Progress shots for approx 5 months out, and just a bit of rambling.

The weight is definitely coming off a lot slower these days, but one of the major things I need to do to keep losing is to keep eating. It sounds so easy... because previously, not eating enough would have never been an issue, but now it's a bit of a struggle. The days I eat and eat and eat all day are the days I see a loss (well, the next day anyway). It feels so wrong though, on those days where all I seem to do all day is eat, I feel like I would have pre-op when I ate all day - like I've done something wrong and something to feel ashamed of.

Anyway, today's weight is 80.8kg. Not much lower than last time, but it's a loss all the same so I'm taking it.

There's not much to update this time round, except to share a progress shot. It was taken first thing this morning, so that's why I'm wearing PJs and look like rubbish. I've pulled the PJs tight so you can see my actual progress... I don't actually have tight-fitting clothing anymore. Even my underwear hangs off my bum (and it's still a rather large backside, so I feel a bit scared at how big it used to be).

My Mum got me these PJs cos I never buy my own... don't tease me for them having an Elmo design! lol

I think I'd almost look cute in a wiggle dress, if not for those bulges on my lower stomach. I'd like to say that shapewear flattens it out, but it doesn't... just makes it appear a bit firmer. That's mostly excess skin and a bit of flab, and appeared after I had a caesarean with my daughter... so I don't expect it'll ever go away without surgery. Of course losing weight on my belly means even more skin is hanging around that area... when I lean forward, it's quite obvious and revolting... very soft and jiggly... but I suppose it's much better to have that, than many extra cms on my waistline.

My arms are also still very big, much to my upset. I'm thinking I'm going to need to seriously work on those, though I'm not exactly sure how. I do not want muscle definition - that's not my thing. I would like them to just be SMALLER. I'm thinking I will probably have to work at losing the fat on them, through exercise, and then have the excess skin chopped off. It's supposed to be a very painful procedure, so not keen on having to do it, but I think skinnier arms would mean I appeared skinnier overall... so I'm set on them shrinking. 

Quick update...

Thought I'd give a quick update. 81.3kg is the new number, and I'm quite happy. That's less than 5kg until the dietician's goal of 77kg!

On the weekend I went out to dinner with my friend... and I ordered an entree. It was delicious, but I had so little it mostly looked like I'd moved stuff around on my plate. Quite embarrassing, but I explained to the waitress that the food was divine, I was just physically unable to have much more of it.

It was also quite interesting to talk to my friend - she is someone I've always considered quite slim... and she is 10kg lighter than me. That's it. TEN KILOS. That seems like NOTHING compared to the gap that used to be between us. Of course, she is taller than me, so it makes a bit more difference... but TEN KILOS! There's also 10kg (well, more like 10.4kg) between DP and I. DP has put on about 5kg, so that lessens the gap... but I am still very happy, considering it used to be over 40kg.

I took some a side-on pic in my underwear to compare as none of my clothes are really figure-hugging at the moment. I wasn't going to share, but decided to, because I've noticed a difference between it and my previous underwear shot.

Left is now, right is late November.

My belly seems to be a bit flatter. Not too much, but enough that I could notice anyway. Please excuse my lack of bra. This was just before a shower. I figure covering my breast makes it not-so-pornographic but apologies if the sight of the side of my tit bothers you. I did flip the pic though... so I could compare the two more easily. They're actually showing different sides of my torso.



Someone's also asked if I'd like to model for her in a burlesque/pinup type shoot. She's an amateur photographer, but I'm quite excited. I've warned her that I don't look perfect, but it'll be interesting to do it anyway. I'll probably find I'm a shit poser, but it'll be a good way to dress up, something that I love to do. If I can, once that's done, I'll share the pics!

The confidence I feel is amazing - I can't imagine boudoir shots 5 months ago. The thought of posing in lingerie would make me want to cry. Now though, I feel so much freer. I feel so much more attractive, so much more comfortable, and so much less bothered by the fact that my body is far from perfect!

