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O.O I'm only 6 months out and I feel like I eat way more than that... *sad face*

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Our dinner. Taco meat, black Beans, rotel, onions, cilantro, cheese baked together. Served on cucumber slices with Greek yogurt. Yummy! I had that plus another ounce of the taco mix. Tummy is comfortably full and happy.

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From my garden tonight! This is actually my husbands portion, mine was about 1/3 this size and had no potatoes.

Broiled flank steak marinated in balsamic vinegar & garlic. Snow peas sautéed in olive oil with green onions, garlic and ginger. Oven roasted root vegetables.

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From my garden tonight! This is actually my husbands portion, mine was about 1/3 this size and had no potatoes. Broiled flank steak marinated in balsamic vinegar & garlic. Snow peas sautéed in olive oil with green onions, garlic and ginger. Oven roasted root vegetables.

All of that looks so delicious! Nicely done

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Typical captures salad with mozz, heirloom tomatoes, basil, balsamic.

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I'm obsessed with these rice paper wraps today it's a Turkey Caesar Wrap with my friend's homemade Caesar dressing! YUM!

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Turkey burger salad. Multiple Condiments involved.

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Italian sausage, veggie, egg and cheese frittata. Will post recipe on blog in the next day or two.

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Spring rolls with lettuce, avocado, carrots, scallions and half a Boca Burger made some super low cal peanut dipping sauce too! I could eat this every.single.day!

that looks delicious!!!! whats in yhe peanut sauce?! ive looked some up but theyre all so high cal!

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that looks delicious!!!! whats in yhe peanut sauce?! ive looked some up but theyre all so high cal!

I take a short cut and used a prepared one and add to it...I use 1tbsp Wegmans Thai Peanut Sauce, 1tsp Reduced Sodium Soy, couple shakes of hot sauce and a touch of rice wine vinegar, I don't finish all of it but it's only 20cals. Not bad to me!

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I take a short cut and used a prepared one and add to it...I use 1tbsp Wegmans Thai Peanut Sauce, 1tsp Reduced Sodium Soy, couple shakes of hot sauce and a touch of rice wine vinegar, I don't finish all of it but it's only 20cals. Not bad to me!

I'm gonna try to post the bariatric pal recipe I created so you can see the stats, I usually eat abt half maybe 3/4 of the sauce tho I could drink it, it's that yummy! Also I forgot I add sesame oil too but just a tiny bit bc it's powerful!

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Lunch: fish sticks, cherry tomatoes and half a bocconcini ball.

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Dinner: ham hock, cauliflower mashed "potatoes" and gravy

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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.

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