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18 months now. 74 pounds gone. Bootcamp 3 -4 days per week. Eating less. Feel better

Some days I just have coffee, some days I have a Protein Shake, some days I have a soft-boiled egg and toast strips. Really depends on how hungry I am in the morning.
But generally I don’t force myself to eat Breakfast, never did - it’s the meal that can actually make me feel heavy and ill for the rest of the day.

I agree with what everyone said here. The times I lost big amounts of weight in my life, I was only eating 1 meal a day (or 1 meal + an afternoon snack). Hahaha. I didn't know I was doing IF or even doing OMAD. And I would swear that no way was I getting in 60g of Protein per day during those periods! Every other time I tried the 3 meals a day or the 3 meals + 2 Snacks, I was ALWAYS hungrier after breakfast. Even if my breakfast was low carb, high fat!
When I was immediately post op but could eat a regular diet, I did my protein coffee in the morning. And I was ok until around 11-noon for the first meal. I'd eat again around 3-4pm. But then it pushed dinner so late. So I went back to just doing black coffee in the morning and then evolved into doing IF. I heart IF. But sometimes if I've been too lenient the day before it makes me its little whining b***h for a day.

I can fit into my husband's shirts and blazers. Anytime I choose to wear them at work I end up looking like a gender bent 11th Doctor.

That is the question.
Upon close examination of my eating habits, I find that I am more likely to snack and feel head hunger when I eat breakfast within an hour of waking vs. many many hours later. This was true for me pre-op, but my nut and docs were adamant that I include breakfast in my daily diet. I have eaten 1 scrambled egg white, 3oz of turkey sausage coins, and 3oz of caramalized onion/sauteed mushrooms every day since introducing "real" food again. I wake up at 6am and eat no later 7am, even if I'm not feeling hungry. On the very few days I don't have time to make myself breakfast I pack an extra yogurt, head out the door, and forget about food until about 10:30 or 11.
Has anyone else experienced this? Do you trust your gut (pun intended) or stick to the doc's orders? I am curious to know if there are long term cons to not eating breakfast within a certain time past waking up.

This thread gives me life. Everyone is doing so well!
Here's a photo on my wedding day, 3/14/15 (Pi Day if anyone nerds out like me) and a photo from exactly one year post op 11/13/2018. In both photos I am beautiful, and in both photos I am a work in progress.

This thread gives me life. Everyone is doing so well!
Here's a photo on my wedding day, 3/14/15 (Pi Day if anyone nerds out like me) and a photo from exactly one year post op 11/13/2018. In both photos I am beautiful, and in both photos I am a work in progress.

If not hungry i don't eat period.
Once i removed the processed carbs from my diet, like we all did those first weeks after surgery, i found i wasn't hungry in the morning anymore.
I have coffee with tsp of Monk Fruit (was black)
then I eat when i get hungry around noon then around 3:30 then dinner around 7 p.m.
back to coffee with monk fruit after 8 p.m.
oh i do Decaf in the evening but full leaded in the mornings
surgeon didn't even look twice when i said same thing to him in August
go with your gut and follow up with regular blood work

This thread gives me life. Everyone is doing so well!
Here's a photo on my wedding day, 3/14/15 (Pi Day if anyone nerds out like me) and a photo from exactly one year post op 11/13/2018. In both photos I am beautiful, and in both photos I am a work in progress.

That is the question.
Upon close examination of my eating habits, I find that I am more likely to snack and feel head hunger when I eat breakfast within an hour of waking vs. many many hours later. This was true for me pre-op, but my nut and docs were adamant that I include breakfast in my daily diet. I have eaten 1 scrambled egg white, 3oz of turkey sausage coins, and 3oz of caramalized onion/sauteed mushrooms every day since introducing "real" food again. I wake up at 6am and eat no later 7am, even if I'm not feeling hungry. On the very few days I don't have time to make myself breakfast I pack an extra yogurt, head out the door, and forget about food until about 10:30 or 11.
Has anyone else experienced this? Do you trust your gut (pun intended) or stick to the doc's orders? I am curious to know if there are long term cons to not eating breakfast within a certain time past waking up.

I can fit into my husband's shirts and blazers. Anytime I choose to wear them at work I end up looking like a gender bent 11th Doctor.

I can fit into my husband's shirts and blazers. Anytime I choose to wear them at work I end up looking like a gender bent 11th Doctor.

Amazing!

This thread gives me life. Everyone is doing so well!
Here's a photo on my wedding day, 3/14/15 (Pi Day if anyone nerds out like me) and a photo from exactly one year post op 11/13/2018. In both photos I am beautiful, and in both photos I am a work in progress.

Tuna with mayo was the very first "real" food I had after the liquid/puree stage. I got one morsel into my mouth and started sobbing. My husband thought I was in pain but I just couldn't wrap my head around how magical it was to taste something flavorful that I could chew.

🎉1st Surgiversary yesterday🎉
Last of the Before and After photos, moving forward only Afters because the anticipation of the future is much moreinteresting than the indulgence of the past
(Both dresses couture,by me)

Osgood.

Tuna with mayo was the very first "real" food I had after the liquid/puree stage. I got one morsel into my mouth and started sobbing. My husband thought I was in pain but I just couldn't wrap my head around how magical it was to taste something flavorful that I could chew.

I can fit into my husband's shirts and blazers. Anytime I choose to wear them at work I end up looking like a gender bent 11th Doctor.

Ok so im not the only one. I gained 2 pounds
Makes me feel better that im not the only one

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Two pounds, Smoo pounds

I can fit into my husband's shirts and blazers. Anytime I choose to wear them at work I end up looking like a gender bent 11th Doctor.

Thanks to @FluffyChix, @skinnylife, @proudgrammy, @VSGDavid, @summerset, @wanda247, and @GreenTealael for your input! I'm crying at work from your support, assessing my negative self-talk, and coming back to Earth. Therapy is coming, as is my year follow up, so I know I will have plenty of in-person guidance as well.
As far as maintaining a regimen, I will say that I have held fast to breakfasts and lunches that are measured and nutritionally sound. My weak spots as of 10-12 months tend to be
snacking in-between meals at a new job where treats are brought in and stare at me too-large portions at dinner I suppose I've gotten over the first hurdle of recognizing what I'm doing that will impede my weight loss. Now I must continue to jump the hurdles of being kinder to myself and maintaining motivation despite the stall.

Hee hee, yes! You totally understand the nirvana that happened in my mouth at that moment! It was amazing!

Tuna with mayo was the very first "real" food I had after the liquid/puree stage. I got one morsel into my mouth and started sobbing. My husband thought I was in pain but I just couldn't wrap my head around how magical it was to taste something flavorful that I could chew.