Grapefruit

Forgot my Protein Shake on my road trip. 🤷🏽‍♀️ I hate eating stuff I shouldn’t when I don’t get to pick a “yummy” bad option! Lol I ate around the dressing.

We went to Ruth's Chris Steak House last night. They have all their nutritional information online and calories on the menu. I had 3/4 a bowl of lobster bisque and half of one of three crabcakes in the crab cake appetizer when I got full. I ate 255 calories total. In the old days I would have had an entree too. As it stands now, I have 2 1/2 crab cakes in the fridge for the weekend.

I have to pack up my current apartment to move to my new apartment. I am not looking forward to this. Part of it is going to be donating 95% of my closet, which I already know is going to give me the vapors because of course I still wonder if I'll need them a year or two down the line... I also know by midweek I'll just be chucking things into boxes at panicky random. Bleh.
I also have a friend who's recovering from a coma and stroke, and I've promised her that next time I see her I'll have some scandalous stories to share, so I have to brainstorm some seriously naughty and debauched things to do before the end of the month. She can't react much, but I told her about a recent one-night stand and her eyes went REALLY WIDE and she inclined her entire body towards me, so pretty big incentive to provide something similarly shocking. The family that's taking care of her is pretty religious in perspective so I try to balance things out by being wholly indecent (don't worry, she would appreciate this and I could recount stories she told me that would set the nursing home curtains on fire).

Ugh nothing solid on the horizon yet I'm in vacay, besides you know i'm Run Away Bae

Follow Up:
The Second Date.
This one went much better. I'm actually surprised i decided to go. I was swayed by the possibility that the first one was nerve raking for him like interviewing, and I can be intimidating because I almost never seem nervous.
I decided to remove food and stagnation and get active by choosing bowling. I got to analyze a lot of elements of his personality this way and he still seems the most genuine straight forward person I have interacted with yet.
Our personalities are still not a complete match, but who's ever is. As the night closed we talked more and the past relationships conversation returned but with a lighter tone. I made remarks in regards to my personality being divergent from his Ex's and that I don't tend to dwell on prior relationships when moving into new ones, and he let me know that he doesn't either but he wants to let me know things ahead of time so I can know info that is relevant. So I can kind of see his perspective on talking about the but if I accept a third date and it comes up again as anythibg but anecdotal I will know for sure what it really is... And I don't have time for a project.
He appears pretty down to earth not overly sugary sweet. Appropriately nice, ruggef around the edges, genuine and so far honest and straight forward about his intentions.
Wants to see me again, Still tentative on my side. If I say yes, it will likely be sometime in early 2019.

Forgot my Protein Shake on my road trip. 🤷🏽‍♀️ I hate eating stuff I shouldn’t when I don’t get to pick a “yummy” bad option! Lol I ate around the dressing.

Forgot my Protein Shake on my road trip. 🤷🏽‍♀️ I hate eating stuff I shouldn’t when I don’t get to pick a “yummy” bad option! Lol I ate around the dressing.

I am officially down more than 45 pounds! As of this morning I'm down 46 pounds- 36 post-surgery (10/17) and 10 on the pre-op diet.
Pre-op diet 10/3: 275
Surgery day 10/17: 265
Today 12/23: 229
I'm so close to 50 pounds down that I can taste it! But I won't because I don't want to ruin my progress. Lol.
This is especially sweet because I didn't make the best choices yesterday, which is rare for me, and I was feeling VERY hungry- almost like a bottomless pit that couldn't be satisfied. I just couldn't get full/satisfied! I ate about 3 times as many calories as I normally do. (Over 1500 calories yesterday as compared to my average of 500-600). It was bizarre and a little scary. Upping the Water intake today and going to watch myself closely.
79 pounds to goal weight! It's starting to feel attainable!!

Yogurt bae is back
Green tea lemon Yogurt:
2/3 cup plain greek, 2tsp Matcha, 1tsp truvia,1 dropper full of lemon stevia, 1/3 cup of crazy gluten free granola mix

Can't remember if I ever posted this either, sigh. From the days I thought I had to figure out the bread situation.
Behold
Seasonal oat and Protein rolls.
Don't know if I could replicate these again if I tried. Its been a year... I may try again with coconut flour and let y'all know
Ingredients:
Ground oats (into a flour), vanilla Premier Protein powder, Water, pumpkin pie spice, baking powder. Amounts depends on consistency you want. Less water thicker batter.
Steps:
Preheat oven to 375
Prep cookie sheet
Mix flour, protein, baking powder and spices with water. Fold vigorously until combined you will notice an imefuy risinf from the interaction of BS and protein.
Scoop drop biscuit style on to pan. Bake until clean released toothpick.

Can't remember if I ever posted these here, they were on my Instagram...
*Lamb sausages/patties
Ground lamb, spinach, basil mint, eggs, extra spices like onion, fennel ,rosemary, etc. at your discretion, oil (olive) for cooking
Portable Veg/Pro combo
*Can sub with other ground meats, but try this
Amazing.

