I'd like to start eating as close to the diet post-op as I can. I haven't been banded yet, but as I've said in other posts, fingers crossed I have my surgery within 6 months!
What is on your grocery list typically?
Do you shop multiple times a week? Once per week? Bi-weekly?
Do you plan a menu and shop by it, or do you kind of buy whatever you think you'll feel like eating that week?
My biggest problem is having to eat on the go, and not having much time to prepare meals, so the more portable the better if possible.
__________________ Current: 260lbs, Size 22, 38.4 BMI Goal: 150, Size 10/12, 22 BMI Hoping to be approved and banded within the next 6 months!
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Sugar free products (crystal light, Fruit20, Propel, water) for drinks
Protein - chicken, fish, turkey (including deli turkey)
Cheese - low fat
Yogart - low fat and smoothies during the summer (low fat)
Vegs - any kind
Fats - salad dressing and light mayo
Peanut butter - when I want a snack (tablespoon) with four crackers
Nuts - snack
Protein bar - when you are on the go and need something to eat
Protein drinks - breadfast or oatmeal or grits
Hope this helps!
__________________ I pray we all will meet our goals this year, and never regain again!
I shop probably bi-weekly unless I forgot something or wanted to make something particular that I didn't have.
Typically my list is the same things everytime.. milk, eggs, meats (beef, pork, chicken), frozen veggie sides, 100 calorie snacks, and onions. I go through onions like crazy, I seem to find a reason to put them into every dish!
I also go to allrecipes.com and look up new recipes for beef dishes or chicken dishes before shopping and if something new and exciting catches my eye, I'll add ingredients to my list that I don't normally get.
My list hasn't changed much from pre-band.. I was gung ho about fresh fruit & veggies right after banding, but they go bad way before I can finish them, so I stopped doing that. Frozen veggie sides & canned fruit is how I get them now.. except my onions!
I buy groceries bi-weekly (on payday). Here are some things I always get:
nuts
yogurt
protein shakes
fresh fruit- all kinds (lovin watermelon and cantalope right now)
fresh veggies- spaghetti squash, fresh corn on the cob, etc.
frozen mixed veggies
lentils
Tostitos spinach dip- I use it in everything, even in whole wheat pasta salad instead of salad dressing!
protein bars
cheese to snack on
whole grain crackers
100 calorie popcorn
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Couch to 5K ~ Week 4/Day 3
My first 5K~ YMCA Holiday Chili Run - Nov. 8, 2008
I am going to start working on loosing again July 7th (I'm on vacation now LOL). I hope to have surgery at the end of August or first of Sept and I hope to be down about 25 to 30lbs by then (not sure if that's realistic or not). I'm thinking I'll be doing protein shakes for breakfast and lots of tuna and chicken for lunch and supper.
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Kelly, wife to Trey and mom to Makayla.
Just starting the long process to get approved for Lap Band surgery.
June 11th - Informational Seminar; June 17th - Education Class; June 24h - PCM for referral; June 25th - Bloodwork up; June 25th - Education Class; July 7th - First Consultation with Surgeon
low fat cottage cheese
vanilla slim fast for my coffee, chocolate for emergencies
1% milk
fish, shrimp, crab, chicken, lamb, steak, etc.
FRESH veggies (especially brocolli, asparagus, all kinds of squash, green beans and spinach)
FRESH fruit: especially grapefruit, strawberries, cherries, melon, avocados, apricots and nectarines.) I love bananas and apples but they are harder to get down.
deli chicken and turkey
whole grain pasta
brown or wild rice
sweet potato
unsweetened applesauce in all the yummy new flavors
flavored tuna in sigle serve containers
trisquit crackers
Quaker high protein weight control instant oatmeal
swiss cheese
almonds
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Banding on 11/19/07 by Dr. Craig Chang in Victoria, Texas. 1st fill (Jan. 11, 2008) = 3 cc 2nd fill (March 14, 2008) = 1 cc 3rd fill (June 13, 2008) = 1 cc COMPLETE UNFILL (August 6, 2008) due to gallbladder surgery and complications 4th fill (August 20, 2008) = 4 cc Yippee!!!
I used to love to cook...because I loved to eat (still do, but can't eat much and the food spoils). I am single and so, not much cooking going on in this house.
My list includes the following:
beef jerky
nuts
fat free cottage cheese
parmesian cheese (flavor boost)
low fat string cheese
tuna (plain)
tuna (flavored, lunch kits...spicy thai, sundried tomato, lemon pepper w/crackers)
shaved deli meat
EAS protein shakes...not the Myoplex
eggs
chicken thighs (breasts are too dry)
shrimp
canned beans
canned soup (Progresso lentil soup rocks)
edamame (soybeans...protein, carbs, and fat...all in one package)
grits
canned chili
peanut butter (natural and the peanut powder PB2)
carnation instant breakfast (add PB2 to it...chocolate peanut butter shake...mmmmmm)
dry milk powder
butter
mayo (not the healthy kind either)
Paul Newman's honey mustard dressing
Kashi frozen meals (one meal equals 2 portions for me...they are quite tasty and pretty healthy)
Crystal light
gin:)
Right now, I am trying to concentrate on protein...my hair started to fall out this weekend (3 months post-op)
__________________ -Rae Banded 3/31/08 Highest/Surgery/Current/Goal 277/250/current-see the ticker:)/125
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I pray we all will meet our goals this year, and never regain again!
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