my maintenence phase vacation meal of red velvet pancake and bacon, before and after..I filled up faster than I thought. Yes- there can be a VERY RARE splurge, no need for food funerals. Wish someone had told me this before hand.

Excellent thread topic. NUTs should hit the above points firmly in their intro classes.

food funerals are only cheating yourself.

I stumbled a bit when I thought I was gearing up for bypass. There were things that I knew would be forever off the menu and I indulged in some of them.

Closer to my surgery date my surgeon strongly suggested I consider the sleeve. It was what he really felt I should have and I decided to do so.

The knowledge that all things in moderation would be the plan down the road made it immediately easier to drop the food funerals.