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I've Been So Bad

Dobeigh

By Dobeigh, in Post-op Diets and Questions

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Dobeigh    69

Dobeigh
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I've been so bad. I had surgery February 26, 2013 and I've lost 95 pounds. However, I've eaten so bad the entire time since I had surgery. I can't eat much, obviously, but I eat awful! pizza, cupcakes, etc. I don't drink water; I drink diet soda. My weight loss is starting to slow down so I think that I need to start eating better and the weight will come off faster.

The first thing I'm going to do is start drinking Water. I'm not saying that I'm going to give up pop all together BUT I will try to get my 60 oz of water in per day. What else can I do? I work a lot. I'm a nurse and I have a full time job and 3 PRN (part time) jobs. So I need things that are easy to take with me. I don't even know how much Protein I'm getting in a day.

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CrystalW    35

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I'm a nurse too. I live on individual cups of cottage cheese, cheese sticks, Peanut Butter and celery/carrots, cold grilled chicken.

It's really not hard, but it does require planning. And I get in SO much more Water if I drink out of a water bottle. I kept it on my med cart at all times.

And I'll be honest - I was WICKEDLY addicted to pop and I had to give it up cold turkey. It's even almost 2 months and I can honestly say that I don't miss it anymore.

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Mkak    251

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I'm with Crystal, I was on a 6-8 a day diet Coke habit and cut cold turkey. Yes, the first week sucked so much but it was honestly the best decision I ever made! And I wouldn't drink much Water if I didn't have my 20 oz. bottle glued to my hip. Highly recommend getting something you can take with you everywhere.

As far as Snacks go, do you have access to a fridge? If yes, my go-to Snacks are light string cheese, hard boiled egg whites, shredded chicken (just thrown a bunch of chicken breast in crock pot on Sunday and shred it up for the week), Protein shakes, lean ground beef, Greek yogurt, etc. Others eat jerkey, Protein Bars, nuts/seeds, etc.

Hope some of that helps? You can do this, good luck!

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Best of luck Dobeigh...

I agree that planning is your salvation, and as a part of planning, always have 'good' Protein based food options around for you to eat.

But a 'grab and go' lifestyle gives (IMHO) way too much power to your fat brain... and your fat brain will try to convince you tat "a little bit of this and a little bit or that" is OK. In the long term, it aint.

Please look at some recent "food addiction" threads...

and like I said, keep letting us know how you are doing.

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Branmuffin    190

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I'm just 9 days post but already know when I go back to work on my 12 hour shift I'm packing tons of healthy options. If I don't want one thing I can eat the other. My biggest problem is keeping my coworkers out of my lunch bag!

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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.

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