What did you eat?

Happy Monday All ~hugs~ I hope you all had a nice weekend, mine was good. Relaxed some and then did some work on the house getting ready for hubbys sis and mom to visit for Thanksgiving from Canada. I just want it to be at a nice place so it looks good for when they are here. Hubby does not know his Mom is coming but does know about his sister so this will be awesome, he has not seen his parents since he left Canada almost 7 years ago!! What I had yesterday..... B: 1 pouched(sp?) egg w/ 1 sl toast, Archive One protein drink S: 1 string cheese L: 1 hotdog with bun S: 1/2 Banana D: 3 oz grilled chicken leg with asparagus spears, pat butter Water: 50 oz water , 12 oz Diet 7 up, 12 oz Crystal Light Sups: 2000 mg of Calcium Citrate 2 Centrum chewables 1000 mg B12 Twinlab sublingal tabs Exercise: Worked on the house some You all have a great day! Debra P

Good Morning Deb, Sounds like a very nice surprise for your hubby. I have had a couple weeks of bad eating choices. Its been very stressful here in my world. As I have told you before that my father has cancer, he is not doing very well, has lost about 45 pounds and still loosing and loosing all his muscle so he is very weak, luckily so far not in a lot of pain. Now to add to all this, my mother just 2 months out from her RNY, told me a few days ago that she too has cancer. Its uterine and they told her that it is in stage 1 and that they should be able to get it all with a full histerectomy (uterus,ovaries and whatever else is in there) and that hopefully she does not have to go through chemo or radiation. My mom is my rock and my best friend and my soul, God I cannot handle if I were to loose her too. She is finally feeling great with her weight loss, and all we can think is that thank God she had the gastric bypass or she never would have found out about the cancer. Meaning that the surgery caused her uterus to bleed and it kept bleeding for 3 weeks, so she went and got it checked out. It did NOT show up in her pap, luckily they also did a uterine scrape and biopsy, that is how they found it. So we are just waiting now for her to get her second opinion which is later today and when her surgery will be scheduled. I am finding myself falling into those comfort munchies. And not making such good choices for lunch at work and if we go out to eat. I am not eating really bad stuff but I could do better than I am. Anyway sorry such a long post but that is where I am at this point. Oh and there are issues going on at work too, with our pay. I am looking into booth renting a little closer to home not by much but in very new and busy development area. May be the right move for me. I have to go see the lady later this week. So pray for me to make the right decision. I love the people I work with now and have a really good clientele, but the issues are not totally resolveable at this time. So maybe if I go to the new place my clients will follow. Here is what I ate yesterday the good and the bad and the ugly. B-kinda skipped til later, had a scheduled house fire to go take pics of for my brother OH MY GOD what an amazing sight it was, froze our butts off, but worth it, then went to brunch. brunch-split with my mom egg ham mushroom and cheese omelette with a few homefries, coffee coffee and more you guessed it coffee S-doritos at moms house, a protein bar D-salad with cheese, mushrooms, onion, carrots, mix of seeds and raisins and dried cherries thrown on top dressing was the new spray vinegrette S-cajun trail mix, some of the seed trail mix and more coffee very little water lately at all, drinking major amounts of coffee which is not a stretch for me, I always did before surgery I just use splenda instead I think I also had some other munching going on here and there throuhout the day just can't remember. So that is all folks, have a lovely day.

Shannon, OMG hun I am so sorry that you are going throug all of this at this time and that is just terrible about your Mother now, but glad they found it early and it can be treated! I will keep you in my thoughts and prayers that this will go as it should!!! Please do not be sorry for the post hun, you need to vent i am sure and here is where you can do that.....I will email you my numbers hun and if you need/want to chat please use them and know anytime is fine with me. Take care of your health right now hun so you will be strong to help with what every happens! Take care Debra P

Hi, Shannon. I'm very sorry about your parents. I'll be praying for them. Stay strong! Traci

Hi Debra and all, Here is what I had yesterday, B- 1 cottage chesse- oatmeal pancake w/ sf syrup - found this recipe on the main OH board. Yummy S- 1 apple L- 1/2 cup mac and cheese 1/4 cup cottage cheese 1/4 cup winter squash a few tablespoons homemade applesauce S- 1 apple D- 3 oz pork chop a few homemade french fries 1/4 cup cottage cheese a few green peas S- 2 string cheese exercise- crunches 20 coffee 80 oz water

Anita, I really enjoyed having those oatmeal pancakes....yummmmm someone also said you can use Ricotta cheese as well, instead of the cottage cheese.... Debra P

Debra, how do you think i am doing on the foods i eat? good or bad? I think I am doing wonderful. the Ricotta cheese would be good to in the pancakes.. I made my husband and his son "normal" carb pancakes lol from a mix and i had these wonderful pancake........... just in case someone wants the recipe for these pancakes........... oatmeal- cottage cheese pancakes 1 egg 1/3 cup oatmeal not instant 1 heaping Tablespoon cottage cheese dash of vanilla dash of milk makes 1 big pancake

Well, I was basically a slug yesterday. Spent the entire day on the couch. How's that for healthy living? I've just been SOOOO darn tired! Anyway, here's what my eating day looked like (when I did manage to get my butt off the couch): 1c. OJ when I first got up late B- 2 eggs OE, 1 slice oat nut bread w/ butter, 2 bites ham L (or snack... depends how you look at it) about 10 wheat thins with dip, and 20 grapes. S- roast beef (maybe 3 oz) with a very small spoonfull of instant potatoes, small spoonful of greenbean casserole, about 1/2 cup homemade gravy (but it was so good!) Supp.- 2 calcium, 1 flintstones, 1 chelated iron (I'm doing B12 shots now, so I don't need to take those nasties anymore!) Water- about 32 oz.... need to kick that up... it's much harder on the weekends for some reason. Sounds like you've got a lot to do in the next week and a half. Have fun with your company!!! Traci

Traci, well hun we all have days like that, maybe you are fighting something and your body just needed that rest! All is good Yeah things will be busy over the next couple of weeks but so much fun to see everyone again and this being the first Thanksgiving in our new house. Debra P

There is a wonderful recipe I got from the beforeandafter chat forum (susan maria's website) for riccotta apple pancakes and they are a staple in my diet. I also found a recipe for cottage cheese and onion pancakes that are awesome on there. They have tons of recipes on there and I would have been lost without them. Today I had: B: unjury chocolate shake (water only) L: cottage cheese crepe with sf strawberry preserve and cream cheese filling S: 1 scoop nectar roadside lemonade protein powder with lemonade crystal light D: shrimp spread (made with cooked shrimp, mayonaise, scallions and old bay seasoning) SO YUMMY S: 1 scoop nectar roadside lemonade with crystal light ice tea vitamins: Bariatric advantage calcium citrate lozenges (3) Centrum chewables multivitamin (2) Flaxseed Oil softgel capsules (2) Niferex-150 (iron/b12/folic acid combo) (2)