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Great post @RickM

What causes it? Kale? or matcha? Give it to me straight. I can take it...

Yikes. So you've got a stricture! Hope they resolve it soon! No fun ((hugs)) and heal quickly! Yeah, forgot about the whole ethics thing. But hey, appreciation is awesome!

Wow! Congrats girl! You look amazing and so happy!

I think you need to text him and ask him out! What is esophageal webbing and how do you resolve it? Sorry to hear about your emergency endo! So glad the bypass is looking awesome!!! Yay, you!!! Yay on travelling!

As everyone said, nuts and nut butters are high in fat and carbs for a much smaller protein return. So at first, I don't think they are very good tummy real estate investment. At first, I had so many problems with them. They made me so nauseous--cuz of the fat and heaviness of them. But I was able to do the PB2 just fine (de-fatted) and that is actually a pretty good calorie bargain. It mixes well in smoothies and Greek yogurt. Now I can finally deal with an ounce of nuts or 1-2Tbsp of nut butter. But I do make sure they fit my macro goals for the day. It adds all three macros: fat, carbs, protein.

Are you seeing a nutritionist?

I was trying to eat like a bariatric patient. She told me that she needed me to eat to lose weight, but that I needed to be up around 1500cals. Cuz I was only eating 800-900 cals at the time. She wanted my metabolism going stronger so there was more of a shock to it after the surgery. You would still lose weight at 1500 cals in a Weight Watchers style diet...especially as a dude.

Yes. I'm just telling you that she made me go up to 1500 cals on the 6months leading into surgery. Then 2 weeks before the surgery, I went on the pre-op liquid diet that had up to 1000cals/day 80-100g of protein, low low carb (shakes only with broth, sf jello, sf popsicles). After surgery, I was having around 300-500 cals in that 2 weeks after surgery.

My doctor told me pre-op that I needed to be eating around 1500cals, so my body would get the advantage of a sudden drop in calories after the surgery. Make sure you are getting enough cals/nutrition in right now so that you do lose weight, but aren't starving or the surgery might not be as effective. You want your metabolism amped up still. Here's a good link to healthy low glycemic selections of all kinds of food (scroll down to see fruits, fats, meats, etc): https://www.dietdoctor.com/low-carb/keto/vegetables

This is SOOO me! LOL

Ok, congrats!!! But whuuuuh? Spill it. What are your "few issues"? And how come you did't share? I figured something was wrong cuz you've been missed lately! And secondly...I'm afraid we need visuals or he doesn't exist! 4 Times?!!! Woot!

I get my omega 3's in by eating 3 servings or more of fatty fish per week: sardines, salmon, tuna, cod, baramundi, monkfish.

Call your doc. Time for an appointment.

You're doing great! Congrats! Continue with your healthy foods! Don't revert back to eating bad crap. You've now had 30days of clean living to help break that bond/habit. Right? So reverting will just re-awaken and reinforce the habit. Add foods slowly and one at a time. That way you can see and know which food affects you and how. I added eggs first, then a couple days later, I added poached/foil pouch white fish filets. I did well with both. Then I added canned tuna and canned chicken with low cal, low carb gravy. Or made it into an egg salad: 1 pouch/can tuna in water (or chicken/salmon/crab) 1 hard boiled egg, mashed with fork 1/4c cottage cheese (65g) 1/8c Greek yogurt (30g) 1 tsp Dijon Mustard 1 tsp dill pickle relish (optional) granulated garlic s/p Mix everything together and enjoy. I started with eating 1/8c - 1/4c of this every 2-3 hours.

Have a great first day of school work!!! You look perfect!!

Here you go. I just eat minimally of fats except the fat inherently in the food and a tiny bit of olive oil spray. Most of my fat is in the meat, or in a few nuts, or in an ounce of avocado. I have any other fat from my ass to feed me. No need to put it in my body and have to burn it off as energy first before I can burn my ass fat. This comes from Dr. Ben Bickman. You can YouTube him. He's brilliant. Approved-Foods-List_InsulinIQ_BenBikman.pdf

Thanks, so he wants you to actively puree your food? Or are you allowed to chew it to a pureed consistency? I just made foil pangasius (like tilapia but flakier and moister) which is perfect soft food stage. And it started out as a 5oz raw filet. It cooked down to 3oz by weight. And I flaked it and it fit exactly into 1/2 cup measuring cup. So for my food log, I put in 5oz of raw pangasius. I ate 5oz prepared from raw. Protein count on that is 19g. I would think that 1/2c volume would present an issue for you and leave with no extra room for any bite of veg. Are you not allowed to have 3 meals and 1-2 snacks? Cuz a better plan would look like 5-6 mini meals of a 1/4 cup each, to get your protein in. And even then, you might need to supplement with 1 shake per day to give you 30g of protein advantage.

Your satiety/fullness feeling will improve with denser foods. So like eating canned tuna will give you more satiety than yogurt. Cottage cheese will give you more satiety than either yogurt or protein drinks. Eggs depending on how you eat them will give you a lot more satiety than other proteins even. The wetter a food is, the more of a slider it becomes. So if you have trouble with meat sticking, one solution is "meat lube" to eat each bite with a low cal low carb gravy. And it goes down easier--cuz it's wet. And by the time you work up to the final stage of lean dense proteins, then you will or should have satiety in place after your appropriate size meal.

Can you take a pic and post some of their examples of appropriate foods for your stage III? One doc's stage 3 might be another doc's stage 4 and so on...thanks!

Wow! Thanks for posting this. Docs are SOOOO different! They are referencing 3-4oz by weight = about 21g of protein. But the crazy thing is that 3-4oz may occupy as much as 1/2c-1cup of volume!!! That's just nutzo and asking to stretch your tool, hon! Especially in the early days where you don't have a good grasp on satiety and a lot of what you are eating will be sliderish food. You can probably handle 1/2 cup of yogurt. But 1/2cup of cottage cheese might give you some issue. Right? You might do just fine with pureed cream of chicken soup, but 1/2 cup of refried beans will land you in pain before you realize you're full. Right? Hmmm. Dunno how to help here...

At 12 days? I don't think so. Take a pic of it and post it for us. At 12 days many of us were still on pure liquids. Liquids you might be able to do 3-4oz of a protein drink at a meal...maybe, maybe not. But solids it's 1/8-1/4 cup max volume. That is about 1oz of protein by weight. One ounce of protein by weight (think ground turkey) occupies about 3/16 cup (almost 1/4cup) of volume! I'm 18 months and my forever diet is supposed to only be 1 cup by volume. In that volume, I can fit about 3-4oz of protein by weight = about 7g per ounce of weight.

Please follow your surgeon's and RD's post op progression diet complete with quantities. 1/2 cup at 12 days is way too much food and can damage your tool, or cause complications. Each doc does it differently. But at 12 days post op, I was on 1-2oz of food by volume. That is maximum of 1/8-1/4 cup by volume MAXIMUM at each meal. Do not exceed your rules hon. You are early out. And the nerves were cut. So your pouch won't/might not signal satiety right now. I think I was 3 months out before I felt cues from my pouch that I was actually full. Until then, I just followed their volume guidelines explicitly.

I'm scared to ask where the graft came from...my PS and I have a strict "no who-ha" zone pact between us.