Thanks Lucy for the continued encouragement! You know, I can totally understand how you could shed a few tears over the wasted years. I know how that feels. Especially if it has cost me my chance to have a family. It's possible that my surgery will keep us from being able to adopt. You know, God is so much bigger than all of it. I know that having the surgery was the right decision. If it keeps me from being able to adopt, so be it. God is in control. This is a great board, and I'm so proud of all of us Junebugs! Hugs, Kerri

Okay, I'm owning up for today (8/24) power crunch protein bar 1 oz lf cheese and 10 mini pretzels small Wendys chili side Wendys caesar salad 5 little chocolate covered prunebites (bad, bad, bad) 1 piece of sf chocolate (I can see a pattern, problem time is after work and before dinner, this is when I had the prunebites too) 2x4" slab of eggplant parmesan 1 sugar cookie (darn Harris Teeter and those samples, they get me EVERY time) fruit protein drink Its Friday morning, I have todays' plan...Little worried about dinner, will go out with hubby after the gym, this is usually a bad slip night for me since we usual share something like hotwings with fries or fried mozz sticks or chips and salsa, will try to get past it by going back in time to the early days of post surgery, when I just could not eat that stuff...Really got to get a way from the simple carbs and real sugar, even in small quantities they just make me want more...And I wasn't happy when I got on the scale this morning, I'm up to 127, this is the highest I've been since May when I had my hernia repair and got out of the hospital with extra water weight, usually range between 123-125, what the heck, it seems to me like I've been better about my food choices the last few days and now the scale is going UP!?! Anyway, will post tomorrow with what I ate today...Keep the train chugging, I really need to be on this track Alesia

2 cups regular coffee with creamer and equal On the way to work - 20 oz orange CL with french vanilla protein powder and 2 spoons of benefiber (20 g protein) [my "regular" protein drink] protein bar (21 gms) 2 chicken strips (my usual lunch) $1.59 in the hospital cafe (about 3 oz, so 21 gms) 16 oz of H2O while getting my food and waiting in line. another protein drink on the way home from work (20 gms) I do this just about every day during the week................. 72 oz fluids 82 gms protein ------------------------------------------------------ Supper, 2 chicken strips, about a tablespoon each mashed potatoes & corn, 16 oz sf decaf iced tea, sf pudding On a side note---went to get my TX drivers liscense and put my real weight down, now that's a first, LOL And don't you just love how we can say I had 5 chips (or whatever) never counted my cheetos before, just eat at least half the bag,

I did good yesterday!! 1/2 c. special k with a little milk 8g protein 1 protein coffee 30g prot 1 oz turkey jerky 1 cheese stick 20g 1/2 turkey cheese kids sub, only ate 1/2 the bread probably about 10 g prot 1 more protein coffee 30g 1 more oz of turkey jerky and another cheese stick 20 g didn't do too hot with the liquids 2 bottles of water and a diet sobe but the protein count was way better than usual. And prayers said and done on your behalf. God speaks if you are listening and you are doing the right thing to get his opinion on this! Wendy

Thanks for the encouragement Pam. I don't like to be told what I can and cannot do either! I am so determined to be at or under goal by the time I see him again. Wendy