Chinese Food Revisited

Do you ever do your laundry and wonder who's kids clothes got mixed up with yours only to realize they are yours?? I still need my husband or daughters to go shopping with me to find the right sizes. I always will try to buy the bigger, baggier size than what actually fits correctly. I think that comes from so many years of dressing to hide what was underneath rather than excentuate! *SIGH*After more than a year of wearing the same size, you would think my mind would have caught up. Wonder how long this will last? Patrice

Hey Patrice, I'm a year out and know exactly where you are. My husband who helps & does laundry says he can't tell what's mine & what's our daughter's hardly. So it's a wow moment for me and funny too when we are often packing each other's clothes back to our perspective rooms because he mixed them up again.

I have the opposite problem. I look at stuff my size and say I can't possibly be that big? Its depressing sometimes! I wish I could just look at the pants and say hey this is my size....and be okay with it! Its a hard road for some I guess. Wishing to see a size 12! Debbie

I'm sorry you got a little sick tonight. Leftovers don't sit well with me especially when heated up in the microwave. If I heat it up on the stove, it's not as bad. I guess the microwave dries it out. I hope you feel better soon Kay

Thanks, Kay. Perhaps I'll try the stove top next time. If there is a next time. Chele

Well Jay, I'll fall on the side of nutritional values being more important than what I weigh. I did this FOR my health so any stance I take must be pro health. Naturally I would like to see the numbers on the scale continue to decrease, but not at the expense of my health. I would rather carry 20-40 lbs more than I should and be of good health than thin and worrying all the time about malabsortion issues because I wasn't eating enough nutrients, but that is my take. Good topic of discussion--as per usual from you. Pat

It is my feeling that if we focus on healthy whole foods, take our vitamins, iron, calcium we will address both issues. (and daily exercise) JMHO - if I were regaining and having nutritional issues at the same time I would have to re-evaluate what I was eating. I work with several WLS people. I am the only one who hit a normal weight and is maintaining. While I do not sit around moinitoring their food intake and I try to discourage others who do, I can't help but notice when we eat together who is eating cheetos, sunchips, doritos, pizza, drinking pop, and eating a lot of sweets. (I am not perfect, I have a cookie addiction I must deal with, and occasionally lose the battle for a few days, and I eat pizza once every few months, I am talking about on a daily basis.) I would have to say that I am far more well nourished now than I was when I was morbidly obese. I most certainly was missing on many nutrients by eating fast food at least once a day, drinking pop instead of milk,chips instead of veggies. I absolutely did not get the calcium I needed and now have osteppenia, which I blame on 42 years of bad nutrition more than 3 1/2 years of post WLS. How many of thise who have deficiaencies now were malnourished when they were morbidly obese? or ever had labs to know what their nutritional status was? I only know I was anemic preop because I had a cbc as part of a blood donation. I remained anemic post op til I stopped it at the source, excessive monthly bleeding that needed to be stopped. If It hadn't been checking it preop I would have blamed my wls for my anemia, and my pcp tried to do that til I insisted she look back at my pre op labs. Not exactly the answer to the question you asked, but another perspective on the issue. there are always many sides to everything.

"Assuming the idea of villii regeneration is correct, how is it that malnutrition is a factor?" I think I agree with that I am starting to believe in the whole villi regeneration thing.....because I did have a bounce back/regain....but I do not have any problems with labs or anything else. (besides anemia but that was also a problem pre-op and I have had a hysterectomy and still struggle with iron levels) I would rather have my health than the X pounds.....but it doesn't make it any easier! But one would think that if the villi regeneration is allowing us to absorb the calories and such better than it also would allow us to start absorbing the supplements better, and we wouldn't have anyone with nutrient deficiences. Tho some of the stuff is best absorbed in the part of the intestines that were removed. Who stinkin knows.....but this will also be an intersting thread/discussion to keep an eye on. Take Care jesi

BTW--as a follow-up, what I eat now isn't much different to what I ate pre op. I was a type 2 diabetic who controlled my sugars through DIET ALONE! The difference is two fold, 1) I take supplements 2) I exercise. Also the volume of food is substantially less. These all work together. No I don't eat pizza and fast food (except for the occasional Wendy's chili), but I do occasionally indulge in a square of extra dark Lindt chocolate which is very low in carbs since there is almost no sugar in it. If I do, I compensate in other areas. Pat

If malnutrition is present with the villii things regeneration then maybe the nutritional deficiencies are self induced... Many will post here that they did it for their health, and if they had to choose it would be the X pounds over the poor health. I myself list that as one of my major reasons for this journey, but I also admit to just as large a factor my vanity or rather my desire to be someone with a reason to be vain. I have read so many different perspectives and experiences here that I created my own rule of thumb. X = 5 pounds over a 2 week period.. X can be for any reason, from bad food, to water. If X does not decrease by the end of 2 weeks, fix it. IMHO I have not had true weight gain. I'm at goal. I have a normal BMI. And even with X I'd still be "normal", its when X becomes 6 that I become "overweight". Nice twisted logic working there huh. If I could lose more weight I could increase X's value ... now X = obssession. I weigh every day. I journal my food calories and protein. I go to the gym 6 days a week, and occassionally on Sunday. I have a general idea of what I will eat for the day to keep track of my calories. If there is cake at work, I will eat it, I will then NOT eat part of my packed lunch bag of good for me foods. If that means for the day I had 3 AchievOnes, too many rice cakes, a half a jar of peanutbutter, a box of raisnes, and an apple, plus 4 bottles of water. So be it. My journal has looked like that for 2 weeks, me thinks the gym alone is whats keeping me at 154 pounds. I do not recall the last time I ate a veggie. (Yes I take my vitamins) Self induced malnurishement? Obession of X twisted and squared. Most grads are fighting the gain here I am fighting the idea of the gain. At this rate the gain is coming, my food journal predicts it. So then I will be malnurished and up X creek. Mic