What did ya eat today - Friday?

TGIF Everyone! For most of ya anyway! Means back to work tomorrow for me! Ah well.. its all good! So what did ya chew on today? Care to share? B: 1/4 cup egg susbtitute with 1 oz ham. (wow only 70 calories for this!) S: Homeade pumpkin bar with my 'frosting' S: Pumpkin Protein Shake using 1/2 scoop of vanilla protein powder and light vanilla soy milk. D: 3 oz chicken with some green beans. S: Going to have some popcorn at the show - we are gonna see Superbad tonight! I figured it into my carbs and cals so its all good ladies! S: EAS Cafe Caramel Protein Shake. Cals: 914, Fat 26 (even with the popcorn, made sure my fat was really low today so I could have that popcorn!), carbs 70, protein 98. How did you do today?

OK ---can you say stress...I hate when i get to work and i have to hit the floor running. I like to drink my water, eat my breakfast, talk to you guys AND then begin my work day. Shoot no....i had a request from my bosses, bosses, boss from last night at 7pm....who works that late anyway?! so luckily i did not have the bandwidth to incorporate too much overeating ---cuz that is what i wanted to do...... B: Quiche PB Protein Bar S: soy snacks L: white meat chicken salad salad D: probably 4 oz Turkey (if i can wait that long Greg JUST put it in the oven and it has 2 hrs to go) i am really high right now on my totals since i ate soy snacks and Protein Bar. If i have Turkey or something of the same sort I will be at: 736 Calories 26.5 Fat 34 Carbs 93 Protein Yipee you say ? cuz those numbers are GOOD-- but that leaves me 64 calories 8.5 Fat 6 Carbs if i want ANYTHING with the turkey -AND I WILL WANT SOMETHING ELSE! wish me luck

Mini Victory: I ate lunch at Long John Silver's with DH and kept it low-cal. Ro B: 1/2 Atkin's bar, yogurt, 1 stick colby-jack cheese L: 2 oz "naked" fish with less than 1 t. tartar sauce, 1 oz corn, 2 oz "basically dry" cole slaw (left the dressing behind in the cup), and 1/2 mini Babybel light D: 2 oz pork tenderloin with 3 oz salsa gravy over 1 oz brown rice, 2 oz yams S....later tonight... mini bag of popcorn Calories: 809, Carbs: 83, Fats: 24, Proteins: 70

It was a good day till about an hour ago, now DH and I are in the middle of a fight and he will be yelling at me the rest of the night so I think my appetite is pretty much finished for the day. Good thing, my calories have come out about where I wanted them after yesterday. Did a lot of grazing today but I was busy working around the house on lots and lots of projects so I let myself. Here it is: 1) the delish breakfast: half a cottage-cheese waffle, 2 T sf pumpkin/pecan butter, 1 T Steel's sf Country Syrup, 1 oz. turkey breakfast sausage, 2 squirts sf whipped cream, 1/4 cup tiny watermelon cubes (looked so pretty!) Oh, and I did a big no-no and had a quarter of a cup of coffee w/creamer along with my meal. It was heavenly! --'caramel-aple' sf nf soy latte 2) 4 oz. chopped chicken, 2 T ff ranch dressing 3) 1 oz soy crisps 4) 1 blue bunny froz fruit bar 5) 1 mini bag popcorn 6) 2 almond protein biscotti (they are now frozen!) 7) 1 cup watermelon chunks calories: 802, carbs: 89, fats: 10 (woohoo!), protein: 65 Gotta make it through the rest of the night now. I am worried that I'll be up in the night and want to go back to the old patterns of sneak eating. Hopefully DH will go to bed and then I can just sleep on the sofa. Would it be better just to attempt to tough it out or have something pre-planned just in case? I could have a cup of sf cocoa with some sf peppermint syrup in it or maybe more fruit? Maybe an EAS choc. drink would be better. Dunno....we'll see. Hope the show was good tonight and hope you have a good weekend at work.

