Originally Posted by jnaiser60

Don't eat beens or anything that causes gas in your stomach post-surgery. Ever... This includes carbonated and especially beer.
The trick is not to stretch your stomach out again. Besides, in the first month, you will vomit it up.

Look for the EAS brand shakes at Sam's club. Buy the low calorie ones. 17 grams Protien/100 calories/1.5 carbs. When your able, try the EAS low calorie bars and the Ostrim brand Ostrich/beef sticks. Really good too.

I know the first

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Originally Posted by jnaiser60

I didn't hit the gym until I hit my goal wait as I didn't want to lose too fast. This was a conscious decision. But I still lost about 100 lbs in 6 months. So for the last two months I have changed my diet (even more) to 10% minimum, protein to caloric intake. I try to get it up as high as 15%. Very little carbs; if not none.

Because I am trying to build muscle, protein is very important. A typical workout day, I can get down 1500 calories, so 150 grams of protein. I do this with a

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