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I want to give you both a hug ... Then a shake! You arent failing at all. Not even a little bit. It's a learning curve. A chance to re educate ourselves and nourish ourselves as we should have all along, have another look on your issued meal plans and make a promise to yourself to make it work for you. Unfortunatly the bypass doesn't do it all I'm afraid I try to follow a paleo diet (they call it the caveman diet) meat,fish, fruit, veg, i have a bit if dairy though as my calcium levels are low, try something like that it slimming world but u don't need to tweak what u r already doing by much to make it great xx

Chin up! Xxx
 
Aww Hun I know but I guess we just have to stay strong and all we can do is try our best. I'm going for my post op check up on Tuesday and I'm going to say exactly how I feel so hopefully that will help. Take care Amanda xxx
 
Cheers maya I'm going to have a look at this thread from the beginning to see what you were eating and post my daily menue. You are such an inspiration Hun but sometimes when I look at you're menue I think " I could eat more than that" do you feel satisfied after each meal especially you're breakfast eg 4 strawberries and 1tbs of yoghurt or do you just limit yourself? Xxxx
 
Thank you maya for the sound advice!! and dimond good luck with your post op checkup... I will just have to snap out of this depression and give myself a good talking to I think... xx
 
If its strawberries they tend to be four medium/large ones, a tbsp yoghurt and a tbsp of cereal (about 10g) I eat as slow as possible and it us enough - some days I can eat more than others or I nibble more I still sometimes take a photo of my portion size to stop it creeping up and to be honest at lunch because I'm chatting and paying less attention I like food I xan count out - melba toast, crabsticks, grapes then I know I won't unknowingly keep grazing past feeling satisfied ....
 
Understand how you are feeling ladies, feeling pretty rubbish myself today. Well i'm having to firmly lock my scales away for the week as seem to be obsessively weighing myself and it's going up and down, where as I've often weighed my self daily since the surgery and it's gone down or stayed the same. I'm seeing all the amazing things that are happening but I'm still struggling with the concept that I'm eating within my calories, having high protein, reasonably low carb (I won't cut out carbs completely because I know it's not sustainable, If I go through my life on a super restrictive diet I will fail big time as I always have before) and drinking water and getting exercise. It frustrates me that it can all just stop out of the blue and even go up. I know I'm lucky that I got this far without it happening before but now I don't know what I'm doing differently. I also feel like I can eat bigger portions recently If I tried plus feeling more hunger but not sure if that is in my head related to stall. It's all so frustrating. Well the gym starts Monday so I'll see what happens this when I weigh myself Thursday without weighing myself till then but this scares me because I'm not sure how I will cope if it's the same or gone up :(

Anyway food plans for today -
Breakfast - Half a cup of grapes.
Lunch - Chicken salad.
Dinner - Chicken, carrot, broccoli and mushroom casserole.
Snack - Plum.
 
I Feel for you shelleymarie! It is so frustrating, and very scary when weight loss slows and nearly stops for no apparent reason.. I honestly didnt realise that I would still need almost as much willpower after the bypass as I needed before it, I thought I would be forced into small size portions, and certain foods would be uneatable, but that is not the case... For example I had a soft boiled egg and a small piece of brown toast! First time I have tried bread but I ate all of the toast and the boiled egg, and could've easily eaten the same meal again, I certainly didnt feel full, and actually felt hungry still. That for me is really worrying, as will power was not something I had in abundance. I am sure you have it right though shelley, and will lose again next week. I have also locked my scales away so that I can only weigh every friday as everyday is totally non productive..
 
Sorry Paula!! meant to say enjoy your pureed stage xxx
 
Today's menu.

B - cup of tea. 250ml of diluted apple juice.
L - 400g of tomato soup.
T - home made fresh fruit smoothie.
S - 400g tin of beef and vegetable soup.

Drinks
Tea, coffee, NAS squash, water.
 
