Food Before and After Photos

[Grapefruit 44]

Hey everyone! I made a chicken breast with roasted tomatoes, half slice of low fat American cheese, and roasted spinach. (That’s a 1/3 cup of spinach) Before & after:

[GreenTealael 24,913]

4 minutes ago, Grapefruit said:

Hey everyone! I made a chicken breast with roasted tomatoes, half slice of low fat American cheese, and roasted spinach. (That’s a 1/3 cup of spinach) Before & after:

Amazing 🎉

[GreenTealael 24,913]

I'm so proud and amazed of everyone who posts. Not just the food choices, naughty, fun, good and better ,

But

Also the willingness to be open and honest about it.

So please keep it coming!

(I wish I had pics from years ago on the amounts and choices I would eat compared to now, enlightening)

Edited December 6, 2018 by GreenTealael

[GreenTealael 24,913]

Hospital food

Crusted ranch oven chicken and Brussel sprouts

before and after

[Orchids&Dragons 9,047]

Romano's macaroni Grill penne rustica:

[sillykitty 10,709]

@Orchids&Dragons I know you said you don't feel as much restriction w the RNY, but it doesn't look like that from the amount you ate!

[sillykitty 10,709]

20 minutes ago, GreenTealael said:

Hospital food

Crusted ranch oven chicken and Brussel sprouts

Hospital food? What's up? You have me worried .....

[ElectricBoogaloo 337]

28 minutes ago, GreenTealael said:

Hospital food

Crusted ranch oven chicken and Brussel sprouts

before and after

Umm...what?!...hospital? Unless, of course, you just love hospital cuisine and make special trips for meals, are you alright?

[ElectricBoogaloo 337]

21 minutes ago, Orchids&Dragons said:

Romano's macaroni Grill penne rustica:

11 minutes ago, sillykitty said:

@Orchids&Dragons I know you said you don't feel as much restriction w the RNY, but it doesn't look like that from the amount you ate!

Seriously...

When I saw the before/after, I felt like it was a "can you find 5 differences between the pics" game!😂 It took a minute to see what was actually eaten because I originally thought she uploaded the same pic twice!😊

[GreenTealael 24,913]

8 minutes ago, ElectricBoogaloo said:

Umm...what?!...hospital? Unless, of course, you just love hospital cuisine and make special trips for meals, are you alright?

I'm ok, my Hematologist is also an Oncologist (I think) so I get my blood work done in a Cancer Treatment Center Portion of a hospital. Then waited around for the appt, results, hungry, more scheduling etc. Just a long day of being a patient.

[Orchids&Dragons 9,047]

1 hour ago, sillykitty said:

@Orchids&Dragons I know you said you don't feel as much restriction w the RNY, but it doesn't look like that from the amount you ate!

But I'm only 5 weeks post-op. With the sleeve I could maybe have eaten one shrimp at 5 weeks, yesterday I had 3-4 shrimp, 2 slices of chicken and some noodles! No foamies, no stomach ache, nothing. Scares the bejesus out of me.

[MIZ60 1,291]

2 hours ago, ElectricBoogaloo said:

2 hours ago, Orchids&Dragons said:

Romano's macaroni Grill penne rustica:

OMG, that (and the focaccia bread) was always my favorite meal at MG long before I figured out my sensitivity to gluten. Looks like you ate a reasonable amount and I am glad some of your esophagus issues are better. Sounds like the surgery was just what you needed. And I just noticed you are only 11# from goal.....WOO HOO!!

Edited December 7, 2018 by MIZ60

[GreenTealael 24,913]

29 minutes ago, Orchids&Dragons said:

But I'm only 5 weeks post-op. With the sleeve I could maybe have eaten one shrimp at 5 weeks, yesterday I had 3-4 shrimp, 2 slices of chicken and some noodles! No foamies, no stomach ache, nothing. Scares the bejesus out of me.

Maybe its different because there was not a lot of space between surgeries for you so you have more of a rolling journey vs someone starting over after a few years?

[sillykitty 10,709]

41 minutes ago, Orchids&Dragons said:

But I'm only 5 weeks post-op. With the sleeve I could maybe have eaten one shrimp at 5 weeks, yesterday I had 3-4 shrimp, 2 slices of chicken and some noodles! No foamies, no stomach ache, nothing. Scares the bejesus out of me.

Hmm ... yeah, I can understand your worry

[Orchids&Dragons 9,047]

16 hours ago, MIZ60 said:

OMG, that (and the focaccia bread) was always my favorite meal at MG long before I figured out my sensitivity to gluten. Looks like you ate a reasonable amount and I am glad some of your esophagus issues are better. Sounds like the surgery was just what you needed. And I just noticed you are only 11# from goal.....WOO HOO!!

So far, no change to esophagus issues (and didn't expect any) although if it becomes less inflamed (I'm on Carafate 3x/day) maybe the food will go down easier.

My concern is that it was a reasonable amount because I purposefully stopped eating and put the rest in a box. However, I felt absolutely no restriction and could have kept eating (and seriously considered it.)

I'm eating 1/2 an apple now for Breakfast. Never could have done that with the sleeve - not at 5 weeks, not at 8 months!

Edited December 8, 2018 by Orchids&Dragons