**What did YOU eat today? (WDYET)**

Ok I'm starting this daily thread here. Today I will start by posting my food for today (more like CONFESSING my sins) Bfast: Bran cereal and a banana (first bran cereal since surgery and BOY am I - and everyone around me - paying for it.) Drive to work: SF vanilla nonfat latte Snack: protien bar (to make up for low protien at breakfast) Lunch: Michelina lean gourmet salisbury steak (200 calories 15 g protien) Snack: a small naval orange...and then a handfull of Cadbury mini eggs and some Starburst..I know I KNOW I promised I wouldn't go there!!! I promise I will do better tomorrow! Dinner: don't know yet. Meeting a friend for dinner. I'm craving Mexican, but I'm gonna let her pick and try to stick to a steak and salad type thing. How about YOU????? Kathy

just sitting here wondering what i'm doing for dinner. Breakfast: 2 cups of coffee, then protein shake on the way to work Snack: a slice of cheese Lunch: a friend used her subway BOGO coupon and brought me back a turkey sub, i had about 6 bites of it. I've had two 20 oz bottles of crystal light. Saturday I had "several" of those malted milk ball easter eggs, they were sooo goood, first candy i've had since surgery. Good idea about this thread, maybe we can get ideas from each other, i get so tired of trying to figure out what to eat

I forgot to mention my water and vitamins and exercise!!!! Water: about 40 ounces so far Vitamins: OOPS! I forgot! Gotta remember when I get home! Exercise: NONE! Packed my gym stuff, but my workout partner got sick so I used my lunch hour to run home and get the laundry started and run errands (grocery store, bank etc.) so I don't feel guilty. Maybe I will take the dog for a long walk after dinner. Try to undo the damage I did today. Kathy

I was really bad today... breakfast: nothing lunch: nothing snack: dark chocolate snickers bar (paid dearly for that.. not too good coming back up as it is going down) dinner: maybe nothing since I've made myself sick today... water: really bad only 16 oz's of liquids today and it was regular tea with splendia so really no water no protien so I'm not doing good at all am I ?

I had to get the feeding tube so I'll be having one heavy milky looking TPN IV bag hooked up about 8pm tonight. Whoo Hoo!!! Robin

Robin! Bless your heart!! I didnt know about this, where have i been?! I know u were having the endoscopy's right? But i didnt know they had to do this Let me know if u need anything!! jen

Thanks so much Jen, I hope this nightmare ends soon. It's like being trapped in a bad dream. At least the feeding tube is not as painful as I thought it would be and I only have to worry about the bag of "food" at night so I don't have to walk around with it all day. (Ha as if I could actually have enough strength to walk around all day anyway). There are two IV tube lines that hang out of my arm and a long tube that goes up through my arm and into my heart. I have to wear a dressing over it all day and a nurse comes to the house to check on me and take blood/vitals/etc. A seperate company delivers all the needles/"food"/ and supplies I need so I don't have to worry about trying to go and pick things up. It's not too bad but I'll be glad when I can eat and get enough nutrition on my own so I can get this thing out, go back to work, and start back living. Talk to you soon hun, Robin

Breakfast...2 eggs and cheese grits snack...pure protein bar lunch...chicken wrap snack...no sugar added Klondike bar 2nd snack ( are we suppose to have another snack in the afternoon**** cream sandwich!!!! dinner....nothing so far because I am full!!!! wonder why?!?!?! I will get something later with hubby. water....50 oz. vitamins...1 so far This does not look good!!!!! Melissa

Hello Kathy and great idea. I do the "Ethel wants to know..what ya eatin"on the April 2006 board daily...so here is what Ethel (my pouch's name) is having or has had today: ...I have increased protein shakes due to leg injury and possible tummy surgery. cals/fat/carb/protein A.M - Body Fortress Vanilla Protein Powder serving 110 2 1 23 Noon - Body Fortress Vanilla Protein Powder serving 110 2 1 23 S - String cheese Frigo LF 1 serving....60 3 1 9 D - Salad made with: Kraft Cheese Crumbles .5 serving....55 5 1 3 Salad Spritzer Balsamic Breeze 1 serving....10 1 1 0 garden salad 1 cup....6 0 2 1 Steak Fajita meat 2.5oz..... 125 5 2 18 Strawberries, raw 3...6 0 1 0 Cherry Cranberry Pecan Salad Pizazz 1T...30 2 4 0 S Nighttime - Body Fortress Vanilla Protein Powder 1 serving...110 2 1 23 SF popsicles Tropical 2 serving....30 0 8 0 quaker rice snacks mini caramel(7) .5 serving....30 0 7 1 Totals 682 19 28 100 added more food tonight since I had slow start and was at Dr. ofc till late.

Kathy...this is an excellent idea! I need some accountability...I am finding myself eating just a little too much here and there and I always have difficulty reining myself in...here goes: Breakfast: 1 packet weight control oatmeal; 2 oz string cheese, decaf tea with splenda Snack: Pure Protein bar Lunch: 4 oz chicken salad from Savoury Corner (it is the best chicken salad-they only serve it on Wednesdays!) 4 saltines and 2 melba toasts ( I am a cracker/carb junkie) Snack: Protein bar Dinner: 4 baked chicken nuggets, about 3-4oz salad with crispies & ranch dressing on it. I haven't had enough water today but overall my fluids are okay. I am a maniac for unsweetened tea!!! Took my vitamins this morning...that's the one thing I do consistently right! Thanks for the support from everyone!