It hasn't even been a full month being on Contrave and I'm trying to be really strict with food to get off to a good start. So far...no white starches such as bread, potato, noodles, etc. In past diet attempts with the 'Pound of Cure' plan it worked well but you must eat 1-2# of veggies a day. This med combo really has my gastric bypass pouch functioning at 100% so I can hardly get in any veggies. Gal Pals and I are due for a birthday lunch next week and they've chosen our favorite American/Chinese place. Normally it takes me several days to eat one order from their lunch combo menu, that's out now! On that menu the dishes and apps are all coated and deep fried. A cup of egg drop soup (that has cornstarch) or a house salad with no protein in it just won't do.

I've never ordered any of these before so could any of you give an opinion what would be healthiest? Sadly, I think everything is fried but I think none come with rice. (I could just ask for that on the side and take it home for Hubby.) These are all off the dinner menu so no guarantee they'll agree to making these at lunch. Shrimp seems a good choice because of the high protein but I have no idea if it is coated and deep fried or not.

Here goes: Shrimp with fresh veggies, Shrimp with broccoli, Vegetable or Shrimp Chop Suey, Combination Vegetable (?) from the vegetable/tofu section, Kung Pao tofu. If any of you have eaten these at this type of Chinese restaurant could you give your opinions of these dishes?

Thanks, Molly

We did it everyone. We are recertified has an OSHA VPP Star company. It was a rather nerve-racking week, but it all paid off in the end. I think there is only two other plants that need to be recertified this year.

Good morning everybody!

I knew that if I kept thinking it was Friday I would eventually be correct. And here I am. At work we have switched to a M,W,Th. In-office schedule, so I am at home today. Friday was actually my favorite day to go into the office because of light traffic, but I was outvoted.

Our charitable event was fun yesterday, we worked with a group that provides books to the schoolchildren in certain areas of Chicago. Lunch was a pretty good salad. The after-event was held back in the city, so I passed. Just driving through the suburbs was 1 1/2 hours.

The plans for this weekend are a 10-K tomorrow morning, and we are going to an early Father's Day dinner on Sunday.

Pictures are from our fishing trip last week.

QOTD: usually I prefer traditional breakfast food, but not always. I can digest pretty much anything, but eggs are still something that I can just eat in small portions.

Breakfast: bagel

Lunch: Italian sandwich

Dinner: steak

Have a great weekend, everyone!

Happy Friday Gang. We are almost done with the audit they are wrapping it up at 11am today so we are having a closing lunch then which is just deli sandwiches. I think we did really well, but we will see if they recertify us. Irvin went over to his sister's house yesterday afternoon to help her with her baler. It would pickup the hay and she didn't know what was wrong. He got it all straighten out and showed her how to properly use it.

When I got home yesterday it was still so hot out that I decided just to water everything and wait a bit for it to cool down before I did anything outside. By the time it was cool enough I didn't feel like doing anything so just took some picture of what is left to put in the ground and how the plants are doing. We have some summer squash and peppers coming in and the garlic scapes are starting to curl so I will be cutting them probably next week.

QOTD: Do you prefer actual breakfast foods for breakfast or would you eat anything? Doesn't really matter to me. I usually have some sort of egg thing just because I have an abundance of eggs and they are easy to make, but I have had all sorts of stuff for breakfast including a salad just because that's what I felt like having. To me I eat what I know is going to fuel my body to get me going for the day.

B: coffee and egg/cheese omelet

L: deli sandwich

D: grilled haddock

30 minutes on the treadmill

Here are some of my pictures from last night. Have a great day and weekend everyone!!!

Happy Thursday everybody. Hope the final day of your audit is short and sweet! Sorry I didn't participate in Wednesday's menu-- I'm stumbling a bit with food. Contrave works so well that it's hard choosing to eat and the leftovers from half-eaten meals are piling up. Waste is bad but I may just chuck them to get rid of eating pressure. At the 1 month mark I'm allowing back a few wheat products weekly and hope that a Carb Master tortilla will be appealing.

Grandson #1 has his final softball game tonight and there's a LOT of walking to get to the diamond. I'm worrying will my worst leg swell immediately, embarrass myself by falling or be a spectacle trying to get up out of a chair. I can't wait for PT to start next week. Too bad Contrave doesn't fix compulsive worrying, haha. Keeping focused on how fun it will be to see him play. He went from newborn to 10 in the blink of an eye.

QOTD: I used to love sitting in on meetings because it took me off the sales floor (loved customer service but dreaded cashiering). Extended classes? No, they usually made me get sleepy and that's embarrassing, lol.

Here's how I hope today goes:

B: SF Almond Milk Collagen Latte

L: 1/3 c Shiratake noodles, 2 T spaghetti sauce, 1/2 c LF cottage cheese

D: 2 romain leaves, 2 oz turkey breast, 2 slices tomato, 1/4 c. avocado

Game Snack: Fairlife Protein shake

LS: 1 stalk celery, 2 T peanut butter

I hope everybody has a great day and enjoys nice summer weather. It will be 83 today then we climb to the 90's for a few days (way too hot for me) and come down again to perfection: mid 70's.