***Friday Bites, Vites & Exercites***

Hi guys,

BITES: (DS Maintenance Mode)
B - 2 protein coffees (60g)
S - Greek yogurt w/blueberries and protein coffee (30g)
S - peanuts
L - white chicken chili
D - chef's salad
S - CarbSmart ice cream 

VITES:
morning batch: done
4 calcium batches: done 
iron: done
evening batch: 
heme iron: pending

EXERCITES:
none

Happy Friday Everyone. - Noreen I have some questions for you if you don't mind. I am wondering when you had your surgery and if your just on maintenance? I noticed that you eat sweets and wondered how they affect your body? I also eat somewhat like you, I started my journay at 353 and am down to 217 -215 on most days now. I am 9 years out.

Bites:

Strawberry shake

protein bar

1/2 Denver and mushroom soup with crackers

1 doughnut and tea

pork rinds

1 piece fish and 2 perogies with sour cream

piece of kielbasas

some slices of cucumber

a diet Pepsi

Vites: all in

Exercites: 50 min in my basement working out

Feelings: better - kind of up and down, it should be a better day today.

Susan

Good job!  :)

Don't mind any questions. We learn for each other, right?

I am 4.5 yrs out. I guess I'm in maintenance mode now.  My body settled at 157 for a little under 3 yrs. now I stay  around 167. I practice yoga. Stand when I can, and try vey hard to avoid the elevators at work.  Since I work in a high rise, this is easy. I frequently run/trot down the stairs, 16 flights. Notice I said, "down ". LOL. My max for walking upstairs is 5 flights at one time.

i can eat sweets. Not too much at one time. A cupcake must be eaten in half, two separate events.  If I was to eat the entire cupcake all at once, I think my stomach would explode. Or, I would be so miserable, I'd wi**** would explode.

if the scale creeps up, 2 or 3 lbs, I just back down the amount of jun****il the scale moves down.  I also become much more active. 

Don't know if I've found my sweet spot, or if it will get harder as time goes on.  What has been your experience ?

This twitter post spawned a couple of new twitter accounts "@BarracoBarner (UK prez, chilling at Number 10) and Michelleo Barner (First Lady of the United States of Britain)". The names of those 2 accounts literally made me LOL. 

The full article is here:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2575436/Dumb-Britain -Beautician-laughs-Twitter-storm-mistakenly-spelling-Barack- Obama-Barraco-Barner-sparks-inevitable-parody-accounts.html

Anyways, back to business!!

lol  Poor thing. Bless her heart and all that. I'm so glad she's a beautician and not a brain surgeon. She may be a good candidate for political office though.  ;)

Funny thing is, I didn't even know we had a president in the UK, much less Barraco Barner... it made me smile, so we need folk like her to cheer us up!! ;-)

We have some happy and not so happy folks here in the US we could loan you.  ;)

Whew! Made it through the work week.  Meeting all day. Think my butt is smashed flat from sitting all day.

double protein decaf coffee

 cheese 

fried ham

double protein decaf coffee

Panerra Bread was catered in for lunch:

turkey/Gouda/bacon/lettuce/tomato sandwich - '90% of bread removed

few chips

very small amount of spinach salad

hard boiled egg

M&M cookie

double protein decaf coffee

Cheeseburger. No bun

Whole baby beets

2. Rolos

double protein decaf coffee

Vites: all in

fluids: 120 oz.

Meetings should schedule walk-abouts or stand-up-and-stretch breaks and sessions.  We used to joke at the Pentagon that our work stations should be stationary bikes with laps tops.