Aw Molly.. I am sorry to hear about your DH and you getting into a fight. I hate that and it always stresses ya. Preop it would have made me wanna eat and honestly to this day I still want to to take my frustrations out on food but I am trying to find other avenues. Sounds like you are handling it well inspite of everything.. great job.. being that you only had 802 calories you had room to eat more if you wanted to, you realize that don't you? According to my doc you would be losing at 800, maintaining at 1200 (i know this is a blanket statement which I feel is a little too "one size fits all" but ya know what I mean). You are so active and up so many hours of the day I don't think eating some more protein to get your 60's number up some and satisfying your needs that way would hurt you at all. Hang in there girlie, I hate stressful times like that. Hopefully today is a better day in that regard. I am back up to 151.8 now.. I lost my "normal" BMI. I hate how our bodies toy with us like that. I probably shouldn't weight for that reason every day but I can't help it, I am a slave to the scale. Oh well.. I just hope it sticks at this or lower for Tuesday's weigh in. I don't feel I am doing anything wrong for it to messing with me like that. Day at a time.. day at a time. I didn't sleep much last night because of this darn cold that I have. My MIL wants to go to a fall festival (OK well I do too! to get some mums and some soy hand lotions that we love in fall smells.. I love the pear!) and I am sure they wanna do lunch (sigh always a stresser for me living in a small town, those ma and pa places are terrible for not having healthy foods so I will bring a bar just in case) and then I am hoping I can nap (not a napper at all) before I go in for the night. Otherwise it will be a long 24 hours with little sleep I am afraid. I think I need some cheese for my whine, what do u think? Sorry to ramble. Hope your DH and you are doing better today, I will talk to you later! Hugs, Melissa

I have some 2% Kraft cheddar to go with your whine. Amazing that there is any of it left over after my whine yesterday. Sorry about that. Seeing those numbers in print was good and I realized the very same thing you wrote last night so I had a diet yogurt with some granola and a tablespoon of sf pumpkin butter. (was making a batch for my daughter). DH was still at it by 1 a.m. but then he was ready to start working outside cleaning the patio so I was able to get to bed. Got up today at 6 and began making poor choices...although definitely fix-able in the daily plan. (Rice chips and ff sourcream for breakfast...what was I thinking?!) Sure hope you are able to get a nap today, you have such a demanding job that it must be very hard to do on little sleep. The fall festival sounds like a good time...maybe not the lunch part, but youwill do ok. Sorry to hear your scale isn't behaving but don't worry too much. Look what mine did to me last week...up to 139 and back now to 134 and I've actually stayed there for more than one day now. I doubt I'll keep it by Tuesday's weigh in but it has been fun hanging here awhile. Oh, I keep forgetting to mention something that stuck with me from my surgeon's talk on Thurs. night...he quoted his former dietician as having a very, very general guideline for daily calorie intake. Your weight times ten for maintaining with moderate activity. Sounds about right, I think although I'm not sure I want to test it. I'd rather keep being freaked out around 1200 calories than flirt around near 1400. Bet I'd gain for sure on that amount. I'm going to do a butt-kicking, hard workout this morning with some loud, annoying music and reclaim my good mood. Weekends are too precious to allow someone else (even someone I love) to ruin them. Have a good day! Molly...I'm gonna go make that sign right now, Ro! ('Ro says Stay on Track!') (she's going to help me today!)

Hi, Molly... I thought that it was "Simon Says"... You know that I back you and believe that we're all going to make it to "normal" (at least for the weight part... LOL) and this time maintain our success. Now "Others" that's another story. So sad that we can't get along all the time. Our DHs sometimes don't realize how getting upset can trigger eating problems. It's hard to make good food choices when I feel underappreciated or down. Food has also been a comfort for me too. Losing sleep and being upset at someone doubles the aggrevation... Did someone say feed ME? Not eating is a big victory whenever we are unhappy. I drink water now and tell myself that the crap is just a repeat / variation of a different arguement / upset. We are stronger than the DHs think, plus we're getting HOT... so UP the esteem, Ladies! We win! Ro

Ro, you rock!!! Will you be our head cheerleader? What color pompoms shall we get? I want to be on the squad (since never in my life would I have ever made it as a real cheerleader!). But do I have to do any cartwheels? Not so sure I'm down for that. Molly

Go Team December '06!!! How Much Fun!!!! How about HOT Pink? Team Cheer?: "Go ALL the Way" Any OTHER suggestions from the MB Gals? BTW Same here on never being able to make it as a real cheerleader... Ro Yes, Molly, YOU do have to have to do cartwheels...on video...with a pillow strapped to your butt just in case the TailBone From Hell gets bumped!

Hey Ro...post this on it's own thread! We gotta get more suggestions like you said. I'm glad you pm'd me this...that seems the surest way for me to find things anymore. sheesh...old age? LOL Can you imagine how well the pillow would have to be strapped in... Molly