What's on your Monday Menu?
on 3/27/23 5:56 am
Good morning ~ I love Gus-gus he's my favorite
. I drove by several container stores last week, in fact one is only an 1.5 hours away from my house and sounds doable. Enjoy your trip. I had a lovely weekend, very fun and relaxing and slept so well! I've always been one to just get up and outta bed in the morning but with our new topper, I don't want to, like ever. It's so comfortable and helping to ease my hip and back pain just as I hoped. Today starts my pre-op diet - I'm so ready, bring it! I have a very busy work week the week should fly.
QOTD - The weather is my most viewed app lately. Normally it's email, Libby or audible, apple music and apple news. I do go on IG or FB to pass the time occasionally.
Accountability - I ate all the things
Liver Shrinking Diet
b- coffee w/fairlife protein shake
l- Fairlife protein shake
d- chicken and small salad
s-L&F yogurt, string cheese, SF popsicles, SF jello
730 cal 107g protein
Have a great day!

RNY 11/21/16 - HW/SW 309 LW 150
REVISION 4/10/23 - HW 240 SW 225 CW 164 GW 155
you are doing so good with the diet. 2 more weeks... right?
Hala. RNY 5/14/2008; Happy At Goal =HAG
"I can eat or do anything I want to - as long as I am willing to deal with the consequences"
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"Failure is not falling down, It is not getting up once you fell... So pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again...."
on 3/27/23 11:28 am
2 weeks from today!

RNY 11/21/16 - HW/SW 309 LW 150
REVISION 4/10/23 - HW 240 SW 225 CW 164 GW 155
on 3/27/23 5:40 pm
Glad your topper is making such a big difference for you! You're going to rock this next two weeks! I hope they fly by for you!

HW 282, LW 123.4 (8/29/23), CW 144.4
Pre-op-33, M1-12, M2-17, M3-14, M4-11, M5-14, M6-5, M7-6, M8-5, M9-22, M10-6, M11-5, M12-2, M13-2, M14-5
Good morning, everybody!
Day 24. Between Corned Beef, the Greek restaurant on Thursday, and a big plate of Blackened Chicken I had food for about a week. But I finally ran out and had to make something. Given our continued cold weather, I found a nice beef stew recipe on the Whole 30 website. We had about a pound and a half of stew beef in the freezer but the recipe called for 2 1/2 pounds. I told Marilyn that I would do the food shopping for the week and start it on Sunday morning.
When I got home, she had surprised me by starting the slow cooker and putting in all of the ingredients that we had. Which was awesome until I saw that she had taken the other pound and a half of beef and was braising it.... In white flour.
"umm, is that flour,"
"yes, the recipe says to use it"
"Are you sure about that?"
"Yes, I will show you"
To nobody's surprise, the Whole 30 recipe did not actually call for a white carbohydrate braising. Now, if I asked Melissa Urban what to do, she would say: either don't eat the stew or start over at Day 1. But Melissa is divorced, and I would like to remain married. Throwing out 3 plus pounds of meat and all of Marilyn's efforts wouldn't have ended well. We tried to scrape off as much flower as we could and went on our way.
I don't want to start over because I do want to step on the scale next Monday and see how this worked for me. (And Wednesday night Happy Hour April 5th) So, I just remind myself that I'm trying to manage my weight, not start a religion and some of these little accidents are going to happen along the way. My sugar was good this morning, so I'm guessing the amount that I ingested was small.
The weekend was as expected: cold weather, Crossfit, basketball watching and sweater washing.
QOTD: Wodify, Crossfit.com, Catalyst Athletics, Whole 30.
Breakfast: RX Bar
Lunch: Salad
Dinner: Beef Stew
Have a great day, all!

Jim Age 59 Height 6 Feet Consult Weight 344 SW 289 Pre-Surgery -55, M1 -25, M2 -16, M3 -21, M4 -10, M5 -5, M6 -1, M7 -4, M8 0, M9 +4, M10 -4











