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So this might sound like a crazy question. I'm almost 5 mos post RNY. I really try to keep my carbs low. A high day for me is around 50 and those are few and far between. Most days I'm around 20-25. My question is for all of you that are sticking to real low carb are you still eating a lot of veggies? I try to get my carbs from veggies so they're healthy carbs...but they're still carbs. I still mainly just worry about getting all my Protein and then fill the rest with other healthy stuff. I try to get in around 800 calories day although some days I still fall short. I will occassionaly eat 1 slice of low carb bread or a wrap (4-5 net carbs each). I honestly don't miss bread the way I thought I would.

I almost feel like I might be too crazy conservative, but I refuse to gain back any of what I'm losing.

Attached is what my NUT gave me to follow at this point. So the long and short of all this is how many non-starchy carbs is everyone getting in? I know everyone is different and we all lose differently, but any help is appriciated.

Thanks,
Gina

Bariatric_Meal_Plan_3M-6M.pdf

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That's me most days. I get over 1lb of veggies per day usually. I keep it to 50g total or about 30g net most days.

Here's what I've had so far and dinner will likely be cauliflower and broccoli roasted and maybe a small salad plus baked fish. Oh and I had an ounce of grape tomatoes with mid morning snack. I will probably have a bedtime snack of either a salad or veggies with yogurt Ranch.

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This was me yesterday:

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6 hours ago, Nonnaof4 said:

A high day for me is around 50 and those are few and far between. Most days I'm around 20-25.

Yep, these were my carb intake levels as well during weight loss phase. BUT I counted NET carbs for my totals (All carbs minus dietary fibre minus sugar alcohols). Are you numbers total or NET?

I stayed away from added sugar, bread, rice, Pasta, potatoes, Beans, root vegetables and fruit (except the occasional berry). Of course there were a few days in there when I would have a drink or a bite of dessert but these were very, very rare occasions. I could probably count on one hand how many times I indulged in carbs during weight loss phase.

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8 hours ago, FluffyChix said:

That's me most days. I get over 1lb of veggies per day usually. I keep it to 50g total or about 30g net most days.

Here's what I've had so far and dinner will likely be cauliflower and broccoli roasted and maybe a small salad plus baked fish. Oh and I had an ounce of grape tomatoes with mid morning snack. I will probably have a bedtime snack of either a salad or veggies with yogurt Ranch.

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This was me yesterday:

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I wish I could get that many veggies in. Luckily I haven't found any that don't agree with me. I really need to step up my veggie game. I do eat a lot of broccoli which is my favorite. I'm just curious on your stuff from lunch yesterday. Are you having just a dab of yogurt? I'm guessing you're using it to make some kind of dip or dressing for the veggies?

My NUT wants me to try and get as close to 20g Protein at each meal. That doesn't leave a lot of room for veggies. I'm still relying on a Protein Shake most days as well. I use it for breakfast as its an easy grab and go.

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4 hours ago, ms.sss said:

Yep, these were my carb intake levels as well during weight loss phase. BUT I counted NET carbs for my totals (All carbs minus dietary fibre minus sugar alcohols). Are you numbers total or NET?

I stayed away from added sugar, bread, rice, Pasta, potatoes, Beans, root vegetables and fruit (except the occasional berry). Of course there were a few days in there when I would have a drink or a bite of dessert but these were very, very rare occasions. I could probably count on one hand how many times I indulged in carbs during weight loss phase.

:)

Yup those are my net carbs. If I do any Pasta I do black bean pasta, its around 6 net carbs. I only have 1oz at a time. fruit is a killer for carbs. I had a banana the other day and killed my carbs :( . I stay away from added sugar as well. I did fine a low carb bread I will have 1 slice with an egg on Sunday. I have to watch the bread as it will make me foamy.

At this point I'm still losing. Slowly but losing and as long as the scale keeps going down I'm happy!

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8 hours ago, Nonnaof4 said:

I wish I could get that many veggies in. Luckily I haven't found any that don't agree with me. I really need to step up my veggie game. I do eat a lot of broccoli which is my favorite. I'm just curious on your stuff from lunch yesterday. Are you having just a dab of yogurt? I'm guessing you're using it to make some kind of dip or dressing for the veggies?

