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

14 hours ago, Mspretty86 said:

My sweet tooth is still alive and well..I guess that's why I never had issues with the Protein Shakes during this journey. Today I am making a bariatric friendly homemade Peanut Butter cup/cashew butter cup. So good!

Now I want to try to make this. Any recipe suggestions?

@GreenTealael

This is the recipe for the chocolate that goes in your Peanut Butter cup molds. I do not use honey..I use a sugar substitute personal preference. The filling I do homemade unsalted cashew butter in my ninja or homemade unsaltedpeanut butter in my ninja for the filling. You can play around with it.
https://healthyrecipesblogs.com/homemade-chocolate/

22 hours ago, Mspretty86 said:

My sweet tooth is still alive and well..I guess that's why I never had issues with the Protein Shakes during this journey. Today I am making a bariatric friendly homemade Peanut Butter cup/cashew butter cup. So good!

all the chocolate-peanut butter talk last week got me all excited and i finally dragged myself to grocery to get the ingredients ( 70% dark chocolate chips and peanuts-which i ground to diy peanut butter + some diy confectioners sugar as well)

whipped up these sad looking cups but oh so yum...i'm with @Lilia_90 ...dark chocolate for-evah!

yeah i ran out of chocolate so one cup was topless lololzzzz

ate one...approx 105 cals.

Edited November 10, 20241 yr by ms.sss

@ms.sss that looks so good! I'm such a foodie ha!

other things ive eaten this weekend

(yeah kinda sad looking, i know ?)

1) mini butter chicken meat pie & a minced pork and chive bao bun...400 cals for it all, ate ½ the bao and one bite of pie (wasn't very good)

2) ½ a slice of my homemade black truffle bread, 1tbsp strawberry jam, 1 tbsp almond butter: 220 cals, ate it all

3) truffle bread again with 1 tsp butter, 1 tsp olive oil & 1 tbsp balsamic glaze: 120 cals, ate it all.

4) cabbage soup with leftover grilled chicken: 150 cals, ate it all

5) a chocolate-peanut-butter-banana funnel cake monstrosity with a side scoop of vanilla ice cream. i had one single bite of this (sans ice cream), swearsies. i honestly just like ordering food more than i like to eat it. it was split among my dinner companions but most was left on the plate (they had their own desserts to contend with!!)

Hi Hunnybunny @Starwarsandcupcakes how are you doing?

1 hour ago, GreenTealael said:

Hi Hunnybunny @Starwarsandcupcakes how are you doing?

Doing pretty good! My first meal post-op was liquids and since I kept it down I got mashed potatoes and soup for dinner. I have my 2 week post op this coming Friday and by then I should know when I’ll be allowed back to work. Meals this past week have been mostly on the older kids to make because I’m too tired by dinner to care. ??‍♀️ So for me I’ve been eating mostly salads. The one with corn is vegan ground beef, green chilis and corn. The kids topped theirs with cheese and cornbread batter and baked it.

Also, the grand baby (will be one this month) and I had the same sized breakfast earlier this week and here’s our before and after. Mine is the light blue plate.

Scrambled eggs with onion, mushrooms, and salmon with maple buttered toast.

32 minutes ago, Starwarsandcupcakes said:

Also, the grand baby (will be one this month) and I had the same sized Breakfast earlier this week and here’s our before and after. Mine is the light blue plate.

Scrambled eggs with onion, mushrooms, and salmon with maple buttered toast.

Oh that is beyond sweet.

All this chocolate talk had me reminiscing about those giant dark chocolate pb and j cups I used to make all the time (peek the halloween version LOL). I’ll head to the grocery store today to get the ingredients and make them again.

Edited November 11, 20241 yr by Lilia_90

I couldn’t stop thinking about them (thanks lot) so I made orange dark chocolate peanut butter cups and stuffed two of them with jelly. Unfortunately didn’t get any of the ones with jelly, I had a whole one.

went on a sauce/condiment making rabbit hole yesterday...

from left to right:

1) garlic chilli crisp oil

2) ginger green onion sauce

3) simple syrup

4) earl grey infused simple syrup (made this on whim and don't know how i survived all this time without it! #yum) added a generous drizzle over some silken tofu....?

**last pic: a tbsp each of the chili crisp and the ginger sauce with 50g of Char Sui (aka Chinese bbq pork)...ate it all! (224 calories)

dupe post.

Edited November 12, 20241 yr by ms.sss

oops i did it again:

came home from 2.5 hours of hot yoga and was too lazy to fix something so reached for some junk.

sour cream & onion chips, 1/4 of a coconut bun and 1 of those dark-chocolate-peanut-butter cups i made the other day.

317 calories for it all.

ate almost all of it.

(i really need to make sure there is something to eat when i get home from yoga/pilates/rock climbing....need to go grocery shopping!!)

Edited November 12, 20241 yr by ms.sss

Breakfast (2.5 hours post a weight lifting and jogging session)

1 slice protein toast, 4 slices turkey breast, lite cheese, spicy mayo, lettuce and jalapeños. How I did:

Had the rest an hour later. Approximately 314 calories for the whole thing. Also had a protein shake 1.5 hours prior.

Edited November 13, 20241 yr by Lilia_90