P/B Challenge Roll Call

Hi Joanne, A friend of mine, Helen, told me about this challenge. Her surgery was in April, but I am a 'mayster' from the May 2005 surgery group and have been stalled for just over two months now. I hope your group doesn't mind my barging in for some tips and encouragement. btw, Recently I sent you some fudge recipes on the recipe or cooking board, how is the cookbook coming along for your support group? I started today, here's how I did: brkfast- 2 oz (56 g) Dannon's carb control yogurt mixed with 2.5 oz (75 g) Greek Yogurt, it's imported from Greece by Fage Corp and a single serving (5.3 oz-150 g) has 13 gr protein and 80 cal, i get it at a Whole Foods Market by us snack- 2 oz sf jello l- 1 ounce mascarpone cheese with 1 scoop protein and a little cocoa snack- the other half of the yogurt i mixed for breakfast dinner- 4 oz chicken broth snack- sf popsicle 50 ounces (1 litre) diluted Crystal Lite lemonade, half water, half mixed CL I think I should check out fitday.com and see where I am protein-wise. I think I may be one of the people that has issues with eating carbs, too as someone else posted. I had fallen into a slump of eating tunafish salad on wheat thins and oh boy, I love my Power Crunch bars. Power Crunch bars will have to wait for a few weeks til I get my weight loss going again. Thanks to all who put together this challenge and good luck to everyone participating! cyber hugs, Sue

Sue, glad you wanted to join us. Please post your start weight and your weight on Monday so we can keep track. It will be interesting to see how much weight all has lost at the end of the 4 weeks. I tried the fudge recipes and they were great. Thanks!!! See you lighter. Joanne

Hi! I'm an April 26th surgery...first time here. Active on my Minnesota board, but wanted to see what was going on on the April Board since i just found it! Can you explain this challenge and if one more can hop on board? Thanks, Christine in MN.

Christine, You can go back on the April board to 12/21/05 and see the post Rae Ann Coon posted. It looks like this: NOW HEAR THIS!!!! I have what you are looking for!!! The post explains the whole challenge. I have also asked her to repost it so keep looking for it if you can't find it. We would love to have you join us. Post your pre=op weight and your weight as of Monday. Join right in. See you lighter. Joanne

hi, i can't go less than 1200 either if i want to lose. my body thinksit's starving. if i start to not lose and i know it isn't becausei ate too much junk i start tracking my calories and am usually too low. my back to basic is 12 oz no fat milk wit ha scoope of protein powder, for breakfest, yogurt for a snack, plain chicken about 4 ozs and a fruit for lunch. (ususally apple or orange) , yougurt for a snack, supper is usally 4 oz protein chicken,fish sometimes peanut butter and crackers. 1/2 cup bakedor mashed potatoes, vege 1/2 cup. sometime a mix of other things. shrimp too. 64 oz or more water through out the day. no junk no bad carbs ,and i'm back on track. sometimesfor breakfest i eat some high fiber cereal. but i'm not much of a breakfest eatter. anyway this works for me. i might try some other peoples menus , they sound good too. variety sounds good. chris