What are you eating?

[Jenn]

I used to love reading everyone's diet. I HATE posting mine because it proves I have carb and sugar issues.

Yesterday

Breakfast (ha!) Leftover Pasta with chicken, artichokes and peas from the BEST (or 2nd best I can't decide) italian restaurant in the 5 boroughs in NYC, LENNY'S).

Snack: Cheerios with whole milk

Lunch: Roast Beef and Swiss on 6 inch sub from Subway with half of a small bag of whole grain sun chips which I promptly threw up because I can't take Subway for some reason.

Snack: Subway Chocolate Chip Cookie (of course that didn't disagree with me)

Dinner: London Broil, Baked potato with butter and sour cream and corn

Snack: 4 oreos (Seriously, I have a problem)

Midnight Snack: Peanut Butter on whole wheat crackers

I never used to have such late night snacks pre-op. I can't fall asleep now if I am hungry and if I get too hungry I feel like I am going to throw up. Throw up what I don't know but ....

[kiteless]

Yesterday:

Breakfast:
PB&J at 3:30 AM, lots of PB
A granny smith apple

Lunch:
2 beef kabobs with a greek salad and half an order of fries

Dinner:
A chicken sammitch on one slice of bread
A granny smith apple

Snack:
Made my boyfriend make me 2 pieces of french toast at 11 pm. They were very eggy and buttery, with just a little powdered sugar so I don't feel too bad about it.

I hear you Jenn about the late snacking. I wake up between 3:00 - 3:30 and I HAVE to eat. I'm sure it isn't a craving either. I usually need something before bed too.. It's crazy.

[girl81]

Originally Posted by Jenn

I never used to have such late night snacks pre-op. I can't fall asleep now if I am hungry and if I get too hungry I feel like I am going to throw up. Throw up what I don't know but ....

Jenn,
Could the feelings of wanting to vomit possibly be anxiety? And perhaps your body is craving glucose to fight the anxiety?
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MEDICAL CANNABIS SEEDS

[AmandaLeigh]

I haven't been eating much lately. I have recently been getting full/uncomfortable a lot quicker. Dunno why.

So, stating that, this is yesterday for me:

Breakfast 7:30AM:
*3 scrambled eggs with butter, salt & pepper
*bowl of oatmeal with butter, heavy cream & brown sugar (added fiber to it)
*cup of coffee with splenda and heavy cream

Snack 11:45AM:
*1 packet tuna with mayo, mustard, salt & pepper
*1 slice whole wheat bread

Lunch 2:30PM:
*4 hot dogs with ketchup and mustard to dip them in (no buns)
*a few carrot and celery sticks with ranch dip

Snack 4PM:
*cup of coffee with Splenda & Coffee Mate
*cup of leftover beef stew (carrots, potatoes & mushrooms in a white mushroom-based gravy.) Minus the beef. (There were probably bits of beef in it, but I ate all the big beef chunks out of the stew the day before. This was all that was left.)

Dinner 7PM: (At a steak restaurant)
*2 cubes of fresh table bread with butter
*a couple chili cheese fries (like 3-4)
*half of a dinner salad with extra ranch
*1 lobster tail with butter
*some sautéed mushrooms (4 or so)
*a few asparagus spears
*2-3 forkfuls of rice pilaf
*4 oz. Ribeye steak - Medium
*a couple sips of my boyfriend's blackberry iced tea

Snack midnight:
*bowl of Count Chocula cereal with whole lactaid milk
*lean cuisine tv dinner (spaghetti with meat sauce) I added some shredded cheddar cheese to it
*4 saltine crackers
*small glass (4 oz.) of fruit punch flavored Crystal Light
*1/2 cup of apple sauce (with added fiber)

I also had all my vitamins/supplements for the day and 128 ounces of H2O.

So as you can see, I have been eating very light lately! teehee

[anna f]

I love your humour Jenn, I too can't give up sugar, it's so hard even harder is having no bread.

