Having just spent $400 on Lindora this fall to lose 20 pounds, I'm not looking to put it back on. Had I known I'd be forced to sip food for half a year, I'd've spent Christmas break gorging on everything ever. Bah.
But as msbelle says, so far I'm trying to look at it as extreme!dieting!, i.e. I'd better lose a crap-ton of weight from this experience. Stocked up on soups, yogurt and frozen fruit yesterday--we'll see how long I can last on purees and smoothies.
What about pastina for pasta?
I don't know what this is, but I'm off to Google!
but at that point, why not quinoa, which is better for you, right?
I'm sure I'll get around to trying both. Six months is a looooooong time.
That is a really crappy thing for your dentist to do with no warning!
but at that point, why not quinoa, which is better for you, right?
Pastina is a lot softer. I would think quinoa would get caught in the braces. Plus, the idea of not being able to have pasta for 6 months freaks me out.
Oddly, everyone else seems more outraged than I am. I mean, my head is still "wtf?!", but I'm not feeling any of the emotions that come with anger or outrage. Mostly I'm just, "so here I am, how do I live with this?"
My therapist will probably tell me I'm dissociating.
Protein shakes/powder, too? I just imagine protein might be challenging when you can't chew. I'm sure you've thought of this, but I'll post anyway!
I get it Polgara - it is what it is and you are just working on dealing with it. The rest of us are imagining not being able to chew and the impacts.
Last night I was lectured quite strongly--by someone I'd just met--about how I should write a letter to the dentist about how rude and inconsiderate it was to not warn me, if only to save the next person. Which sounds reasonable, but also like it would just take too much energy on my part.
Protein shakes/powder, too? I just imagine protein might be challenging when you can't chew. I'm sure you've thought of this, but I'll post anyway!
Yup, stocked up last night on protein shakes and Ensure, and ordered protein powder--which I may not be able to ingest after all 'cause turns out it contains banana, which I'm allergic to. Yay.
