We were invited out for lunch yesterday by a young couple.
I ordered a taco salad and ate the salad but left the big taco shell. I had only water. The others order sandwiches, FF, and soda. The men left most of their FF. and the young lady left 1/2 her sandwich and all her FF.
It is just fine to leave most of your food when you eat out. You do not have to clean your plate or take it home but you could. You could order less but that confuses the cook. You don't want to confuse...

Here I am 46 lbs. down and a month after I was suppose to have surgery. One of the deciding factors for me was my extreme food
allergies, mainly all dairy products, flour, eggs, and sugar. I am very allergic to whey protein so could not have gotten in all the protein You need after surgery.
I had my first wow shopping trip last week when I purchase 3 pair of designer jeans in a size 16. I tried on a dozen pair before I would believe I actually only wore a 16. Even though I am...

This week-end I bought my first size 16 jeans. I am so thrilled as my weight loss is continuing and today I weighted the same as my thin DH. He is so happy when he hugs me he has lots of arms left over.
I was gone for a few days and ate more than I was use to and put on 4 lbs. When I got home started right back on my food plan and took off those lbs. right away, plus a couple extra. Something I was never able to do before as would just continue eating. My BP and BS are coming down and...

I decided as long as I had ordered protein shakes decided I would try them. I had bought the kind that are mixed with water. The first one I tried was Chocolate marsh mellow and was very good. I had a second one the next day and it was chocolate nut and I had a terrible allergy attach. I am still not over it. The shakes are made with whey so I packed up the box and sent them off to a friend who had just had WLS. What would I have done if I had had surgery and was unable to use the protein shakes...

After reading and reading things written by graduate WLS patients on a sites decided that there are a lot of things that were not real clear to me about the "after" of the gastric bypass surgery.
Yes, I was told that I would have to take a lot of vitamins and minerals. I did not realize that I could be fighting anemia, might need infusions, transfusions, revisions, ulcers from staples, tears, holes, maybe not loss any weight. Diabetics now having hyperglycemia. This non-absorption...