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

Getting back on track = WINNING!!!!  Great job!!! 

ABSOLUTELY!  

Yes! I remember a old-timer saying  to me "Welcome to the Loser's Bench" and I loved it! But the irony is that We're REALLY the WINNERS !

I am a texter all the way!!  I don't mind talking on the phone, but for some reason would much rather just text!  That way I can do important things while texting, like screaming at my kids and going to the bathroom! LOL

I am, once again, being an asshole with my eating!!  UGH  I get sooooo bored at work, I have never really enjoyed my job, especially now when I have way more energy and its a desk job.  But I have been here for 15 years, and its steady work, and I am scared to DEATH to leave.  Anyway.....they pack the cupboards with SO MANY CARBS....and I used to be really good at ignoring them.  But it has gotten WAY to easy to just grab a handful of this and a handful of that on my way by.  Or walk out there when I am bored (which is a lot with this damn job).  So disapointed in myself.    I am NOT using my "honeymoon" period like I should be.  I lose weight....then gain a few lbs, lose it again, up, down, up, down.....gggrrrrr

9 1/2 months since surgery

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

L: Homemade egg salad (2 eggs, 1 tbsp light mayo, spices), 2c romaine

D: Homemade "Taco" salad

S: Dannon L&F Greek yogurt, pickles w/ Baybel light cheese

Totals: Cals: 750  Protein: 85  Carbs: 33  Fat: 34

Ugh, I feel your pain friend, I feel your pain.

In the beginning I found it so easy to resist temptations - but as the months go on it's harder and harder to use sheer will power to resist. I don't have any magic bullets because I'm certainly still struggling. 

Everyone says it - but get thee to therapy (it took me to almost 2 years out to seek this out, but I finally am and am glad for it).

Some other things that work moderately well for me are: having a stash of EASY snacks in my office so it's harder for me to justify the cookie or whatever is in the break room, tracking my days without an unplanned snack (along with other habits I want to reinforce for myself like no diet soda and no alcohol), AND trying to be kind to myself when I do "mess up." I found myself in a total self-fulfilling prophecy last year - where I was making poor choices and then beating myself up over it and then heading back to MORE poor choices to comfort myself. Old habits die hard...

PS. You're welcome for the totally unsolicited advice :-P

Oh therapy....I was going before surgery, it was an expense that I really can't afford.  But I was doing it, but we never ended up talking about my food issues because I still didnt think I had any.

And honestly, right now, its like I just get bored and eat.  HOW can I even work through that with a therapist??  I need to hire someone to follow me around and slap **** out of my hands! BWHAHAH

If you find someone to do that can you ask them to recommend someone in my area too? LOL.

Oh yeah, picture!!  Check out this carrot I found with my baby carrots last week!!!  Of course I didnt eat it....  but the ones I DID eat made me SOOOOOOO SICK for the rest of the day.  No more raw carrots for me.  Some days I think my pouch hates me!!

Raw carrots STILL don't sit well for me at almost two years out. It's one of the only things that make me sick!