Today:-

one toast, 2 slices of ham, 1/2 cup of tea.

snack:-

chunks of cheese off the block more tea.

small bowl of minsestrone soup
small peice of bread with fois gras - (posh I know)

snack:-

parsnip chips - love these so much but I am sure they high in carbs - just never look. oh and a double decker for those who don't know this is a choclate bar like a mars only better.

tonight I am going to have:-

antipasto

fillet steak with mushroom gratin and if I have room some roasted vegtables.

dessert is Marks and Spencers chocolate cake again if I have room, if not I am sure I will have later.

I think that's it.

anna xx

[dianahc]

Yesterday's meals (still on the road):

Breakfast (from a buffet):
Coffee with cream
Scrambled eggs (at least two)
Bacon 4 strips
A few cubes of home fries
A few cubes of melon
A box of yoghurt

Lunch:
Gin & Tonic (about 1/2)
Iced tea w/splenda
Fancy salad
Most of a big piece of nicely prepared salmon (how the hell do they do that? Simultaneously serve about 2000 people perfectly cooked fish?)
Some cheesy potato-y thing (about 1/2 of it)
The fruit off of an apple tart

Snack:
Iced tea
Pistachios

Dinner:
Iced tea
Filet mignon
A little steamed carrots and aspargus
Baked potato and sour cream

Snack:
Roll with a lot of butter
Crackers
More tea

Wow -- lots of meat, eggs, fish and potatoes!

[Nimbus]

I have the cold from Hades atm so I think that is effecting my eating habits but here is today so far:

Breakfast: Progresso microwave container-full chicken noodle soup with probably 6-7 saltines broken up in it and about 1 cup of low acid OJ.

Snack: 2 Snack sized Twix bars 1 cup Sierra Mist Cranberry lemon lime soda

Lunch: 1/2 a HUGE homemade cold cut sandwich with turkey, ham, 5 kinds of cheese, and mustard on an onion roll. a few (3 or 4) baked lays chips.

Lunch#2: 3/4ths of a 1/4 lb burger from last night with about 1/2 the bun about 7 extra pickles a TON of ketchup and about 3 pieces of Kraft singles cheese, another cup Sierra Mist Cranberry lemon lime soda

Snack (so far): 1 large chocolate chip cookie

I will most likely have another snack or 2 then dinner will probably be a frozen dinner. I'll try to get in a lot more fluid but (while this may sound like a good amount of food) I've been eating all day cause I'm sick and down in weight more than I normally like to be (I'm 114 when I prefer 125ish) and am having trouble getting the pounds back.

[Former Member]

Today I had (not all at once):

2 small bananas
2 Lindt mint truffles
3 bites from a push-up sorbet pop
4-shot Americano
5 cups of coffee
half gallon of water
4 double stuffed oreos
1/4 pound container of mashed potatoes
green beans with slivered almonds
A shellfish concoction - scallops and shrimp with crimini, white, and portab mushrooms in a garlic cream sauce...way yum - recipe (and picture) on my blog
Couple of bites of Brie


In reading what the rest of you eat, I must say I'm quite jealous that you can eat that much and maintain your weight the way you do...and not spend 3+ hours in the bathroom.

[girl81]

Originally Posted by anna f

I love your humour Jenn, I too can't give up sugar, it's so hard even harder is having no bread.



anna xx

Isn't that part of the perk of DS; you don't absorb all your carbs, right?
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[PattyL]

Originally Posted by girl81

Isn't that part of the perk of DS; you don't absorb all your carbs, right?

Carbs are what you want to avoid if you want to lose all your weight. Sugar bad! I always tell people to lose the weight first, then figure out what you can have without gaining.

We absorb 100% of the simple sugars we eat. We malabsorb some complex carbohydrates. Even more than 2 years post, we still malabsorb @ 80% of the fat we eat. That's one reason why most of us eat hi fat. We also eat hi protein because of the malabsorbtion.

Some people manage to eat hi protein and whatever else they want and still lose all the weight. Others don't. Once you are all healed up and ready to lose, the ideal diet is similar to Atkins induction. If you're lucky, you will lose all the weight and get to eat like a madman for a few months till your window closes!