grisaille12

I crave salty foods and the one thing I would love most of all to eat would be Ruffles potato chips with French onion dip - I used to have such a sweet tooth but after months of sweet protein drinks I have no desire anything sweet. And chocolate which used to be a huge staple in my life just doesn't appeal. But I tried…

I love the Syntrax Nectar shakes (My favorite is Fuzzy Navel - a peach flavor) because it gives you a lot of protein and no carbs !! :drinker:

Well, I am down about 90 pounds and if you go to my profile you can see my before pictures and I have recently had the courage to change my profile pic from a pink lotus to a pic of me about 10 pounds ago - that was at 80 pounds lost. Most important to me was going from a size 32 jeans to 22 and from 4 X tops to 1X…

You'll be starting your journey ANY day now !! GREAT :flowerforyou:

Well, I did finally go through my closet and get rid of all the 4x and 5X clothes. I am actually wearing 2X's but can't quite bring myself to give up my 3X's as most of my tops are in that size and they are only slightly baggy (well, my husband and friends prefer me in the 2X's but I am not going to do laundry that often…

going fantastic !! - now post one with a shirt that fits - hee-hee

grilled cheese sandwich :love:

My VSG was 2/23/12. I am getting ready to have the stricture stretched again on Monday - my surgeon always does it at least twice and I am starting to feel like I need it <sigh> Strictures don't usually happen right away but develop over a month or so.

From what I understand from other VSGers, during the losing phase, calories are usually between 500-800 per day. This is certainly what my average has been.

My VSG was 2/23/2012 and my troubles started when I moved over to real food. I had no trouble with the liquid protein stage. But after I moved to soft food stage, I would eat very slowly and chew a LOT and followed all the rules <sigh> but after about 30 minutes of actue nausea, it would come up. So I thought I was getting…

Well, I too am looking for a good savory oatmeal recipe and the online resources lead me to this one: http://www.thegraciouspantry.com/clean-eating-savory-oatmeal/ which sounds great (I love Crimini mushrooms) plus a friend suggested using oatmeal in any quinoa recipe . . .

:happy: Wow, you folks who responded give me great hope for myself down the road . . . I am one month out

Welcome - I have had one knee replaced at about your weight but my weight continued to climb and climb so I had the VSG. Now the other knee really bothers me if I walk much at all but I am really trying. Of course, the docs taking me off NSAIDs did not help

Thanks - I have it changed now :wink:

I was told that during the losing phase I was told 500-600 calories per day but I can not make My Fitness Pal accept that :wink:

My name is Carol and I had my VSG on 2/23/12. I was intending to have a DS at Duke but due to complicaitons from previous surgeries, when they went in they could not complete it so Dr Sudan did only the first part which is the VSG. This is the surgery I might have chosen in the first place but Medicare does not cover the…