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Ok I am 3 months post op and have lost about 40 pounds. Lately, I have started craving sweets and today I just ate a just ate an entire Skinny Cow Heavenly Peanut Butter Crisp (110 calories) for lunch along with 3 bites of rice. I know these are horrible foods to be eating but, I am craving them terribly. I am scared because should I be able to eat a whole crisp (package weight 0.77 oz)? Last night I ate a whole piece of toast with a piece of turkey breask on it. Is this typical? I know I should be measuring my food but I just get so busy and lazy. Any tricks to help eye ball the food measurements?

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Ok I am 3 months post op and have lost about 40 pounds. Lately, I have started craving sweets and today I just ate a just ate an entire Skinny Cow Heavenly Peanut Butter Crisp (110 calories) for lunch along with 3 bites of rice. I know these are horrible foods to be eating but, I am craving them terribly. I am scared because should I be able to eat a whole crisp (package weight 0.77 oz)? Last night I ate a whole piece of toast with a piece of turkey breask on it. Is this typical? I know I should be measuring my food but I just get so busy and lazy. Any tricks to help eye ball the food measurements?

I'm sorry this is happening to you. . . but at least you got the craving out of your hair right. . . now no more of that (but that will be up to you of course) . . . I fell into that rut and in the beginning it was great, could eat whatever and still loose the weight. . . then a year was up and guess what? I've stopped loosing. . . yes I hit the doctors goal weight but i personally still want to lose 20 - 30 lbs more. . it's really hard especially since i didn't teach myself properly. . . i don't eat much, but it's what i eat that's bad. . . so i'm back to basics and back to exercise. . . back to the olden days of diet and exercise. . . ugh life is amazing so be careful with your liberal eating and such ok? Good luck

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My suggestion would be to start earlier so you have time to measure. It takes time to learn how to eyeball portions. Be careful not to overstuff your sleeve. I've heard that some folks don't have a full feeling or signal and this can become a huge problem if you eat too much. Please be very careful.

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My Surgeon's goal is to get me to STOP thinking about what I eat. He says he doesn't think/obsess about what he's eating (he's thin) His main thing is to get me to think about ACTIVITY Moving and being active and participating in life.

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You need to detox yourself. You have to cut the carbs and sugar out so the cravings will go away. Do strict Protein to cleanse your system. If you crave sweets, pop in a piece of sugarless gum. It helps A LOT!!!

Good Luck

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

        Now I have a whole new big, bigger, biggest, best days ever. I am out there with those skinny people doing stuff i could never have dreamt of. Food is now an after thought. It doesn't consume my day. I still enjoy the good home cooked food but I eat smaller portions. I leave food on my plate when I am full. I can no longer hear my mother's voice saying eat it all up, ther are starving children in Africa who would want that!

        I still cook for family feasts, I love cooking. I still do holidays but I have changed from the All inclusive drinking and eating everything everyday kind to Self catering accommodation. This gives me the choice of cooking or eating out as I choose. I rarely drink anymore as I usually travel alone now and I feel I need to keep aware of my surroundings.

        I don't know at what point my life expanded, was it when I lost 100 pounds? Was it when I left my walking stick at home ? Was it when I said yes to an outing instead of finding an excuse to stay home ? i look back at my last five years and wonder how loosing weight has made such a difference. Be ready to amaze yourself.

        BTW, the liquid diet sucks, one more day and you are over the worst. You can do it.

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