The progression from WLS blog to Rockabilly Style Blog...

I'm hovering between low 82 or high 81... this morning it was 82.1kg. Losses are slowing down, but I suspect that's because I might be getting close to a decent weight for myself. The dietician's goal based on body fat percentage was 77kg... so I do think I'm getting close to a good weight to maintain... though I'd personally prefer to be at about 70kg I think. That's only about 12kg away... wow!

Anyway, I'm spending very little time thinking about the sleeve lately... it seems to have become a pretty mundane part of everyday life. It was my fixation last year, but now I'm a bit over it I think. Not over having had it done, just over talking/thinking about it. I'll still provide updates in case anyone's a follower... but this blog seems to have turned into something not strictly about WLS anymore... I seem to ramble on a lot about rockabilly stuff... so if you see it heading in that direction, I think that's just because it's my newest obsession. My weight loss is still an obsession, but as I'm not longer feeling like I'm "too fat," for everything, my size bothers me so much less than it used to, and I'm actually quite happy with how my figure is turning out.

So, speaking of Rockabilly stuff...

I have to talk about my hair! Hair seems to be pretty bloody important with this look, which is really quite a PITA when you're like me and about all you've ever done is straighten your already straight hair, or put it up in a ponytail. That's not because I had no interest in fancy hairstyles... it's just that I SUCK at doing anything to do with hair.

It also doesn't help that my hair dislikes being curled. Intensely. It doesn't hold styles well... a curl will be very weak, so it's more like a messy wave, rather than a curl, and it'll fall out soon after anyway. Thing is, curls and waves are a big part of this style... so I've been paranoid about how I'm gonna look with my normal, boring hair... all dressed up. Like a mis-match really.

ANYWAY... I was fortunate enough to have this shared with me...

For those of you who can't be stuffed watching, but want to know wtf happens... it's basically curling your hair using a headband. Not an alice band... one that goes the full way around... like a stretchy one.

A good way to get vintage-style curls is by pincurling... but that takes AGES. Seriously... it's tedious and boring and I suck at it because it requires some sort of skill of rolling your hair up. I seriously suck at that... but the results the girl in the vid got looked a bit rough, but good enough for me anyway... so I gave it a go last night. All I used was a spray bottle of water, and a stretchy headband of my daughters - apart from not having one myself (all my headbands are alice bands), I figured it'd be a bit tighter and thus hold the curls in better.

Well... this morning...

These are once the curls have been brushed out. They're quite tight and spiral-shaped at first, so you brush and brush and brush till you get a nice shape... much like you'd do with pincurls. In the end, you end up with the above. I've cut my hair since the previous photo of my mug you may have noticed... and it's made victory rolls harder to do because they looked anorexic, and no amount of teasing seemed to help... hence me deciding I needed to figure out another style. That said, I attempted victory rolls with this hair too, and the curls seemed to thicken them up a bit.

My fringe needs a hell of a lot of styling, but I hadn't bothered with that at the time I took the photo. I'm actually a bit sad I even have a fringe... I think this style would look awesome side-parted and without a fringe. When my fringe gets a bit longer, I'll work it into the style a bit better.

I thought I'd share anyway, because this is an awesome way to achieve vintage-inspired curls, and doesn't damage your hair with heat or chemicals (though if you want them to last, you'd probably spray it or something). I've had mine out for half a day so far and they still look as they did above... so seem to last well without a setting spray anyway.

The style you get once your hair is curled up in the band is cute too... though not if you have a fringe (because I had to put the band under my fringe, so it looked a bit stupid...lol). The rolled up back bit was really quite vintage in itself. Think I'll get a hair rat and attempt that look on its own... or maybe pop the band on the top of my head and see if that works... 



Rockabilly Hair, food intake and lowest adult weight ACHIEVED!

