What's On Your Monday Menu, RNYers?
Halloween is a bad, bad day for me. LOL. Everything went really well, my little one had a blast trick or treating, and he looked adorable. He said "trick or treat" and "thank you" at every house he went to and he's not even 2 yet! I'm a proud momma.
I endulged just a bit too much. I had a few pieces of candy on Halloween (or more than a few) and I had some more yesterday. I logged it, and even with the extra candy, I stayed under 1000 calories, but it feels like a fail to me. Oh well, I'm back on the horse today. The problem is that my baby doesn't like chocolate. So all of those yummy candy bars are just sitting there, calling to me.
Food for today is a little low in calories, but it's got the protien, so I'm just planning on going low cal for a few days to reset after my weekend. Also, I'm having problems with getting my fluids in, I drank very little yesterday and I'm feeling it. My goal today is to get 80oz of water in. I found this fat free, sugar free salad dressing. Skinny Girl Poppy Seed dressing. I love this stuff, and I've been craving salad for the last few weeks. I'm excited to find a dressing that I really like that has 10 calories per 2 tablespoons.
No shopping victories for me, I'm not quite ready to go there, but I'm living vicariously through you guys. Find those bargains!
I got some bad news about my mom. She has polycystic kidney disease, diagnosed earlier this year. She just had an CT scan done and it looks like one of her kidneys has lost all function, and the other is running at about 44%. On top of that, she is still waiting to get a biopsy on the spiculated lesion in her lung that they suspect is lung cancer. it's been extremely stressful on her, and I was getting very worried about her because everytime I called she'd been drinking. But then last week she called me here at work after she found out about the kidney function, and she was in good spirits. i don't know what happened, if she just decided to stop giving up and start fighting or what, but her attitude was a complete change. I'm still terrified of losing my mother, she is only 61 years old, but now I can see that she's not given up yet and I'm praying for good news after the biopsy. She doesn't even have it scheduled yet, but i'm going with her to her appointment tomorrow and we'll push for it then. Please keep her in your prayers.
Sorry so long winded, just needed to get that all off of my chest.
Here's my menu:
B: Light and Fit Greek Key Lime Yogurt. Coffee with Cream and Splenda
L: Romaine Shrimp salad with tomatoes and Skinny Girl Poppyseed Dressing
D: Salmon with steamed cauliflower
S: 2oz of chicken deli meat and a cheese stick
Totals:
Cal 545 Protein 65 Carb 23 Fat 21
I may add another healthy snack in the evening if the candy starts calling. Better to replace it with a yogurt or something.
My little puppy dog with his cousins on Halloween.
Age: 44 | Height: 5' 3" | Starting January 2015: 291 | RNY 8/4/15 with Dr. Arthur Carlin| Goal: 150
Listen to advice and accept discipline, and at the end you will be counted among the wise. ~Proverbs 19:20
I'm sorry the new coming in so far about your Mom is not positive. I'm glad to see a shift in her attitude about it though.
You're not alone on the candy... I ate my fair share. But my tummy did tell me when enough was enough-- and I had 15,000 steps Saturday-- so i will not beat myself up over it. Tip on the left over Halloween candy-- freeze it. Once you want a treat, you'll have to plan for for it and take it out so it can thaw. (You can't thaw chocolate in the microwave!). I'm leaving the bowl out for one week, then the rest will be frozen.
5'6.5" High weight:337 Lowest weight:193/31 BMI: Goal: 195-205/31-32 BMI
I have so much candy in the house right now and I am not handling it well. I did find a place that will accept donations of candy and use it for the Thanksgiving and Christmas parties for kids in the inner-city. Also, I read an article about dentists that will accept donated candy and send it to the troops overseas. Im with AV, the freezer would NOT work for me! And teaching the kids a little about giving to those less fortunate, makes this win-win.
if you freeze it you can stick in microwave and heat it up- then put on ice cream as a topping.
HW 305 SW 278 Surgery weight 225 GW 160 LW: 118.8
RNY 12/15/2015,
GB removal 09/2016,
Twisted bowel/hernia repair 08/2017
M1 Dec 2015-13.0, M2-7.0, M3-14.5, M4-9.4, M5-7.1, M6 9.8, M7-7.6 ,M8- 7.6, M-9 5.5, M10-6.4, M11- 2.2, M12 Dec 2016- 5.8
Very sorry to hear about your mom. I am sending prayers.
My advice on the candy? THROW IT OUT. Seriously. Does anyone in your house need it? You are not wasting it--it is a bigger waste to have something tempting you and sabotaging you. And you can do a BIG victory dance for having the courage to get rid of it.
I have not indulged in candy yet, but I had a bag of pretzels in the pantry and they were literally calling my name. I don't even like pretzels too much, but the idea of carbs were just too much for me to handle. If there was chocolate in my house and I was unsupervised? There is no way I could handle it.