amanda577 said:
I Feel for you shelleymarie! It is so frustrating, and very scary when weight loss slows and nearly stops for no apparent reason.. I honestly didnt realise that I would still need almost as much willpower after the bypass as I needed before it, I thought I would be forced into small size portions, and certain foods would be uneatable, but that is not the case... For example I had a soft boiled egg and a small piece of brown toast! First time I have tried bread but I ate all of the toast and the boiled egg, and could've easily eaten the same meal again, I certainly didnt feel full, and actually felt hungry still. That for me is really worrying, as will power was not something I had in abundance. I am sure you have it right though shelley, and will lose again next week. I have also locked my scales away so that I can only weigh every friday as everyday is totally non productive..
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Don't worry about the toast hun, it's quite normal to be able to eat some toast, just don't choose to have it everyday. I think the problem is we do get it drilled into our heads that in worse case scenarios we won't be able to eat this that and the other we come to expect it it will be part of what keeps us from putting it in our mouths. I think more time should be spent on what you have to do to work with our bypasses rather than scare tactics. I didn't have either as I went private and basically you have to do all the research yourself so maybe that's why I'm not so bothered by the fact I can eat certain things I'm just (childishly maybe) stressed about doing everything I'm supposed to do and having a stall. I know in my sensible part of my brain that that's how this stuff works but my irrational scared of staying fat forever part of my brain keeps interrupting it. I'm also confident my sudden increased hunger is related to this stall because before it I rarely felt hunger, so I'm quite confident it's all in my head and when things start moving again and I feel happier again it will probably go away again.
Have you thought that maybe the reason you feel you can eat more than some people is because you are hungrier? and that is because the hunger is head hunger? I think that the way forward is to stop worrying about what you can and can't eat, it's good that you can manage a variety and just aim to hit your 6 portion of protein a day, to of those dairy for calcium, 2 portions of carbs, and at least 3 portions of fruit and veg. If you do that, you will lose weight and you should feel satisfied :) xx
 
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Hi Amanda and Dimond,
My heart goes out to you guys - I know how you feel! And I tell you right here right now, we are all so different. I do not eat as little as Maya or even Chrisa. However have lost over 6 stone since op and am 5 and a half months out - so my dietician is happy with me and my diet. Please do trust your restriction and as much as you can, eat good healthy options - its not about willpower and dieting now. Its about making the healthiest choice whenever you can and allowing yourself a treat now and then - we can't diet. Our mental health is too fragile from years of 'diets'.

A sample (work) day from me:
breakfast: Coffee and then a small bowl of cereal with a spoonful of pineapple chunks and one of peach slices with yoghurt rather than milk and oats sprinkled over the top.
snack: milky coffee.
lunch: chicken slices (about a 1/3 of a breast) with roasted veg - maybe 3 tblspoons. I could eat more mind, but hate feeling bloated at work.
Afternoon snack - piece of fruit or equivalent size of vegetables.
Dinner - a teaplate (full but not piled) of whatever the family are having. my teaplate is one half protein, one quarter carb and one quarter Veg.
And in the evening I will have a milky jelly as its high protein and keeps the snackies at bay. Also copious amounts of chai latte tea.

On the weekends I eat every 3.5 hours and include bread - I don't eat bread on weekdays because I feel a bit bloated during lessons then. I have a treat on fridays because lets face it - this is for life. And I allow a couple of biscuits in my tea on the weekend.

I stopped posting my intake on here because I was always comparing myself with others and I could and would *need* to eat more. So please stop beating yourselves up and fill yourselves with protein based healthy meals. And have a contingency plans for the snacky times!

Hope this helps!
 
Excellent post yvessa, and the most important thing is we are all different so what works for one might not for another. Just have to find our on groove as such. As long as we aren't eating crap everyday like we use to we will get there :) much love to everyone today. We need to try and let go of some of our insecurities this weekend. Have a nice night tonight everyone x
 
Thankyou so much for that post yvessa!! I think you are probably right about the comparing with others, It's natural to look at someone elses menus and then look at yours and think "oh my god! I'm eating twice as much as they are!!" I've thought about this a lot today, and I have come to the conclusion that subconsciously I may have deliberately been trying to test my pouch still. I have had no need to eat bread at all, so why did I bother to try a slice toasted??? I think I am stressed out and worried also as I am back in hospital on Monday coming for another surgery, so it's a combination of everything at the minute I think.. My lithium levels also have become seriously low since the bypass, and even though they have upped my dosage to the maximum blood tests still showing them to be well below the theraputic level, so that probably isn't helping my state of mind lol!! Pre bypass days, I would just reach for the cake or chips and eat myself back into a good place, but can't do that anymore!! I honestly don't know what I would do sometimes without you guys on here!! I am doing this on my own, and even though people at work are really great about it, they don't understand what it's like, and I don't really know anyone there well enough to talk to on that sort of level, and I also think its very hard for people who haven't been through this to understand... I am going to draw a line under this week, and once I am through this next op on Monday, I am going to start afresh with a better attitude, But heartfelt thanks for all the advice and support xxx
 
Okay I have finally managed to find that pizap website where you can put pictures together, and have put a photo of me before the surgery and 1 taken on the 27th September 7 weeks out. I have looked hard at the both of them, and I can definitely see a difference now albeit a small one.. xx
 

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Thanks paula!! It's just hard to stand back and look at yourself objectively I suppose. xx
 
Yeah me too- I see a small amanda! There's a huge difference. But others see it in us better than we see it in ourselves. I am glad my post helped you and good luck for your surgery.
 
Bless you Yvessa.... I think I shall always see a big Amanda regardless of what I weigh lol... xx
 
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