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Yeah, I'm afraid any sauce will have cornstarch so I'll just have to go really low on the carbs I can count that day if they won't agree to leave the sauce off. Thank you for the good suggestions.
Shrimp with vegetables or broccoli or beef with broccoli might be good choices. But they might thicken their sauce with cornstarch. It can be hard when your diet is that restricted.
Real life begins where your comfort zone ends
You can make a pesto with the scapes, pickle them, saute them like you would garlic and add them to what ever dish you would normally add garlic to. There are some many different things you can do with the scapes. You can also offer them for sale online I usually sell them for $5 for 15 of them if I have to many.
Dr. Sanchez Lapband 9/12/2003
hw305/revision w280/cw197/gw150
Revision from Lap Band to Bypass on 2/4/2015 by Dr. Pohl
Jim, your pictures are amazing. Are those water buffalo?
Real life begins where your comfort zone ends
Good job. This site needs a congratulations button along with Like.
Real life begins where your comfort zone ends
Yikes, I saw some of the coverage on Ryan Hall and it looked very scary in your neck of the woods. Hope you and yours didn't suffer any damage. And thank you for that info on Thai food. I never enjoyed it before but will sure give it another try now with your modifications. Hope your PT is productive!
Happy Friday Jennifer and everybody! Congratulations on getting your certification again, it shows what great work you and your team do. And your garden and baby starts look lush and vibrant green. I'm sad I can't figure out how to upload photos. Tammy Colter has tried to help but mine are on the cell phone and I have no idea how to identify the source, image description or dimensions. I never imagined I'd be this inept with technology, haha.
My garlics are scaping right now and once again there's the yearly struggle of the best way to use them. Hubby just bbq'd the ones frozen from last year's crop. He won't help eat them at all and I can't eat multiple batches of pesto. The kids know Mom is going to be dumping gallon bags of scapes on them to become their problem.
Tomorrow is the week 3 weigh-in so I'm going to try to go as high liquid, high protein, high fiber but low sodium as possible today.
B: my usual SF Almond milk collagen latte.
L: salad with cucumber, celery, mushrooms, 1 oz raw sunflower seeds. Lemon juice for dressing
PMS: Syntax Fuzzy Navel protein shake blended w/ice
D: Sauteed zucchini and mushrooms 1/2 - 1 cup, 2 oz turkey breast, 1/4 c whipped 2% cottage cheese
LS: 2c watermelon cubes
This gives 79g protein, 43g carbs (over budget), 22g fat, 546g sodium With lots of water, this should be perfectly satisfying.
QOTD: Before RNY only 'traditional' breakfast foods would do. After surgery, any comfortable protein or sauteed veggies works. But my gateway drug that led to my eventual regain was allowing myself coffee with breakfast. I've learned my lesson...Dr. said no liquids with food and he was right!
Enjoy the rest of your day and have a great weekend!
Molly
It hasn't even been a full month being on Contrave and I'm trying to be really strict with food to get off to a good start. So far...no white starches such as bread, potato, noodles, etc. In past diet attempts with the 'Pound of Cure' plan it worked well but you must eat 1-2# of veggies a day. This med combo really has my gastric bypass pouch functioning at 100% so I can hardly get in any veggies. Gal Pals and I are due for a birthday lunch next week and they've chosen our favorite American/Chinese place. Normally it takes me several days to eat one order from their lunch combo menu, that's out now! On that menu the dishes and apps are all coated and deep fried. A cup of egg drop soup (that has cornstarch) or a house salad with no protein in it just won't do.
I've never ordered any of these before so could any of you give an opinion what would be healthiest? Sadly, I think everything is fried but I think none come with rice. (I could just ask for that on the side and take it home for Hubby.) These are all off the dinner menu so no guarantee they'll agree to making these at lunch. Shrimp seems a good choice because of the high protein but I have no idea if it is coated and deep fried or not.
Here goes: Shrimp with fresh veggies, Shrimp with broccoli, Vegetable or Shrimp Chop Suey, Combination Vegetable (?) from the vegetable/tofu section, Kung Pao tofu. If any of you have eaten these at this type of Chinese restaurant could you give your opinions of these dishes?
Thanks, Molly
I swear it is the goat and rabbit poop that is making a different this year with the plants.
Dr. Sanchez Lapband 9/12/2003
hw305/revision w280/cw197/gw150
Revision from Lap Band to Bypass on 2/4/2015 by Dr. Pohl
We did it everyone. We are recertified has an OSHA VPP Star company. It was a rather nerve-racking week, but it all paid off in the end. I think there is only two other plants that need to be recertified this year.
Dr. Sanchez Lapband 9/12/2003
hw305/revision w280/cw197/gw150
Revision from Lap Band to Bypass on 2/4/2015 by Dr. Pohl