First up - I am now at my lowest adult weight ever (that I know of!). A few years ago (2008), I starved myself after a relationship breakdown... from 110kg to 83kg over a 2-3 month period. This was from eating pretty much nothing (I might have a bite or so of meat, or a cube of cheese... and then a whole bunch of water or sugarfree drinks)... and from spending lots of time on an exercise bike. When I started to seriouly starve and was unable to continue that, whatever little I did consume was thrown up (on purpose) minutes later.

Anyway, that's disgusting, but that was how I got to my lowest ever adult weight. 83kg.

I've now broken that. Just. 82.8kg... but it's still lower than 83kg and so I'm taking it and running with it!

I'm THRILLED that I am now at my lowest, and that it's not the result of some sort of temporary bulimia/anorexia (stress-induced I would say... it happened after my ex said some horribly nasty things to me about my size/looks/weight and how unlikely I'd be to ever be in another relationship in that state). I was also drinking a fair bit during that stage... so none of that either. I drink on occasion, but not like I did then. So anyway, I am very happy that I am now the smallest I've been as an adult! YAY!

Speaking of drinking on occasion... I am  going out in a few weeks... something I rarely do. I rarely go out anywhere, let alone go out as an adult to have fun child-free... but this weekend is coming up. It was originally planned for last year sometime, but my daughter required surgery instead... and it happened to be booked in on the day I was going to go out, so that didn't happen.

So now I'm going out... with my Hell Bunny dress! I've got a petticoat in the mail to wear with the Seasick Sue dress... problem is, my Seasick Sue dress is too big. I wore it all day the other day and what a PITA... too big, kept on falling down. I complained to DP about it later that night (online - he's at the mines at the moment), and he told me to just buy another one in a smaller size... so I've done that, and will just sell my Seasick Sue on eBay or something... and have organised to return my Olivie dress too, in exchange for a smaller size. I'm a Large now, not an XL. Woohoo!

I've also been fiddling with hair... since I was a little girl, 40s/50s/60s style was something I quite liked... and for a while now I've been trying to figure out victory rolls. They're really hard, especially for someone who is absolutely shit with hair... but I managed something that looks somewhat like victory rolls last night, and I'm very proud indeed! My excess hair at hte back needs to be kept up in a snood/hairnet or something, or I'll have to use a gibson roll (a roll at the back)... but either way, I had to share...

Rolling quite long hair up that whole way and pinning it to your head is effing hard... but I'm so glad I managed it. I quite like it, though I know it's not everyone's thing... it's quite common in the rockabilly/pinup world which seems to be the kind of style I'm falling into. I think I've always liked it, it's just that I've never been able to fit into the appropriate clothes (apart from a few incredibly overpriced items, and why spend that much when you're hoping to lose kgs anyway?)... so I do think I might sink deeper into this style. In a way, it feels a bit silly though... like a kid playing dress-ups, and while I want to wear my hair out like this (with something else done to the excess) when I go out, I'm a bit scared of the attention I know I'll recieve simply for being different. Even wearing the Seasick Sue dress got me a fair bit of attention, and I can handle that... because it's mostly, "I love your dress," rather than "Hey, look at that girl's hair!"

Meh. I might try it on anyway. If the attention freaks me out, I'll just not do it again. Or learn to deal with attention...

DP hates the looks btw. He hasn't seen the victory rolls, but hates the make-up that goes along with the look. You know, manicured brows, eyeliner/falsies, bold lippy, etc. Meh. I had to remind him I'm doing it for ME not for him.

Anyway, I know that this has mostly been about weight loss, this blog, but I've always rambled on about fashion (well, my personal tastes anyway)...

As for food, I've had a shit of a time the past few days. Saturday I had 2 sushi rolls. The entire day.

Can't remember what I did yesterday - apart from dinner which was a small amount (1/2 cup maybe) of a vege-filled shepherd's pie thing... I mostly ate the meat/veges rather than the potato topping.

