What's On Your Tuesday Menu, RNYers?

Hey menu gang! I usually don't post because I feel that I don't get here early enough but oh well right? 

AV QOTD - I'm right on the line (7/23) for Leo & Cancer. I feel that I have characteristics of both. I am controlling like a Leo but I'm not a "hear me roar" kind of person. I'm shy (strange for Leo) so that must be the Cancer side. (and why I don't post very much here

NYMOM QOTD - WLS surgery is so different down here in the Houston TX area. It's treated almost like plastic surgery. The support group at the hospital near me is more like a seminar with a few hundred people so no one really gets to talk, you just listen to the Dr's. Years ago OH had some ladies oh here (Debrah Flores & Stacy Garcia) that would get together and have support meetings at their house. I attended some of those and then there were some other peeps on here that used to meet up but quit about a year ago. I haven't found any others. The groups on Facebook are ridiculous!! All anybody does is encourage bad habits. Like hey, I ate "this" at "this" many days out so you will be fine if you do too. I deleted them all! I cannot believe how many people are having the surgery that are so uninformed!!! But like I said, it's like an elective surgery here and surgeons treat it as such.

B - Protein shake

L - Smoked turkey

S - Siggy's yogurt

D - Daughter has softball practice this evening then I have to go to the grocery store so probably more turkey or another shake.

S - SF popsicle 

Good morning AV and Menu crew! Happy Tuesday,  we are in the middle of a end of year production push and I am having issues with a couple of suppliers, so....life has been busy, interesting and eventful. All I can do is monitor and present the facts/numbers on a daily basis.

QOTD #1 - I am a Taurus - I feel the only negative Taurus trait that I carry is that I can be a stubborn guy. I am not unreasonable, but you can bet your ass I am going to make you work to change my mind....LOL

QOTD #2 - I do not go to the local ( 1 1/2 hours away) support group. I wish I was able too. The moderator is a nurse that had WLS and she had the funniest stories and tips when going through the preop requirements. I think it helps the program to have someone moderating that has lived through and experienced WLS. I love this forum, I was at another forum for a  long period of time, a lot of good people and then I drifted away as I felt I no longer identified myself as a person with WLS. I felt that I was living under my new found self. I have to admit, I almost did not stick around as I got some tough love in the beginning, but soon learned the pecking order and I only offer advice and experiences where I feel I have something to add. I am so happy to have found OH as I realize I need the support. Maintenance is tough and we are living this together. My wife offers great support, but does not always understand my anxiety when it comes to my food choices, she is very supportive and knows that I Need to go to the gym on a regular routine....it is my thing. Going to the gym keeps me grounded, keeps me from eating crap and takes any edge off that I may have. I am done rambling...LOL

B - Protein Bar

S - Caramel Apple pie yogurt

L - Homemade taco salad and guacamole no chips

s - buddig ham & Cheese stick

D - leftover ribeye steak and zoodles.

Stay Healthy my Friends! mike

Good morning!

QOTD:  Scorpio... I think I fit my profile.  Intense.  My sister was born on my first birthday, we are completely different and at the same time exactly the same.  ;)

(Edited to add the second QOTD):

QOTD #2:  THIS IS MY FORUM!  thank goodness.

B: Cherry Cobbler Protein shake (Eggface to the rescue, this was great!)

L:  Dannon Light & fit Greek yogurt, Babybel

D:  Rotisserie Chicken. piece of baked potato

S:  Laughing Cow wedges, may try some zucchini noodles

Totals:  591 cals 74g protein 56g carbs

I keep reading about people in stalls.  I am almost five weeks out.  I have not lost anything measurable in more than a week.  And I stopped caring.  It will come off.  My clothes are hanging on me, and I do have that 40-pound neck loss ;)  I am going to stop getting on the scale unless I go to the doctor.  Okay that may be a little extreme.  But not very damned often.

Too busy and sad to think today. My only brother died yesterday at age 50.  He has been in prison for the last 25 years.  Needless to say we weren't close. Yet I find myself definitely grieving and having lots of family of origin 'stuff' come up that I thought I had worked through years ago. Memories are all fun and games until they are really tragic bad news stuff. I wish my childhood was all puppies and picket fences but he and I grew up in a very abusive family so his death has opened all that back up for me. Plus trying to figure out how to claim his body, do I even want to, how much is all that going to cost, why do I care, prove I am really next of kin (hello, everyone else is dead...I'm all you are going to find), "Do I REALLY have to go in person to the prison in Tennessee just to pick up his stuff??? Seriously...ya'll can't mail it? For Pete's sake"...and all of the things. Uhg. Not my happiest day.

QOTD1: Sagittarius...yes, black and white, loyal, and determined.  That is me.

QOTD2: I'm trying to find a group in person to try.  I am pretty happy here with you all though.

Menu: The usual. 

Grimm...maybe you were right. I apparently am a death magnet. Send casseroles.

Family is family and I am not surprised that you are grieving. I can tell from afar that you are a genuine, caring person. You have taken all of your life experiences and turned a positive into it. You made a choice to do that and I applaud you. I am so sorry to hear about your brother.

OMG - I am SO sorry.  This sounds like a tragic situation all the way around.  I can't even fathom this and I can think of no words other than I'm so sorry.

I would just let them dispose of the stuff.  It is probably what you are going to do with it. 

My brother's mother-in-law died last year.  She had a huge house full of her personal treasures and almost all of it ended up at the local dump.  Stuff is just stuff, not a reflection of the person who is gone.  Why take your time and energy to just add clutter?

Even though you were not close, grief counselling is a good thing for you now to help sort through feelings.

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That is one of the weird things about being in prison for so long, he had literally nothing of any value.  The 'personal effects' would be letters, journals, and our family pictures that he treasured and kept with him throughout. It wouldn't be stuff...just insight into his life and times. 

~E

Sorry these wounds are re-opened.

Take time to process this...

Thank you. I will process... like it or not... so I might as well try to work with it instead of against it. Wheee

~E