What's on your Wednesday Menu, RNYers?

You're not alone in this! I remember maybe a month after surgery I had a SUPER stressful day at work and I got home and I cooked my lone chicken sausage in the toaster oven and ate half of it and was stuffed...and I just remembered (at the time, fondly) how I used to deal with stress (or anger, or sadness, or loneliness) by eating an entire pizza! And suddenly I was like, oh crap, I can't eat my feelings! I found that going for a walk helped to clear my head. Or going to a hard exercise class like HiiT or spin. It's tough to handle strong emotions like anger or rage and not having your usual coping mechanism. We feel your pain!!!

I was never an emotional eater with the exception of being happy, in fact quite the opposite. When I am mad, sad or stressed I don't want to eat at all. Happy is a whole other ball of wax! I would eat till the cows came home!

Good for you with not emotional eating! I know it's very difficult for me to not over eat when I'm happy or celebrating something.

I can relate. It's good that you are recognizing the issues-keep on keeping on!!

Really sorry Norma you are going through some crap right now and having such a reaction. If you want to chat PM me here or on FB. Hang in there it will get better.

Hi everyone,

JB, good luck at work today.

QOTD: My work environment is a healthy one, thankfully!

B: 2 eggs, turkey breakfast sausage, 1/2 slice of cheese

L: 3oz turkey breast

S:2oz turkey breast, 1/2 ostrim beef stick

D: 2 oz venison tenderloin, 1oz lamb chop, 2 fork fulls of broccoli rabe w/evoo and garlic

S: plain chobani yogurt, 1/2 tbs sf apricot preserve

Cals:671, Carbs:13, Protein:96

Enjoy the rest of your day everybody!

What is a Fit Frappe Mocha??? it sounds good... whatever it is.

It is a brand of coffee protein drink. It is good :)

Very late to the game today!!

This being busy at work is really cramping my style. If I get on here when I first get into the office, then I somehow stay on much longer than I should reading posts... so some mornings I can't trust myself to even open this window until I get a few things done! (wow, kind of how I am with food, eh? This board must be a replacement for food in some way)

QOTD: We are a pretty healthy office. There will be bagels brought in sometimes in the morning, or some random leftover business lunch stuff in the kitchen on some random afternoon, but the girl that used to bake and torture me is no longer here. Funny thing is, I just found out she had had WLS a few years back... she was baking all that stuff and bringing it in here ALL.THE.TIME... I guess we were her outlet... When we have company luncheons, it's almost always BBQ, so I can pick plenty of things to eat and be full and happy... thank goodness!

Weight this morning... 147.4 Not a good plumbing day... maybe tomorrow will be better

B: 16 ounce decaf with SF vanilla and half and half

B2: 3.5 ounces of chicken spaghetti squash alfredo

L: See above

D: Hamburger... I'll have a 4 ounce patty with some lettuce/tomato/ mayo and mustard. No bun.

S: My beloved Latte --- out of Fairlife at home, need to stop on the way home and rectify that situation!

Afternoon gang... Super late post. I wasn't going to post today, but I need to. Last night, my mom went into respiratory failure (45 minutes after I left their place and she seemed fine) related to her COPD and congestive heart failure and possibly has pneumonia. They have her on a respirator and sedated, but she can still communicate. She is responding yes and no and is even writing with her eyes closed. She always has been sharp as a tack. I've been at the hospital all day, currently at work checking emails and then back to the hospital and then going to the gym. Is it weird that I feel I need to go to the gym in the middle of all this? I really do feel that I need to go, my body is so tense. After, I will going to my parents house and take care of my dad for the evening as he cannot be alone (Alzheimer's). I don't know how long my mom will be in ICU, days....we still don't have all the answers yet. This has been the worst episode she's had and it really worries me she won't make it through another.

QOTD - My unit eats healthy and we stopped doing the birthday cakes and other treats at my request and everyone was on board with that. Gifts, flowers, balloons, fruit and even popcorn are welcome, but I'm telling you that microwave popcorn smell gets me every time. I know it smells 1000 times better than it tastes, but good lord I love that smell. Someone just popped some so I'm currently suffering this...

5+months post op

b-coffee, coffee, coffee

l-a few bites of steak

d-who knows

v/l bad bad bad

e -pool - laps for my sanity

Aw Amy, I am so sorry about your mom.