What's on your Monday Menu, RNYers?

I am a PF member as well. They also offer many local discounts with the black card. Like you say, is clean, new equipment, busy....I like that it is universal for all ages and stages of fitness. I wish they had group exercise classes...I go to different locations when I travel and I can also go to a PF in VT that is also very close to me....Great value..

Ours here have Group fitness Just look at the schedule I know they have a Cardio Strength and stretch class from 6-7:30 on Tuesday and Thursday and I think it starts at 7 on Wednesday. If you are the only one that signs up the trainer is still required to hold class. I have had a few one on ones with the trainer that have benefited me immensely. You may just need to look into it a little further.

Sorry - I meant spin and other group exercise classes that do not involve the equipment

I've never used xantham gum, but will pick some up on your recommendation. I like my shakes thick and creamy, not icy!

It seems expensive but a little goes a long way. Start with a quarter of a teaspoon and adjust from there. It can go from creamy to gummy. I also use it to make my own fat free salad dressing.

Good morning, all! It's a beautiful and sunny day here in the mid-Atlantic. This is the tough time of year to dress, in DC. It's cold in the morning, sunny and warm-ish in the afternoon, and then cold as hell at night. We were all bundled up on Saturday for the Michigan at Maryland game and our seats were in the sun and we were stripping layers off.

Today, at lunch, I have a LASIK appointment. I'm terrified (weird for someone who has had RNY and plastic surgery to say!) but you are awake while they slice your eyeball!!! I am sick of waking up blind and then spending $600/year on daily contacts. So I just realized that I have to hustle and figure out if I am even eligible so I can put a ton of money in my flexible savings account and open enrollment is next week. Sigh...why do I do this to myself?

Weigh****chers is going well - the zero point foods concept is awesome. Some foods are tons of points. Since my brother and his wife and my niece were in town, we cooked all meals at home except for one exceptional and expensive late lunch downtown yesterday at my favorite place ever, Joe's Seafood and Prime Steaks. I had an extravagant lunch - I ordered the 1 lbs king crab meal, no sides, and shared crab with others. I had no sides - no mac and cheese, no potatoes. But then I ate half a piece of key lime pie (their specialty) and later when I logged it, it was 12 points! Half my daily total!!!!

Better today...

B: 4 oz boars head ever roast chicken, 1 oz munster cheese, after my coffee with half and half and sugar-free hazelnut syrup

L: leftover turkey chili

D: shrimp (0 point food!) sautéed in a tsp of olive oil with garlic, salt and pepper, crushed red pepper

E: Body Pump tonight! Finally back to the gym but leaving tomorrow on a business trip...it's always something!

Have a great day and please share positive Lasik stories with me! (I sound like one of those people who say "I had RNY last month and I have been eating candy every single day but don't be mean, I am fragile" LOL, but seriously, if your best friend's cousin's neighbor was blinded from RNY, I know the risks ;) )

Good luck with your appointment! I am freaked out by the idea of that surgery, too, but just like WLS--everyone I know who did it, says they wished they did it sooner!

So glad WW is working out for you! I am happy with logging on MFP so I don't think I need the program, and lord knows I don't miss sitting through those meetings, but I do think the weekly in-person weigh in accountability would be a good thing...

Before RNY, Lasik was the best thing I ever did for myself! They give you a valium so while you are awake for it, you aren't stressed or anything -- and you don't feel it -- it's like pressure over your eyeball and it's very dark -- close your eye, put two fingers over it and hold firm pressure while you count to 60; that's what it's like.

Just don't try to do commissions planning with your FP&A rep that afternoon before the valium wears off. Apparently, that makes for entertaining conversations.

OMG Jen, only you! You went back to work right after?! Aren't you supposed to go home and lay on your bed with really dark wraparound sunglasses?!

I feel like I need 3 Valium. I am not sure 1 would relax me enough. Did you smell burning eyeball?

I am encouraged that everyone I know who did it is thankful. I am well aware that at 42, I am only a few years away from needing reading glasses, but waking up and not seeing a blurry world seems worth it...not to mention the money I will save from not buying contacts!

I went home, where i was supposed to sleep off the valium but answered calls instead.

I had to wear the glasses for the drive home but that's all; within a few hours (when the valium wore off, essentially) I could open my eyes and read the clock for the first time in my life!

IIRCC - you have vision improvement that day (and had to have someone drive me home because valium) I drove myself to the next morning's follow up, and then there was like a 1 week, 1 month and 3 month follow up.

I have readers now (I had mine 10+ years ago) but still have tremendous benefits from it since I only need readers. I can snorkel, wear cheap sunglasses, all kinds of good things.

There is a smell but it's not overwhelming, it's not like burning something, it's more medical/caustic than singed hair or anything like that.

Of course, it's been a few years!