Today I had an UpnGo for breakfast (yay at keeping milk down!)... that took about 2 hours to drink in full. I had about 1/4 of a sandwich with some roast chicken on it... this really nice seeded loaf, but I just couldn't fit much in. Dinner was a bit of marinated chicken breast, roasted, (maybe 1/4 of a breast) and some tomatoes (I don't really like lettuce anymore). Well, 2 cherry tomatoes anyway. Also had about 4 raspberries.

'Til next time...



Hell Bunny dresses, almost at lowest adult weight and food for today!

83.2kg this morning.

I am quite happy - previously, the lowest weight I've been as an adult is 83.something... so once I get below that, I'll be at my lowest-ever adult weight! How thrilling!

Today I also measured myself when talking to a friend about how a dress fit and if the measurements on the site were accurate or not... anyway, here they are...

Bust - 106.5cm
Waist - 82cm
Hips - 105.5cm

I was quite happy, was 82cm means I'm actually small enough to be a L in Hell Bunny, rather than the XL... though also, according to my measurements, my boobs are actually too big for XL (they're not). lol.

I might as well share my dresses with you too - totally dodgy photos and the dresses came straight out of the packaging so need a good iron... but here they are anyway...

Hell Bunny Sea Sick Sue dress

Hell Bunny Mint Olivie dress

Anyway, if you're interested, I got these here: http://emeraldswamp.com.au/ but you can also get them elsewhere online, including here: http://stores.ebay.com.au/tragicbeautiful

I need to buy a petticoat to go under them, and also need shoes to match... have a few pairs in mind. Can't wait to go out in these!

Now time for food!

Today has been a bit of a dodgy day... I'm not sure why but I'm finding it really hard to eat in the mornings lately. Anyway, I've had...

3 chicken flavoured rice crackers

2cm cube rockmelon (just the 1)

About 3 bites of roast pork (previously cooked roast pork, not deli stuff)

A whole bunch of water and cordial

2 twisties from a little pack DD was eating

For dinner, it was oven-baked fish with lemon-pepper and also ratatouille with cannellini beans.

Before

After

Yeah, I know all these pictures of food are really boring, but there are times when I wanted to see stuff like this, so figure I might as well offer it, in case someone is wondering just what you can eat after your sleeve. 4 months out, you can see that I can't eat much at all.

I think I'd probably ate 3-5 times the amount I eat now, before I was sleeved. That's a bit sad really... that I could fit so much food in. In a day, pre-op I could probably eat...

Nothing until about lunch... then I'd have...

A big bag of chips OR a whole pack of crackers with cheese OR a huge bowl/plate leftovers

2 sandwiches (which would often turn into 4 sandwiches, as I'd go back for more)

Then I'd probably have a whole lot of melon or an apple or a whole punnet of strawberries or something... something that was fruit to make me feel better about eating all that crap earlier.

Then dinner... which could be healthy or unhealthy, but regardless, I'd go back for 2nds or 3rds

Then after dinner, I might eat 1/2 a big block of chocolate or a huge bowl of ice-cream... or both.

Not to mention about 1.25L coke a day.

This was when I wasn't dieting of course. I've done a billion different diets... and so didn't eat the above when I was on a diet... just when I was between them. On a diet, I would eat quite well... just spend my time moaning about how much I'd rather be eating MORE food or junkier foods or something. Or searching for recipes of healthier/lower-fat/lower-carb/etc versions of that junk food. Atkins was probably hte worst diet I tried - because I ate so much damn bacon it wasn't funny. Really, so disgusting how much fat I would have eaten during that diet. That, and sugar free, full-fat cheesecakes (without the base). God... no wonder I got so fat.

Then I'd exercise like nuts sometimes, but nothing would happen, and for someone who hates exercise... well... it seemed pointless. If I wasn't losing, then why was I working so hard?

Anyway, I'm kinda rambling...

Hardly eating and trying a low-carb pasta alternative...

So, dinner's done for another day... so time to add what I've eaten. Today has been a really "unhungry," day for me. Anything I tried to put in just wasn't terribly welcome... my stomach wasn't interested in food today.

