What's on Your (photo) Friday Menu, RNYers?

You will enjoy eating again eventually.  It's still early days.  At 5 weeks I was still eating mostly yogurt, cottage cheese, eggs and protein shakes.  I still have a protein shake for breakfast every day.   I was only eating about 400 calories a day at that point.  I now only eat about 650-750 calories most days at 4-1/2 months out.  I still cannot eat tuna, but I can eat chicken finally.  I do best with pork tenderloin, steak, shrimp or scallops.  I do not eat rice or pasta regularly, I have had a small amount of both recently.  5 weeks is way too early too try bread, I didn't have any until about a month ago and only have it once in a while. 

At first I did not cook at all, except for maybe an egg for myself.  Luckily my husband also likes to cook.  I do enjoy cooking again and have tried some of eggface recipes which you can find here and on pinterest.  Also try Bariatriceating.com.  If the thought of a certain food makes you gag, don't try to eat it, try something else.  My favorite meats at the beginning were chicken sausage with some marinara sauce, or a nice meat sauce with some ricotta.    As long as you get your protein in you will be OK.  I always have protein shakes, yogurt and cheese in the house to make sure I get enough protein, and for those times I have that craving for sweets I keep sugar free jello  pudding.  It does the trick. 

Stay strong, you are doing great!!

It gets better.  I am a total foodie and love to cook.  I have found that trying different recipes that people list on this thread helped me to get through.  5 1/2 weeks is early on.  I really started noticing that I could eat more variety at around 3 months.  It is so worth it!  Three months of stuff that you don't necessarily love to have the opportunity to lose enough weight that you feel fantastic and can do anything that you want to do.  Easy choice for me .  Try not to get discouraged.  Things will get so much better and the more you can move, the better you will feel!  Great pic!  What a cutie!

Time since surgery: 4+ months

B: Fried egg, 1 slice cheese and 2 slices ham

S: Apple Pie Greek yogurt

L: ?? maybe the burger I've been threatening to get all week-- or I'd love some West Indian food. 

D: ?? again up in the air- I wish I would have taken out the fish... hmm.. that may be it! 

Happy Friday!!

Oh Indian Food!!!  I love Indian Food!

White pants??? I thought you only wore black pants!  And, love the picture... little secret... he is gonna get taller and even more handsome... and the girls are going to LOVE him! And, that will break your heart (just a little). 

No hot plans for the weekend... I thought we were in for a mild weekend but I think it might be rainy some... but the humidity and heat is supposed to be down so that's good!  

My menu today:

B: Tea with Truvia, 1/4 Premier Protein Chocolate Peanut Butter bar (wanted something chewy) and a chocolate Premier Protein shake

L: 3 oz of grilled shrimp, 2 oz of GG broccoli spears with butter sauce

D:  2 scrambled egss, 1/2 serving of cheese grits (I listed it but I am not sure I am feeling it)... nothing sounds good today.

S: Light and Fit greek yogurt, strawberry banana

Totals:  Calories - 785, Protein - 94, Carbs - 47, Sugar - 12, Fats - 27

Vitamns/Water going in.

Everyone have a pleasant weekend!

Well, my shirt was black, does that count?  LOL

And my boy?  He is such a good kid.  He's kind and funny and sensitive and just all the things.  I am going to be hard to please when the time comes for him to date. 

AV so glad you are posting pictures now. I love being the Mom of a son. I miss the baseball games and crazy activities. He is grown now and has a family, but I get to have a darling grandson with another on the way.

So being you are my WLS peeps, I have to share this awesome NSV with you. MY pic today is my first pair of size 12 pants in my life. I have worn size 14 before or actually 14W, but never size 12. Woop! Woop! Also had a great weight lose this week (Because I was sick, but I'll take it) so I am in shooting distance of ONEderland!

B: Tea, Pumpkin Spice Protein Shake

L: Salad, mandarin oranges, sliced pork loin

S: baked apple, cheddar cheese

D: pineapple habernaro mustard chicken, carrots

S: greek yogurt with homemade strawberry chia jam -(Very easy and you can make it sugar free)

Exercise: 45 min rebounder (too cold for pool...booo, swimming season is over)

You look great!

You look fantastic!   Must be such a great feeling!