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

Mediterranean/middle eastern plate: olives, hummus, bean salad and flat bread

Lunch pita with ham, cheese, veg, Mayo, vinegar, and evoo drizzle. Delicious!

Made this copycat Panera Napa almond chicken salad for dinner. I replaced the regular Mayo with light but used everything thing else in it. I served mine with 1/2 cup chicken salad, 1/2 cup packed salad greens and 1/3 cup grapes. Had about 1/4 cup chicken salad and 1/4 cup grapes left.

12 hours ago, Starwarsandcupcakes said:

Made this copycat Panera Napa almond chicken salad for dinner. I replaced the regular mayo with light but used everything thing else in it. I served mine with 1/2 cup chicken salad, 1/2 cup packed salad greens and 1/3 cup grapes. Had about 1/4 cup chicken salad and 1/4 cup grapes left.

14 hours ago, WishMeSmaller said:

lunch pita with ham, cheese, veg, mayo, vinegar, and evoo drizzle. Delicious!

I’m definitely making this salad and now I need to order pita bread too ?

Edited June 28, 20215 yr by GreenTealael

Too lazy to get my a$$ off the couch so Uber Eats it is!

A Wendy’s Apple Pecan Chicken Salad w/ half a packet of the dressing: 470 calories.

Am starving (though don’t know why, I’ve basically sat still for the past 4 hours!), so I anticipate eating most of this…

Edited June 28, 20215 yr by ms.sss

Loaded Salad!

Romaine, mango, jalepeño, carrots, cucumber, avocado, feta, cranberries, grape tomatoes, smoked prosciutto, YUM: 448 calories for all of it.

Ate about 1/4 of it while sitting on out front steps watching Mr. mow the lawn, lol.

Then it started pouring rain on us (and my salad!) and the thought of rain water in my salad icked me out..so the Kid gladly took it off my hands (updated MFP to 112 cals consumed).

Still want to eat something and am contemplating eating the last pecan butter tart in the fridge. I marked the 350 calories for the tart in MFP already just in case…we’ll see if i still want it in 1/2 an hour.

Edited June 29, 20215 yr by ms.sss

Ok it has been a while since I made this: zero carb bread French toast. Everyone loves when I make it.
This is the first Aldi zero carb loaf I’ve bought in 3 months ?

This was for someone else, but I ate half this amount so around 96 cals

Another day of packing my meals. 1/2 cup Napa almond chicken salad, 1/2 cup bell peppers, protein shake for coffee, Greek yogurt, chicken Caesar salad, 1 cup frozen blueberries, onion soup packet, a beef stick (fingers crossed it sits well), and a pack of kodiak cakes granola bars (they’re so good!)

So many online recipes for smoothies call for bananas and it makes me sad. Like, I’d love to eat a banana again and not potentially die. ?‍♀️ Anyway, this one is a small Granny Smith apple, 2 cups chopped kale, 1/2 cup frozen blueberries, 1 cup unsweetened almond milk, 2 scoops of a protein powder vitamin mix, and about 1/2 cup of water.

I definitely need to buy more frozen fruits like pineapple and mangoes for some variety.

13 hours ago, Starwarsandcupcakes said:

So many online recipes for smoothies call for bananas and it makes me sad. Like, I’d love to eat a banana again and not potentially die. ?‍♀️ Anyway, this one is a small Granny Smith apple, 2 cups chopped kale, 1/2 cup frozen blueberries, 1 cup unsweetened almond milk, 2 scoops of a Protein Powder Vitamin mix, and about 1/2 cup of Water.

I definitely need to buy more frozen fruits like pineapple and mangoes for some variety.

How does it taste with apples?

I stopped adding bananas to my smoothies when I noticed it tripled the calories, then I basically stopped drinking smoothies altogether because I liked them better with bananas ?

I still make green juice but only with spinach, a *little* pineapple, lemon crystals or drink mix and water

Edited July 2, 20215 yr by GreenTealael

1 hour ago, GreenTealael said:

How does it taste with apples?

I stopped adding bananas to my smoothies when I noticed it tripled the calories, then I basically stopped drinking smoothies altogether because I liked them better with bananas ?

I still make green juice but only with spinach, a *little* pineapple, lemon crystals or drink mix and Water

It’s pretty good! I do think it depends on how sweet your variety of apple is though. Today’s smoothie is 2 cups of kale, a small Granny Smith apple, 1/2 cup celery, a cup unsweetened almond milk, a scoop Syntrax Matrix orange cream protein powder, a half cup water and a cup of ice. It tastes faintly of an orange creamsicle but looks more like a milkshake with green sprinkles in it. ?

Snack time!

295 calories…ate it all.

Smoked Gouda, Prosciutto and cherries!

1 hour ago, ms.sss said:

snack time!

295 calories…ate it all.

Smoked Gouda, Prosciutto and cherries!

I saw this and remembered I had sliced gouda in the fridge. Melted on slice over some leftover Publix rotisserie chicken *Insert Homer Simpson Drool* so yummy and filling!

Instead of bread with tuna salad (use to love thickly sliced sandwiches made with various breads - sour dough, rye, Italian, Cuban etc.) I now substitute with tomatoes... I ate under ½ of portion here and will enjoy the rest of it for dinner. Consuming about 1 ½ cups of food at each meal after 2 ½ years post surgery.

On 07/06/2021 at 11:56, ms.sss said:

snack time!

295 calories…ate it all.

Smoked Gouda, Prosciutto and cherries!

My kind of meal! A new place opened up in Boston called Kured-a build your own charcuterie box place! This made several meals for me.