My stomach wasn't terribly happy today either... but this has happened since I got my gallbladder out in early 2010 so I don't blame the sleeve. I thought I had IBS... maybe I do...

Anyway, I managed to get about 4 sips of milk today. I was brave and gave it a go. I've got a bit of a cold, so didn't want too much (dairy and colds don't go together so well IMO)... but I didn't feel sick! I am so happy, hopefully this means it'll only get better in time and I'll be back having yoghurts again soon. They're such an easy meal.

I dragged some frozen meatballs out of the freezer too, and reheated those... the turkey meatballs I made for Christmas.  They're just regular meatballs... quite small... maybe 1.5cm in diameter. I managed 4 and a half... it was this recipe, but without the glaze and turned into oven-baked meatballs rather than meatloaf: http://www.taste.com.au/recipes/21339/cranberry+turkey+meatloaf

Anyway, I don't think there was anything wrong with them, but maybe I had too much...because about 2 minutes after eating the last bit, I ran to the toilet to be sick.

I had another 1/2 cup of lemonade (again, old-fashioned, not fizzy) and also a bunch of water and cordial.

For dinner, I had a spaghetti bolognaise dish... but as usual, it was full of veges as well. I don't mind veges, but this dish never has any in it, and because it's so filling anyway, I've always added veges to make it healthier. It's a good way to get DP to eat veges too - the bugger is fussy and just leaves them on his plate otherwise.

I also had these:

I found it in the health food aisle at Woolies. Not intentionally, I was just walking past and saw it, and went in for a closer look. I think it's much like the shirataki/miracle noodles that are really hard to get hold of... basically, these are made from some vegetable called "konjac," and are low in calories and carbs. About 2g carbs per serve (a packet is 2 servings).

Not that I'm avoiding carbs really, but I decided the give them a go... and just haven't had cause to use them until now.

So... my dinner turned out like this...

What's in there? The whole dish used 400g lean mince, tin diced tomatoes, 1 really large grated carrot, 1 large grated zucchini, 1 brown onion, 2 cloves crushed garlic (I love garlic), mixed herbs, chopped basil, 1 cup peas, 1 tbsp low salt tomato paste, and a little sea salt and freshly cracked pepper. Then of course, the pasta mentioned above.

... and I ate pretty much none of it. My "after" shot looks pretty much the same as the before, so I chose not to bother adding it... because really, I had about 2 small mouthfuls and my stomach told me it was full.

I managed to get a little of the pasta in there though, and while it's not the same as real pasta, it wasn't unpleasant. It's basically like overcooked spaghetti. I prefer penne, but this only comes in angel hair and spaghetti (neither of which I really like even when it's regular pasta)... it doesn't taste like anything, but the texture, as I said, is like overcooked pasta, so if you're avoiding carbs it's probably a good alternative. I'm considering getting another pack and using them as noodles, perhaps in a stir-fry or something, and seeing how they manage. They're a bit softer than noodles, but they might add something... I might as well try.

So basically, a really bad food day. I forgot to weigh myself this morning, so I have no idea where I'm at... so no idea if today and the lack of food will make any difference.... not that it really matters.

Of course, before bed I'll also take my multivitamin.

What I ate today... deciding to blog this regularly.

Another update so soon... why? Well, I've decided I'm going to keep a track of what I'm eating each day. Partly so potential sleevers/fellow sleevers can see what others eat in a day, and partly so I can keep track of what I'm actually eating in a day, and can hopefully make better food choices as a result... or figure out what is causing problems if there are any.

At the moment, I am 4 months post-sleeve, just so you know how far along I am (without having to figure it out... lol).

Anyway, today wasn't the best day... I'm broke and am mostly living off what's in the house already. Today I've eaten...

2 chicken wingettes (marinated in a smokey bbq sauce) - these were pre-cooked from another day and then frozen...
1 piece (minus crust) and 1 bite (of 2nd piece) of the leftover pizza from yesterday.
4 rice crackers (I think they were chicken flavoured or something)
2 olives
A 2cm cube of rockmelon
Chicken mignon (from Lenards) with some greek salad (minus cucumber cos I hate it). I didn't eat all - so took before and after shots to give us both an idea (me for future reference).

