Steel cut oats for breakfast ... YUM! SNIPPETS

Having my steal oats for breakfast in a cup and it hit the spot too .... I was running late and brought an awesome portion of what my husband cooked overnight just because I wanted steal cut oats for bfkast.... hmmmmmmmm YUM! ...

I am a happy camper.... so I sat here eating my oats and twiddling my toes.... hmmm they are good ... with just a few raisins and cinnamon in it with stevia and a bit of skim milk added like l like it...

This is a goofy snippet from my journal entry this day ... my morning started with an awesome run at 4:30 am along the beach into the adjacent town and back 5.5 miles run today ... 

I did the same yesterday and had awesome energy left over to come home and enjoy a stroll and brisk walk with my dogs ... who started frantically at an approaching dog .... they barked and growled and pretended to be all that and a bag of chips until the BIG dog approached .... my black poodle Pierreta started screaming so loudly you'd think she was being mauled ... my chocolate poodle Chip decided to lay low just in case ... and my silver poodle lover boy Pierre could not wait to jump and kiss and lick the big dog to his heart content ... LOL ... 

Whoa ... when the big Bernice Mountain dog approach my Pierretta started screaming .... YIKES that dude is way too big LOL...

 it was none other than the friendliest and awesomely gentle dog belonging to my neighbor a Bernice Mountain dog...

but it turned out to be the sweetest and friendliest dog belonging to my neighbor ... how awesome to go running early in the morning and got out to either the gym to swim or to zumba or pilates or sculpting and come back home with awesome energy to walk the dogs and continue working on a million and one home improvement projects...

I am loving the mobility and flexibility losing and keeping off 203 pounds has afforded me .... Health and Mobility and a life without co-morbidities related to morbid obesity is what I longed for and what I have been enjoying six years post gastric bypass .... 

The journey only gets better... with life's challenges and ups and downs I can deal ... I can move ... and I refuse to go back to my previous condition ...

Before and after as is before and now and hereinafter ... I have tracked my weightloss and am tracking my maintenance journey in a digital empowerment album that I call 'a picture a day keeps the pounds and the inches away' ... an empiric tools that is working for me cause I have fun with it .... 

This is my empowerment collage today... from a highest recorded weight of 327 pounds I am 6 years post WLS and in maintenance seamlessly ... no regain... healthy choices that are plentiful in selections and delectable in taste and ingested in the appropriate portions with contentment and satiety ... one day at a time... one choice at a time... NO REGRETS!!! I am so loving this journey ... it is as exciting and fun as day one ... when it seemed like just a dream ....

My empowerment collage yesterday...

Thank you much for allowing me to share..... 

Kisses from my chocolate poodle Chip

YUM!     

YUM is right LOL... I was hoping to have leftovers for tomorrow but upon getting home DS and DH had polished it off ... 

Steel cut oats are the best!

I also have another favorite hot cereal, Bob's Red Mill 5-Grain Rolled Cereal.

I am going to check that 5-grain rolled cereal out... sounds fantastic....

It's a little carb heavy, but they're complex carbs, as this cereal is very minimally processed.  Lots of fiber.

For cold cereal, I like Kashi Go Lean cereals...they are all good, but the original (red box) has 13g of protein per serving..it is also a multi-grain cereal.  I know our protein from animal sources is more bioavailable, but this cereal will help to "firm things up" if that's what you need!

Looking fierce as ever, but I have to say that oats should be classed as a weapon of mass destruction IMO!!  I've not tried them post DS but I had IBS pre-op and have accidentally had milk powder post DS and it still nearly killed me (I had evil yogurt containing powdered milk - there are plenty of yogurts without milk powder thankfully).

Ouch .... that sounds painful ... I would check for milk powder in products meticulously if it had that effect on me YIKES .... 

I do check, but they gave me yogurt with milk powder in when I was a couple of days out from getting my DS.  I wasn't fully with it and stupidly thought the hospital would take more care.  I figured it out coz I'd walked off the bloating and then it came back.  I was eating so little the culprit was easy to pinpoint.  My surgeon apologized for this profusely as this powdered milk intolerance seems to be a known issue in the medical world (my PCP was aware of it causing people trouble too).

Looking amazing,my dear,as always. It is like a dream,isn't it! I can't believe I can walk almost 4 miles a day and still have energy left over to do anything I want. And I am getting stronger everyday! On the 23rd I am walking my first 5k. If you had told me in August I could do this I would tell you you were crazy.