Stephanie M.

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Here is one of the recipes I have been working on. I'm trying to make a bariatric cookbook that will have all recipes we can have, that have less than 300 calories, low sugar, and more than 20 grams of protein. Here's what I have so far for the Rolls:

 

Cinnamon Rolls

 

Calories: 289.6; fat: 2.7; protein: 20.8;

Carbohydrate: 46.9; sugar: 3.2

 

Yields: 16 rolls

2 roll per serving

 

Dough:

¼ ounce packet dry yeast

½ cup warm (105 to 115 degrees) water

½ cup scalded skim milk (cooled)

¼ cup Splenda

1/3 cup vanilla Greek yogurt

1 teaspoon salt

2 eggs

3 ½ cups whole-wheat flour

2 scoops (1/2 cup) protein powder

Canola oil spray

 

Filling:

¾ cup Splenda

2 tablespoons ground cinnamon

Butter “Spray”

 

Icing:

¼ cup fat-free cream cheese

½ cup unsweetened applesauce

2 cups Splenda

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

 

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

For the dough: In a small bowl, combine yeast and warm water. Let sit for 5 minutes. In a large bowl, combine milk, Splenda, yogurt, salt, and eggs. Add 2 cups of flour and combine thoroughly. Mix in yeast, then protein powder and remaining flour (1 ½ cups). Knead dough for 10 minutes, until completely combined. Spray with canola oil spray and let sit in a warm place for 1 hour. After dough has doubled in size, punch down and then roll out. Spray top with butter spray and then cover with Splenda and cinnamon filling. Using the longest side of the dough, roll up, pinching together at the ends. Cut into 16 rolls. Spray a baking pan with Canola oil spray, and lay each roll separately on side. Let sit an additional half hour to hour, and then bake for about 20 minutes. 

For the icing: Combine the cream cheese, applesauce, Splenda, and vanilla in a bowl, mixing thoroughly. When rolls are done, cover with icing. 

 

 

 

PS, I'm still working on the icing! It's hard without butter. 

In exactly one week, I will be 8 months out. WOW, I can't believe this process is almost halfway over for me. My surgeon told me that at 18 months, my period of losing will be over. So, I really have 10 months left. I really would still like to lose 47 pounds, which I think is achievable in that amount of time. But, here's the problem: I spent the last month not losing. When I say not losing, I mean I was eating the unthinkable foods. You know, the ones you dream about, but don't dare think about when you are awake. So, I realized my problem, Well, problems. 

1. I am a food addict, but when I went to OA, I felt very out of place. So, I finally found myself a therapst. I saw one, briefly a few months ago, but she was with my University (so she was free), but she was in training to become a psychologist so she couldn't help me enough. So, I found myself a weight loss surgery therapst. We start next Wednesday.

2. I wasn't practicing the behaviors I had been taught. Food wasn't my main focus each day, which it needs to be. For weight loss to really work, you have to make it your only thought during the day. Each decision you make, it needs to be based on whether it will benefit your goal (which is to lose weight). So, I'm back to obsessing in a good way. I have hopes to lose 10 pounds in the next few weeks, so we'll see how that goes. When I wasn't trying to lose weight actively, I maintained, which makes me feel a little better about when I'm ready for the maintainance faze, but for now, I've still got a ways to go.

3. I haven't been as serious about exercise as I need to be. So, from here on out, I'm walking at least 30 minutes a day. Period.

I'll check back in, in a few weeks. Hopefully, 3 goals will have been achieved here.

Steph 

 Last week, (right before Thanksgiving), I met with my surgeon. I was very nervous for this appointment, so I began fasting a week before by doing my milk diet. I wanted to get off a few extra pounds before I saw him. So, at this point, I have lost over half of my excess body weight. I started at 245, and now, I am down to 178. I was very concerned, but my surgeon said that at this point, I WILL make it to my goal!! My goal is 120 pounds since I am 5'2, and he said I will get there at this rate! I was so very excited to hear this, and to know that I am right on track! Next goal, get below 169 before Christmas, since I will be going on a vacation to the beach, and 169 was the lowest weight I've been in the last 6 years. That's only 9 pounds in 3 weeks, seems achievable to me!! 

 So, during the week, I do a perfect job. I eat my small portions, I drink my protein and liquids, and I exercise. But, then on the weekends, I have always had problems with feeling lonely. I feel lonely, and I eat. I feel like I should be going out and partying like the other 20 year olds my age, but instead I feel lonely and seclude myself, and I eat. I eat a lot of carbs. I eat more than I should. And I feel miserable, but I still feel that I can't stop. I guess I'm better at it than I was 4 months ago, but I hope that I can learn to get better at it soon. I think I'll go to OA tomorrow to get some clarity on why I do this.

 Know what they're talking about!!! 
I have been on a two week stall, and a two week stall before that (my first one so far since surgery.)
All I had to do to change that and get back to serious losing was to add in extra protein. So now I drink 4 servings of Nectar protein a day, and a have been losing a pound a day. I'm soo glad the weight loss is going again!
Works for me! Thanks forum-ers for giving such good advice!

  Today has been pretty tough! Of course, it was nice to wake up to a 2 pound loss, but physically, I just don't feel well. I have found that I am not getting my protein in, which is stressing me out (I do NOT want to lose any more hair than I have to). And I think I have developed RLS (Restless leg syndrome) since my surgery. It can be a result of lacking iron. So I have felt uncomfortable and like my skin is crawling all day. I set up appointments to figure out what I'm deficient in. Today was the first day I felt any remorse. I wake up in the middle of the night and have to walk around the house to make my body feel well. Then, last night, I got chills and goosebumps I felt so ill after some SF ice cream. I am less than 2 weeks out, so I'm sure these unpleasant situations will eventually become less. Just been a hard day. I made an appointment for tomorrow to get myself tested. I sure hope tomorrow will be better!!

I left the hospital yesterday, the day after my RNY gastric bypass, and I must say, I enjoyed being in the hospital more when I was on morphine lol. I am currently at home, drinking one ounce every 15 minutes, but I have to say, I can already feel a difference in myself. Not physically, but mentally and internally. Physically, I feel more bloated and thick than I did before my two week fast pre-op. lol but I've stayed off the scales, due to advice I had read on the forum. The mantra seems true today: nap nap nap, sip sip sip, walk walk walk. Lol But I feel hungry, which is something I really didn't expect. But overall, I can feel this was the right decision for me. :) 

So far, I'm on day three of my pre-op diet. Day one, I was emotional, crying all day. Day two, I was just freaking hungry! And today, I am beginning to feel more like normal. I am very excited for surgery. I have been debating for about 2 years, and I finally realized this is the best decision I could make for myself. I am excited to see the progress, and it seems like I'm already thinner from the last few days lol. It's funny, the days before surgery I was getting in my favorite meals. I had McDonald's one last time, and crab meat with butter...the list goes on. Now, today, I would cut off a body part for a grilled Salmon! Gee how times have changed!!
:)