The plot thickens...
Smoky paprika, basil curry caramelized onion and kale pizza
Prep and cooked
First pizza since Italy

Here goes, my first food photo. Made a plate of antipasto for lunch. 258 calories: grapes, egg, olives, beetroot, halal bologna, cucumber, chilli cheese and a few spinich leaves for good measure. No afters 'cause it's all in my tum tum now.
Sent from my SM-G930F using BariatricPal mobile app

dinner for me is Salisbury steak and salad greens. Finally in the last stage of food and trying new things out.

salad time!
Oh you thought we broke up?
Nope

Hey guys! dinner tonight, 3oz filet mignon and 1/3 cup of peas. TMI but, before this surgery, I couldn’t eat much steak. I would consider myself lucky if I went to the bathroom once a week. 10 days would be unbearable. After surgery this all changed, so I’m able to enjoy a steak now and then. I’m much better at #2 now, thanks for asking. 🤣 PS. I had my 2 month post op check up and lost 30% of weight... that’s above average at 20%. Woohoo! Probably all that poop-weight. Ok I’m done. Lol

Potty Amazing!

I wound up tossing the pancakes and potatoes but the omelette on it's own lasted me another 3 meals.  

Sent from my SM-G960U using BariatricPal mobile app

Low carb chicken, spinach, pesto pizza on a low carb fajita sized tortilla. Ate half. Other half will be lunch tomorrow.

I am obsessed with the Lo Carb La Tortilla Factory tortillas. 5 net carbs and some protein!

Hey guys! dinner tonight, 3oz filet mignon and 1/3 cup of peas. TMI but, before this surgery, I couldn’t eat much steak. I would consider myself lucky if I went to the bathroom once a week. 10 days would be unbearable. After surgery this all changed, so I’m able to enjoy a steak now and then. I’m much better at #2 now, thanks for asking. 🤣 PS. I had my 2 month post op check up and lost 30% of weight... that’s above average at 20%. Woohoo! Probably all that poop-weight. Ok I’m done. Lol

Sooo, I decided to join you guys here :)
I had my surgery 9th of October. I am down 85pounds since preop and 41 of them where postop.

At the beginning I had no issue with Water, I feel a bit weird now after even some sips and have to wait some time extra before drinking again. I barely make it for the 60oz per day.
From foods I am mostly ok, been trying out a bit of everything, having issues only with legumes and spaghetti all others I can eat without issues so far (well from what I tried :p)
I think I am a bit slow in comparison to what I see from others when it comes to losing weight but I am happy for losing anyway :p. Just a bit more (less than 6lbs) and I will be less than the lighter I ever was the past 10 years ! Yay

I don’t miss sugar that much, as I was avoiding preop too... for savory Snacks I found something like beef Jerky here, it is dried chicken chips let’s say, super low calories, it’s chicken, Proteins and no carbs. The perfect snack :p

I fit in everything I ever owned and was too cute to throw away although it was not fitting anymore and I hope that I will manage to reach summer without having to buy many new clothes(I will pillage on my mothers closet most likely lol)
Sometimes I think my blood pressure is quite low after surgery (was about 12-14max. before surgery now it can be as low as 10)
Also there is no more sweating... last year I was sweating after five steps maximum, even at midwinter, now I am feeling mostly chilly and have to wear layers to fix that.
Also I had a bad allergic reaction every day for a week most likely from the cold, I am on antihistamines and cortisone therapy now (I was so scared to take the cortisones I didn’t want to get back the precious kilos I just lost but oh well I am on day 9 of my treatment, it may slowed me down a bit but there was no regain)
That’s all that comes to my mind at the moment, will update if something else comes up :)
Be safe everyone and love yourselves!

Just realized that I'm 6 weeks post op today, 21 lbs down since surgery and 31 down pre surgery.
I'm even happier that I'm losing more inches than I can count! I was size 20 and now I'm wearing 16 which are loose already but the 14s don't fit yet.
Beyond happy with the results.

My 2nd appt is this coming Friday and I'll definitely bring it up! I want some wine on Xmas and New Years Eve hahaha

Olay so..... Most docs, NOT all docs. This is something that I spoke with MY doctor about before I started. I got the okay. Maybe I should elaborate more. I make a mixed drink with less than a single shot and have yet to finish one. I have not ever gotten drunk since surgery, barely even a light buzz. Because I listen to my body. I don't consume more than 800 calories a day, including the alcoholic drink. I have lost 31 pounds and hit onderland. I have averaged over 4 lbs of weight loss a week. Please don't criticize me and my Journey. You're not me. I'm not fooling myself. I'm not dependent. I don't get drunk. And I'm still losing weight. We are here to support each other. You may not like that I drink, but you have no right to judge or criticize.

Sent from my SM-N950U using BariatricPal mobile app

I brought it up to my doc on my 2nd post op visit because of the holiday season and he cleared me on alcohol in moderation as well as caffeine. I have a few shots worth every other weekend or so, but i did talk to him about it first. My suggestion would be to talk to your doc first. My surgery was on 10/23.