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5 hours ago, BabySpoons said:

I have chia in my freezer. How do you think taking it dry will affect my stomach at 8 weeks post since it expands to 10xs its weight in liquid? I used to take 2T daily. Dry.

I'm thinking I should soak it first.

I don’t remember eating anything seedy that soon but I was really conservative. Letting it fully bloom first would probably be a good plan.

TMI: These days when I eat it dry and I don’t see it expanded later on during exit but I’m much further out.

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22 hours ago, Arabesque said:

You got one of your children to cook? Well done. Mothers everywhere are envious. Obviously not your vegan child though or are they off the wagon again?

That’s the thing I sometimes dream of - a burger. Well specifically an Australia steak burger on a crunchy crust roll, lettuce, Tomato, cucumber, beetroot, onions optional & BBQ Sauce. Mmmm. Drooling.

it was not the vegan middle child but she is off the wagon again, how did you know ? 😂

BTW I like the way all of this sounds 😍

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Breakfast and dinner from yesterday.

Breakfast- one egg, white bread toast, 1/2 avocado (only ate 1/4 avocado total), Water sautéed tomatoes (tbsp of water in pan as the tomatoes start to color and release moisture), and blackberries.

Dinner- green Beans, mushrooms, onions and tofu in a peanut sauce.

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Still making labneh & having it as my midday snack. Sprinkle it with za’atar for a little zesty zing. Took some for drinks with my cousins recently also with za’atar & also drizzled with some good olive oil.

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1/3 a mcdonalds fillet-o-fish and some fries with ketchup.

183 calories. (seems like it should be way more calories , but i'll go with what MFP says 🤷🏻‍♀️ )

Ate it all, yummer.

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lunch, take one:

has an espresso martini beforehand (not shown), and served myself roughly half a cup of take-out lasagna.

279 cals for the drink and the lasagna .

BUT..after one bite of the lasagna i handed it over to Mr. cuz i didn't like the ratio of noodles to sauce! Waaaay too much Pasta compared to sauce...was like eating a stack of pasta sheets.

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...which leads me to: lunch, take two.

Updated the lasagna entry and added a slice of this hilarious pizza Mr. brought home.

check out the size of this "slice" (see the fork for size comparison, lololzzz).

so for the martini, the bite of the aforementioned lasagna, and the piece of pizza, total cals came up to 395 for my lunch.

ate about 1/2 of my "slice of slice of pizza", will eat the rest later cuz that damn bite of lasagna is sitting in my stomach taking up valuable real estate.

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Roasted eggplant 1/2c (18cal) wraps (50g lettuce = 8 cal) with homemade salsa (10 cal). Low calorie, but filling, dinner.

I ate 4 mini samosas at lunch [emoji24] so I ran out of calories lol. 20230607_200143.jpg 20230607_200545.jpg

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Oh, and here are the mini vegetable samosas (Monsoon). I had them with homemade cilantro chutney (basically cilantro bunch, lemon juice, garlic, ginger, pepper, salt) instead of the sweet chutney it came with. They were so good. 180 calories for 4. 20230611_003631.jpg

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On 6/10/2023 at 12:47 PM, ms.sss said:

...which leads me to: lunch, take two.

Updated the lasagna entry and added a slice of this hilarious pizza Mr. brought home.

check out the size of this "slice" (see the fork for size comparison, lololzzz).

so for the martini, the bite of the aforementioned lasagna, and the piece of pizza, total cals came up to 395 for my lunch.

ate about 1/2 of my "slice of slice of pizza", will eat the rest later cuz that damn bite of lasagna is sitting in my stomach taking up valuable real estate.

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That’s a very big slice! I’m guessing it the equivalent of a large pizza, right?

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I still can’t get over the pineapple on that pizza. I thought that was sacrilege or is that only in the States? Back in the ‘before times’ I found the pineapple cut through the fatty oily cheese. (Mind you that was the 70s/80s when ham & pineapple was one of the couple of pizza options we had.)

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1 hour ago, GreenTealael said:

That’s a very big slice! I’m guessing it the equivalent of a large pizza, right?

just about!

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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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