That's about 1/2 a mignon, a tiny tiny sliver of lettuce, 2 bits of diced tomato, 1 bit of spanish onion, 2 cubes of feta. The olive I gave to DD - she loves olives and I was full by that stage.

Protein has become really hard with not being able to properly stomach dairy, and from hating eggs. 2 really easy ways to get protein in, and I can't do it! I can have cheese, but milk makes me spew/feel like I need to...

I am thinking that I might be able to get some protein in if I have some french toast though... even just 1/2 a piece might help. Of course, then it's carby too, but I'm not terrified of carbs so I don't really care. If it means I can get a little more protein in easily, then I'll be happy. I am also hoping I can soon again stomach yoghurt and milk... yoghurt was a great way to get in some calcium and protein previously...

I also have a multi-vitamin each day, and I drink all day long, so I never measure how much. I have a drink with me every waking moment (actually, I have a bottle beside me bed too... lol), so I don't think I could get in any more than I already do in regards to fluids... I don't do tea or coffee or anything, most of my drinks are water and cordial. Sometimes diet, sometimes not. Depends on what flavour I feel like, but I do have it rather watery (I prefer it that way). For some reason, it feels like it goes down smoother than water... water can sometimes give me a slight reflux feeling, which is very odd. I'm hoping that settles too, as I do enjoy water on its own.

An additional drink I had today - about 1/2 cup of lemonade - not fizzy stuff, but old fashioned lemonade - water, lemon and sugar.

I also read over yesterday's post, and realise it sounds like I've just gone on a junk food binge. lol! Just wanted to clarify that I haven't tried MUCH take-away... or even ordered my own. I've attempted popcorn chicken at a foodcourt and given that was too oily, I haven't bothered with any other KFC. On a 2-hour train trip, we swapped trains midway and DD grabbed some Maccas (that and vending machines were all that was on offer). I had a few bites of her burger. Bleh. No thanks.

Otherwise, we have takeaway once a fortnight when DP comes home, or once or twice when we've been elsewhere around dinnertime (visiting - and people go, "Meh, let's grab a pizza for dinner."). At the mines there's not much he can have... apart from a few crappily-cooked camp meals so he takes full advantage when he gets home and wants take-away usually on his first night home (he gets home around dinnertime so we go straight there). That's when I've had Red Rooster. Sushi I have sometimes when I do my grocery shopping - not being a driver, it takes ages to get there and back, so we usually have lunch there...

Fish and Chips we had on Christmas Eve at the In-Laws (FIL just went and grabbed some) and once when DP wanted it when he came back from the mines.

Most days though, it's just whatever's in my house... I'm not just the take-away queen like it sounds below. lol. I thought it was important to write that up though, because having this sleeve is not just about eating smaller portions of what you're used to... a lot of what I used to like, I no longer have a taste for, even if I can stomach it. It's also a whole different way of eating - getting protein in first and having veges secondary is weird - most diet programs say have HEAPS of veges... so that's quite difficult to get used to.

Anyway, I plan to update regularly with what I'm eating daily... it'll hopefully help me figure out how much I'm actually consuming so I can figure out a better meal plan for myself, and also hopefully give you guys some idea as to what you might be eating if you're not yet sleeved, or see how you compare to me if you are sleeved.

Take-Away and the Sleever

While being a sleever means making a permanent lifestyle change, and some people will never eat anything "bad" again... people like me did it knowing that they enjoy food and never want to give certain things up entirely.

Well, so far the sleeve has meant that my tastes have changed, and that even if I can physically eat certain foods without pain, they just don't sit well in my new tiny tummy. I'm also a regular person, and sometimes cooking is the last thing on my mind, let alone cooking a tiny tiny portion... it just doesn't seem worth it. The thing is though, eating out with a sleeve isn't exactly simple.

