What's On Your Monday Menu, RNYers?

I'm baaaack!  And I'm effing exhausted.  LOL  This last week has completely wiped me out.  In addition to the funeral and everything that goes with it, my husband's car finally **** the bed on the way downstate and $800 later, it's still a POS.  It would have been probably twice that amount anywhere else, but my uncle is a mechanic and he loves me.  LOL  I ate pizza and donuts and chips and drank A LOT and...well you get the picture.  Sooo, I'm happy to be back into some kind of routine.  Maybe.  Ask me in a couple of hours how I'm doing.  LOL

QOTD!  What'd I miss?!    It felt weird not to interact with you guys every day.  You're my peeps!  LOL

Time since surgery:  almost 23 months.  What the what?!  How can it have been that long ago?

B:  2 HB eggs and a Cabot cheddar cheese snack bar

S:  1/2 of a chocolate peanut butter Premier Protein bar

L:  Buffalo chicken salad and pork rinds

D:  chicken piccata and roasted asparagus.  Have I mentioned before how much I love chicken?  As much as Grim loves steak.  LOLOL

TOTALS:  Cals:  873  Protein:  107 (woo!)  Carbs:  26 (double woo!)  Fat:  38

Have a great day!   ETA:  I wearing a skirt again today!  LOL  You'll have to take my word for it though, because I lost my phone...  Black pencil skirt and a pink scoop neck.

Nobody loves anything as much as I love steak.

I also have had more than my share of donuts these last few weeks.

QOTD: What did you miss? I got paloozed this weekend. Actually I got paloozed half to death.

Hello and Happy Monday! For once I really mean that...the weekend was wonderful and I'm ready to take on this last full week of school :) Bring. It. On.

QOTD: Thanks to Facebook you may not have missed our Birthday Palooza on Martha's Vineyard :) It was a really nice get-away. We were total tourists in matching MV T shirts. Ha! 

Eating on the Vineyard was kind of a disaster but we got lots of exercise and I managed to only gain a pound. I'm sure I can work that sucker off in a few days...

B: Fit Frappe Mocha and Sargento Balanced Break

S: Oikos Triple Zero Mixed Berry

L: Salad with Feta, HB egg, Turkey, Bacon Bits, and Balsamic Dressing

S: Cheese Stick and Vermont Smoke and Cure Cracked Pepper Dried Turkey Stick

D: Parmesean Chicken Breast

Yeah. Exercise. 

Well, I can't actually prove it since I lost my Fit*****arger, but yeah...exercise!

QOTD: Ummm what did you miss, just a lot of the same ol same ol....I think.  Unless I am forgetting something. HAHAHA  We missed you though, I am glad you are back!!! 

I have been looking into the "If It Fit Your Macros" site, I know there are some here that use this for their calories/macros.  I want to think it will work out for me, and maybe it will help me get past the whole must drink shakes all day mentality I have been in lately.  But the calories seem so high, and the carbs etc.    So I dont even know what I am trying to say here....does anyone use the IIFYM's way of eating to lose weight or maintain??  

Here is the info that IIFYM gave me when I filled out the free calculator for fat loss (so losing weight):   Cals: 1318, Protein: 37% (121g), Fat: 36% (53g), Carbs: 27% (90g).

Am I not eating enough....and I too restrictive and this is causing me to "binge" on weekends??  How many calories SHOULD I be getting in etc etc....so many questions...no answers.  My NUT is NO HELP here as I just get the EAT MORE crap all the time with no real way other than "peanut butter and avocados" .

14+ months since surgery

M1: 4oz 2% milk, 1 scoop Syntrax milk chocolate w/ lots of ice

M2: Dannon L&F Greek yogurt w/ 30g slivered almonds

M3: Honey BBQ tuna pouch, celery sticks w/ 2 LC light wedges

M4: (1) Light string cheese, 30g turkey pepperoni

M5: 4oz Fairlife skim milk, 1 scoop Syntrax milk chocolate w/ lots of ice

Totals: Cals: 885  Protein: 109  Carbs: 38  Fat: 33

I've read about IIFYM.  It seems like a lot of calories (carbs), though, right?  It might be worth a shot just to see if it prevents the weekend binges.  Also?  Your menu looks good today.  Not as many shakes and more real food!

To me it seems high in carbs and calories, but my brain is also a really scary place when it comes to those things! LOL  I feel like I can't trust my own judgement when it comes to these things. LOL

Yeah, chewing my food, meh...whatever...I will give it a try! HAHAHAH

You should be able to set your own macros. Lower the carbs, and increase the protein and fats. 

Right, I CAN set my own macros.  But I was hoping to find something that will work for me long term, through maintenance that maybe doesnt have me SO OBSESSED with staying really low carb.  Pipe dream??  Probably.

Well actually probably just me being lazy, I want someone to be able to TELL ME....eat X amount of calories and X amount of fats/carbs etc to  lose weight, and X amount to stay the same.  The "just try it and see how it work" thing scares me!