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St. Patrick's Day PSA.
For those that love to celebrate: 4 oz serving of Corned Beef brisket (Hollshire Farms) 240 calories, 4 oz cooked cabbage (with salt) 17 calories 1 slice of Irish Soda Bread about 170 Calories 12 oz Guiness Draught 125 Calories Choose wisely but never forget - we made a lifestyle change and have a new tool to help us. We…
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Protein Drinks - PSA
Posting because this is a frequent topic for newbies. There are many choices but this one worked for me and many of the people I have seen posting. Ispoure Ready To Drink liquids cost about $4 per bottle, come in many flavors and deliver 40g of protein in a 20 oz bottle. During the first few months I drank 2 per day to…
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Holiday Inspiration
This was my 2nd Thanksgiving since the Sleeve and I am inviting anyone who wants to check out my food diary. For new and prospective "Sleevers" take a look to see what's possible. You really can live a normal life with a healthy food relationship, you really can lose the weight and get healthy and in a very short period of…
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Bought a Meat Slicer
Another tool in the box! Picked up a nice home meat slicer to go with my scale. Making it easier to to make the weekly meal plan.
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Halloween
Have a Happy Halloween everyone but please remember to LOG IN ALL THE LITTLE TREATS. I remember last year when I was one month post-op and felt like eating a coule of pieces of candy I neede dto convince myself that I was not on a diet. So I ate a few, and logged them in and guess what - no problems. Helped me to…
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Halloween
Have a Happy Halloween everyone but please remember to LOG IN ALL THE LITTLE TREATS. I remember last year when I was one month post-op and felt like eating a coule of pieces of candy I neede dto convince myself that I was not on a diet. So I ate a few, and logged them in and guess what - no problems. Helped me to…
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Halloween
Have a Happy Halloween everyone but please remember to LOG IN ALL THE LITTLE TREATS. I remember last year when I was one month post-op and felt like eating a coule of pieces of candy I neede dto convince myself that I was not on a diet. So I ate a few, and logged them in and guess what - no problems. Helped me to…
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Bagle Mistake
Lesson learned departmnet. I am 11 months out, have surpassed my goal weight and have generally had a great experience with new foods. Once or twice over the past year I have had bad reactions but nothing compared to my "bagle experience" this past week. I figured I would try one at a retirement breakfast and see what…
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Goal met!
187.5 pounds today. Met my overall goal of 188 pounds, body fat 20.7%. Just set MFP to maintain!!!!!!!
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Memorial Day
As we settle in for the long Holiday weekend of celebration and BBQ's please take a moment to remember that Memorial Day is not simply the "unofficial start of summer" but a day to stop and remember all who gave the ultimate sacrifice so that we can BBQ. "The greatest glory of a free-born people is to transmit that freedom…
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Memorial Day
As we settle in for the long Holiday weekend of celebration and BBQ's please take a moment to remember that Memorial Day is not simply the "unofficial start of summer" but a day to stop and remember all who gave the ultimate sacrifice so that we can BBQ. "The greatest glory of a free-born people is to transmit that freedom…
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Stomach stretching after surgery
Have seen this concern a few times and found a good article on the subject. Atribution: http://obesitycoverage.com/weight-loss-surgeries/gastric-sleeve/gastric-sleeve-will-my-stomach-stretch How to Prevent the Stretch After Gastric Sleeve Surgery Eating one or two large meals will not lead to a permanently stretched…
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Ticker Problems
Anyone else having Ticker issues? Seems to have retarted my weight loss at Zero but when I go to the ticker page my start, current and goal weights are correct.
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What I have Learned in 5 Months
1) Apparantly the quality of clothing in this country is not as poor as I had thought. Remarkably I have not lost one button, shredded the crotch of a pair of pants or blew out weak seems in my underwear in quite a while. 2) The seats on the train are actually sized well and two people can sit together without rubbing…
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6 Months!
Today is my 6 month "Surgiversory" and what an amazing 6 months it has been. So much has changed in such a short period of time. Besides losing 100+ pounds; I have lost 10 inches on my pants size, gained upper body muscle definition, regained the ability to run, developed new healthy eating habits, learned to understand…
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Spring!
Now that Spring is upon us and the never ending "Votex Winter" is fading what are you doing to prepare for Summer? Being less than 1 year post-op this will be my first summer in a very long time that I am looking forward to Summer activities. What are you looking forwrad to?
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St. Patrick's Weekend
Corned Beef Brisket: 3 oz, 213 calories, 15 gr Protein. Boiled Cabbage: 35 calories per cup, 2.6 gr Protein. Guiness Draft: 210 calories per pint. Happy St. Patrick's weekend everybody!!
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Fat Tuesday
For those of us that are post op it's "Not So Fat Tuesday" and for the pre-ops it's "My Last Really Fat Tuesday" but either way - enjoy the last day before Lent!! (Guiness beer is low on carbonation) As for Lent - a Priest whom I respected a great deal once advised that we should never give up anything that we plan on…
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Potassium and Fiber
Question for the group; How are you doing with Potassium and Fiber intake? What foods are you choosing that fit in well with our protein needs and capacity restrictions? Now that I have really settled in with understanding my food intake I have noticed a Potasium and Fiber deficiency. I'd like to avoid a suppliment and am…
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Got My Fitbit!
Looking like a great compainion tool for MFP. In less than 12 hours I can see how my actual daily calorie burn is greater than the MFP estimates. Going to be a real help when I transition to maintaining. Looking forward to see how my daily and weekly averages develop.
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Vacations and learning to eat - success
I learned a great deal over the past few weeks. We set out on a planned two week vacation to Key West to spend the Holidays with family. Mechanical problems extended that a few days and had us in the difficult position of going day to day in hotels and chain restaurants. Over the 17 days I lost 12.5 pounds. I ate in good…
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Alcohol
Anyone have any experiences to share regarding adding the occasional adult beverage back into your life? Still too early in the process for me but I would like to see what others have found.