Eating out a restaurant/cafe is usually better in the types of foods on offer... but the cost is usually pretty high considering the tiny amount you're likely to eat. I previously mentioned I went to the coffee club and spend $12 on some bruscetta, of which I had less than 1 slice (of 4 on a plate). It's a lot of money for so little food actually getting eaten... but I guess if you have piggy friends/relatives with you, you can just offload your extras to them, so it seems less wasteful.

Take-away is a cheaper option, but the food on offer isn't exactly ideal. Apart from being full of fatty crap, I've found that I just don't enjoy the taste anymore. Hot chips do not go down well... I can have about one or two, but not have a whole meal of them... I find they make me feel uncomfortable. Burgers are no good, obviously, but even tastes-wise... bleh. I just don't like them anymore, and eating one (or let's be honest - a few bites of one... lol) is a chore. It's not enjoyable like it was pre-op. No longer is a Quarter Pounder like an orgasm for my mouth. It just does nothing for me.

KFC is rotten - far too oily and makes me feel sick. Plus, those secret herbs and spices just don't have the same taste they used to. They're actually not even pleasant anymore.

There is no point in going to Subway - it used to be my "I'm being good and eating HEALTHY take-away," place of choice, but I doubt I'd be able to get even halfway through a 6 inch, there's no point. A wrap I might be able to conquer a little better... but I'm still not too keen on giving it a go. It just seems far too filling for such a tiny tummy to bother with.

So I've had to start figuring out what I CAN eat... and while others might different, this is MY take-away go-to list...

Red Rooster - a Quarter chicken (don't eat all of it), or Salt and Pepper Squid (8 pieces in a pack, I can eat 5-6 on a good day).

Fish and Chip Shop - Fish or Calamari. I CAN stomach crumbed or battered, which is a shock as oil seems usually to be an issue... but I can manage both of these. OF course, not a whole piece of fish... just a tiny bit... and if I can get it grilled, even better. I will usually steal 1 hot chip from someone else too... because I still like the taste of chips, they just don't sit well. If they had scallops (sea scallops, not potato scallops) I'd have one of those too, and I bet they'd go down well.

Sushi - A sushi roll works well. I can eat 1/2 in a sitting... maybe 1 whole one if I eat it over the space of about an hour. I love a good crab salad or tuna and avocado.

And now... PIZZA! Dominos, specifically.

I've given regular pizza a go, but the oiliness of them made me feel incredibly ill... the whole experience was not worth repeating. I mentioned this to a bunch of other sleevers, and someone suggested the Good Choice range from Dominos, saying they're not oily like regular pizzas.

Well, I gave it a go tonight... there are only 3 pizza options, and I chose the one that had the best toppings out of the 3 - prawns, mushrooms, baby spinach, tomatoes and a tiny bit of light mozarella on a ciabatta base. I ate 1/2 the pizza (it's a little one, a 1-serve pizza)... which equals about 200 Calories (400 for the whole pizza). I left hte crusts though, because why bother wasting precious stomach space on crust?

Popped the 50c in there so you can see how big each piece is...

Apart from being tasty, I felt satisfied with the amount I ate, and also didn't feel queasy as I have after regular pizza, so am THRILLED to have added another option. The remainder will just be in the fridge and eaten tomorrow...

Anyway, I know this is a totally random food-only post, but I thought it might be useful to some out there who are having post-op food issues... because while it's good to be perfect, let's face it... life sometimes makes you have take-away. Or you're at someone's house and they say, "let's get a pizza," and you're like, "Crap! I hate that shit it makes me feel sick!" but you don't want to make a fuss... at least this way, you have an option, and can still be somewhat normal in your eating around others.

If you get stuck with Maccas or KFC though, I'd say pick something easy. Crispy Strips from KFC are a good choice because they're not terribly oily, and you get a dipping sauce to smooth their way down. From Maccas, maybe a snack wrap (I don't like them, personally), or nuggets. I'd probably grab 3 nuggets with some sauce myself...