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

I thought I might join you all in the challange. I am going back to the basics of high protien and low carbs. I have just added to many carbs back into my diet especially over the holidays. I started this journey at my highest weight of 289. My lowest weight was 175 and after the holidays it is 179. I know that doesn't sound like much but any upswing gets me moving to figure out what to do. The attitude that it isn't much is what got me into trouble before. I will be cheering for all of you as well as myself! Here is what I had today. We will see if this will get rid of the extra 2 lbs and allows me to lose the last 25 lbs that I have to lose. Breakfast: Canadian Bacon poached egg Snack: 3 oz cheddar cheese Lunch: Carb Freedom Yogurt w/ protien powder Snack: sugar free jello Dinner: hamburger patty w/ cheese cottage cheese Snack: sugar free chocolate pudding Total for the day is: Carbs 16 Protien 101 Calories 968 Fluids 40 I really need to work on the fluids that is the hardest part for me.

I ended up consuming 648 calories, 78 of which were protein, and about 120 ounces of water. judy (whodidnothaveanybeer)

Try Unjury's Strawberry Sorbet Protein drink. It's really yummy and you can mix with water. Sometimes I mix with half skim milk and half light orange juice for a smoothie! You can order it at unjury.com Teresa

I stumbled across this site this afternoon that helps me with my info for FitDay. http://www.nutritiondata.com/index.html You can enter a food item and it does an analysis of it. Many fast foods restaurants are listed so you can also check out their products. I was checking out the pintos 'n cheese from Taco Bell and also Wendy's Chili. These were some of the first foods I was allowed after WLS. Judy