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What's for Sunday dinner? - ...or for us East Coasters, what *was* for dinner? La Petite Diva cooked tonight. She made us all turkey tacos. Except La Grade Diva has latched onto this thing she calls a "tac...

In celebration of Cinqo de Mayo...how Nik does Mex - This week on Bariatric Foodie, I am celebrating my love for Mexican food in honor of Cinqo de Mayo. First up: my top 5 favorite Bariatric Foodie Mexican recipes! BONUS: There i...

1-800-ASK-A-VET (Ask anything thread...) - Lithia, Lora, Kitten, ______ (your name here - forgive me...it's Sunday morning and I am NOT the picture of coherence) I need you all to weigh in on this thread too. There are n...

OT - Advice needed...the next chapter of NIk's mor - Ok, so I had my mind all made up to let the damn house go into foreclosure. I was gonna stop paying it and just save up to move. But then the doubt crept in. So I called my mort...

So you wanna have a BBQ...y'know...WITH BBQ... - Barbecue sauce. It's one of those things that after surgery perplexes a lot of people. Because the commercial kind has sugar. So either a) you're scared of it or b) you're not scar...

...And the magic bathing suit number is... - Darn my camera!!! When I want it to use flash...no flash. When I don't want it to use flash it whites everything out. But if you COULD see the picture (it's just not worth the effo...

Who wants to see me in a swimsuit??? - For once this is NOT a red herring. I am actually in a swimsuit. But just for the hell of it I want to play a game with you guys. First person to accurately guess the SIZE of th...

What is for dinner mah PEOPLE????? - Inquiring minds want to know. I think I'm going to make myself a shrimp cheesesteak (for some reason everyone reads that word as "cheesecake"...dunno why...) What's on your p...

Anyone know about neuro-stuff...(Andrea?) - I've noticed something strange going on with me and I don't know if it's indicative of anything, but as a professional writer it is becoming a thorn in my side. I keep putting q...

Us vs. Non-ops...we're not so different after all - I  had this REALLY unfortunate misconception coming into my life as a post-op. I thought that by virtue of the fact that I’d had WLS, I would have some magical and special po...

What's for dinner?????? - Me? No idea (as usual. I am so bad with dinner. I don't even like eating a traditional dinner. I sort of do "mini-meal"/borderline grazing. I need to stop that shizz). Whatever ...

Two newly classified eating disorders I think you - From this article on Yahoo today: http://health.yahoo.net/experts/dayinhealth/new-eating-disorders-are-they-real New Eating Disorders: Are they for real? I have a friend who ...

A few notes about HUNGER... - So you had WLS and thought you would never be hungry again? Except now you are.  Maybe it happened right after surgery. Maybe it took a year or two years. But here you are. Hungry....

My official theory on little pouch days - First, let me say I pay far too much attention to my body. Well probably not too much...but a lot. And I see a lot of people get perplexed about the phenomenon known as "little...

I saved the best Easter treat for last!!! (Warning - "What the HELL are those Nik???" Why they are PROTEIN CHEESECAKE POPS (actually these are egg pops in honor of Easter). How did I do it? Why did I do it? More importantly...

Think there's nothing that can go in YOUR Easter b - On Bariatric Foodie, I detail my dream Easter basket...filled with goodies you can (probably) get right in your own backyard. My suggestion: print the list and Scotch tape i...

24 hours, 15 minutes... - Until my Lent promise has been fulfilled. Nik has not consumed ANY peanut butter for nearly 40 days!!!!! OMG it is going to be so ON on Easter Sunday. Forget the PB candy...g...

Well folks, it looks like I'm moving... - One way or another I must part ways with this house I've lived in nearly 13 years. Sigh... It's weird because the ONLY thing holding me here is tradition. It's sort of a crap...

A newbie-friendly Easter treat! - As we get closer to the day that chocolate bunnies and marshmallow chicks take over the world, take heart fellow post-ops....especially newbies. I got goodies for you!!! Make th...

Before/After Thread!!!! - Just cuz we haven't had one in the last four hours or so... Here's mine: Pre-op (327 lbs) About...I dunno...four months post-op or so (can you see the DIVA emerging?) ...

I figured out what I want to say... - (As if THAT were ever really a problem!) Seriously...I've been thinking a lot about what I'd like to say at the end of my walk on this earth. When I look back what do I want to ...

Nasal B12? - We got samples of the Nascobal nasal b12 spray. So I tried it. It went smoothly (although the sniffing part takes some getting used to). But I have a question I can't find the ans...

Gitcha asses in the chat room NOW!!!! It's going D - Free recipe makeover to the first 50 callers... LOL! Someone suggested chat down thread and I got here and there is nobody there. Don't make me talk to myself. I will. But...

The 5 most important questions to ask yourself whe - I see a lot of posts asking when/if it is ok to eat certain foods. How bad is this food? Should I never eat that food? We all answer from what our surgeon's told us or from pers...