Thurs Ethel wants to know

Since no response from anyone for Wed's Ethel I suppose everyone where the weather is warm, is out and about walking, gardening and other outdoors things. Not a problem...if this is too stressful you you to participate or if you feel at this stage in our WLS journey you no longer need this, please let me know. I will continue to do it for myself on fitday and encourage each of you to continue counting that as well as we know we all can let old habits creep in. So for Thursday this is what Ethel had and I FINALLY broke 153...I weighed 152.8....but hey I will take it especially with being on Prednisone this week! Praise got the scale went down! I see surgeon the 28th and am hoping for more weight to come of this week. Been a very rough March.... cal/fat/carb/protein Body Fortress Protein Powder 2 serving....222 6 3 45 Salad Spritzer Balsamic Breeze 1 serving....10 1 1 0 String cheese Frigo LF 1 serving....60 3 1 9 grilled chicken breast cubes 3 oz....110 3 2 20 Cherry Cranberry Pecan Salad Pizazz 2 T....60 3 8 0 SF popsicles Tropical 1 serving....15 0 4 0 Mixed salad greens 1C.....9 0 2 1 Egg, whole, boiled fir egg salad....57 4 0 5 Mayonnaise, regular .5T....49 5 0 0 Beef, top sirloin, 2 oz....102 3 0 17 Totals 695 28 21 97 Enjoy your weekend....will do Fri Ethel when I return from work this morning... In His love, Joan M

Joan, I don't participate by putting my intake here but do read everyone elses to get ideas on what to eat and watch your calarie/protein/carb intake to see how it measures up to mine. Please continue to post it, all of you who do this. I do keep track of mine on fit day, but work full time and just don't post it here. Thanks for doing this as it does help me by seeing what others do at this stage of the game. Julia

Hello Joan, I hope April is a easier month for you. I can relate to your difficulties as I have the need to have both knees and a shoulder possibly replaced because of degenerative joint disease, but the thought of going through surgery now is not very appealing I really want to lose some more weight first. But I can say I am dealing with the pain much better after weight loss, just imagine how difficult it would be if this had happened to you before you had WLS. My weight loss has slowed way down again, nothing this month so far. I appreciate your Ethel wants to know postings, it has encourage me to keep track of my daily in take even if I don't post it on line here I track it on sparkpeople web site too. I usually post in the evening so I get everything I might of eaten in the total I am not much of ahead of time planner. So I will check back later. Thanks, SHer

Well, since you guys responded I will continue...thanks...you are great!!! Thanks for your encourage to continue and everyone is encouraged to just glean from us who post and if you decide to post that is great too. I want this to be a blessing and help to whoever reads it. I know I learn a lot by what others are trying in their diet and it jumps starts me to try new things. I am such a purest that I find one thing and tend to stick with it and not get creative. Joan M