Like weight loss before and after photos but of your new diet !

I'm especially interested in before and after meal photos (take a pic at the point you feel restriction) but it can be of recipe substitutions, your refrigerator/pantry/shopping cart/etc

VSG2017 HW 249 SW 238 CW 167

Impromptu date night at Olive Garden -Don't judge me... it was only thing we could find open in the area (after we needed to make an Aldi's run) ?

Ok I literally always get the same thing - Tiramisu. I don't bother to order a meal anymore because they are too big so I just poach off others.

I started with salad and one medallion of eggplant Parmesan with a small piece of bread stick (went surprisingly ok) & Tiramisu after (finished the rest at home)

Edited October 14, 20205 yr by GreenTealael

I hope no one minds a relative newbie participating!
I drooled over a lot of food here before I could have it. [emoji23]
This is dinner tonight. Turkey kielbasa with cabbage sautéed with onions and garlic. That is mustard on the side.

2 hours ago, GreenTealael said:

Impromptu date night at Olive Garden -Don't judge me... ?

I'd go to Olive Garden anytime just for the salad, LOL. (I'm the one at the table that will hoard all the peppers from the bowl...and leave the olives...and wait like a full minute to say "when" when the server is grating Parmesan on it...)

43 minutes ago, STLoser said:

I hope no one minds a relative newbie participating!
I drooled over a lot of food here before I could have it.
This is dinner tonight. Turkey kielbasa with cabbage sautéed with onions and garlic. That is mustard on the side.

Of course we won't mind! Anyone can play! This thread is like porn for us WLS folks, lol.

Is that like 1/2 a sausage?

Of course we won't mind! Anyone can play! This thread is like porn for us WLS folks, lol.
Is that like 1/2 a sausage?

Thank you! This "food porn" thread got me through the worst part of the surgery!
The sausage is 3 oz of a 12 oz. sausage, so about 1/4th. I use Butterball turkey kielbasa.

So that is probably equivalent to half a sausage I'd guess. The Butterball kind is one big sausage.

On 10/11/2020 at 11:48 PM, ms.sss said:

Ooohhh i want. Was it easy to make???

It really is easy! Just take green or red peppers core out centers. Make meatloaf mix - I use ground beef sirloin + chuck so not too dry. Add chopped onions, oatmeal, bread crumbs or rice, carrots, crushed garlic, black pepper, egg, Worcester sauce and fresh green parsley. I don't use a recipe - just throw in this and that. Top with Heinz chili sauce and bakes in an hour. Makes great leftovers. Mr. Sophie had the last stuffed pepper tonight. ;]

12 minutes ago, STLoser said:

So that is probably equivalent to half a sausage I'd guess. The Butterball kind is one big sausage.

Just googled it. Those suckers are BIG alright!!!

That turkey sausage looks really good! Craved broccoli today - so, sautéed some with fresh garlic and olive oil. Made baked pork chops with diced tomatoes, onions + green pepper. Helps keep pork chops tender without salt brine method. Ate it all. Had a chia pear chocolate pudding for dessert. Hot tea with honey and milk for evening snack. Happy Canadian Thanksgiving, ms.sss. What a beautiful festive dinner you made for the fam! They are a lucky bunch... Your turkey looks so tender. I'll have to try the instant pot for our Thanksgiving turkey!

Just googled it. Those suckers are BIG alright!!!

Ha ha yep! I'm cooking for me, my 6'10" husband, and my skinny 9 year old son. They both can put away some food! I actually used 2 packs of sausage this time because they couldn't get enough last time. Lol
Now we have a bunch of leftovers. Ha ha

That turkey sausage looks really good! Craved broccoli today - so, sautéed some with fresh garlic and olive oil. Made baked pork chops with diced tomatoes, onions + green pepper. Helps keep pork chops tender without salt brine method. Ate it all. Had a chia pear chocolate pudding for dessert. Hot tea with honey and milk for evening snack. Happy Canadian Thanksgiving, ms.sss. What a beautiful festive dinner you made for the fam! They are a lucky bunch... Your turkey looks so tender. I'll have to try the instant pot for our Thanksgiving turkey!

