What's On Your Thursday Menu, RNYers?

Good morning!

QOTD: Raspberries - especially when freshly picked and warm from the sun.

B:quick steel cut oats

L: salmon and apple

D: chicken breast

S; chicken nibblers, yogurt, laughing cow cheese

Cal-889, protein-97

Morning AV. This is my 20,447th consecutive day without wearing a skirt.

My favorite fruit is an apple, but it has to be a Mac. My least favorite is everything else.

I'm sitting at the airport waiting to pick up my sister and nephews. Looks like I picked the wrong day to quit sniffing glue.

I like apples, too, but I prefer the honeycrisp.  There is nothing grosser than a mealy apple.  blech

Honeycrisp Apples are AMAZING!  The best apples I ever had were in Israel.  We stayed on a kibbutz on an apple orchard.  We would go for long walks and pick and eat as we were walking.  They were Gala apples which I typically don't like but these were delish.  Crunchy and juicy with no mealy texture.  Yum

Haha, I picked carrots at a kibbutz. You totally got a better deal.  

OMG love Ovaltine...partial to the Chocolate Malted flavor.

QOTD: Favorite: any kind of berry, Least: Pomegranate? Just because it is so damn messy...never fell in love with it.

Update to my crazy drive-by yesterday... Still learning lessons at almost 2 years out:

1. Don't go 2 hours upon waking without eating or drinking anything.... I bought tea and hard boiled eggs,cheese and yogurt at 7-11 leaving the hotel, but he was only 5 minutes from the  Hotel, so I only took a few sips. Figured I'd eat food after,  I normally don't eat right away in AM....But I would have already drank a quart of fluids (with some calories)...in water, pre-workout drink or coffee/tea within the 2 hours.

2. Pay attention, when you are not in your normal routine. See 1 above.

3. Was Totally nailed on the Magnesium and Calcium.--I've been having abdominal muscle tightness- felt like I was going backwards instead of forwards- He's like how are your calcium and Magnesium??  Can't let things slide. I had run out of Magnesium right around the surgery time, and just never went and bought more. When I noticed my ankles/legs getting swollen the weekend of the wedding.... and was wracking my brain... remembered the magnesium and ran out to buy... then yesterday, as I was pulling my vitamins for the trip I realized I had totally not been taking my calcium since the surgery.... maybe need potassium too...

4. Protein...Surgeon wants 100g a day.... When I try and up my protein I rely heavily on Premier Protein Drinks. Ready-to-Drink, easy but not 100% Whey Isolate, which is the best absorbed. 1st surgery, when I had the spots on the suture line not healing...He said...- Make sure you are getting your protein in....lightbulb moment....rather than the Premier I started adding  unflavored and drinking whey isolate, and within a week those spots closed....SO yesterday, same thing- Have some open spots- Are you getting your protein in? Another lightbulb moment- relying on Premier too much again.  Even if I am counting my 100g- it has to be quality 100g and I usually need more than average... even taking in the WLS standard of 60-80g I came up low protein on my blood work....so I always need to go higher... Again No room to slide..

5. When I am embarrassed/feeling stupid I laugh a lot....while choking down cheese PB crackers...

B: Tea, Whey Protein Isolate Shake :) TBD

S: Tuna pouch, carrots - Going to sit at beach

L: Salami and cheese roll up

S: Greek Yogurt

D: Steak, spinach

E: Borrowed my girlfriend's cize video and am going to try it - dancing.

Great lessons, thanks for sharing. I realize that I usually eat a lot less than what I post, because I get full or bored with food and skip a meal (usually dinner). I stopped going back in to ammend my totals in MFP, so I actually don't really know what my protein levels are for real anymore...

Looks like you have learned some valuable self lessons.  I think I need to learn a few too.  I rely heavily on the ready to drink protein as well.  I should follow your example and get back on the whey isolate.  

Thanks for sharing the lessons! I have a few girls at work that are loving Cize.

With all my surgery, figured need to lay off the weights./ab exercises for now.. not cleared for any upper body for 2 weeks...so this is more cardio. Just finished it, it was good....