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This is just me, so do your thang and happy you found something to work for you. But, my surgeon said no protein drinks over 200cals. At that point they become "milk shakes" and further, I didn't have bariatric surgery just to down massive quantities of calories and carbs in a protein drink. The purpose of protein drinks is to get nourishment down your piehole for the ABSOLUTE FEWEST calories while maxing protein. In a protein drink you want way more than 1g of protein per 10cals. And this is falling short. I can have a Premier for 160cals and get 25-30g protein. Or I can have an isopure for about 140cals and get 25g. Sorry. But I also don't want to activate the hedonic pleasure center by linking my "milk shake" with my protein drink. This is the time to retrain your brain.

Oh wow! Totally missed this thread! Congrats on 5 years and for inspiring me in the early days! I adore that you've been so successful addressing the regain and are living well!!

@NightPilgrim How are you doing with your 5lb quest? Are you back on track?? Funny (notfunny) but at 18months, I too am struggling with the desire to eat at night--and eat not so great things!! Or eat too much of a good thing. One thing that is oddly satisfying to me again and is such a small snack that it doesn't hurt too badly is - Sugar free Jello Cups with a spoon of Greek Yogurt or an ounce of kefir poured over it. Use the unflavored and just let the sweetness of the jello flavor the yogurt or kefir. Here was my snack last night and it filled me up and let me quit obsessing about a square of chocolate. You could even have 6 Lily's Dark Chocolate Chips and a fresh strawberry on top for not much more! Thirty two cals is a bargain, right?!! Here it is with about 6 chocolate chips and a medium strawberry. Still a massive snack bargain for the ROI.

Dang!! Missed this one too! Love the outfit and you look so willowy and fit!! Let us know how the Dexa turned out!

Woooooot!!!! Congrats hon! You look amazeballs!!!! You're crushing recovery!

Dumping is different and involves your blood sugar going very low which causes nausea, sweating, throwups, shakes, fast heart rate. (It's usually a result for some people who have too many carbs/sugar at one time or who might have too much fat.) It can also result in big D. You're talking about foamies/throwups from not chewing your food, eating too fast, or eating the wrong thing that your tum doesn't like. It actually gets stuck in your pouch. It may also cause a RH (reactive hypoglycemia) attack which would lead to the dumping phenomenon...but only cuz it's stuck in your tool and your body released insulin on what it "thought" you were about to send down the pipes that didn't end up showing up.

Wow congrats!!!

@sillykitty ((HUGS!!)) TY for such a thoughtful post. Gosh you all are so kind to really help me think this through and process! So now I'm gonna go cogitate on it and then I will reply. MUAH!

Yay!!! Good luck and welcome to the club! I'm doing a Dinner - to - Dinner fast today with a 1 hour eating window. Happy Monday!

Tooo cute! I totally want this outfit!

IKR? I know when I eat higher carb, I feel like crap the next day. Aches, and so so lethargic. Like there's no way I can do my "ralking". And so I just walk slowly for my time frame. It's very weird. And that's the only thing I can think of contributing to it?

LOL, ok, so here's the question though. If the way I've been eating has resulted in this chart where I gain/lose the same lbs each week, aren't I already ON the forever plan? And there won't be any "loosening" cuz if I loosen, don't you think that will result in a gain? Here's my weight loss graph from this past year. LOL. It kinda sucks!

When is surgery and how long on your pre-op diet? Congrats!

So cute! Pinkie Tuscadero!

I officially called maintenance this weekend, thanks to my BPals and my surgeon. And it's a total mindfu*k to be honest. Cuz even now, it feels like I'm "faking" and just horning in on y'alls thread (you know the people who are bonafide in maintenance--the club I don't belong to cuz I haven't gotten there yet)...so weird. So far it doesn't feel very different than when I was in WLM--foodwise?

I think that's absolutely possible. I also think that maybe you could have "carb hangover" from your desserts?

Yep. So. so. so. slow.

I didn't experience a huge shift in my taste or preferences post op. I think cuz I was already low carb and in ketosis prior to surgery. Things did seem a bit sweeter, but not drastically and so I just adjusted things by adding protein drinks to things: 1. Decaff Coffee (blend or on ice, or hot! YUM!): Bananas and Cream + Decaff = the bomb = CocomoJoe Coffee (iced or hot or blended) 2. Decaff Tea (any fruit flavored like strawberries and cream, peaches and cream, etc) = flavortown 3. Fairlife Fat Free Milk + any flavor protein drink = yummy! 4. Clear Premier Protein Fruit Punch or Orange Mango + water = delish and refreshing! 5. Isopure Unflavored Protein Powder + broths + spices = delish 6. Synthrax Nectar = Lemon Iced Tea, or Pink Grapefruit, or Fuzzy Navel = LOVE 7. Any Premier Protein Fruit Flavor mixed with Greek Yogurt or Plain Kefir to make a drinkable yogurt or yogurt soup. I still use Premier Protein Drinks and love: Bananas and Cream Strawberries and Cream Peaches and Cream Chocolate Vanilla

Yum! (I'm making Toscana Soup tonight. )

To this day, I mute commercials and close my eyes!

Yay!!! @AZhiker Congrats on your 3 day retreat!!!! Were you able to find peace in the cabin/outdoors?!!! Your schedule sounded lovely!!! And so fun! I just kinda look forward to Monday's and Tuesday's cuz for the most part, those are my super fast days. I usually eat dinner and a shake--and also try to keep my cals very low on those days.

That's not the point. The point is that he was experiencing pain at his anastamosis site and the doc told him that if it wasn't better, that he wanted to get a CT scan of the Y-connection which is at the roux limb. My guess is that he was wanting to check that he didn't have any candy cane stuff or bowel blockage going on.

Yikes. That doesn't feel like a good thing. I agree, ask your surgeon to refer you to a bariatric therapist to work through things. ((hugs)) I think the vomiting is where you cross the line. I think there is nothing wrong with daily weighing and with eating on a scheduled plan to avoid regain. We are supposed to adopt new behaviors with food and eat healthy most of the time.

Nope. Can you ask for expansion of that?

Congrats girl!!!! WTG!!