Menus and Miles Monday July 28th

Hello to all of our Lightweights!!!  If you are visiting WELCOME....PLEASE JOIN US and POST!!!!!   Besides my tool,  I count  Posting on the LW board as my #1 reason for being successful on this exciting journey!!!!     

WARNING TO SELF AND TO ANYONE WHO WILL LISTEN!!!   AVOID 'BAD' CARBS AT ALL COSTS!!!  THEY ARE ADDICTING!!  THEY WILL SLOW DOWN YOUR WEIGHT LOSS DURING THE LOSING STAGE (and you won't even notice)!!  THEY WILL MAKE THE SCALE GO UP AFTER THE HONEYMOON PERIOD IS OVER.

Success in Maintenance starts with GOOD  CHOICES  during the Honeymoon Period.

Monday...Monday!!   Hope you ALL had a successful weekend!!  I made a couple of Pumpkin Pies last night and had a couple of small pieces but it could have been something worse like super sweet Apple Crumb.

RNY Maintenance
   

Protein:              Matrix Mint Cookie  35g

Lunch:                Meat and Cheese Wrap

Snack:                Nature Valley Gluten Free Almond Crunch Bar

Snack:                2 pieces of Sal****er Tacky someone bought while on vacation

Protein:              Syntrax Lemon Tea 23g

Snack:                Laughing Cow Lite Swiss Cheese Wedge on 6 Saltines

Dinner:                Shelless Taco

Snack:                3 TBS. of Plain Popcorn Kernels made in microwave

Drove Teke this morning and walked because I have a meeting this evening and can't go to Muscle Pump.  Scale was down yesterday which is good incentive to staying on track with low carb and exercise.

decaf protein coffee  33g
eggbeaters, cheese, sausage, spinach
lemon tea protein  13g
salad with steak and blue cheese
lemon tea protein  13g
tuna in a low carb pita
2 fish filets
protein shake  23g

Meeting from 6-8, need to leave at 5:15, not sure what to do about eating, 8:30 is too late, 5 is too early, hummmmmm

Sounds like a great Low Carb Day!!!!   You have always been our "Low Carb" Queen!!   You always motivated me...keep it up!!

Eating wasn't good as usual... Scale isn't being nice and I'm getting back on track today.  Stopped at Vitamin Shoppe yesterday and picked up some Nectar double stuffed cookie protein.  4 carbs a scoop, more than I'd like, but I mix it with my unsweetened almond milk and it's very good - low carb too 

B - 1 coffee w/creamer - 1 coffee with a splash of my protein milk

L - peppered turkey w/swiss cheese rollups

S - 1.5 scoop cookie protein drink

S - 1 slice of roast beef (like a thin sandwich type)

D - chicken tenders in the fridge that need to be cooked.  Not sure what I'm doing with them yet...

Vits:  some

Water:  low

That Protein sounds Good!   I mix mint cookie with water unless I make a shake and then I use cottage cheese.

Sounds Good Jody!!!

Cottage cheese for a shake...I never would have thought of that and I love cottage cheese. Do you whiz it up in a blender? 1 scoop mint cookie and how much cottage cheese? Any ice cubes? Sorry for the 20 questions, Roz :-)

I do blend it up.  I haven't made it for awhile but I think it was 1/2 cup cottage cheese, 1/2 cup water, and then I usually add a little cherry flavoring and some SF cheesecake pudding mix, ice cubes...YUM!  I will look at the recipe tonight and if this isn't right I will let you know. I forgot the scoop of Protein Powder!!

So basically I let my disordered eating rule my life while my band destroyed me.  I disappeared from OH totally after I unfilled my band in March 2011.  My healthy weight is somewhere between 155-165 when properly muscled and athletic, which I was, in 2011.  So.   Here were are now.  I had my band out last Tuesday and I have a sneaky sleeve.  

Breakfast: Jay Robb Strawberry protein shake w unsweet almond milk  and what feels like a gazillion vitamins :) 26G protein

Lunch - Chicken asparagus soup (my recipe) 14.1G protein

Snack - Watery oats - 2.5G protein

Dinner - Cottage cheese blended a bit with some marinara on top, warm -16G of protein (even if I have to add some unflavored protein powder to my tiny serving)

That's all she wrote folks, survival.  I was supposed to be back to work doing professional development this week but I am too weak!  Three for one surgery kicked my A like no other.

I don't think I have a ticker or signature anymore, but I will fix it.  

I just got on and saw your name and was sooooo excited!!! I've wondered how you were doing!!  I've checked several times to see if you were posting on a different group.  You need to update us on your Life!! You did so good with the band that you should do fantastic with the sleeve.

Sounds Good!

Ok short version I earned my master of education June 2012 became an ED Intervention specialist (teacher to public school students with emotional disturbance) jan 2013. I was injured doing CrossFit and quit dec 2012 I will never be a fan again, it's dangerous for joints and tendons for some, not all. I've been working two part time jobs to make ends meet so my eating and self-care were terrible. So I am about 40-50 lbs stop heavy but lucky since I have no bariatric coverage to get what I did, due to my hernia and the generosity of my surgeon who "wanted to make me whole".  It's weird to be back but here I am! I will always struggle with disordered eating but I need to win.