What's On Your Monday Menu, RNYers?

Good to see you again!  We missed you 

So happy to see you back Anny! And you are right that it gets harder the farther out you are! I am 40 months post op and even though I still exercise daily and track  what I eat and measure amounts,I had to add a bit more exercise because my weight started creeping up. I used to struggle to stay above 117 and now I am 120 to 123. I guess this is something that I will always have to be intentional about! Welcome back!

Glad to see you here! Missed you

I have so many things I want to do and NOT do this year.  But I don't normally so the "resolution" thing.....  I want to hot MY goal weight, I also want to try and find time in my crazy schedule to work out, I always want to hike more this spring/Summer.

So I have been FREAKING OUT all weekend.  I gained 6 1/2 lbs last week????  WTF  I mean I know I have been going over my self imposed 50g of carbs more often.  But this was all like BAM in one week??  The scale just kept going up and up.  I had gotten down to 166.8 on December 24th.   And it has just been UP UP UP since then.  All while being really good with my carbs and cals the past 5 days or so.  UGH  I am SO frustrated.

Of course my husband is all "I bet you hit your LOWEST weight and now your body is fixing itself"  uuummmm I REFUSE to believe that my body is going to stop at OVERWEIGHT!!  NO WAY.  I have a follow up appointment with my surgeons office tomorrow afternoon.  and I KNOW the NP there will give me the same bull**** line if I bring it up.  She tells ALL the patients that we should all expect to still be OBESE when we are done losing weight?!?!?!     So when I had already hit their goal weight of 209 by my last appointment we she like "tisk tisk tisk"   So NO help there, unfortunately.  

I know I just need to stick with my 50g or less of carbs, keep my calories down and let my body do it's thing.  But OMG I am terrified right now.    Sorry you all always get to hear me ***** and moan and cry.  I literally have NO ONE in real life who understands what I am going through....

(almost) 9 months since surgery

B: 3/4c Fairlife skim milk, 1 scoop Syntrax milk chocolate

L: Homemade zucchini lasagna, zucchini for noddles and lean ground turkey (this was really yummy)

D: Homemade salisbury steak with mushrooms

S: (throughout the day) 1oz beef jerky, Kosher Dill Petite pickle Pak, Dannon L&F Greek yogurt

Totals: Cals: 649  Protein: 84  Carbs: 31  Fat: 20

WHHHY do carbs have to taste so good? It's super disappointing to hear how UNHELPFUL the nut at your center is, that's annoying as all get out! Sometimes I wish I could just grow an inch taller so my 160 could be "normal" instead of just slightly into "Overweight" (even though, yes, I know BMI isn't the end all, be all of health and probably doesn't make much sense since it doesn't take into account muscle mass, etc, but I don't care, damnit!).

Keep at it, girlie!

Yeah the old NUT at my surgeons office was ok, then she left.  And the Nurse Practitioner is the weird one!  Last appointment she said how awesome I was doing, and that she wished all her patients were like me.  Then immediately after decided to say that i was doing so much wrong, and not eating enough, and had lost too much weight???!?!  Ummm ok.

But I have an appointment tomorrow with the new NUT they hired, and the Nurse Practitioners (at separate times of course), so hopefully they new NUT will be helpful to me!

I just don't understand my body sometimes, so strange!  ugh Like the whole eating under 1000 calories SHOULD mean losing weight.....but I guess not.  I don't even know

If you like walking,Leslie Sansone has some good DVD that are walks you can do in front of the TV at home. Guaranteed to get get your heart rate up too! Available for fairly cheap at Walmart too.

I actually have one.  It's still in the plastic.  LOL

They really are fun AV! Open that plastic!

Good morning AngryViking and the RNY Gang! I'm happy for 2016, I see some big changes coming my way. My weight loss has restarted and I've lost 6lbs since Christmas.

I kinda didn't want to come back to work this morning, and it's really cemented a decision that I've been kicking around. I've been really unhappy at my job, and an opportunity has come up and I wasn't sure of what to do about it. I would be leaving the field I am in, and the one I'm would be going to is much more physical. I would be going from an office environment to one of the big 3 auto makers, working on the production line. It's a little more money that I'm making now, to start, plus when I get in full time (after 90 days) I'll be getting profit sharing which is HUGE for the automakers. My cousin works for the UAW, and was able to get my brother a job last year, and he's willing to do the same for me, but questioned if I really wanted to leave an office job for one of manual labor on the assembly line. I have been at my job for nearly 10 years, and since I started that job I've put on 75lbs. The new job requires shift work, so I'd be working afternoons or midnights on 10/4's instead of days. I'd have three days in a row off, and decent vaction, awesome benefits, and retirement. I'm going to do it! I need a change and I know that if this doesn't work out in 6 months to a year, I have enough experience in my current field to make at least as much money as I'm making now. I honestly have nothing to lose here. I'm so freaking excited.

My new years resolution is to do better sticking to my eating plan everyday and stop being so hard on myself when I screw up.

5 months since surgery as of today!

Food plan

B: spinach, bacon and cheese quiche with a wonton wrapper crust 160 calories, coffee with cream and splenda 70 calories

L: spinach and beef lasagna, no noodles 144 cal, with a romain salad with cucumber, a boiled egg and skinny girl dressing 100 cal

D: Mock Chicken in the air fryer 145cal steamed cauliflower 12calories

S: Light and Fit 80cal, shrimp and ****tail sauce 112+30cal

Totals:

Cal 852 Protein 78 Carbs 36 Fat 43

Trying something different with my menu here, I think it will help to understand where the calories are coming from if I post the values next to what I'm having.