What did ya eat and how did ya move today? - Friday

Hi Gang! How are you? It's almost the weekend again! Are you doing anything fun this weekend? Hopefully staying warm, its kinda chilly here.. but its always chilly here in Iowa. Got all your shopping, baking, wrapping done? I am getting there.. still lots more baking. Wanted to share an easy candy recipe with you... (not WLS friendly though) but great to take to parties and takes no time to make. Don't even have a name of them.. You take rolos and unwrap them (the longest part) and get those pretzels that are plain rings and some pecan halves. Line a baking sheet with foil and preheat oven to 250 degrees. Place prezel rings on lined baking sheet.. put a rolo in the middle.. place in oven for 4 minutes to soften the candy (will still hold its shape) when they come out press pecan half on the top.. very cute and can make a MASS amount of them. Chill for 10 minutes and they are done.. wala! You can also put red and green m&m's on top if you do not like nuts. Ok on with the moves and eats.. I didn't exercise yet today.. husband and I are gonna go judge lights and have been baking all day. I may run tonight I may not.. honestly I haven't eaten much as I had a HUGE bad eating day yesterday.. not gonna lie. I haven't been restricting my calories on purpose just NOT hungry.. I am sure I ate enough for both days and then some yesterday.. why does that happen? Argh.. B: 1 egg, 2 oz lean ham steak. L: 2 Pumpkin Protein Pies with whip and "frosting" S: EAS Shake (sipping on it now) So about 500 calories so far. I will do another shake later if I am not hungry and if I do get hungry I will eat.. after yesterday I am letting my hunger dictate me today.. I think i truly just ate so much yesterday that my body doesn't care if I eat much or not today. I am going with it b/c yesterday was sure a struggle. I started on zoloft today too btw.. anyone have an experience with this drug? My PCP says I am "obsessive" when I told him I wanted something for anxiety.. he says I have anxiety b/c of the obsessiveness (who me? never.. haha) so it does make sense and I hope it helps. I am on a small dose for 2 weeks then increase it at 2 weeks and see him again after a month of being on the medicine which at that point I should know if its helping or not. Wish me luck.. I need something to take the edge off lately.. I think going into maintenance and not being in the active "losing" zone has been harder than I expected.

Friend is on the Zoloft for the anxiety/obsessive compulsive tendencies she has too, Melissa. Anyhoo. It's really helped Saida with the anxiety over the last 8 months she's been on it. She does the XR tabs though. Friday.. today was our Holiday brunch at work, so, I had a "bad" day. B: 4 bites of scrambled eggs w/ ham, 2 strips bacon, 1/2 a kiwi, 6 honeydew cubes, AND 3/4 a biscuit with gravy. (told ya I was bad). L: Yogurt D: 1 1/2 chicken enchiladas with green sauce, some sour cream and guacamole, and about 1 tbls spanish rice (went out to dinner with my husband) S: 2 Lindt truffles (he bought them when we were out) So, now back to behaving myself this weekend. =)

Your bad day looks not so bad to me lol.. argh I need to get back on the horse so bad... I cannot wait for Christmas to be OVER! Glad to hear your friend is doing better on the zoloft.. I have my fingers crossed tightly.. Hugs! Here is to a better weekend for you and me both.. doesn't help that Aunt Flo didn't even visit last month but threatened with the cravings.. no not pregnant. Just got off bc and still no monthly! I think I honestly will feel better once I do cycle.

This week was visitation week, so I was relatively well behaved, other than the chocolate. But last week, oy ve.. if it wasn't nailed down, I was either eating it, or contemplating eating it. Been off the BC for 3 months now, because the weight just stopped coming off. Went off, cycling regularly, and now the weight is coming off again. Got the okay Weds at my 1 year post-op, to go ahead and get back to my OB/GYN about starting the infertility again. Go on the 28th, right before next cycle starts a week and a half later. So, since that was my main motivation for the surgery, I'm not really "celebrating" anything at the moment. Though I am happy the weight continues to come off, and I feel so much better.

Visitation week is always a relief for me.. then I am feeling great about everything for about 3 weeks then god forbid that week prior.. lol you are right about it not being nailed down.. amazing how much hormones influence are cravings etc.. argh! Glad to hear the weight is coming off again - I too stopped bc a couple months ago but of course no cycle now.. i know I am not pregnant but would like to cycle again so I can start another method or retry the one I was on. Glad to hear you can start getting on the fertility drugs again! How exciting! Let us know how all tha goes.. soon we will have another "mommy" hopefully on this board, how fun!

Hi Melissa, Posting late with yesterday's eats. I dumped again last night when I would have been on the computer so it didn't get done. (made some sugar-free coconut tapioca pudding and wow, not fun!) Lunch at the Olive Garden went well but it wasn't thrilling. Next week I go to lunch at Applebees and bet it will be a lot tastier. About your Zoloft question. I was on it a few years ago for depression/anxiety. It didn't help me and in fact made me hungry and also had the usual bad sexual side-effects. It was just one in a long line of anti-depressants that my doctors tried to get me to take over the years before we finally hit on one that works. (Prozac) I really believe that there just isn't a 'one size fits all' on antidepressants and sometimes a patient and doctor just have to persevere and keep trying different ones until something works right. Hope that this one will work well for you from the beginning. Moves yesterday was my typical 6-hr. shift at work and then some fun walking with shopping. Numbers were too high again, sigh... Here's how the food broke down: --nf, sf soy latte tea, tea, juice/water 1) 1/2 cup bulgur, 1 serv. egg beaters 2) Olive Garden chicken speidini: grilled chicken, zucchini, a few peppers and mixed salad 3) 1 mozz. stick, 1 cup cheerios 4) 1 EAS cafe caramel 5) 2 splenda gingerbread cookies 6) 1/2 cup nsa mint ice cream 7) 3 oz. cheddar cheese (2% fat), 1 serv. whole wheat crackers 8) 1/2 cup homemade sf coconut tapioca...the big dump calories: 1456 carbs: 121 fats: 70 protein: 92

I think you are right Molly about there not being a "one size fits all" drug, I hope this one works out for me too, if not there are always others and another friend of mine mentioned prozac so that will be good to keep in mind if this one does not work out. Thanks for the suggestion! Hugs!