My NUT wants me to try and get as close to 20g Protein at each meal. That doesn't leave a lot of room for veggies. I'm still relying on a Protein Shake most days as well. I use it for Breakfast as its an easy grab and go.

I think that's an unrealistic goal from your RD for now. But, you need to follow the plan set for you or get them to rework it to something more manageable? Mine did this for me cuz she knows I prefer a low carb life and that I love my veg and need the Fiber. She told me to drink up to 1 Protein Drink per day to get 25-30g of Protein in me. That way, I can have more veggies in my meals without stressing. Now that I'm 2 years out, I can easily get my 60g of protein in per day. My Vitamin levels were all beautiful at 2 years.

The first lunch listed was my Healthy tuna salad with veggie dippers. Here's the recipe. You can scroll down to see a picture of the lunch in that post.
Second lunch was a small side salad with an avocado egg toast chaffle (low carb). Here's my recipe for low carb high protein chaffles. And here's a picture of that meal.

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But to add, salad and raw veggies to some extent are sliders for me. And I'm 2 years out. :)

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1 hour ago, FluffyChix said:

But to add, salad and raw veggies to some extent are sliders for me.

Me too. If I only eat greens (and nothing else) I can eat LOTS. (I'm 1 yr 4 mnths out)

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1 hour ago, FluffyChix said:

I think that's an unrealistic goal from your RD for now. But, you need to follow the plan set for you or get them to rework it to something more manageable? Mine did this for me cuz she knows I prefer a low carb life and that I love my veg and need the Fiber. She told me to drink up to 1 Protein Drink per day to get 25-30g of Protein in me. That way, I can have more veggies in my meals without stressing. Now that I'm 2 years out, I can easily get my 60g of Protein in per day. My Vitamin levels were all beautiful at 2 years.

The first lunch listed was my Healthy tuna salad with veggie dippers. Here's the recipe. You can scroll down to see a picture of the lunch in that post.
Second lunch was a small side salad with an avocado egg toast chaffle (low carb). Here's my recipe for low carb high protein chaffles. And here's a picture of that meal.

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But to add, salad and raw veggies to some extent are sliders for me. And I'm 2 years out. :)

Those meals look amazing. I can't do Avocado though I'm allergic. I'm going to email my NUT today and see what she says. I've been trying to get in 80-100g protein and maybe I should just back off the protein a little to get more veggies. I'm still in that sweet spot most days where I don't really get hungry so I forget to have a snack which is the perfect spot for some veggies. Today I'll have most of my protein just from two drinks. I have a Protein Shake for Breakfast, and I dropped 2 scoops of collagen Protein in my first flavored water of the day.

Thanks for the chaffle recipe. That is very different from the one I have and its a lot lower calories I'll have to try it. I love all your posts you really have a great handle on all of this and always provide lots of great information.

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On 3/5/2020 at 2:12 PM, FluffyChix said:

That's me most days. I get over 1lb of veggies per day usually. I keep it to 50g total or about 30g net most days.

Here's what I've had so far and dinner will likely be cauliflower and broccoli roasted and maybe a small salad plus baked fish. Oh and I had an ounce of grape tomatoes with mid morning snack. I will probably have a bedtime snack of either a salad or veggies with yogurt Ranch.

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This was me yesterday:

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Hi Fluffy...Just reviewing some older posts and loved this. Did you create this spread sheet? Or is it an App? I love the breakout on it. Thanks and continued Success to you!!

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2 hours ago, Lily66 said:

Did you create this spread sheet? Or is it an App?

@FluffyChix hasn't been around in a few months (Come back, Fluffy! I miss you!).

....but to answer your question in her absence, it looks like its from MyFitnessPal (I say *looks* because it doesn't exactly look like what I see on my iPhone nor my Mac/Safari...but it may be because these screenshots were taken from an Android, or other...)

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GM, my carb intake is around 75, my Protein around 100 grams. I’m 2 years post surgery and have maintained my weight loss. I drink soooo much Water each day and walk about 5 miles a day. I find losing the weight was easy for me but maintaining is the hardest. You got this, Good luck on your journey...💜💜

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