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Salads - garden salad with avocado and tuna or salmon and salad seeds sprinkled over it.

Soups - current fave, zucchini and leek with a dollop of natural yogurt (this isnt really high Protein though) and Doug just made a really good pea and ham Soup, delicious. You can add lentils to any soup for protein.

I also eat loads of nuts - walnuts are great for Omega 3's, raw almonds and macadamias.

I make a lot of smoothies to get my fruit in (banana and berries, yum) and I use yogurt, skim milk and chuck an egg in for protein, but if you're a Protein Powder user you can use that instead.

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The goal should be to eat most anything you want but in smaller portions. Last night I made chicken stirfry over brown rice. Other nights I've made meatloaf (cooked on a broiler pan so fat drains off), hamburger patties with onions, chicken cesear salad, baked pork chops. I cook for a family of 5 (3 teenage boys) so they have to enjoy it also. Oh, one of my favorites is taco salad (beef or chicken), I just skip the tortilla chips.< /p>

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1/2 avocado with crab salad,

grilled veggies,

poached tilapia in seasoned chicken broth with squash,onions and peppers,

shishkabobs with veggies and shrimp

curried lamb over brown rice

crock pot Beans or lentils in a stew. Add left over meats.< /p>

baked chicken cordon blue (breast stuffed with swiss cheese and lean ham)

stuffed eggplant

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Salmon Templada

Ingredients:

Salmon with 5 Essentials

fat (olive oil)

salt

pepper

aromatic (fresh or dry herb)

acid (lemon or lime)

White Bean Mash

can of white Beans (canelli)

olive oil

salt

pepper

Savoy Sauté

cabbage

olive oil

onion

Directions

Slice salmon in its raw state (like you would with lox) and place on oven safe plate. Drizzle salmon with olive oil, sprinkle salt, pepper, and herb over salmon and squeeze a fresh lemon or lime. Put salmon in broiler and broil on high for 1 to 2 minutes, until just pink.

Open up can of white beans and drain. Mash them in a bowl, then drizzle olive oil, add salt and pepper. Mix and microwave until warm. Serve.

Chop up cabbage length-wise, drizzle with olive oil and combine with finely chopped onion. Sauté for 5-7 min. Serve.

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
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      1. LeighaTR

        I hope your surgery on Wednesday goes well. You will be able to do all sorts of new things as you find your new normal after surgery. I don't know this from experience yet, but I am seeing a lot of positive things from people who have had it done. Best of luck!

    • Alisa_S

      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      1. summerseeker

        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

        Now I have a whole new big, bigger, biggest, best days ever. I am out there with those skinny people doing stuff i could never have dreamt of. Food is now an after thought. It doesn't consume my day. I still enjoy the good home cooked food but I eat smaller portions. I leave food on my plate when I am full. I can no longer hear my mother's voice saying eat it all up, ther are starving children in Africa who would want that!

        I still cook for family feasts, I love cooking. I still do holidays but I have changed from the All inclusive drinking and eating everything everyday kind to Self catering accommodation. This gives me the choice of cooking or eating out as I choose. I rarely drink anymore as I usually travel alone now and I feel I need to keep aware of my surroundings.

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        BTW, the liquid diet sucks, one more day and you are over the worst. You can do it.

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