What's on your Monday Menu?

Good Monday Morning, Gang! Can't wait to get a check in from our conference friends :)

Hmm, remember how I said my Fit Frappe was spoiled? I have had a few more things taste really "off" lately and Saturday I got hit with horrendous heartburn. Ohhhhh, it was GERD that was making everything taste bad! (dammit I threw away $50 of protein powder!) GERD has been a constant struggle for me ever since I had the lapband, but it is usually "silent" so I don't always connect the dots. But this explains the sore throat, gnawing hunger, and spoiled taste. Yuck. I started back up on Omeprezole and chewed on a bunch of Tums all weekend, but I still feel it this morning. I know I should give up coffee util its better, but I just can't.

In other news, I started Sober October. I was drinking way too many calories.

Pictoral QOTD:

I'm somewhere between a 4 - 6. I'm generally happy but definitely a little sleepy. It's really cool here and it was a perfect temperature in bed so I was comfy and sad to get up.

Today is the usual combo of papers and cookies. I'm in good shape for getting everything in on time this week. I don't think I will have any crazy rushing, if all goes well today :)

B: Egg whites, onion & feta

L: Veggie Burger & tzatziki & cukes

D: Steak

Exercise: Treadmill

Good morning and happy monday!!! Is everyone ready for the week?! I am! And yay, it's October and fall seems to have firmly arrived here, which always makes me happy.

QOTD - I am 6 for sure. I'm am typically happy and that looks like a happy cat.

Although I jumped in as soon as I got the offer, today is technically my first day in my new role and I have moved a few of my direct reports to their new leaders but keeping a few through October as part of the transition. Here we go into the future!

Enjoy sober October, QJB, my October goals are to work out all weekdays; I would have gone for 31 work outs in 31 days but I have a girls weekend mid month and I want to set myself up for success!

menu today

coffee plus half and half

English muffin with pb

left over burger with cheese

summer sausage and cheese

Have a fantastic Monday and week everyone!

YES - to the future!! I am starting the fall challenge tomorrow - it's all Canada.

Good luck! Hope there's some Nova Scotia in there.

I picked the running one, although I elliptical, and the rowing one; the rowing series is only 6.

Good morning QJB and menuers,

GERD sounds terrible. :( I hope it improves.

QOTD - 5. I literally looked at my work calendar to calculate whether I have time to collapse for another hour before kicking things off. Sadly, I do not. Meetings run right up until when I need to leave for my mammogram and resume at 3pm when I introduce my boss to a client. Good times. I hope the place isn't running too behind.

The last several days I've been feeling heavy and bloated. It's hard to get in all my water because I keep crashing, energy-wise. Did get just about everything done that I was aiming for, so bonus there. One week till more blood testing. I wasn't low on B-12, so maybe it really has been long covid all this time. Or something.

Accountability- Nothing to report.

Exercise - Elliptical yesterday. Rest day today.

Menu

Protein/fiber/collagen

Egg bites with spinach and feta

Porq rinds

Last of the stew

Air fried shiitake mushrooms

Yogurt and seaweed

Cheers!

Good morning everyone, sorry to hear about the GERD JB, not fun stuff!

Today looks to be a bit busy. We have a service appointment for the car and it's going to take it a few hours. It had a recall to update the software so that and an oil change will be done today. My aunt lives about a half a mile from the dealership so she is going to take us to world market and target.

My weight has not budged. Super frustrating but also...if I'm being honest it's not a total surprise. My eating is just ok and needs some improvement. I've gotten away from measuring things and have been eyeballing it. Which we all know can lead to over proportions of things. So I'm back to measuring again. Also cutting back on certain things that have creeped into my eating. I'm looking at you crackers. I also had way to much cake and frosting Saturday. No it wasn't worth it and it making me sick.

QOTD: 5...definitely 5. I've been up since 12 something so it's going to be me allllll the day long.

B: JUST egg cup, coffee and roasted seaweed

L: not sure yet...we may eat out with my aunt, if not then we'll come home and I'll have a salad

D: 3 GF chicken nuggets and ???

S: cheese, popcorn and ???

One thing they told us this weekend is studies show we under estimate our calories in by a third and over estimate our calories burned by half!

You know...I wish there was a better way to estimate burned calories. When I exercise on the elliptical it assumes I'm a normal weight, so I use that to underestimate. Whenever I plug cardio into MFP it tries to tell me I burned like...370-400 calories in a half hour. I think it's based on weight but not sure how its coming to that conclusion, so I override it every day and put in the lower number. And I don't use exercise as an "earned more calories " thing. I'm so worried about exactly what you say above that when I have to guess a food, I look for the highest sensible option in MFP.

Not even sure how to create exercises anymore. Since I last did serious logging in 2017 (when owned by UA), it doesn't look exercise the same. Go figure. :)

Love World Market! Closest one here is a three hour drive. Hope you found a treasure!

Also, good luck with weighing and measuring! It's a pain but it does make a difference!