands still and dress it with a tiny spritz of Dijon vinaigrette. I'd add it to Mr. F. or you if you stand still long enough! Arugula an absurdly great nutrient bargain on its own! I made an "egg foldup" for 2nd brekky, like a Spanish tortilla steamed with the lid on until done and puffy. Then topped with blackened turkey, BH lacy swiss, arugula and fresh basil. MI-T-FINE! Sorry no pics. I sucked it down too quickly...yeah on that whole mindful eating. I mindfully watched that my fingers did not get in the way as I shoved it down my pie hole. Do you have any new food finds?

Woohoooo! WTG!!! Cute figure and love the new confidence!!! Congrats !

Proctor - or even shorter..."procto" and then in relation to gas. Not nearly as funny when explained, but I heart nose and potty humor so I was easily amused by it.

Feel my pain, bi*ches! bahahahaha!

My intention is for you to be realistic, but not dissuade you from doing plastics! I've had 3 very very serious plastic reconstructive surgeries and each time I severely underestimated my tolerance for the pain, exhaustion and inconvenience that was part of the process. I'm about to undergo my 4th and I hope last reconstruction. And I've had to ask myself about this over and over again. I was seriously into month 4 before I "turned the corner" and was at 6 months before I felt like myself. Not intending to be negative but it was the most painful stuff I've ever experienced. I could just be unique in it though. I just wished someone had warned me about the freight train heading my way each time.

LOL. This isn't magic bean surgery. You have to (at least IIIIIII have to) put the work in. LOL. I weigh/measure and track my food every meal. And I log it. It's the only way I know when I go sideways and then I absolutely know what to fix. Instead of rationalizing and bs'ing my way back up the weight loss charts to full blown obesity. It's as simple and as hard as that. At 6+ years post op, your tum is very mature and I bet able to eat a full plate of food. Which should scare the livin' fu*k out of you. I can eat 1/2 a plate at 10 months and I'm terrified!

Ask yourself if you can handle a good month of fairly high level pain. Ask yourself if you can handle another couple of months of discomfort and not feeling like yourself/feeling tired, out of sorts, back aches from not standing up fully, and if you're ok with wearing body compression garments and all the hassle that entails. Ask yourself if you can be patient and not over-do for the 2-4 months while you heal without ripping sutures from over-doing.

I'm back! Yesterday was German Christmas Market in our little town and it was colder than hell but so fun and we got home late last night, then I had to crash after a lot of poor behavior that I won't detail.

Don't eat everything while I'm away!

Ahhhhhhh! Bach! Ok, that makes sense! I thought you were sayin' you felt like you needed to do a "5 Day Pouch Reset" to punish yourself make yourself go back to small portions and be a good bariatric patient.

Congrats!!! I'm a fan girl!!!!

I wasn't gonna live without my veggies. So for weeks I ate 2oz protein (dense) + 1oz veg. Then it grew to be 3oz protein (dense) + 1oz veg, then 3oz protein + 2oz veg, then 3oz protein + 3oz veg. Now it's currently for meats 3/3. But for fish it is 4oz fish + 3oz veg for the meal. You know when to progress cuz you become less satisfied with the meal or get hungry sooner.

I agree with you! Wish @Matt Z would show up here to discuss this and his experience! Dr. Bombay! Calling Dr. Bombay!!! (Calling Ed Burns! Dr. Ed Awesome Sauce Burns!)

You can also just update your ticker (every day if you want). And it will update you automatically everywhere else except in your signature. Go up to your name in upper right, click on the pull down menu and click "Ticker". Then click edit and go through the 4 screens. Save your work, make sure it shows to show in signature and you're done!

Exactly!!! Anything calorie dense for me is either limited to a "treat" status and I use TINY TINY portions of...or I just don't eat them. And hahahaha! It's totes strange when I have afters! It's like a cause for celebration here! I can eat the hell outta salads and soups. My soups are brothy cuz I prefer that to calorie dense creamy soupy stewps, and so I "drink the broth first" until it's like moist solids left and then eat the solids. So I may serve myself 2 cups of soup, but only then measure into it 1/2-3/4c of solid matrix with 2-3oz of that being meat.

^^^^This! This!!!^^^^ Same exact thing here!!! A million times. I just have to stick to my portion that I weigh and measure out each time! But um, it's "mature pouch" servings--not necessarily "bari".

I can only imagine. In some ways it must feel like you've received a "get out of jail free" card? Cuz it has been so bad for you--for so so long. Right? And plus the whole Fatsgiving Christmas holiday calendar can't make it very easy either!!! I do think you just have to feel your way along onward through the fog. And for each of us it's different. But I can say 1/2glass of liquid with a meal makes a significant difference in the satiety of my meal...don't ask how I know this. hehe!!! And yeah the only thing I have found that makes me sick is too high fat in the meal. I have now tried sf candy and even a bite of dessert. No problemo. *sob*

No. I can't beat that. I'm thinking maybe no one can! But maybe cuz it's cause you said "proctor" in connection to gurgly gas sounds? bahahahaha ?

These are often in my Walgreens or CVS. Or you can order from Amazon. Just pour them into bottles of water and shake them--flat flavored water.

So this is exactly like I feel with my RNY. I'm thinking that as you progress out a couple of months you will begin to feel greater restriction. You may never feel restriction from pasta, rice, quinoa, etc + all cracker/chip/shenanigans. You will likely feel restriction on solid/dense/dry-sauce free meats, seafood, etc. And al dente veg will probably also fill you up as well. I also think though, that part of drinking while eating (because it's necessary for your esophagus stuff) is gonna pose an extra challenge for you. It means you will be able to eat more cuz it's pushing stuff through your pouch and stoma by making a slurry in your pouch. So you will just have to have a game plan to keep to really super low/healthy stuff most of the time since you will likely be able to eat more. Or you could try to back off of the drinking by tiny amounts and see how it goes? Congrats on being close to goal girl!!