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The last three stone

Andrew Wan did mine. How annoying to be cancelled. No I didn't go to ICU. woke up in recovery and went back to my room. The nurses are amazing!!
 
Tonight's dinner - home made kebab


2 mini chicken fillets tikka marinade, small ish pitta 0% Greek yogurt and a bit of feta. Delish.
 

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You're right, tealovingsleever, but I'm afraid of messing with my protein guidelines and calorie allowance.
Today I had a tiny slice of pizza for lunch and my daily protein intake sank dramatically.
 
That's alright. My NHS hospital don't worry about protein! What's your guidelines?

I've eaten what I've wanted since my op. I refuse to deprive myself because I'm worried ill fall off the wagon proper then!
 
I'm scared because I'm afraid to fail my sleeve.
I wanted a bypass that I couldn't have because of some nasty duodenal polyps.
My guidelines are to have a minimum of 60g. of prots a day and around 800 cals.
Experimenting will be my August holiday leave homework.
 
Without trying I'm at 72g protein today. You'll find your way. I really rate calorie counting. It's helping me learn a lot.

I'm sure you know your sleeve will be a huge success if you put in the work and you are. The bypass average weight loss is only 10% more according to my team.

I love my sleeve. No regrets.
 
Thanks! Hope you are right!
I love my sleeve too. Well, I mean, I would have never lost 18 kg. in 11 weeks without it!
My team told me that there is not much difference between a bypass and a sleeve but still I would have loved the malabsorption part to help my lousy compliance to diets and dieting. They also told me that weight loss is faster with the sleeve.
How do you manage to have 72g. of prots without planning full prot meals? Maybe my portions are still a bit too small.
 
But the malabsorption doesn't last forever! At some point we have to recognise our problems and make a conscious effort to make good food choices most of the time. That's what slim people do.

Today I had 100g total yogurt with fruit, honey granola

Lunch was 2 slices of turkey in a small roll, small bag of sweet & salty popcorn and an apple

Dinner was 2 mini chicken fillets and cheese in a pitta with more yogurt!

On top of that I had a few biscuits at work, a cornetto on the way home and an ice lolly - snacking is too easy!

Remember I'm a year out so will have a bigger capacity.
 
Thanks for supporting me so much!
I agree that we do have to change our heads and that is what scares me most. I'm afraid of falling back in bad habits if I don't control myself every instant, second, minute of my life.
I don't feel hunger and head hunger is fading day by day but I can feel it creeping back when I have a stressful day, am upset or need comfort for some reason.
I'm learning to keep myself busy during weekends instead of sitting with a book (that was grazing time for me).
I gather it's all about learning a new relationship with ourselves and with food but I it's a long difficult way.
Thanks again for the time you've spent supporting me and my fears.

P.S.: I'm probably upset because my nutritionist wanted me to add carbs (starches, fruit and veggies) to my diet and I gained 200g. I know that 200g are not a weight gain but I'm so sensible to scales in these days!
 
You're very welcome. It's right you do need fruit and veg but it took me a good while to have room to fit them in.

You haven't put on weight by eating them so don't panic.

Just take it one day at a time. Remember your dietician is just trying to get you to eat a healthy balanced diet xx
 
Ooh lost a lb and now 12.7 that means I've dropped in to the overweight category finally. Woop woop. Bye bye obese. :)
 
WTG!!! Victoria Well Done :)

Do I dare to dream of that happening xx
 
Well done Victoria, people laugh when I tell them that my ambition is to be overweight but I hope to be where you are in the next few weeks, nothing like a mini target to help focus. Once again congratulations!
 
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