I am only 2 months out from sleeve surgery. My experience has been positive so far. I've lost a good chunk of weight. I'm feeling good, eating pretty well and looking good.

But, my personality has always been to to follow instructions 90% of the way. Never 100%. A teacher, a doctor, a boss.... I feel the need to have to have a little bit of control so I do things "mostly" right, or "mostly" the way I'm instructed. Always a rule follower but never exactly. LOL.

And it turns out I'm doing this program the same way. I get in my Protein and my Water and my veggies, but I tried a little bit of sweets after about a month and enjoyed the fact that I didn't overeat them, just had a nibble.

So over the holidays, the nibble turned into eating about 10 of my favorite Cookies over the course of a day. And doing this multiple days in a row. It turns out that for me, 4-5 oz of protein fills me up to where I stop eating so I don't get over full. However, a homemade chocolate chip cookie doesn't fill me up at all. Neither does 3-4 of them. That is VERY disappointing as I now realize that it is up to ME, not the surgery, to control my overeating of sweets. Ice cream. Chocolate. My two favorites. And they go down easy.

I am very aware of the importance of focusing on my emotional eating / eating for soothing, etc. and doing the work there. But I confess that it's disappointing to me (and a bit scary) to realize that I can already put away 10 cookies in a short period of time, and that I better get my act together around this NOW.

Guess I just wanted to share this and get it out there. I would benefit from just taking sugar out of my diet completely.

I just ordered some Cookies from this site that have about 15 grams of Protein and HaloTop ice cream also has high protein so plan on having a bite of either when feel the urge. Not sure how the cookie will taste but I was buying that ice cream pre-op and it's good.

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I just ordered some Cookies from this site that have about 15 grams of Protein and HaloTop ice cream also has high protein so plan on having a bite of either when feel the urge. Not sure how the cookie will taste but I was buying that ice cream pre-op and it's good.

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Right on, my local grocery store (HEB )sells these Protein cookies in the health food aisle that I look forward to trying out once I'm back on solids. Just can't go nuts and eat too many thinking it's all good for me! Too much of anything you know how it goes!

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Edited January 4, 20179 yr by sasharbinx