What's on the menu today, RNYers?
Good morning, OH friends!
I am back after a really fun weekend in Toronto! It was great to see my friends and celebrate my friend's 40th birthday. I just saw these friends at Easter so there weren't any comments on how I looked - which was good since I must have reached that "tipping" point, where every single time I post a pic to FB or IG, a million people comment or private message me and ask what my secret is lol. I tell them no secrets - I had a procedure in Dec and since then I have had no carbs, no alcohol, and I go to the gym 5x a week. Most people write back, "NO ALCOHOL?!" lol.
Anyway, I didn't do amazing staying on plan. Saturday night we went to a restaurant that had pizza and pasta. I had an arugula salad with a tiny bit of buffalo mozzarella on it. And then later that night back at our friend's I ate some Special K protein chips (20 of them are only 80 calories) with a bunch of hummus. TOTAL slider food. I clearly cannot allow crackers back into my life! Basically I had tons of calories and barely any protein. Ugh. But I stayed on track the rest of the time and the scale was cooperative today.
Although I know we should not be fixated on the scale, I do have a sort of a mini goal. My birthday is in 73 days and I wonder if I can lose 33 lbs and be in Onederland for my birthday. I will be working towards it (despite traveling for two weeks as of Wednesday).
Anyway, I hope you all had a great weekend, spread all over the world as we are!
Time Since Surgery: 6 months on Saturday
B: Syntrax Matrix mint cookie shake with unsweetened almond milk, coffee
L: Cauliflower mash (1/4 cup) with tofu and Trader Joe's green curry sauce
S: 1.5 oz of cheddar cheese, 3 oz of Dole frozen mango chunks (AMAZING)
D: TBD - I am having a massage after the gym so I am either grabbing chicken on my way home or eating some more tofu from the fridge. Bland and boring.
E: 30 minutes treadmill, 50 minutes personal training
W: Shake and half a coffee in so far...
V: Taking 'em now!
Totals without dinner 600 calories, 48 g protein, 31 g fat, 30 g carbs
What's on your menu today?
Em, so glad you had a fun weekend! I did some grocery shopping (as evidenced by the 4,000 different kinds of Trader Joe's cheeses on my menu the last few days), went to a parade made up off 100s of fire trucks (and more importantly fire MEN) celebrating the 100th Anniversary of one of the local fire companies, went to a BBQ, shopped, and worked out! All in all it was a pretty good weekend and relatively productive.
I've been itching to bake for the last two or three weeks, so I tried out the New York Times Whole Wheat Muffin recipe. This is a staple of my 5-years post-RNY friend. I decided to make mine as mini muffins and freeze them so I could pop one out for breakfast. I used canned pumpkin as my fruit, I subbed splenda and eggbeaters, and I added a half cup of mini chocolate chips. They are super tasty and the stats aren't awesome, but they aren't too bad AND they taste great and I got to bake (for my version: Calories 68, Protein 1, Carbs 8, Fat 3)! I ate one with cottage cheese for breakfast and it was really delicious!
Time since surgery: 11 weeks
Pre Walk S: 1/2 nectarine
B: 1 Whole Wheat mini muffin with 1/2ish tsp of light butter, 3oz cottage cheese
S: 16oz coffee with half and half, 12oz Nectar Lemon Tea protein shake
L: Pizza skillet - 2oz mozz cheese melted in a frying pan until crispy and golden, 1tablespoon pizza sauce, .5oz mini turkey pepperoni, 1oz steamed carrots
Pre Y S: string cheese, nectarine
D: Omelet made with EggBeaters, turkey sausage crumbles, chevre cheese
S: 8oz Nectar Lemon Tea protein shake
TOTALS: Calories 775, Protein 96, Carbs 38, Fat 27
V: Crap, this has been a bad few days for vitamins, must get on track
W: started
E: colleague bailed, so I walked by myself, headed to the Y this evening
Pam! I finished my lace wrap, it's blocking now, I'll post a pic later on!
RNY @ Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia with Dr. Tatyan Clark 3/18/2014
Anny - your weekend sounds great! What's it with you and glistening men with great bodies ;) I am impressed that you still walk before work even when your colleague ditches you. Awesome.
Cheese from Trader Joe's...I love it! Your menu sounds great. And that muffin doesn't sound bad. I was reminded this weekend that carbs do not fill me (20 Special K chips and I could have kept going) so I am going to avoid the muffins until absolutely necessary :) Your pizza sounds great. Hmmmm I have turkey pepperoni...I could totally make that for dinner. That might be good, and better than eating tofu for both meals today....
I forgot to mention, I also forgot to bring vitamins to Toronto! So I have been bad too. I already put them on the counter to pack into baggies for my long trip!
Yeah, when I talked to Meg about the recipe she was a little skeptical if baking was a good idea so soon - but I've decided if I find myself having a second on any day I'm going to immediately bring them into work for my colleagues to have and get them away from me! And since they're relatively "healthy" I won't feel guilty at all!
And yes, I highly recommend the skillet pizza thing! I was going to try it a few weeks ago, but then I found the FlatOut breads and used that as the crust, but this was REALLY good - the warm, but sort of crusty mozz was delicious!
RNY @ Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia with Dr. Tatyan Clark 3/18/2014
Oh, cool, I can't wait to see it! Although I now feel totally inadequate and like the world's slowest knitter...you finished that thing in what, a week?!? 
Surgery: RNY on 12/18/2013 with Jay M. Snow, MD "Don't mistake my kindness for weakness." - Robert Herjavec, quoting Al Capone
on 6/8/14 11:24 pm
Glad you had a good weekend.I had a great weekend also.I went to my cousin and his partners wedding.In New Jersey it is legal for same sex marriages. It was one of the best weddings I have ever went to.
I have been obsessed with the scale since I started.I am going to try to stay off the scale for a couple of days. I danced all night which was better than any number on that damn scale.
I am glad you posted this morning I forgot to take my vitamins. I am just chilling this morning.
B:Powerade zero than two scrambled eggs
L:Tuna salad
D:Not sure yet
S:If I am hungry I will eat a yogurt
First round of vitamins are done water is on it's way.
I went to the beach yesterday and I was able to get out of my chair without flopping over on my knees to get up.
Enjoy the day.
on 6/9/14 2:22 am
It was such a great ceremony and the reception was amazing.I will say I did have a few glasses of wine and really didn't eat that much.I wanted to dance as soon as I heard the music.My husband is great he didn't mind I was on the dance floor all night. I am really lucky.
All of their guest said I was the best woman dressed there.So I considered that a major compliment since a lot of them were in the fashion industry.
