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Recommendations for protein bars? Need: -No added sugar -Fat 5g or less -Reasonable cost The Protein One bars I’ve bought for years are no longer available locally, and are expensive online. They were 90 calories, 2.5g fat, 10g protein, and $1 per bar. Thank you.

Does anyone know when Syntrax Nectar Protein Powder will be available, specifically the roadside lemonade flavor. It has been out for several weeks, maybe a month or more? I noticed that other flavors are out, too. I am wondering if the company is having supply issues, or if it’s being discontinued.

It can be so hard. Maybe start by eating a healthy breakfast and lunch every day, and worry about dinner as you regain some of your healthy habits? That has worked for me, along with not eating lunch till I finish my big container of Crystal Light. (I’m still working on hydration after lunch…) Starting with small steps may be more manageable.

Yes! Chia seeds daily in oatmeal.Also add to oatmeal cookies and pancakes.

Agree. The texture is thicker with protein powder in oatmeal, pancakes, and cookies. Not necessarily bad (in fact, it helps when too much water is added to oatmeal), just different.

I found Genepro to be pretty tasteless, but stopped using it after a few months because of some dubious things I read online about it, and the newest version doesn’t contain as much protein as the former ones claimed to. I now use Syntrax medical unflavored. It has a slight taste, but better than several others I tried. I can’t taste it in oatmeal, pancakes, or breakfast cookies. I think it would have a taste/texture in water, though. GL!

Shelf-stable snacks: Keto cereal (no added sugar, low fat, like Catalina Crunch). Also sipping soup-to-go (check nutrition label, Butternut Squash soup is good) if you can microwave for 1 minute. Mini-containers are great (4 oz. glass baby food containers, available online) for meal prepping. You can prep for the entire week and it makes it easy.

Great discussion. When I was a teen with a BMI of 33, I would have been on the borderline. I ended up getting down to a slightly-over-normal body weight by age 21, but spent years after that going up and down, never able to get low enough (for long enough). So in retrospect, I would not have been a good candidate yet as a teen. However, I wish I had done the surgery 10 to 15 years earlier. My own children are obese, even after our family has changed so much nutritionally (due to my changing first). I am willing to pay for my own children to have it if/when they are good candidates, and want it, when they are young adults. If they were more obese, I might feel differently about getting them considered for surgery earlier. But I wonder what the qualifications are for teens to be recommended for WLS, and if they are different than for adults. There have to be some good reasons why the AAP would recommend this for some teens, that the pros outweigh the cons.

If you’ve seen today’s news, the American Academy of Pediatrics is recommending WLS as an option for teens who have struggled with obesity. The comments online are mostly negative. If you were obese as a teen, and surgery had been an option for you as a teen (money is a whole other story…), would you have taken it?

Update: The latest return label is back to BP Store! Thank you! ??? Unfortunately, the newer boxes being used (Netrition) have a larger Bariatric Pal printing…sigh…at least there are a couple other brands listed next to it. So it’s harder to assume. I would love a plain shipping option.

Ugh! It’s not a fun part. I will agree with the other posts about cutting it shorter, perhaps shoulder length or shorter. Curls will help fill in the gaps. Although my hair started growing back after about six months, at almost 2 years it is still not back to how it looked before surgery. I still have parts around my forehead that are only 2 inches long, I hope they are the last to fill-in. But definitely worth the trade-off! Hang in there, it will get better.

I would have said groceries…but the food I eat, along with protein supplements, is better quality and more expensive. Restaurants: there’s the savings! The one day a week we eat out, my meal costs half of what it used to.

Thanks!

If you order from the Bariatric Pal store: I sent this message to customer service about 5 weeks ago, and they said they would look into it. The same thing happened AGAIN today. ? If you agree, please consider sending them a note, too. ***** Dear BP Store, Until this week, all of the products that I have purchased from your store has come with a return label that indicates “BP Store.” However, my latest package contained the words “Bariatric Pal” on the label. It might seem small, but for those of your customers who are not public with our surgery choice, this can be revealing, embarrassing, and could even lead to our health information inadvertently shared. Would you please consider changing the return label to the old “BP Store” label? Most of the products I get from your store can be purchased from other places, and I may need to consider this to protect my health information. Thanks for your consideration!

Thanks for the responses. I finally got blood work done, everything is normal. However, the response about protein made me think that there might be a conditioner with protein in it. Not only did I find this, but also a shampoo and cream, all with protein. My hair is not perfect, but it is better than a few months ago. Perhaps it will even get better when the hairs that are more newly sprouted finally grow longer.