What's on your menu today (Thursday) RNYers?

Hi everyone! I feel like I was gone forever, but I've been sick and work and kids have been stressing me out. It is a frigid here today and we are going out in DC tonight. So I should be an ice block before getting to the Verizon Center for Trans Siberian Orchestra. 

I've been doing pretty well with my eating down another 5 pounds. Blood work back and I made another post on my only issue. I have my one-year check-up next week. We have a busy weekend ahead so I likely won't be posting tomorrow but wanted to catch-up.

Time Since Surgery: 1 year on Saturday

B: Turkey and Gouda Roll-ups

L: ??? Really not feeling like anything, probably will pop out for some chicken somewhere

D: Ruth's chris, Filet Mignon, Cannot wait

I've been wanting to see the Trans Siberian Orchestra but I keep hearing that it's not very good or not like it was. Have you seen them before or is this your first time? If so, let me know how it is!

I've been before and it does depend on the show, but we've always enjoyed it. Some are definitely better than others. 

im sure that concert will be awesome!

Mornin menu peeps! It's 42 degrees this morning. Cold for the south! I often wonder what it would be like to live in crazy snow like you Daisy. When we have a chance of ice our city shuts down. We often get called dramatic or whatever but we don't know how to drive in ice or snow so it makes a lot of sense to me! Keep people off the roads!

QOTD: Hubby and I plan on getting a travel trailer and visiting all the national parks and anywhere else we want to see.  We are both 35 so we have quite a while before we can retire. I'm trying to convince my husband to let me start a small dog rescue. He said I have to wait until the kids are gone. 

B: Water water water. All the meat yesterday kept me so full I couldn't drink anything!

L: Ribs

S: venison summer sausage and cheese

D: tacos (just meat)

Daisy, yesterday I ate tuna with balsamic for dinner and yum!!!! I see why you love it! 

Morning menu buddies! It is drizzling and cold here (cold for Texas) but I suppose you all have it worse so I can't complain too much.  

I had a small Oreo related incident but otherwise did well yesterday staying on plan.  It really wasn't my fault...you see...what happened was... There was this old package of Oreos in the pantry which I was reorganizing. The package was partially open and I had no clue how long it had been there...so obviously I HAD to eat one to see if they were stale. ????? What the what? Why?!?! Uhg.  Worse...it was very stale...so I ate half of one more to see if the whole package was stale or just the one in the front. LOLOLOL I swear sometimes I am nuts. The second Oreo was also stale and I managed to throw out half of it and threw away the package.  

No clue why any of that needed to happen so I stopped myself to think about why for a few minutes.  I realized it was because I was 1) Home alone 2) Hungry but dinner was going to be for another hour or so when the Guy got home. So... trigger of being alone with food is definitely something I have noticed before and need to be more mindful of. Trigger of being hungry and not eating a healthy protein forward snack. I did eat two slices of salami and a piece of cheese (left over from my lunch which I hadn't finished earlier) and felt much better.  Got myself busy cleaning and I was fine. One day at a time.

This afternoon I am going for a heart echo cardiogram.  It is a regularly scheduled check up to monitor how my ticker is doing.  One of the biggest reasons I had for doing RNY is that I have a genetic degenerative cardiac conductivity disease. I already had two heart attacks and a cardiac ablation for severe A-fib by the time I was 43.  Even though this is genetic and there is nothing I can really do except keep fixing the parts that break it still seemed like less weight for my heart to support would be better so...RNY. This will be my first echo since losing the weight and I am really interested to see if it has improved any of my function. I go for the results with my cardiologist on the 30th so I will keep you guys posted.

QOTD: No plan.  Is that even ever going to be possible? Who knows.  I'm terrible at budgeting and worse at long term planning. Basically I am 45 so I figure I've got at least 20 more years of working for sure and then I will sort it out.  Right now getting the kids through college and grown seems like the whole world.  Beyond that will simply have to wait.

Menu: B: Chobani Crunch Simply 100; L: Light & Fit Greek Raspberry; D: No clue. After my echo I am heading out early from work to go pick up one of my college kiddos.  Her semester ends today so she is coming home for the break! So excited to have her home for a little while.  We will likely stop on the drive; S: No clue...again..kiddo.

I did not know this about your heart.  Best to you today!  And good for you for being proactive about this condition and getting the RNY. 

Thank you! It is something that I can do very little about so I think that made me want to do SOMETHING, right?  My mother died in her sleep from this same disease at age 47, her father had it as well and died walking across the living room at age 37.  My brother just died at age 49 a few months ago and although the autopsy said "pneumonia" was the cause of death I suspect that our heart condition contributed but the doctors were unaware of it (He was in prison and the medical care there is pretty horrible).

As I get closer to the age my mother died at I sort of feel like milk that is about to expire. I just keep hoping that with the medical care I have (starting 12 years ago), the weight loss, and that the diagnosis is known I can push through and be a grumpy ass 80 year old lady pointing to my fake boobies and winking at the nurses in my rest home. We never know how much life we get...live it up!

~E

Hope your appointment goes well, and that your ticker is tocking just the way it should!!!

Oreos are made from the devil... I won't bring them in the house. I used to put down almost an entire row of them before my brain could catch up with the mouth... it was ugly.

Any sweets are from the devil! And they are everywhere right now. We all have an issue or we wouldn't be here,right?!