MELODYMAY,

Laura and Chulbert are exactly right. You need to eat REAL food (not pre-packaged chemicals that TASTE like food crap).

My husband and I were both obese eating those WW meals. THey are too carby.  Further, you have to realize that the company derives the BIGGEST PROFIT from giving you LOTS of CHEAP wheat noodles and rice.  Think about it, if they WANTED to keep you within the points and give you the most nutrient rich option they would be using spiralized zucchini (i.e. zuchhini noodles whihc low carb, low cal, high fiber, high water, high vitamin).

You are going to have to change your look on food. Yes, it is going to have to taste good, but you are going to have a very small pouch. You are going to have to learn how to maximize your vitamins and nutrients and protein in relation to your pouch. You arent going to have space for cheap carbs.

Look at low glycemic index and load options like sweet potatoes if you cant live without carbs. But you really really need to learn a better way of eating.

The reality is, this is going to involve cooking and measuring.

Remember companies dont give a **** whether your health improves or not. Whether you lose weight or not. They just want you to buy their stuff so they can keep making profits.

PS. Your boyfriend can learn to cook REAL food, from scratch, to take some of the preparation pressure off of you. That is EXACTLY what my husband is doing NOW, while I work on a deadline.

OUr vegetable for the week is smoked paprika cauliflower and red lentils. It has vegetable stock, smoked paprika, carrot, cauliflower, red lentil (good carb, high fiber, high protein for a grain/veggy) onion, garlic, and ground coridander.

He was chopping and minicing for a good hour...

If you do not have time to make weekly menus and measure every bite of food, you will have trouble post-op. Measuring is important in the beginning because your nerves are not healed and you will hurt yourself if you eat too much. Measuring may be important when you get to maintenance if you experience regain and need to lose the weight again. 

Honestly, I did not lose a single pound in my six month pre-op supervised diet. I'm sure I made tons of excuses then, too. But since then I have taken responsibility for what I eat and I never make excuses now. I needed surgery to get me motivated to make changes. I hope the same holds true for you.

All the best for  it!!

Cool thank you Amber!

I totally agree! Ive been using the chocolate whey protein powder from walmart. Yesterday I found some mint flavoring specifically for protein shakes at Walgreens. It was in the section with the protein powder. I bought a bottle on a whim. Today I used my Ninja (if you dont have one they are AWESOME) and blended skim milk (extra protein) with a scoop of powder, some ice and a squirt of that mint flavoring. I feel like im getting a treat (something I shouldnt be having). This is the only way im going to do it from now on. They also have a butter pecan flavoring im interested in trying in vanilla shake.