Another board has what are you eating threads almost everyday. I was thinking we could have the same thing here. I will try to keep up with mine. It might keep me clean about how good or bad I am doing with my Protein vs calories and such.

Feel free to put yours down. You don't have to put calories and protein if you want, just what you have been eating. It might help newbies get an idea of what we eat after surgery.

Newbies feel free to post what you eat too! Even if you are pre op it helps to see it up sometimes in making sure you are staying on track. You might want to note you are pre-op so people are not wondering about a large intake than a post op.

Edited October 8, 200916 yr by DownInSocal

yeah know the feeling, I get four bites down and that is it. I am doing better getting a 1/2 to 3/4 cup of soup down. Any watery based soup that I blender I can now eat more than a bit of. Kinda nice. Soup is comforting. Sometimes in the middle of the night if I am up, I have a cup of broth. I can get almost all of it down before it gets too cold. I am choosing the lo sodium kind so I do not get the ankle swelling. I bet you do not have as much muscle as you think. I bet you have "fat" around your muscle making it look larger. My calf muscles are huge to me, but as I loose the fat around them they are looking smaller. I love the pict of you on your horse. Maybe you should try some streaching exercizes when we can. To lenghten your muscle look. Yoga?

Ah! As we speak I'm making some blended chicken soup!:cursing: haha!

Yeah, soup goes down well!:lol0:

No, I seroiusly have too much muscle, well, not too much, but for a girl I have al lot of natural muscle, even before when I was thin(ner). My sports massage guy always says I should go into body building :scared0: but I'd rather ride :wink0:

I was very bad today. I ate about 6 pop corn balls. They were so yummy. It says right on the package that they are 100 calories each. So I had 3 protein drinks at 120 calories and 25 grams of protein so my calories weren't that bad even with all those pop corn balls.

I need to get posting in this thread again. I will try tomorrow.

My new favorite thing is ham rollups. I mix some light cream cheese (i like the whipped), spinich, chopped artichokes together. I spread some inside ham slices and roll them up. I pop 2-3 in a ziplock bag and lunch is done!

I've been working Midnights, so my eating is OFFFFFFFFFFFF!!

Plus they're working me to death! The up side to it.... I lost 2 more pounds!!! WOOO HOOO!!

Social......

The rol ups sound yummy!! I wish I had read this sooner, I would have taken that to eat at lunch, but it has been hard trying to eat at 2 am. so I have some broth, it's soothing.

Where do you get chopped up artichokes?

I eat ham rolled up with some sort of cheese pretty frequently.

that's one of the things that goes down easily for both Bearded and I - either ham and cheese roll-ups or turkey and cheese rollups -- sometimes I use cheddar cheese and sometimes I use laughing cow -- I found it the other day in french onion - it's yummy.

When Ruthi was here, we thought about mixing the laughing cow with ricotta and seeing if it tasted like french onion dip--just never got around to it, so maybe I'll give that a try tomorrow.

I love all those laughing cow cheeses. I really like Kellogs Multi grain garlic and herb crackers. They are pretty low calorie for crackers and I love to spread laughing cow cheese on a few of them.

I'm really surprised all of you can eat lunch meat this early out for you... I had trouble with it, just didn't go down right for me.

Daisy- If it's the same thing I'm thinking of, you can buy canned artichoke hearts at any grocery store, and I guess just chop them yourself. I make a wonderful dip with them, but not " low calorie" LOL but I sure do like them!!

I'm really surprised all of you can eat lunch meat this early out for you... I had trouble with it, just didn't go down right for me.

Daisy- If it's the same thing I'm thinking of, you can buy canned artichoke hearts at any grocery store, and I guess just chop them yourself. I make a wonderful dip with them, but not " low calorie" LOL but I sure do like them!!

I LOVE artichoke hearts ... and dip - yum, yum, yummy!

Can you buy the artichoke dip already made? I have some artichoke hearts in jar, but not sure what to mix it with to make dip.

I will be very good today and eat right due to my pig out on sugar yesterday. I am shocked that when I weighed myself this

a.m. I did not gain any weight. It must have been the hour of hard cardio in the morning that helped with that, because I had so much junk food on Halloween.

where do you find the hummus packet y'all are talking about? Is it small prepackaged hummus?

Chancie: I just chopped up the artichokes in the jars. I rinsed them well though because they are packed in oil. I can't find any packed in Water. The spinich I run through the bullet to chop it up smaller. Also I chew like there is no tomorrow when eating lunch meat.

Attitude: I bought snack packs of hummus from costco. I have not found them at all Costco's though. You can buy small things of hummus in most grocery stores here. You could divide it into smaller containers. I use the 3 oz dipper cups made by Glade.

Daisy: You could buy dip premade but I make it myself so I know what is in it and can control fat and calories more by using light cream cheese. Also "dip" in the traditional sense might get too runny and make a mess. Cream cheese stays put in the ham.

thanks! I like to use the flavored cream cheese spread on ham too.

Oh Social!! THANK you!!

Great suggestions about the bullet... I have one but never thought about putting the spinach in it!! LOL

The "Dip" I make with artichoke hearts( and I found them in brine not oil)

2 cans of Artichoke hearts ( cut up into smaller pieces )

1 cup mayo

1 cup Parmesian cheese

Mix it all together, and bake in the oven for about 30-45 minutes.

I liked it with Triskets- Yummmmmmmy but not low cal!! LOL