What We Ate on Saturday 2/05/05...

It was a slow day and my eating was pretty awful! I munched way too much and on the wrong things. 7:00 Coffee/handful of Trail Mix 11:00 Tuna sandwich (tuna, eggs,mayo, pickles) on 2 slices wheat toast 12:30 Ugh...2 pretzel rods smeared with icing and sprinkles (nutritionally speaking not unforgivable but from a behavioral standpoint, a major downfall). 2:00 Multiple trials with making SF cookies (can't even count the nibbles) 5:00 Protein bar 7:30 1 SF Klondike bar (On the Way home from Wal-Mart, no less) MAJOR behavioral taboo of eating while doing something else. I didn't even enjoy it! 8:30 1 slice DiGiorno pizza 10:00 1 SF Klondike Bar Today was a disappointment in that I allowed old behaviors to re-emerge. I have to watch many old bxs but some that occurred today are scary. #1 Eating while doing something else, like driving. I have banned eating in the car because it is inevitably unsatisfying when it's over and purely a stress/habitual related pattern. #2 Buying foods that I know I have problems controlling myself (ie. SF ice creams) In my humble opinion, WLS is more about changing the behaviors that made me MO to begin with. This far post-op, it's not about restriction and malabsorption anymore. It is about how you learned to deal with your eating in the first year when your pounch was "all powerful" and the restriction/malabsorption effect was your life. I'm spouting my philosophy to give others insight into the maintenance phase on WLS and to remind myself that identifying the problems is a major tool in elimiating/managing them. I don't advocate beating yourself up about food choices like mine yesterday but I do advocate awareness of self-sabataging behaviors that sneak into the picture when the defenses are weak. Elesha LapRNY 2/26/02 288/165 5'6", 30ish and plan to stay that way for quite a while!

Let's see: I need to start writing it down because I know I am eating more than I should!! And definitely the wrong things. 1 cup of Hills Bros. Carb Wise French Vanilla Cappaccino 1 egg with cheese 1 1/2 pieces raisin toast 1 tbl. hash browns (Waffle House)-I used to eat a double order of hash browns so this is good for me!! 3 Reese's peanut butter cups--What was I thinking????? (YUM, at the time) 1 avocado with fake crabmeat drizzled with a tsp. of canola oil and salt and pepper Handful of Cheetos 1 Low Carb Raspberry yogurt 6 Ritz Crackers Kitsy 253/237/162/140

I did okay except not even near enough proteins..... B: 1/2 homemade breakfast burrito - egg, cheese, onion, bell pepper on a low carb tortilla with salsa. L: 1 slice low carb bread and my dear old potted meat and 1 ounce of my homemade pimento & cheese. S: 1/3 of a Wendy's baked potato with chilli, cheese, sour cream and chives... Fluids: 80 ounces Total calories: 584 Fat: 33 Carbs: 36 Protein: 38 Ya'll I know the baked potato was way too many carbs, but it was absolutely fantastic!!!! I didn't have the least bit of trouble with it! YUM!!! Smooch Arlies