The Calorieking Calorie, Fat & Carbohydrate Counter [Large Print]

I wasted 30 bucks in total. I bought several of these, since the Calorie counters I used to use, from this man, are for 10 weeks and are journals. I have been very ill for the past few years after surgery. Nothing stays down. I have taken to eating bread, or cooked rice or over cooked pasta to keep foods down. I call it cement. I do miss eating things like roast beef sandwiches or a nice chicken dinner, all child sized. Now its bland chicken salad, followed by mushy noodles, rice or bread to keep it down. Tortilla's work best. Oddly they don't work as well if I wrap the food inside. Eat food. Wait until the tummy rumbles, than eat a tortilla. Works every time. drops in the stomach like a rock. I have a gastric bypass, never ever even think of doing a gastric bypass, unless your health is threatened. If you can stay on a gastric bypass diet, and you have to your entire life with the surgery, or you will gain it all back, you can lose weight without surgery. Never, ever, ever do a gastric bypass in my opinion, but listen to your doctor. I can't tell you no if you feel strongly pro surgery or are desperate otherwise opt for the life style change of the gastric bypass matinance progam, or at least try and realize either way you will have to stay on the diet for the rest of your life. This may be too much information, But if you are thinking of bypass surgery: because of the bypass, I have skin flaps, weighed and measured by two doctors total of 40 pounds. That is unusable body mass. It won't go away and is devoid of any value to your body. What that means or how I understood how it was explaned to me, is that I have 40 pounds of useless weight. Shortly after these weighings and measurings I was told the insurance no longer gives tummy tucks, that were said to be given if you hit a target weight and stayed at or below that weight for 1 year, because most of the peoople having the surgery all gained their weight back after they had their tummy tuck. When I was weighed and measured the nurses said one other person besides me, were the only people, out of around 70 in the two groups at the same time frame, who had kept the weight off. Even stored body fat has uses and provides energy to the body, but the the skin flaps have no use and there is much more than belly flap, bat wings and you have no idea what it does to your thighs and at your knees, your knees sag from above the knee and from below the knee and butt isn't a pleasant feater either... and they measure everything. I wonder if losing the weight slowly would have allowed the body to adjust rather than be forced to grab every fat resourses as possible to sustain life and forget about making the body right along the way. Because of all the vomiting and trying to keep foods down with packed rice-a-roni and the pouch size, I lost weight, a lot of weight, several times and stuggle to keep weight on. I didn't realize until I got to 138 pounds, my useful body mass was actually 98 pounds. I was told by the nurses not to get much below 160 pounds. Bread, potato, rice and noodles are not only cement food but starvation foods. They fill the stomach and keep weight on and weight added. The operative words are keep add weight. They have nutritional value but not enough and add weight quickly. Hence, my need to keep accurate records of enough body essentials, And keep the weight from going higher on starvation foods and weak from lack of what those foods don't provide. These are not calories counters well the calorie counters where you keep a journal. I had never seen these before and didn't realize they were different than the journal. The larger print is still very difficult to read with my glasses. I cannot image what the small print looks like. I did enjoy there are photographs for the entries and readings along the way. So if you are looking for something similar to a nutrition panel on the back of products, this is for you. I still use a calorie counter giude