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

3 hours ago, Lilia_90 said:

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

well thats a way healthier post-workout meal than mine ever was!

heading off to costco now to stock my fridge/pantry (and probably come home with 10 boxes of aluminum foil, or mabye a kayak, lol...who else goes to costco and buys sh*te they don't need??!?!?!?)

On 11/10/2024 at 6:56 PM, Starwarsandcupcakes said:

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.

Glad you are doing well!

11 minutes ago, ms.sss said:

well thats a way healthier post-workout meal than mine ever was!

heading off to costco now to stock my fridge/pantry (and probably come home with 10 boxes of aluminum foil, or mabye a kayak, lol...who else goes to costco and buys sh*te they don't need??!?!?!?)

20 rotisserie chickens ?

Eggs in a basket! I made these for my BF but I may eat the same thing later.

What do you call this dish (eggs cooked in a hole in bread)?

Edited November 13, 20241 yr by GreenTealael

toad in a hole!

(heard this term for the first time on some random cooking show a few years back)

1 hour ago, ms.sss said:

well thats a way healthier post-workout meal than mine ever was!

What you ate wouldn’t have kept me full for 20 straight minutes LMAO

well...we didn't end up going to Costco...whomp whomp

we got distracted house hunting and then ended up picking up Popeyes in the way home...double womp womp.

an onion ring, 3 boneless chicken wings, and a scoop each of cole slaw & the mashed potatoes. estimated 370 calories for the before pic.

ate the sides, a bite of the onion ring (not very good) and 1 of the chicken wings which turned out to have a bone in it, surprise! hahah.

5 hours ago, Lilia_90 said:

What you ate wouldn’t have kept me full for 20 straight minutes LMAO

ha, the coconut bun did the stomach filling job, i guess. softish bread tends to take a loooooong while for me to digest....??‍♀️

12 hours ago, GreenTealael said:

eggs in a basket! I made these for my BF but I may eat the same thing later.

What do you call this dish (eggs cooked in a hole in bread)?

We always called it egg in a hole. Unimaginative I know. Toad in the hole is something different @ms.sss. It’s sausages, usually beef but can be pork, baked in yorkshire pudding batter. Served with onion gravy, mashed potatoes and whatever other vegetables.

12 hours ago, ms.sss said:

heading off to costco now to stock my fridge/pantry (and probably come home with 10 boxes of aluminum foil, or mabye a kayak, lol...who else goes to costco and buys sh*te they don't need??!?!?!?)

While we have a Costco in Brisbane it’s a 45+ min drive away so couldn’t be bothered but it sounds like an Australian visit to Bunnings (hardware). My sister-in-law & I went for a bag of potting mix and some of those big gardening hand rake scoop things which would have cost us less than $20 total. We came out with an overflowing trolley and had spent about $400 between us. Outdoor Xmas lights, pool inflatables (xmas presents for my young nieces & nephew), plants, dog shampoo & conditioner, microfibre cleaning cloths, silk flowers, hanging basket, … I promise we needed all of it ???

6 hours ago, ms.sss said:

ha, the coconut bun did the stomach filling job, i guess. softish bread tends to take a loooooong while for me to digest....??‍♀️

Funny you say that.

So I eat pretty small portions but my stomach empties quickly. Yesterday I only ate half a small salad for lunch and went to a doctors appointment which lasted forever so I was famished by the time I got home, the hubs had some homemade sliders hot and waiting for me, so I took off the top part of the mini bun and almost finished the whole patty and the other half of the bun. Usually I’m hungry again 1.5-2 hours after dinner so I would snack on something before bed, but man I was soooo full I couldn’t even have water without being uncomfortable. Reckon it was that half bun?

Edited November 14, 20241 yr by Lilia_90

9 hours ago, Arabesque said:

Toad in the hole is something different @ms.sss. It’s sausages, usually beef but can be pork, baked in yorkshire pudding batter. Served with onion gravy, mashed potatoes and whatever other vegetables.

well that sounds even more delicious...you have inspired me just now to try my hand at making yorkshire pudding...never have but always wanted to try.

14 hours ago, ms.sss said:

well that sounds even more delicious...you have inspired me just now to try my hand at making yorkshire pudding...never have but always wanted to try.

Have to admit I’ve never made them either. I remember mum making toad in the hole when we were young but never plain Yorkshire puddings. Watch them making them on all the UK cooking shows and I think one day.

PS. Mentioning UK cooking shows, does anyone else find Prue Leith annoying. Forcing myself to watch her Cotswold Kitchen at the moment & find myself criticising her & complaining the whole time. She’s annoying on Bake-off too. Yet I enjoyed her back in the day on Great British Menu. I’m team Mary Berry all the way.

My ex is from Yorkshire, I ditched him but kept making the puddings ? When I'm cooking for the family Xmas dinner, it's prime rib and yorkshire pudding with gravy as the main. They're not hard, but require a very hot oven to come out properly.

Dinner tonight!!

Butter chicken and a vegetable samosa. First picture is before dinner, then after dinner; the third is after second dinner.

WLS has turned me into a hobbit. I eat breakfast, second breakfast, elevensies, lunch, dinner, second dinner. I feel like I eat every 2 hours and all the time.