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I agree LaMa, it does seem down right unfair. I used to travel to Italy a lot on business, when there I was always treated to huge and delicious meals. I could not help but notice that my hosts were all quite thin. I asked one day how that was possible and the guy laughed and said he only ate a meal like that once a month or so. Then it occurred to me that they were rotating the person who got to go out with me, so each of them did only do it once with me. I on the other hand did it as often as possible. I am not sure I could ever do that just once.

No binge here yesterday, but my large evening snack continues to feel a little binge like. I will try to eat more in my regular meals and less in the evening today, we'll see.

Let's not binge tomorrow.
 
No binge today, but I did not do a whole lot better eating larger meals. It is kind of hard for me to eat more, until my evening snack anyway. But still on the total calorie track. Guess I will resume the struggle after surgery.

Let's not binge tomorrow.
 
If you're not going to be able to exercise after surgery you may want to go back down to 1500 kcal/day for a while.
 
Rob some say it does not matter when you eat your calories so if eve works for you that’s ok . I prefer mine spaced out and not at night as it gives me heartburn.
 
I don´t fare well with late-night eating either. Messes with my sleep. But to each their own. And sometimes we change, so experimenting is ok.
 
Thanks LaMa, and I did get down to about 1,500 yesterday. I am wondering if even that is low enough, guess I can keep an eye on it. Going down again may be a struggle, we'll see. Petal, late night eating seems to be fine with my body, but then I know eating anytime is fine with it, that was the problem... Evening have always been one of my worst binge and urge times, the evening snack seems to work for that. LaMa, I actually get to sleep easier on a full stomach.

Hey LaMa, I saw on your diary that you are having binge struggles, so this is for you: Let's not binge today!
 
No binge today, but whilst I was trying to cut back I did have some urges. However it was an odd day so I think I did fine. No idea what if anything I will get to eat tomorrow, I have to start fasting about now and will be in the hospital tomorrow night, not sure what they will feed me.

Let's not binge tomorrow, or the next day (I probably will not be back here tomorrow).
 
No hospital binges, but today just lazing around I sure would like to eat, more out of boredom than anything else... I can see one of my struggles of recovery will be that I am feeling pretty good, but just can't do the kinds of things I want to do. I am not good at sitting around.

Let's not binge! Me included...
 
I am not quite sure what my walking limitations are, I asked the doctor and got a kind of ambiguous answer. He first said no problem, but then I said something about walking for exercise and he said I should take that easy. I walked around the house and yard a bit today, I think I may try a short walk tomorrow. Problem is I feel pretty good, just a bit tiered. I am not sure the internal places I have to worry about have nerve endings to tell when when to stop.

I was able to get through the day, the urges passed unacted upon.

Let's not binge tomorrow.
 
Take it easy is very... subjective. Like the guy who broke his neck in 5 places and got a halo to stabilize it (4 screws into the skull, connected both to each other and to a corset with metal pins so you can't move your neck) with the instruction not to lift anything heavy. Which for an old farmer who has animals to feed means filling up the water/feed buckets only halfway, maybe 5-6 kg on each side. Whereas at the neurosurgery department where I once interned it meant 1 kg, 2 max if you're feeling ok after a bit. For both arms combined. No wonder he was in pain even though he was sticking to the doctor's orders as best he knew how!
I hate subjective instructions, unless they come with clear guidelines (like... move slowly, no longer than 5 minutes at first, stop when you feel unstable/get swelling afterwards/the pain exceeds 3/10 on the VAS/whatever applies).
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Sorry, that's probably not a lot of help. I don't see post-prostate-op-patients, unless things went wrong, but this post seems sensible: Exercise After Prostate Removal | Virginia Mason, Seattle, WA
 
Thanks LaMa, that link has some great information, and it seems pretty applicable to my situation. Just what I have been looking for. My surgery was probably a bit less than they are talking about, but quite similar. I was only 1 day in the hospital and I was up and walking around the ward within an hour or so of getting to the room. I walked a lot, it was more comfortable than laying in bed. My catheter was removed after a day, that was a really big relief and made walking much easier. Have to tell you this was not a very dignified process, LOL!

Your link motivated me to do the 45 min walk today. That felt good, I will probably do something similar tomorrow. I appreciate your story about the farmer, based on my doctors first direction I might have started with a much longer harder walk. I also appreciate your rant, you know a lot more about all this than I do.

No binge here today, I did have to resist eating a bit, we hosted a bbq/birthday party, but I did fine. One very small bite of birthday cake, and honestly it did not taste real good.

Let's not binge tomorrow.
 
Catheters are among the more undignified things people have to deal with. Glad you could get rid of it so soon. Well done on the walking and eating!
 
I think the longer you stay off artificial sweet stuff it does start to taste not so good . Glad you tried it though as it's a good test .

No binging here . Happy enough plodding on . Did make some sweet scones yesterday but I only had one . And it was small.
Cooking more natural foods now for a while and trying to limit sugar and processed crap
 
After 9 months of no artificial and very little processed sugar, I find most fruits to taste like candy now.
 
Hey Petal, good to hear that you are doing well and fending off the binge, that's great!

I agree with both of you, Petal and Err. Staying off of refined sugar for a long time makes naturally sweetened things like fruit taste plenty sweet enough, and the occasional bite of candy or cake not taste so good. I want to stay this way, has to be good for me.

LaMa, you got the dignified thing right, it is not only an uncomfortable thing, but pretty embarrassing. Good that it's over!

I did not binge today, but I struggled. I spent a lot of the day obsessing over being able to eat a big meal. Feeling sorry for myself that I can't do that anymore, and trying to rationalize why just one would not hurt. It would, of course, not hurt from a long term calorie and weight point of view, but only if I could do it just once. I am not sure I could make it a just once thing, a second large meal would be easier than the first, and it would be bingeing. It would also do me absolutely no good. Logic won out today, but it was a struggle. I think not exercising made it worse.

Let's not binge tomorrow!
 
What constitutes a big meal Rob ? I eat big meals all the time but I consider them healthy meals .are you craving more big meals with fries and fried chicken that kind of stuff ?
 
Or you could combine your dinner and half your late night snack into one meal.
 
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