It is pretty good. I'm not a big sausage person, but I like it, and the family loves it.
Your whole dinner looks good.
I'm a huge veggie lover, and I can't really fit them in yet when I get my protein first. I'm dying to eat about a pound of veggies! [emoji23]

5 hours ago, GreenTealael said:

I for a long time I have stuck with pan, oven & convection fried vs deep fried as matter of preference because I rather not waste oil for no added value.

Deep fried I've had problems for a long time (think e. g. this battered broccoli or bananas), even before MGB or RNY. My stomach lining just says "No!" to it. The worst combination is high fat/protein. I could/can eat some mini-amounts of it combined with fat-free foods like e. g. rice but I'm not that fond of these foods. The only deep fried foods I eat are french fries or these potato wedges at the cafeteria at work.

I usually stick to pan frying with coconut oil. I don't use generous amount but it's more than the minuscule drops of oil the past low-fat craze used to allow, lol.

I never did deep frying at home. My mother used to have one of these gadgets you can deep fry in when I was a child. I don't know how you'd call them in English. I think see used it a few times and then never again because of the giant amounts of oil one needs. It really seems kind of wasteful.

As for an "eating plan": we were never encouraged to follow a certain "plan" once the four weeks immediately post-op were over, though many patients follow or followed either a low-carb or low-fat or both low-carb/low-fat diet (I can't even imagine the horror of that last one...). Take your vitamins, get your protein and fluids in, also eat enough fiber. There were some amounts in ml provided that one should eat early out and how many meals one should have but in the end there was always said that "things need to be adapted accordingly". I never counted any calories, let alone grams of fat or carbohydrates. The thought of "tracking" alone makes me want to scream until today.

Being that far out I've been following my own "plan" since like forever now anyway. I have an intolerance to dairy and I don't eat meat. I eat the occasional fish or egg but usually stick to plant based (and yes, I'm using way too much fake meats, lol).

In general I'm a lazy cook. I hate shopping for food and preparing it, with the cleaning up afterwards being the worst, so my meals are usually simple, cooked in batches that provide three or four meals or are really quick cooking. I take use of already-prepped fruit cups and salad bowls. Usually I have a weekly delivery of fruit and vegetables and I tend to order vegetables than taste good to me either eaten raw or cooked.

Btw, anyone have a recommendation for a cooking-idiot-approved pressure cooker? I'm quite happy with my fully-digital, cooking-idiot-approved rice cooker so I might start to get more adventurous after all, lol.

14 hours ago, Slimfast88 said:

I thought we couldn’t eat fried foods?

11 hours ago, GreenTealael said:

I'm sure many others like @sillykitty @summerset @MarvelGirl25 @ms.sss @Sophie7713 @Cheeseburgh will be able to give you their perspectives too ❤️

If you are talking “should”-ability, depends on your plan...these differ widely among doctors. If you are talking “could”-ability, well that just depends on individual tolerance.

Saying that, I tolerate deep fried stuff just fine, and come eating times, will eat it if it looks delicious and worth it (or If its deliciousness is verified by the Kid beforehand, lol) .Though I only started eating deep fried stuff after weight loss phase..:as I basically just ate salad and grilled chicken during that time.

Edited October 14, 20205 yr by ms.sss

6 hours ago, Sophie7713 said:

Your turkey looks so tender. I'll have to try the instant pot for our Thanksgiving turkey!

Omg i have to say this was probably THE most tender home-cooked turkey I have EVER had. This will def be the cooking method of choice for future turkey breasts (too bad Instant pots aren't big enough for entire turkeys!)...and it cooked in a fraction of regular time!

5 hours ago, summerset said:

never did deep frying at home. My mother used to have one of these gadgets you can deep fry in when I was a child. I don't know how you'd call them in English. I think see used it a few times and then never again because of the giant amounts of oil one needs. It really seems kind of wasteful.

I think they are just called deep fryers. I hate deep frying... It takes too much work and resources. I deep fried food for a friends party about a year in & knew I would never do it for myself/family unless there was no other way.

5 hours ago, summerset said:

The worst combination is high fat/protein

I think my problem is high fat/high carb or the amount/type of oil for me. Last September at a fair I tried a deep fried oreo at the request of my kids and wished I didn't ?

5 hours ago, summerset said:

Btw, anyone have a recommendation for a cooking-idiot-approved pressure cooker? I'm quite happy with my fully-digital, cooking-idiot-approved rice cooker so I might start to get more adventurous after all, lol.

Everyone seems to love Instapot, but I have not tried it