Feel Like Hell

oh wow, those sound damn delicious, Keith!  At least you didn't waste a taste on something you already know how it tastes, know what I mean?

I'm going to a schwank Italian restaurant for a friend's birthday this weekend...I'm thinking the $28 Burrata appetizer is going to do me in both physically and financially!  lol

The cleaner eating long term will only help us in the long run because the further we get out of surgery, all that crap doesnt always make us feel like hell.  We start to tolerate it better like we did before surgery.  You are doing awesome Keith.  I admire your dedication to fitness, go boi!!!! 

This is a great reminder, Keith.  The crap food never fed by body or soul, no matter how hard I tried.  

Keith - I had the same kind of realization when I went out to dinner with the hubby this weekend.  In the "bad old days" I would have ordered a drink...and an appetizer...then ate my full meal (no doggie back for me)...and then dessert!   Now I see the amount of food other people eat and it almost makes me physically sick to think about how much I used to eat.  I just shake my head in amazement and think "my god, how did I ever do that?" 

I pushed it a bit this weekend too by eating a crab rangoon before I ate my protein - BAD idea and one I won't be repeating any time soon.   

Glad to hear you kept to your workout routine.  You are a warrior!  :-)

I am so appreciative of everyone's honesty on the site. I am pre-op and was thinking about this same situation. Thinking about the "What if I...". This posting makes me thinking about not even venturing down that road! I learn so much from everyone! Thank you all very much! 

Well, there's weight loss mode, and there's maintenance mode.  From what I understand it's much harder to eat clean again once you stop eating clean. 

I won't have any trouble with that. I prefer eating clean.

It's better not too. This vacation was specifically for food tasting and in full disclosure that is all I did was taste. I never overate and I did not eat between meals. I am 10 months post op and for the most part very disciplined when it comes to my plan. I may get some argument about that but in 10 months I have lost over 170lbs so I would argue that I am successful. All of that being said I would not recommend doing this until you are solidly in maintenance and have a good handle on dealing with weight fluctuations. This was more to say even though I just tasted the food it still made me feel horrible. Eating clean has most certainly become part of my life and my body has come to appreciate it.

How many squats are you going to have to do to make up for this out of mind control experience 

Well fortunately I got some squats in on this trip so not as many as I would have had to do if I had just sat around on my fat ass. I do have my two workouts scheduled for tomorrow.