Whatcha Eating Today VSGers Tuesday 1/16/18

Yesterday got derailed, but DH and I had a date day and night. We went shopping all over and then we went out to dinner. Very nice and relaxing. Thank goodness for the recent post about eating out! I had grilled chicken bites from Chik-Fil-A and then we went to Olive Garden and I had shrimp/scallops with lobster ravioli. I ate two ravioli and the shrimp and scallops. I also had a spot of salad with very little lettuce (basically tomato, black olive onion and a single crouton with low fat Italian). I went a little over on my carbs for the day (40 rather than the normal under 30) and a bit over on kcals (about 100), but I think I stayed very close to my macros. I had lemon water and it was a truly satisfying and delicious dinner. Another thank you to all of you who share! Gosh, you make the little bumps so much easier to deal with.

QOTD: Do you play board games or card games? If so, what are your favorites? I love all games except trivia games. I'm horrible at trivia so I usually lose (but it is DH's specialty so he loves them). My favorites are RISK and Hand and Foot (card game).

M1: Coffee, PP vanilla

M2: Eggs, miso, tilapia soup

M3: LO ribeye

M4: Shrimp

M5: Beef Stew (biscuits for the family)

S: Jerky or other protein forward snack if needed.

E: Nothing formal. Cleaning...

Water/Vits: on track

Good morning! I'm glad DH and you had a good date day. Yesterday, my DH and I walked on the beach, had dinner at an outside place and watched the sun go down, so I guess we had a date too!

QOTD: I'm not big on games, though I'm trying to find some to play with DH so he can interact more. I just learned that Hand and Foot was a card game when I saw it on the schedule of activities here and asked about it.

1 year, 10 months post-op

B: eggs, cottage cheese and Canadian bacon

L: tuna salad, pickles and cottage cheese

D: Crab stacker appetizer (out to dinner at Bahama Breeze)

S: Halo Top ice cream

Hi Liz - I was thinking that Marbles might be a good store for you to check out? They specialize in cognition-promoting games and their games are all labeled with what type of cognition the game is useful for.

Thank you Gwen - I will see what's there!

A walk on the beach and dinner outside sounds amazing Liz! I didn't think I would like Hand and Foot but I now look forward to it every summer. It has hand and eye coordination plus a little memory stimulation, it might just be perfect for DH. For me it helps with social anxiety because I forget that I'm anxious in the first place:-)

I will look up the rules!

I bet it was nice to get out of the house! We got another winter storm this morning and we are going on 2-3 inches of snow. It was sleeting so hard last night, I only walked for about 10 minutes. My poor umbrella was not handling it well. It's day 5. And I hope it all melts today because I am ready to get back to WORK. I'm sure the kids are happy, but they won't be on President's Day or Easter Monday, lol.

QOTD: Pictionary and Heads Up are my FAVORITES! I love most trivia games, but I'm only good at common knowledge, arts, history, etc. Anything in movies or music...not my forte! I recently could not identify a photo of Kevin Bacon and I was teased mercilessly! I also like Phase 10 and Texas Hold'em.

B: egg bowl (half an egg scrambled with skim, turkey sausage link, half ounce of cheddar, light sour cream, hot sauce)

L: 2.75 ounce turkey "burger" patty with a tablespoon of goat cheese

D: 3 oz. Tilapia with 2 tablespoons green beans

Snacks: frozen blueberry yogurt, 1/2 cup special k protein cereal with 1/3 cup skim milk, babybel cheese

Calories: 663 protein: 70g Carbs: 35g fat: 26g

I tend to hate trivia games, but I did play team trivia with my bff for a few years and it was a BLAST. Go figure :)

Today is a school day for me. My goal is to finish my reading for Gerontology and get my discussion posted for the week. I'm not sure on exercise today because I might need to walk to the mechanic to pick the car up (~1.6 mile walk) and I don't want to expend all of my energy before then if that ends up being something I'll need to do. So there will be some amount of playing it by ear today.

QOTD: I definitely play board games. I have a ridiculous board game collection. My current favorites are Dixit, Lord of the Fries, and Blokus. I also love all of the Lovecraft-inspired games that Fantasy Flight publishes. Arkham Horror being my favorite. I recently got Spaceteam, Morels, and Secret Hitler and I'm looking forward to getting a chance to play them. Sadly it's easier to buy games than it is to find time to play them with people!

1: protein shake
2: egg salad? I finally had success with sous vide hard boiled eggs, so there are a bunch in the fridge!
3: it's leftover night. I think I'll go with beef and lamb tahini meatballs. I made entirely too many of these and should have frozen some.

liquid and vites: on track
exercise: hopefully a long walk either in the development or to the mechanic. Otherwise, yoga.

Apparently I'm not going to need to save my energy for a potential walk to the mechanic because Art is either going to be home in time to pick the car up or work from home in the morning. So yay! This means I'll try to go out for a walk later this afternoon.. once I get tired of reading about public policy.