Chocolate Chip Cookie Made Me Feel Like S4!T

I wasn't going to post this but I figure whatever crap the old and new guys want to give me for this will serve as a learning experience to others and a reminder to me to not be a dumbass, so here goes!

Lest we think we can ever return to eating whatever we want I had an experience yesterday that was rather shocking. Just a little background before I launch into my moment of stupidity. I am about 18 months post op. I am very near to my goal weight but I would say that I have really been maintaining my weight for about 3 months now with nothing more than 1 to 3 lbs loss/gain (more on the loss side right now). At 197lbs and 5'11 I would like to lose another 15lbs to get to between 10 and 12% body fat, but suffice it to say there is not a lot of body fat on me now and if I were not an obsessive nut job I would probably have called goal by now, but I set a goal to lose 200lbs and that is what I am going to do. Now I have not been perfect I do eat pretty clean but I also am not afraid to have a beer (or several) on occasion and I have had a bite of cake or ice cream now and then. But I would say 95% of the time I am pretty much on plan and I eat pretty clean and I would be willing to say I do not get a lot of sugar or carbs.

OK, all of that said, yesterday they were baking fresh cookies in the lobby for the employees of my client. They smelled good and normally I can walk right past them without a 2nd thought. Yesterday not so much. I went looking for them. It was fantastic. It was big, probably twice the size of a normal chocolate chip cookie, it was hot, and gooey and I ate the whole damn thing. I was not (and still not) worried about the carbs or calories because I work out 6 days a week and sometimes as many as 10 times in a week so that cookie was barely a blip for me. Now for the part I didn't see coming...I felt like ASS! I am sure it was because of all the sugar that I wasn't used to but I felt absolutely horrible. Not for a few minutes and not even for an hour but for like 4 or more hours afterward. I was shocked by how bad I felt AND how long I felt bad.

I think my take away from yesterday's experience is that while I guess I sort have always had it in the back of my mind that some day I might be able to eat whatever I want again, just not much of it. The fact that bad food is really...well...BAD for you, I think I will pass on the crap from now on.

I hear ya', Keith - I pulled a stunt like that the other day.  Felt soooo bad and like I needed to take a big, fat nap.  Went home and checked my blood sugar- 185!!!!  Holy ****!  

Just goes to show...being in remission from diabetes doesn't mean I'm "cured" of diabetes (I hate when people say that!!).  My body will never react the same way to sugar as a normal person's because my system has been compromised by metabolic syndrome.  I can control my diabetes with diet and exercise.  But if I eat cookies or any other sugar every day, I will be back on medication faster than you can say "chocolate chips".  

Thanks for the post Keith.  I have to bake choc. chip cookies and brownies tonight for a bake sale I am foolishly in charge of.  I am only 7 months post op and have not cheated yet and will keep this in mind tonight when I am baking all of those terrible sweets!  Sounds like the temptation is not worth it

Bless your heart Keith lol that cookie DID sound good. Big and gooey and warm. 

Interesting to see the after effects! And honestly, kind of cool too. A lot of pre ops get caught up in the dumping syndrome of RNY and think that they will be more successful there rather than with VSG. But I have discovered only 2 weeks in that we have a syndrome of our own... foamies... sick... feeling like crap. Whatever you want to call it. Our bodies very much give us signals when they don't approve of our food choices. 

I'm glad you posted about it. Makes you seem more normal LOL I hope it's worked it's way out of your system by now and next time you can just flip those cookies a big old bird lol

Thanks for putting it out there Keith. I'm the same way. If I stick to what I know is good for me, I feel great. When I go off plan, I feel like Crapola! Pass on the crap. Great lesson.

Son: Don't you want some Mom?

Me: I don't eat that crap, no thanks

I'm sure that's not very tactful, but it's really not an option to eat that stuff. It's just not worth feeling like that.

Deb

I am certainly not going to give you crap for eating a cookie. I am sure the icky feeling was punishment enough, because it always is for me (though I am trying to get out of any mindset that includes punishment and beating one's self up because it hasn't been productive for me in the past). I will admit to experimenting with the occasional sugary treat over these past couple months. At first it made me feel like absolute crap every time. Now it's about 50/50 whether I feel like ass. It never makes me feel GOOD though. And it often kicks up those carb cravings to where the next day can be difficult. Usually I can look at crap like that and say "I'd rather not feel like ****" Not always, but most of the time. We are all works in progress. So you learned a lesson, and it was good of you to share it with everyone.

Great post, Keith. I had some of those damn Girl Scout cookies in the house and the Samoas were calling to me. I didn't eat them but I was feeling kind of ..resentful maybe..about them. The moment passed, thank goodness.  I am totally a food addict. I did try a small smidge of strawberry jam the other day, thinking it might liven up my greek yogurt..and holy crap it was WAY too sweet. I can't believe I used to eat that much sugar!

Thanks for posting..I always look forward to your posts 

Yeah I treated the girl scouts like the plague this year because I love Samoas. Fortunately there are some low carb ways to make them I just haven't tried yet. Smuckers makes a sugar free strawberry (and a few other flavors) jelly that is great in plain greek yogurt. Not quite as sweet. I also use frozen strawberries and a little stevia in a blender with yogurt or casein protein and almond milk. Makes almost like an ice cream.

Hey Keith,

Not to scare you, but you know it's kind of my job around here to scare the newbies straight.  :)  And yes, to me at 18 months you are still a newbie.  ( I am kidding, sort of).  The really and truly frightening part of this story is not the calories, and not the carbs but the fact that you think that this feeling will last.  At five months out, if I eat carbs in "moderation", that means more than when I am on my losing plan, this feeling goes away completely.  That means that I can eat a ton of these cookies and feel only moderately bad for a very short period of time or eat one and feel nothing at all.  Think about it, what you are experiencing will not leash you for long.  Eat a few more cookies on a few more days and you will not have to worry about this horrible feeling at all.  Now what.  ( put horror music here).

Thanks for sharing this, Elina. I have started to discover this on my own. I'm going to be much more careful now.