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

18 hours ago, Arabesque said:

drinks with my cousin & friends again yesterday afternoon. (Sipped a small glass of wine for about 4 hours ?.) Made a cherry Tomato, burrata, pesto & prosciutto tart with basil leaves. I love these simple tarts I’ve been making lately. Sheet of puff pastry & a few ingredients & voila … a savour tart for drinks. Get 16 pieces from it. Baked it in my non fully functioning oven but it worked. Yay! I ate two pieces.

Totally delish and in my memory banks for the next time I need a party food idea.

Very easy to make @spinoza. This is the recipe & the one for the caramelised onion tart I made for the previous drinks. As per usual I took the recipe & made small changes to suit me. Who follows recipes ?? Next time I do the caramelised onion I think I’ll add olives.
https://www.easypeasy-lemonsqueezy.co.uk/puff-pastry-tart-with-tomato-burrata/
https://www.woolworths.com.au/shop/recipes/caramelized-onion-tart

Bookmarked, thank you so much! ?

On 10/15/2023 at 11:12 PM, Arabesque said:

drinks with my cousin & friends again yesterday afternoon. (Sipped a small glass of wine for about 4 hours ?.) Made a cherry Tomato, burrata, pesto & prosciutto tart with basil leaves. I love these simple tarts I’ve been making lately. Sheet of puff pastry & a few ingredients & voila … a savour tart for drinks. Get 16 pieces from it. Baked it in my non fully functioning oven but it worked. Yay! I ate two pieces.

Gorgeous!!!

On 10/16/2023 at 10:33 AM, ms.sss said:

so ive been sick for almost a week now, and the fact that the sight of @Arabesque's flatbread actually stirred something (positive, lol) in my stomach makes me think im finally getting better and wont die after all!

so i cut myself a slice of baguette for my first foray into solid food since last week tuesday. i've literally been living off tea, orange juice and cough Syrup for the past 6 days.

good news: it was yummy. (kinda) bad news: this is as far as i got.

p.s. and yeah, im looking a little death-ish again, like the good ol days. sigh.

Get well soon ❤️‍?

Funny fact: I'm in the middle of my pre-op diet but all I can think about is that tart. ? It's beautiful and looks like something I'd make, even if I can't eat it for another year. LOL

ok!

so for the first time in almost 2 weeks, i woke up hungry! i've been sick for what feels like forever so i guess this means im officially better!

so i felt for salty things so i made a weird plate of food reminiscent of my pregnancy days: toasted dinner bun with butter & cheddar, a handful of sour cream and onion chips and a peice of chicken skin cracklin'.

508 calories for all of it, ate all the chips (of course, lol), half the sandwich, and just a bite of the chicken skin cracklin' (it was NOT yummy). i'll probably eat the rest pf the sandwich later, but im def tossing the cracklin'.

im looking forward to eating some food again now that i actually want to! and to regain the 7 lbs i lost while being sick (i look a little deathly at the moment, boo)

Glad you’re feeling better @ms.sss.

So I had to go to visit my surgeon the other day for my 2 year after revision check up. He was happy with my continued results.

And then ... I had the urge for a Potbelly sub. I know, I know lol. I ordered a Bacon lettuce tomatoes avocado sandwich, and it is was so good. I rarely eat out these days. Once a month at best. I used to eat out every day but times have changed. I ate half for lunch and then ate the other half the next day. Total calories for half of an original is 335 calories as per their menu. I want to go back. Oh goodness....

more food for me!

1/2 a dinner roll with sliced avocado and a butter-fried egg.

(i cut up a some of the sandwich first before i remembered to take a pic - oopsies)

364 calories for it all...eyeballing it, i probably ate about 2/3 of it, but i plan on eating the rest later so the cal count stands.

p.s. my scale shows a 2.2 lb increase since i started eating relatively normally again yesterday . i do know its not actual fat or anything, and most likely just the food taking up space in my intestines and colon since i had probably nothing in there for the past little while. which you know, as an aside, makes me realize i haven't pooped in a really long time....

more food for me!
1/2 a dinner roll with sliced avocado and a butter-fried egg.
(i cut up a some of the sandwich first before i remembered to take a pic - oopsies)
364 calories for it all...eyeballing it, i probably ate about 2/3 of it, but i plan on eating the rest later so the cal count stands.
p.s. my scale shows a 2.2 lb increase since i started eating relatively normally again yesterday . i do know its not actual fat or anything, and most likely just the food taking up space in my intestines and colon since i had probably nothing in there for the past little while. which you know, as an aside, makes me realize i haven't pooped in a really long time....

I am hoping you are feeling much better [emoji847]

On 10/24/2023 at 9:06 PM, ms.sss said:

more food for me!

1/2 a dinner roll with sliced avocado and a butter-fried egg.

(i cut up a some of the sandwich first before i remembered to take a pic - oopsies)

364 calories for it all...eyeballing it, i probably ate about 2/3 of it, but i plan on eating the rest later so the cal count stands.

p.s. my scale shows a 2.2 lb increase since i started eating relatively normally again yesterday . i do know its not actual fat or anything, and most likely just the food taking up space in my intestines and colon since i had probably nothing in there for the past little while. which you know, as an aside, makes me realize i haven't pooped in a really long time....

So pleased you're recovering! Do you have any idea what made you feel so unwell for so long?

Also - total comfort food and totally understandable.

2 hours ago, Spinoza said:

So pleased you're recovering! Do you have any idea what made you feel so unwell for so long?

Covid, arg!

i'm still testing positive but my symptoms have improved exponentially.

4 minutes ago, ms.sss said:

Covid, arg!

i'm still testing positive but my symptoms have improved exponentially.

Ah - thought it might be that. I wish you a speedy recovery. Nasty virus with such long term effects.