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

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 ?

Edited June 9, 20233 yr by GreenTealael

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.

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.

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.

It's rather boring today and I have no idea why the site doesn't let me alter the size of the pictures.

Edited June 10, 20233 yr by summerset

Mango sorbet made in Vitamix.

Edited June 10, 20233 yr by summerset

Junk food.

Edited June 10, 20233 yr by summerset

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.

Edited June 10, 20233 yr by ms.sss

...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.

Edited June 10, 20233 yr by ms.sss

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.

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.

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.

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

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.)

Edited June 12, 20233 yr by Arabesque

1 hour ago, GreenTealael said:

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

just about!

26 minutes ago, Arabesque said:

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.)

pineapple is a very divisive topping in many places lol.

fun fact: "hawaiian" pizza (i.e., pineapple + ham) was actually invented in Canada!