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

On 9/11/2024 at 9:01 PM, Starwarsandcupcakes said:

Made refrigerator pickles, dried strawberries, dehydrated bbq zucchini chips, split pea Soup, and pikliz (a Haitian pickled slaw) this week. But since I didn’t have lime juice or habanero peppers I used lemon juice and Sriracha instead. It’s pretty tasty and I can’t wait to have more with fish stew on Friday. (I’m currently reading a book by a Haitian author and the way she mentions fish stew made my mouth water!) Only ate half the dinner roll but all the soup and half the pikliz.

Which book and Author ?

7 hours ago, GreenTealael said:

Which book and Author ?

I actually finished the book today and I hope she writes a sequel! It’s “Devil of the Deep” by Falencia Jean-Francois She’s a smaller Indy writer so she doesn’t have many books out yet. I immediately started “The Devil Wears Scrubs” by Freida McFadden afterwards. Which brings me to reading books 49 and 50 so far this year.

As for the fish stew, the snapper is currently marinating and smells amazing. If you aren’t a garlic fan though it’s probably not for you.

Fish stew, pikliz, and brown sugar milk tea boba. I threw in more epis, tomatoes, and celery into the stew along with onions and peppers when I cooked it. Served over jasmine rice.

Also, I’ve somehow convinced myself that soup is just a liquid salad.

Love it @Starwarsandcupcakes: soup is liquid salad. ?

On 9/11/2024 at 9:01 PM, Starwarsandcupcakes said:

ll 

...now i want a dehydrator....

tonights dinner: leftover pizza.

its a different one fer sure: white sauce with creamed corn, roasted tomatoes, basil, anchovies and Parmesan .

tasted like a salty dessert pizza lol.

anyway, i ate it all, est 200 calories.

9 hours ago, ms.sss said:

...now i want a dehydrator....

I used it a lot. When I get cheap produce I dehydrate a lot into work and school snacks. I also use it to make wraps, fruit leather, and beef jerky.

1 month post op gastric bypass .. before and after and I ate an extra bite and the foamies kicked in and unfortunately I lost all the food!

Reminder: listen to your full ques teehee.

I'm still trying to get rid of old habits

6 yrs out next month and there are still days that i forget to eat. case in point: TODAY.

i went on a bit of an exercise binge today: 5km early morning run, followed by 2 back-to-back 1 hr each (power) hot yoga classes, then a last-minute decision to go to a pilates class (cuz i had a free pass expiring tomorrow), and finally an approx 10k round trip (leisurely) bike ride to and from the bike shop to get our bikes serviced (i hate biking btw, so this was sorta a big deal lol...i complained the whole way)

...and by the time we got home it was like past 4pm and i realized i didn't eat all day! and i didn't even feel hungry. now...how i was able to do all that on an empty stomach and not keel over, i'll never know.

anyways...here is what i fixed for myself to eat for my first meal of day at 4:30pm:

rice, burnt bacon (oopsies, got distracted!), 2 med-boiled eggs, and a couple tablespoons of this homemade ginger-green-onion condiment that i make that Mr. and The Kid LOVE and eat by the tubful lol.

394 calories for the entire thing. ate it ALL. (guess i was hungry after all! ha!)

not sure i'll be able to eat my normal 2300+ cals a day today since its so late already, but im not worried, it all evens out in the end (plus i had a pretty big dinner last night, so there's that.)

Edited September 16, 20241 yr by ms.sss

speaking of big dinner, here is a vid of said dinner i posted on my IG account.

it was a 14 course (FOURTEEN!!) tasting menu and oh-so-delicious. i had at least 2 bites of each course, more of the ones i found especially delicious (i'm looking at you, braised pork belly, truffle pomme purée, and pickled-radish-octopus taco!)

needless to say i was STUFFED afterwards and insisted we walked the streets for an hour to digest!

Looks absolutely amazing. Did your dinner companions hoover the rest up for you?

More liquid salad. (Zuppa tuscana with zucchini added). And my meals for today. I also had some broccoli cheese soup and a special k protein bar for lunch at work. I’ll have rest of the broccoli soup and salad for dinner when I get home.

On 9/16/2024 at 12:14 PM, Justarwaxx said:

1 month post op gastric bypass .. before and after and I ate an extra bite and the foamies kicked in and unfortunately I lost all the food!

Reminder: listen to your full ques teehee.

I'm still trying to get rid of old habits

Congratulations on learning your fullness cues!

On 9/16/2024 at 5:23 PM, ms.sss said:

6 yrs out next month and there are still days that i forget to eat. case in point: TODAY.

i went on a bit of an exercise binge today: 5km early morning run, followed by 2 back-to-back 1 hr each (power) hot yoga classes, then a last-minute decision to go to a pilates class (cuz i had a free pass expiring tomorrow), and finally an approx 10k round trip (leisurely) bike ride to and from the bike shop to get our bikes serviced (i hate biking btw, so this was sorta a big deal lol...i complained the whole way)

...and by the time we got home it was like past 4pm and i realized i didn't eat all day! and i didn't even feel hungry. now...how i was able to do all that on an empty stomach and not keel over, i'll never know.

anyways...here is what i fixed for myself to eat for my first meal of day at 4:30pm:

rice, burnt bacon (oopsies, got distracted!), 2 med-boiled eggs, and a couple tablespoons of this homemade ginger-green-onion condiment that i make that Mr. and The Kid LOVE and eat by the tubful lol.

394 calories for the entire thing. ate it ALL. (guess i was hungry after all! ha!)

not sure i'll be able to eat my normal 2300+ cals a day today since its so late already, but im not worried, it all evens out in the end (plus i had a pretty big dinner last night, so there's that.)

I believe you completed enough exercised for three people. Can I be one of them? ??

Edited September 18, 20241 yr by GreenTealael

On 9/17/2024 at 1:23 AM, ms.sss said:

and a couple tablespoons of this homemade ginger-green-onion condiment that i make that Mr. and The Kid LOVE and eat by the tubful lol.

Please share the recipe. Pretty Please ?