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16mo post-RNY, mine are: cals: 1145 carbs: 35g fibre: 25g protein: 105g fat: 65g Those are my base. I get to eat that even if all I do is breathe and blink. As I exercise, I have it add back my calories at 15% carbs, 20% protein, 65% fat. I don't eat that much fat, but it has to equal to 100%. My workouts can often be…

As much as the scale is important, I really wish folks wouldn't take those numbers to heart. They're going to fluctuate, especially as you're healing. The next year or two will be a scale roller coaster, so you have 2 choices... 1. Weigh and take each number to heart, fret over increases, and fret over losses and whether…

teehee I met my husband @kc4nus in a Yahoo! chatroom in the 90s. On dialup. When dinosaurs roamed the earth. Neither of us was looking. It just happened. That's probably why it worked. Sometimes, you can try too hard. Concentrate on you for a while.

I tend to move through them backwards. I'm usually "over" early morning, because I pre-log food. By mid-day, I'm "in" and by the end of the day, I'm usually "under" or still "in" the zone if I'm actively eating at maintenance. @Crstlm3 As dieters know it, there is no such thing as starvation mode. If you're not losing,…

If my sodium is too low, I get foggy. I now take 1g sodium tablets twice a day and the fog is gone. Electrolytes out of balance is usually the first thing that comes to mind when someone talks about dropping their carbs. Depending on what your "undereating carbs" looks like, you could be bumping into and out of ketosis,…

Bingo!

I love IF and keto. For me, it's practically magic and I wish I'd found this combo earlier. My natural eating pattern is 16:8 IF. For weight loss, I choose 17:7 or (increasingly) 18:6. In maintenance, 16:8 works well. I drink coffee with Splenda and a little Fairlife at breakfast and probably tea/Fairlife mid-morning. The…

I end up drinking the broth first, waiting 15 minutes, then eating the solids. That worked well and didn't break the "no solids and liquids at the same time" rule.

My Director, who hasn't seen me since before I dropped below 300, looked at me and looked away truly not recognizing me. She kept hearing my voice, but when she turned around, she didn't see the me she knew. Finally, I spoke directly to her and she was gobsmacked. For a full minute, she just stared. And then she cried,…

My Director, who hasn't seen me since before surgery, looked at me and looked away truly not recognizing me. She kept hearing my voice, but when she turned around, she didn't see the me she knew. Finally, I spoke directly to her and she was gobsmacked. For a full minute, she just stared. And then she cried, because she was…

I'm not a fan. The stuff is fine and if people want to give, they will. I received quite a few "congrats" gifts, but I never asked for them. The other reason I'm not a fan is the attention. Sure, the attention is a great motivator, but at some point, that attention is going to go away. You need to find the motivation and…

I got a lot of info from my doctor and decided to put it here. http://2poufs.blogspot.com/

Fried, if I must. I'd happily avoid them on a permanent basis.

How? Weigh it, measure it, eat only that, and then stop. I had zero sensation of hunger or fullness for a while after surgery. If I'd just eaten, I could have hurt myself and stalled my progress. Instead, I measured exact portions (in grams), ate that very slowly, paid attention to how I felt during eating to learn the…

Yes, I started tracking food a year before surgery. I didn't start tracking on MFP until after surgery, but that was a personal choice. 9oz of protein is about 63g, since each ounce of meat yields 7g of protein. You really need to get out of the "ounces" mentality and start tracking food in grams. Now is the time to learn.…

I was completely open about it. I even blog about my progress and post it as a public post on FB. This entire process is stigmatized and I wanted to help people learn about it and hopefully patients will then feel like they can talk about their struggles and journey. That support is so important after surgery.

I discovered it wasn't the sweetener, it was the way I was brewing it. Brewed coffee kills my stomach, but I can drink French press all day long. For cream, I use Fairlife 2% and a touch of Splenda to sweeten.

Brownie batter waffles with cream cheese icing. http://asweetlife.org/recipes/brownie-batter-waffles/ For the icing, I just added a little sucralose and milk to cream cheese until I got the consistency and sweetness I wanted.

xp... My NSV is that I stopped caring. I care about what I eat and how I feel, but I stopped caring about the number on the scale. First, I totally forgot my "19th of the month" mandatory weigh-in. Looking back, I've weighed once since February 19th. Second, someone asked me yesterday how much I weighed and that's when I…

My NSV is that I stopped caring. I care about what I eat and how I feel, but I stopped caring about the number on the scale. First, I totally forgot my "19th of the month" mandatory weigh-in. Looking back, I've weighed once since February 19th. Second, someone asked me yesterday how much I weighed and that's when I…

I measure the first of every other month. For me, it's odd months. When I was larger and the scale was dropping quickly, I was changing measurements quickly. Now that I'm closer to goal, changes just don't happen as quickly, either to the scale or to the tape measure.

You have a lot going on and you're handling it pretty well. The fact that you see your errors is the biggest hurdle. We both know that a month is just a month. You have the skills to get back and I know you'll get there. Talk to your lady. Young relationship or not, sometimes it's best to rip off the bandaid and see if it…

If you haven't found us, there's a RNY/VSG/Lap group. http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/637-gastric-bypass-vsg-lapband

It depends. Some do total carbs, some subtract fibre, some subtract sugar alcohols. The right answer is "the one that works for you." If you can do that and it doesn't impact your goals, then do it. If it does impact them, then don't. I wish there was a more cut-and-dried answer, but it really is "it depends." I subtract…

I'll have a blood draw before this starts too. I'll have another order drawn up for afterwards for S&G.

Salad and eat the toppings.

I take all of my pills in the morning when I'm only doing water and coffee and tea with cream or Fairlife. It works for me. I say try it and see. The main issue is stomach irritation. I started with water, but had to add in a little tea and cream in between handfuls of pills. If you can do it with water, go ahead. If not,…

I can live with that. If I can do cream, I can live without sweeteners. I woke up this morning and decided to give it a try for a couple of days to see how my belly will do. I'll give it a few days to ensure I don't need additional meds for mah guts. If it works out, I'm in for AAA - All Animal April.

I know you're always watching, but *inside* my head? Reading my mind again.

I can jump on the "all meat April" experiment. I can't do bacon exclusively or I'll be the toilet after the third day. But all meat? Shoot, that's almost what I do now. I'm gonna miss cheese, but I can live for a month. On May first, I'd gonna be sucking the cheese out of the udder though. Does "all meat" literally mean…