Fatboyslim1

The reason people crave rice and other grains are because they release serotonin, resultant in essentially mimickng opioids in your brain. It is an incredible fundamental drive in most mammals. You/we crave them, as our body knows it is the best way to store nutrition. #fightthecarbs

Git'er done. It will be one small first step, that will change your life forever.

I'm sorry to hear about your problems. There are plenty of people on here who probably know better than me about what your diet protocol should be, but please beleive me when I say that peanut butter and mashed potatoes are the exact opposite of what you should be eating at this stage. i was on 3 protein shakes per day with 3-3oz meals of soft food, like cottage cheese, soft scrambled eggs, Greek yogurt for the first 14 days. I am now on 3 oz protein 2 oz vegetables and 2 protein shakes per day for the next 4 weeks. All meats and veg looked to soft. No carbohydrates like bread, rice, potato, fat at all! Maybe some others in here can recommend a protocol as you apparently don't have a nutritionist working with you. best of luck !

I'm 24 days out and my PCP has already cut my blood pressure Meds in half. This whole process is different than just a "diet". Used correctly it will completely reset your metabolic and homeostasis clock.

Congrats on all the loss so far! I beleive the first 50# +/- are the fastest, and the fact that you lost so much before surgery speaks volumes about your dedication. The rest will prob be 3-4# per week. ive been losing 1 lb per day for the first 24 days and met with my team yesterday. They said it should begin to slow down to about 1/2 # +/- and the whole process should take about 6 months to lost 70+/-# while developing good long term habits. They also said its time to start exercisin. Drat !

Make sure you are getting enough fluids. Feeling cold is one of the primary symptoms of dehydration. A good easy test is to pinch the skin on the back of your hand and release. If it instantly snaps back and you can't even tell where you pinched, you are good. If it snaps back more slowly and leave a momentary ridge, drink up.

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Damn! Great job!

i guess my feedback would be, if your go to foods are peanut butter and mashed potatoes, why did you bother going through surgery?

I has the same co morbidities and 3 weeks post I no longer snore and now I need to cut my losartin in half as my BP is way down. Good luck !

Seems completely unrelated . Don't allow a non event to sway a decision based on good science .

Soup is a great go to , but I have found that it really goes right through the stomach. So I have avoided cream soups because they tend to be high in calories with no "filling" sensation. That said, a cup of good soup in the evening seems to fill the old void of Doritos and a couple beers

Seriously? Are you going to buy your entire lifetime supply of vegetables in advance ? Just try it for a while. Your body will tell you what it thinks.

Steam fresh are very good. I have tolerated them well

Disclaimer: I am in the industry . So yesterday/Christmas day at a family party I had some wine. I just filled 1/4 of a glass, and then added the same amount of water. Note: that is how the Roman senate drank their wine, so they would not get drunk (as the alcohol killed the various microbes in the water). This while virtually everyone else was drunk on wine or beer, as there was very little pathogen free water in the cities. so anyway, I sipped that amount of wine in that social environment over aprox an hour, holding it primarily in my mouth, to absorb the effects of the alcohol. An hour or so later I did it again. So over a two hour period I had basically a half a glass of wine, and quite frankly it was little more than mildly intoxicating, with no adverse affect at all. I AM NOT advocating drinking alcohol. I am however not so naive to think that people are going to obstain completely. Just be smart and quite frankly, you don't need to get drunk in life, to enjoy life

Reading all current literature, it appears that your case is what typically happens about 50% of the time. There isn't a lot of data as to why, because everone is different, but logically it would seem many people go into "maintenance mode" (eating an amount to sustain current weight) long before they should. So first the weight stops coming off, then people slowly go above maintenance mode, and the weight starts creeping back up. Alcohol is pure calories, and mixing a drink is double calories. A lot of people for example drink things like vodka and cranberry and think it is "low cal". Nothing could be further from the truth. Bar cranberry juice is like drinking raw sugar. so might I recommend, stop drinking your calories, and then drop to 1000 cal total per day (like the diet you probably had which worked for you) and crush your weight back down over 2 months. Then watch your maintenance mode, to make sure it isn't to many cal's per day. Best of luck !

Remember to never use a straw

Wow!

I don't want to be a "downer" on this very positive and encouraging board, but something is quite possibly wrong with the OP's situation. I only say that after reading virtually everything on this board over the past several weeks, and my own progress. isn't the average person losing about 1lb per day +/- in the beginning of their process (and I'm not talking about mini stalls)? The OP is losing 1/4 of a lb per day, which seems way outside of the norm. I realize that this board is meant for encouragement, but we should perhaps also assist those who may be struggling with actual physical issues. Even AJ calculation is based on 7 days not 7 weeks. "food for thought"

No idea what to advise. Did you have WLS ? When , what, .......?

Pureed carrots ? Boiled soft carrots ? Hard raw carrots ?

Every morning

Great! Now all you need to do is lose that jerk PCP and you're home free.

My group has me on liquid for 1 day, puree's for 13 days, now soft food like chicken cooked in broth, tuna, fish soft veggies, etc.. Yesterday is took me all day to eat an avacado with a scoop of tuna and tomato slices. Yummy

The next time he says that, tell him"well there are a lot of men who are". Idiot.