Guest guest Posted January 20, 2004 Report Share Posted January 20, 2004 In a message dated 1/20/2004 9:15:39 AM Eastern Standard Time, sng@... writes: the quality of life (QoL) after WLS is far from bleak. ======================== Of course you had to taste everything. There would be no quality to life if this was not experienced. I would have done the same. However, most likely thrown up a few time too. This is why we had surgery, to experience all that life has to offer. Fay Bayuk **300/171 10/23/01 Dr. Open RNY 150 cm Click for My Profile http://obesityhelp.com/morbidobesity/profile.phtml?N=Bayuk951061008 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 21, 2004 Report Share Posted January 21, 2004 OOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooooooooo I would NOT make a good traveler. My mother & her parents were world travelers and did their best to make one of me. Not happening. I would not be eating any meat on the off chance it might be fish, let alone pets. <thud> No wasting sugars on alcohol, either. Just cut to the chase and gimme the carbs & veggies & fruit. LOL! Rice! I couldn't eat it for 5 yrs (there's that darned RNY limit thing), but now I can. It never was #1, rather have potatoes. But what I LOVE are veggies and fruits. See how we're all so different? You wasted, er, I mean saved space for, um, " other " pursuits, whereas I'd spend my space on the Good Stuff. LOL! Thanks, Vitalady, Inc. T www.vitalady.com If you are interested in PayPal, please click here: https://www.paypal.com/affil/pal=orders%40vitalady.com WLS and QoL > I have been following all the replies to that his ill-advised > 21-month braggadocio post engendered. I had the DS 32 months ago, > but, as " they " say, " Some of my best friends are RNY-ish, " and I have > had dinner with them and find that they can pretty much eat what I > eat, though usually a tad bit less of it. That having been said, I > wanted to relay a week-long gastronomic experience to celebrate that > at least for me, the quality of life (QoL) after WLS is far from > bleak. > > I was in Beijing all last week for an important Internet event to > which I had been invited by the Chinese Academy of Sciences as an > honored guest. Our group of visitors (American and Russian) were > wined and dined at many different ethnic or specialty Chinese > (northern, Cantonese, western, duck, etc.) restaurant banquets. I was > going to keep a food log, but I gave up after the first banquet, > because there were so many little dishes served that I just could not > keep up, and I did not even know what some of them were (and was > afraid to ask!). At one very famous (in China, anyway) restaurant > not far from Tienanmin Square, duck is the specialty. They roast > Peking duck by the hundreds, if not thousands every day, and then > tend to use up as much of the ducks as possible. One of the hors d' > oeuvres that were served were bite-sized morsels of a lightly-breaded > and flash-fried " duck meat, " or at least that's what I thought that > the server had said. I wound up eating 10 of them, because they were > so darned tasty, and nobody else seemed to want more than one. > Later, I learned that they were actually " duck feet! " There were all > sorts of other appetizers, too, and then the main attraction, Peking > duck (crispy skin and duck meat rolled up in a crepe-like pancake > along with green onion shoots and soy-paste sauce). With all that I > had eaten, regrettably, I could only fit in two of the Peking duck > pancakes. And, then, only a few small pieces of melon for dessert. > At other restaurants, I was similarly cavalier with what and how much > I ate, including frogs' legs in a vegetable stew, bone marrow in a > fondue pot, baked eel, and all sorts of pedestrian dishes based on > beef, lamb and pork. At our hotel, breakfast was served buffet > style, and though the quality of the food there was only so-so > (typical " hotel food " ), I ate two-to-three times as much as I > normally eat at home for breakfast. I hardly ate any rice at all, as > I did not want to use up precious room in my stomach that was > earmarked for the other courses. Also, I did not shy away from the > obligatory toasts with wine and Moutai (Chinese firewater), though I > drank **much** less than I would have pre-op--no more than one or at > most two glasses of wine and a few thimbles full of Moutai at any one > meal. I also had some sweets (cup cakes, chocolate) during tea > breaks at meetings, but probably less than I would have indulged in > at home. > > Did I get exercise that week? Some (gym and pool in the hotel, but > time to really work out only once) including limited walking, as we > were driven most places. > > Could any other WLS postie have eaten the variety of things that I > ate? Probably. I am really not sure. > > Could any other WLS postie have eaten as much as I did? Probably > only a very few of them. But, so what? > > Did I gain any weight on that trip? [Drum roll, please . . .] NOT > AN OUNCE! In the 1990's, pre-op for me, I managed to gain more than > 100 pounds with frequent trips like these: little or no exercise, > time zone changes, serial official banquets, etc. Gain a pound or > two here, and a pound or two there, and the next thing you know, > you're SMO. But, mercifully, post-DS, I came through this eat-fest > unscathed. > > Now that I am back home, my bowels have taken their revenge, and I am > gassy and stinky. That may be the result of a big pot of split pea > and kidney bean soup that I whipped up (pass the Beano, please), or > it may reflect the 13-hour time shift from China and the fact that my > innards have no idea what time of day it is. But, this, too, shall > pass. > > OK, seems that I can do this for a while and get away with it, and > **maybe** DSers can get away with more of it than other WLSers. But > I dare say that others, too could have indulged and come away not too > much the worse for wear, though I suspect that some of you would not > want to even try to be as deviant as I was. Bottom line for me, once > again, is that THERE IS LIFE AFTER WLS! > > Cheerz to all, > > Steve > > Homepage: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Graduate-OSSG > > Unsubscribe: mailto:Graduate-OSSG-unsubscribe > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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