What's on the menu today, RNY-ers? Please post!
Hi fellow RNY-ers,
I can't thank you enough for taking part in these daily posts - I have learned a lot from you already, noted down some awesome recipes, found some new friends and cohorts with similar surgery dates, and am learning the various personalities on the forum :)
My week so far has been pretty boring food-wise, since I am traveling all next week and so I am trying to only eat things from the fridge and use them up so I don't have to throw away food. So you may be noticing a lot of repetition!
In great news, although I am in the three week stall (GRRRR), I FINALLY HAVE A FEELING OF FULLNESS!!! Unlike last week where I could easily eat 4 oz of food at a meal, starting last night, I felt really full after 4 oz. So today I have had a 2 oz breakfast and likely a 1.5 oz lunch and I feel full. Thank god. This is a dream come true. I guess it's true, my stomach nerves were healing and I can finally tell when I have had enough!!!!
So, my menu today (warning, it's boring)
Time since surgery: 3.5 weeks
Breakfast: 2 oz Wegman's 98% fat free turkey, 1/2 piece of bacon
Lunch: 1.5 oz of Trader Joe's grilled chicken strips, 1/2 tbsp of green chiles, 1 tbsp of Trader Joe's light Mexican cheese, nuked to be warm
Dinner: Morningstar Vegan Grillers patty with one slice of pepperjack cheese, a tsp of mustard and a tsp of ketchup
Nutrition: I haven't been having snacks, but this only brings me to 460 calories, 12 g oc carbs, and 60 g of protein. So I think I should drink a Premier Protein drink this afternoon to get my protein up. I know 60 is ok, but I consistently read that people are more sucessful when their protein and fluids are WAY up. Truth?
Exercise/Vitamins/Water - no exercise today (will be at work late)/good on vitamins so far/at least 64 oz.
Feel free to copy and paste the below into your response :)
Time Since Surgery:
Breakfast:
Lunch:
Dinner:
Snacks:
Nutrition:
Exercise/Vitamins/Fluids:
Time Since Surgery: 8 months
Breakfast: Premier Protein Drink
Lunch: Homemade Northern Bean & Ham Soup
Dinner: will be Turkey Burger patty & Cottage Cheese
Snacks: mid-morning string cheese stick, will be evening Premier Protein Drink
Nutrition:
Exercise/Vitamins/Fluids: 20 oz water so far plus the morning protein drink...morning calcium/vit D, multi vitamin evening, bedtime calcium/vit D
Breakfast - protein shake
Snack - protein bar
Snack - peach
Lunch - the last of the sloppy joes
Dinner - Chipotle! A burrito bowl with just a little brown rice, black beans, peppers and onions, salsa, cheese and a little bit of guacamole.
Kelly
Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.
5 months since surgery -
Breakfast: hard boiled brown egg and Jennie O turkey bacon
Lunch: 1 cup baked butternut squash (made with 2 tbsp balsamic vinagrette, olive oil, salt n pepper) and 1/2 medium baked potato w/mozzarella cheese
Dinner: baked perch, tomato/cucumber salad
Snack: celery, handful vegetable sticks (sea salt), diet snapple, and 4 pickled beets
I don't know about the tofu. I haven't been there in a while but they didn't have it last time I was there.
Kelly
Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.
Time Since Surgery: 5 mo
Breakfast: skim milk, Greek yogurt with pears
Snack hard boiled egg
Lunch: Mixed greens with 2 oz of steak, blue cheese crumbles, oil and vinegar
Snack cottage cheese and pineapple
Dinner: Vegetable soup
Nutrition: 752 cal/78 g prot
Exercise: 12000 steps, 45 min circuit training
2.5 years out.
B: turkey bacon, egg, low-carb toast
L: meat loaf, lima beans, clementine
S: greek yogurt/almonds
D: pork tenderloin, 4 cheese mashed cauliflower, spinach salad
S: FF hot cocoa, low-carb high-protein zuchinni bread
Walked to gym at lunch and had a great workout on the ellipitcal plus I did a shortened version of my lifting routine. Waiting to get clearance from doc about jumping back into weights so I took it slow and a bit light, but regardless, it felt good!
"Just keep swimming." ~ Dorrie
