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My best advice would be, if you are craving carbs, to go for something that will feed your body...like an apple. Avoid the empty calories and carbs. Have tomatoes, or even a banana if you're nuts for something sweet. Sugars, grains...poison. My experience has been that the occasional fruit won't knock you out of…

A banana would help more than bread, because it has potassium. About 27 carb grams for a medium, so within your limits if you're having trouble. Also, cantaloupe, broccoli, brussel sprouts, spinach. I can see somebody at no carb having this kind of trouble, but you CAN get high potassium foods into your diet and stay…

Wear the bras that feels comfortable for whatever activity you're doing. Go to LuluLemon. Put one on. Stand and walk around it in a while. Do a little jogging in place. Do the same with a cheaper bra. You'll know which is right.

Okay, I just experienced a total disconnect. If this is the case...why are we eating fat at all? wouldn't it be better to eat as little fat as possible, hit our protein goals and let our bodies go to our fat stores?

I'm kind of surprised to hear there's so much sentiment against low-carb, considering the number of people with WLS these days. I'm post-VSG and this WOE would be fine with them except for the HF component. We were basically told only protein was fine. Maybe a little veg. In fact, we were told, not eating at all was fine.…

thanks for your answers. i haven't tried zc yet. I'm kinda sorta drifting downward with lchf, but i'm thinking i'm only now getting fat adapted. i feel better though.

I do BPC first thing when I wake up and try to make it a few hours before eating anything, to prolong the 'fast'. Later in the afternoon sometime, I'll drink the rest of the coffee with a scoop of vanilla whey protein and either HWC or half and half. This may be a generational thing. Adding all kinds of flavoring to coffee…

Are people happy with their weight loss doing ZC? Wondered if anybody would be willing to share.

I'd pay for a cheat day for two weeks.

Hi, I hate to sound like a total newb, but could you explain that better, please? When I first started LCHF, a month ago, I added NOW whey protein isolate, vanilla flavored. But it seemed I got too much protein every day. So I stopped adding the protein a few days ago and I seem to be responding better. I am status…

When you have surgery they pump you full of fluids. It's not like drinking fluids you just pee out. It can take several weeks for your body to offload those fluids. So keep yourself hydrated, drink electrolytes, follow the programs. You are inflamed because you have a surgical injury to your body. Give yourself time to…

A trick for eating cheap cuts is to cover it in salt and let it sit for a few hours before cooking. The salt will tenderize the meat. Give it like 6 hours. So maybe set it up in the morning before you go to work. The meat will be salty, but not a salt lick, and it will be very tender. So try it with chuck steak.

I'm on pantoprazole. I take a pill every few days. I am more than 2 years out. I did not have GERD before the surgery. I'm careful to monitor the heartburn. On the one hand pantoprazole interferes with calcium absorption and can through some of the more obscure blood panel items way out of wack. I get the milk products in…

Thank you @KnitOrMiss . I think I'm pretty well adjusted. I took sweeteners out of the mix after finding a thread on it here. I wasn't using much, but I guess that little was enough. Liquid sucrolose arrived today and I decide to add it to something BY THE DROP. just a little if I really need it. I appreciate my sleeve, I…

I got sleeved (VSG) a couple of years ago. I lost 75 pounds and no more. I don't know if keto will work, but I feel better on it. It's only been a month and I've had to get over the low carb, high protein, low-calorie mantra. Here's the thing, when I was young I used to drop weight by sticking to meat and veggies. I'd…

If we don't use sweeteners, fruit tastes pretty sweet. How about making real ice cream with HWC and your carb limit of real fruit? No sweeteners and the rest of your day has to be no carb. So for a treat. I'd make it with cinnamon, too. Just thinking out loud.

I just don't trust restaurant food. I went to IHOP once, post my VSG surgery, and I wasn't eating any grains. We were supposed to keep our protein high, our carbs as low as we could. I could taste the flour in their scrambled eggs. I asked them to make me some without the flour, I mean...how hard can it be? They tell me it…

Okay, can you blend butter or coconut oil into your morning shake? I have protein coffee in the morning. I add psyllium, apple fiber, and coconut oil now. Also cinnamon and allspice and almond milk. It's delicious. But without the blender, would have been a no go. I have to have the fiber because of bowel issues caused by…

Hi! I'm a WLS patient, status post-VSG, more than 2 years out. After surgery, I lost 75 pounds, all in the first 6 months, then didn't lose anything at all for 8 months. Then lost another 10 pounds by eating almost nothing. I started eating around 1k calories a day after losing the 10 pounds. My carbs were typically in the…

Seems oatmeal would be better than the mac and cheese. I think for people of normal weight who are looking for an easy way to get a well-balanced diet, without calorie counting, this could be a really good thing. But I'd recommend everything get switched to unprocessed foods. So the mac and cheese would be out in favor of…

Many years ago I went to Cheesecake Factory. I think I was on Nutrisystem or WW at the time. They had a 'low-cal' menu. Salads. They were like...500 calories a piece. seemed a lot to me, but I ordered one. The salad was HUGE, but it basically a head of lettuce with a thin vinegrette of some sort. HA! I couldn't figure out…

I developed GERD after VSG surgery. The doc prescribed pantoprazole. I took it every day, sometimes twice a day for a while, but my lab values went wonky, some result that can happen with VSG patients on pantoprazole. Apparently it makes it difficult to absorb calcium, so you start leaching from the bones and that can give…

Happy surgiversary, Thaeda!

Relentless, you're doing well. You got your surgery way after me and you've lost way more than me and I haven't lost anything in so long I totally forget that's why I got the surgery. I think it just doesn't work for some people. I'm one of them. I mean, it only works so far and that's it. Although...I do follow the food…

I was watching a documentary, I think it was British, about people who simply do not get fat. The purpose of the documentary was to see if they could make them get fat, the idea that some people are genetically programmed to be naturally fat or thin. I'm probably explaining this badly. Plenty of testing and measuring early…

I'm glad you're here, Paul. Thank you for sharing your story and will send you good energy you continue on a good path.

Dense protein is like NOT protein powder in milk, which is very slide-y. Steak is going to make you feel fuller for far longer than a protein drink. Although, I notice that when I'm getting a lot of protein powder, I get that same sensation. I add xanthum gum to my protein coffee to thicken it up and it is far more filling…

You had major surgery. It takes time to heal. Get enough sleep, stick to your diet plan. Your energy will return, especially as the weight starts to come off.

wow!

That so great! all the progress!