What's on your (PHOTO) Friday Menu?
Happy Fridaaaaaayyyy! Hope everyone has a nice weekend planned. I have been a proTAXinator, and yeah.... they are due Monday and I haven't started, so I guess I am doing that today :/
It's summer in Boston all of a sudden! As usual we skipped the Spring season completely and went from the 40s to the 80s in just a few days. Today we expect record highs in the upper 80s--it's 72 right now at 5am. Wild. If I finish my taxes, I will reward myself by setting up my patio furniture and reading outside this afternoon.
A few cookies from this week:
QOTD: Your wish is my command. What are your favorite WLS friendly items from Aldi or Trader Joe's? I'm not much of an Aldi shopper but I love love love Trader Joe's and they have so many great and unique WLS friendly items. Yesterday I stocked up on a bunch of things, but I don't get there often enough anymore, so I got a lot and I'll freeze some of it! Sous Vide Chicken Thighs, Sous Vide Turkey Tips, Sous Vide Sliced Beef, Crumbled Blue Cheese, Turkey Meatballs, Protein Plates (salami, cheese & almonds), Prosciutto Wrapped Cheese Sticks, Cauliflower Thins, Eggwich Sandwiches.......... So much more!
Excited to eat some of it today!
B: Protein Coffee
S: Prosciutto Wrapped Cheese Stick
L: Sous Vide Chicken Thighs
D: Beef & Blue Cheese
Good morning and happy Friday! I have been up since about 11:45 last night and I'm not feeling my usual productive self when I wake up so early (or late, depending on how you look at it). I started a new book and I watched Top Chef but have really just been killing time. I am wishing I had some toast but I don't and none of the grocery stores are open so that's probably a good thing, lol. I will probably go ahead and start work at 4 and get done early. I am taking my bike to get a spring tune up this afternoon, it's just a few blocks away so I'll go even in the rain.
We had a couple of glorious summer days with temps approaching 80 but it's raining all day today and expecting a bit of snow overnight, not a lot though, only up to 3 inches. No complaints here about that though, my youngest step sister was put on evacuation notice for a fire earlier this wee****il the FS/FD got it under control. Bring on the moisture. It will stop by afternoon, they say, which is good because some friends and I have tickets to see Samantha Bee on Saturday night downtown. Other than that, nothing much planned for the weekend.
QOTD - I go to Trader joes a lot but I don't really buy all the much besides cheese and sparkling water. The unexpected cheddar is always good, I like their samosas too. I do get their GF ginger muffins and the olive bites when they are in season. It's a good place to go if I need to get some barebells bars but I have two boxes in the fridge now that I am working through - pumpkin spice and raspberry cream. So really just whatever interesting cheese they have and a few seasonal items plus samosas. I really, really love their hold the cone items but have stopped buying them because I can't not eat them all and then I'm sick for hours. Know your weaknesses!
Menu today will be
coffee plus FLP X 2 (already done)
omlette
deli turkey with cheddar
not sure about dinner
my photo friday is the gorgeous sherbet colored sky on my drive to the office yesterday.
HW: 306 SW: 282 GW: 145 (reached 2/6/19) CW:150
Jen
I have a low tolerance for ice cream. Those look small, so I might be able to eat two of those. Maybe. But I'd feel like crap for hours if I ate more.
It's a blessing, in a way, to not be able to eat much of something so calorie dense. It's a good reminder that almost 11 years later the surgery is still working.
6'3" tall, male.
Highest weight was 475. RNY on 08/21/12. Current weight: 198.
M1 -24; M2 -21; M3 -19; M4 -21; M5 -13; M6 -21; M7 -10; M8 -16; M9 -10; M10 -8; M11 -6; M12 -5.
I don?t have any issues with ice cream?except these and that is 100% a self control issue. Ice cream usually ends up freezer burned and disposed of rather than eaten - pre and post op both. Except for these.
Actually, now that I think about it, I probably should check for some yasso bars that have probably completely crystallized in the freezer and get rid of them, lol.
HW: 306 SW: 282 GW: 145 (reached 2/6/19) CW:150
Jen
I never kept ice cream at home. I'd usually have it a couple of times a year, and almost always out somewhere. Chips and chocolate were my biggest poisons.
6'3" tall, male.
Highest weight was 475. RNY on 08/21/12. Current weight: 198.
M1 -24; M2 -21; M3 -19; M4 -21; M5 -13; M6 -21; M7 -10; M8 -16; M9 -10; M10 -8; M11 -6; M12 -5.
Ice cream and chocolate I can have in the house! Chocolate is also something that I periodically have to throw out -- Sheila might stab me but when I spring cleaned the fridge, I realized I had chocolate I had brought back from Italy and I finally got rid of it (I was in Italy in 2018..it had even moved with me, lol).
Oreos, I cannot. Chocolate chip cookies, I cannot. Gingersnaps, nilla wafers, anything made by an elf...nope nope nope.
HW: 306 SW: 282 GW: 145 (reached 2/6/19) CW:150
Jen
