ummyasmin

Woooooot a new challenge!!!
Your goal for this challenge: to get under 100kg
beginning weight: 104.1kg
status of surgery (pre/post/losing/maintenance): losing

Three words to describe myself: I'm a religious friendly introvert!

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Yeah I don't have very much restriction and for me, chilli is a bit of a slider food. Try some firm, dense Protein, eg 4 oz of chicken breast or prawns to gauge whether you have any level of restriction. You might find you really need to concentrate on the firm protein.

Also make sure you really work on slowing your eating because the satiety signals take about twenty minutes to kick in. Then assess whether your meal has affected your hunger. If after twenty minutes or so you find you feel satisfied on firmer protein rather than softer foods like chilli, you'll know where you get the most "bang for your satiety buck"

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Yeah I don't have very much restriction and for me, chilli is a bit of a slider food. Try some firm, dense Protein, eg 4 oz of chicken breast or prawns to gauge whether you have any level of restriction. You might find you really need to concentrate on the firm protein.

Also make sure you really work on slowing your eating because the satiety signals take about twenty minutes to kick in. Then assess whether your meal has affected your hunger. If after twenty minutes or so you find you feel satisfied on firmer protein rather than softer foods like chilli, you'll know where you get the most "bang for your satiety buck"

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Exactly [emoji12]

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Yeah I don't have very much restriction and for me, chilli is a bit of a slider food. Try some firm, dense Protein, eg 4 oz of chicken breast or prawns to gauge whether you have any level of restriction. You might find you really need to concentrate on the firm protein.

Also make sure you really work on slowing your eating because the satiety signals take about twenty minutes to kick in. Then assess whether your meal has affected your hunger. If after twenty minutes or so you find you feel satisfied on firmer protein rather than softer foods like chilli, you'll know where you get the most "bang for your satiety buck"

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Exactly [emoji12]

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Look at me, making good choices! 😮

Seared Ahi

Sure!
4 cloves garlic
3 t ginger paste
⅓ c Rice wine Vinegar
½ c soy sauce
¼ c sesame oil
2-3T tahini (you can sub Peanut Butter here)
Add sweetener to taste: liquid Splenda or swerve
Before adding sweetener, blend all ingredients in food processor. Then slowly add sweetener to taste. It's really tasty without the sweetener as well!

Surgiversary for me! Lost 97.9 lbs, size 10-12 jeans, and went to Club Monaco today to try on a top and the sales guy goes "I'll see if we have a large in the back" which on the surface sounds horrifying but Club Monaco clothes are tiny! And the large fit! And then I didn't buy it because while it fit the color just wasn't exactly what I wanted!
My friend told me when I started seriously thinking about this that the surgery had changed her life, and I thought she was being dramatic. I no longer think that. Shaking off the constant social "you're fat" pressure has been unbelievably freeing, and other people have noticed the huge change in the way I interact with the world. 10/10 would engage in radical body modification again.

I was shaving myself in the shower and I saw parts of my body that I haven't seen since I was a kid! 🤣

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I was shaving myself in the shower and I saw parts of my body that I haven't seen since I was a kid! 🤣

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I was shaving myself in the shower and I saw parts of my body that I haven't seen since I was a kid! 🤣

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I think you have a very lovely face with lots of friend potential!

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Yes, altho I wasn't diagnosed but the reflux from my band being too tight was triggering my asthma and night coughing.

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Ahahahahaha

I was shaving myself in the shower and I saw parts of my body that I haven't seen since I was a kid! 🤣

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I'm loving these childhood memory posts. It's having a peak into someone else's happiness.

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Ha! Yeah but when I was a kid I ate dog food. So who's the winner here [emoji41]

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4. Happy Childhood Memory. We lived on a farm when I was a kid, and my parents threw my brother and I a birthday party (our birthdays are three days apart). I remember it was a gorgeous sunny September day and dad had put bales of hay out for us to sit on. I felt like the sun was shining just for me and I can smell the hat even today.

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Those who've watched enough My 600lb Life will recognise that there can often be a lot of denial associated with the reality of obesegenic living.
Whether it's mistakenly thinking surgery will make weightloss "easy" or just magically happen effortlessly, or denial about what quality and quantity of calories a person consumes (pre-op and post-op), the mental side of struggling with obesity is probably the most important part.
food for many of us who need WLS, is a drug of addiction. And it whispers into to your ear to justify all the behaviours that make you addicted to it.
All I can say is, if you don't tackle the mind-games of obesity, surgery will not help you!
(putting this here so I'm not shaming any one person in particular, and the advice is to myself as much as to anyone else).
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Ha! Yeah but when I was a kid I ate dog food. So who's the winner here [emoji41]

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I'm loving these childhood memory posts. It's having a peak into someone else's happiness.

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Thanks for sharing all those memories! I could visualize them all very clearly (with a pinch of borrowed nostalgia)
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DAY 4:
Happiest Childhood Memory- I'm a military brat. My fondest memories are traveling by car on summer vacation all over the country with my sisters and brother. Seeing nothing but corn fields, traveling through Kansas. Seeing the Mojave desert in California. No worries just a carefree kid. Favorite perfume: I think it's called Bon Chic by Max Azria. It's a light not to heavy perfume.

That is a smile of pure, unadulterated joy!

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