Please check the Recipes section to find lots of great ideas. I posted a reply to one of the threads to give you an example of a breakfast scramble. WazzuCoug is a long-time member who is mostly meatless and has posted lots of plant-based and/or vegetarian ideas that usually help you get protein, or just sound delicious. You also might try doing a search using "vegetarian" or "plant based" as search terms. Good luck! Also please feel free to post your own vegetarian and vegan recipes in the Recipes section to make them easy for browsing.I’m about 4 months pre-op and thinking about how this will work long term. Any experiences / wisdom you’d like to share? I also avoid dairy most of the time.
Thank you for the guidance!!Please check the Recipes section to find lots of great ideas. I posted a reply to one of the threads to give you an example of a breakfast scramble. WazzuCoug is a long-time member who is mostly meatless and has posted lots of plant-based and/or vegetarian ideas that usually help you get protein, or just sound delicious. You also might try doing a search using "vegetarian" or "plant based" as search terms. Good luck! Also please feel free to post your own vegetarian and vegan recipes in the Recipes section to make them easy for browsing.
Bless your heart Diane. I sure hope you start feeling better soon. Have you been in touch with your dr or the ER? That seems abnormally long to have a fever, which means your body is warning you big time that something is wrong. Take care. Love you. ❤❤❤❤
I was an ovo;lacto vegetarian for four years. Not my choice, exactly. I'd been feeling sickly and i'd come home from work and puke my dinner into the sink. A few weeks later I discovered I was pregnant. Could barely stomach traditional meat entrees. You oughta taste my soybean burgers!
the most important thing I discovered on this ages-long journey is to eat small portions, and do so slowly. I put my fork down between bites. I want people to think I'm something next-door to attractive (because I think I'm so homely") so anytime I eat a meal I am dainty and chatty and smiley and no one notices that I just push my food around on my plate without eating it.
before that, i spent years battling eating disorders from adolescence, including bulimarexia. My mom was always freaking out, asking me when was the last time I ate, did i eat anything today, my clothes were falling off me, etc.
RYGB was my only solution, and I tried EVERYTHING. Some of us will never be able to lose weight without surgery. It's nothing to be ashamed of. obesity is a deadly disease with frightening comorbidities and people who poke fun or make jokes or mock should be ashamed. Onetime when i was crossing the street in front of a bunch of rednecks in a pickup truck, they all hung out the windows and moooooooed at me.
I eat well, though. I could probably get at least an AA degree for all I've learned about nutrition.
there are two kinds of food: myth and truth. I used to ask a leading question about a myth so I could manipulate the person I was talking to into urging me to eat this or that thing i shouldn't eat. now I know the truth, and if I don't, I research it til i do.
pardon my typing of late. I've been in bed with a fever for about two weeks. not covid. just some weird aberration.
you can begin being healthier by cutting meat consumption by 50 percent, then 40, then 30. Then it can be used for flavoring other dishes or consumed in small amounts.
Try using an unflavored protein powder or watering down your flavored ones. You can also add herbs and/or spices to flavored shakes to tone them down.I'm vegetarian and hoping to transition to vegan as I progress through this new experience. Struggling to get enough protein at two and a half weeks post-op (GS). The protein shakes are just too sweet, a little concerned that the lack of protein will effect my weight loss and you health. I hope it gets easier when I can introduce more foods.