DanaC84

My family had Pasta House tonight for dinner. I’m actually the one who got it for everyone because I know the salads are one of my moms favs. Not one to cry in my Cheerios I made zoodles with turkey sausage, sautéd onions and mushrooms , cherry tomatoes and deglazed the pan with a dash of white wine. Was scrumptious !!! (And I’ll be eating it the rest of the week 😂) And sorry no after pic. My daughter came and cleared my plate for me before I got the chance. I ate about 3/4. And I found these appetizer forks of my grammas. Aren’t they adorable??!!

Bean salad I made last night to marinate. I almost couldn’t hold out til lunch and had some for Breakfast 😂. Canned Salmon, spinach, cherry tomatoes

The zoodles with modified pesto sauce were DELISH!! I didn’t have pine nuts so subbed with pistachio’s. So dang good! The other is turkey meatloaf. So dense and filling! Thought I could do 1/2 only made it to a 1/4. Also gave my daughter and mom a taste of the noodles (they concur !!)
Salad plate
 

@Orchids&Dragons those hamsters are hysterical 😂😂😂

@Orchids&Dragons those hamsters are hysterical 😂😂😂

Phenomenal !!! Congratulations 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

I hope both of you recover well from your gb surgeries! I had mine out years ago and the recoveries from both it and wls seemed very similar but I sure wouldn’t want to go through it back to back!!

I just had my 1 month post op visit with my surgeon and nut! I was dreading it because I thought I should’ve lost more but it was such a mood booster! My surgeon did a swallow test so that was awesome to see my new stomach! I was convinced he had left too big of a pouch because I don’t have the restrictions a lot of people complain about. But nope, little sliver of a banana! As I was walking out of the room he said I’m no longer in the morbidly obese range!!!! Woo hoo!!
Also had a nice long chat with my nutritionist. I told her I’ve been sticking to 500-700 calories. She felt my body may be in starvation mode at that level so to up it to 800-1000. I’m scared to do that but I’ll try it for a week and see what happens but will most likely keep it closer to 800. Or rotate higher calories some days and lower the next. Who knows, right? We all have to figure out what works best for us.