What's on your Saturday menu, RNYers?

Good morning everyone!  I really enjoyed seeing everyone's before and after pictures yesterday as well.  Hopefully I will have an after picture to post before long.  Right now I am not at my highest, but not at my recent lowest either!  But I am sure that even with the 2 week pre-op diet I will get to that recent lowest!

I do have a 3-day weekend (I am a teacher) and I am excited because I get 2 more of my appointments out of the way on Monday :) and didn't even have to take a day off of work!  Monday I have my psych eval and some metabolic test that my Bariatric Center has patients do.  Unfortunately one appointment is int he morning and the other afternoon and my clinic is an hour away from home so I will be spending the day in Charlotte.

I also am planning to go to the movies today to see Hidden Figures. 

QOTD:  I rarely remember my dreams.  But have had over many years had the same strange house be the setting of my dream.  It isn't a house that really exists but I know it is the same house because it always has a hidden swimming pool in the basement that i am able to find in my dream!  Weird!

I will be going to the grocery store here shortly to buy groceries.  So I don't know what I will be eating exactly today but I did make a list and have some ideas for low carb dinners through the week.

B:  Eggs

L: protein shake??

S: So I will save some of my calories for popcorn but will use portion control

D:  Cooking something depending on the amount of time I have ...thinking about maybe a chicken stir fry and this sausage eggroll in a bowl recipe I have came across 

I used to have a recurring dream when I was engaged (19yo-23yo) to a guy. In the dream, I was in the same labyrinth-like wooden barn-like building... I can still see it in my mind..... also as a younger adult a recurring dream of climbing over this familiar (but totally re-done in my dreams) bridge... I was always climbing it and would be really high! So strange

Morning RNY'ers. I've done my run and am eating the hotel breakfast at the moment. Today we will catch a little of my niece's fencing tournament and then head home. Weather is supposed to be sketchy- it's raining but is supposed to snow/sleet. 

I had a Four day weekend since I took off yesterday. No plans for Monday- I may work. Maybe. Most likely not lol.  Sunday my son has a wrestling match- his first. I wouldn't mind just relaxing. 

Qotd: I randomly remember my dreams. My last one my son was doing something and hurt himself badly. I've been paranoid ever since thinking it wasn't just a dream- but a premonition. 

20 months out; no scale available to weigh till later

m1: scrambled eggs, 1 packet oatmeal, 1/2 blueberry bagel. (Blew my carbs before 9am- #goals)

M2-4: ?? I have baked chicken wings and left over taco-seasoned ground beef at home-- I'm gonna just try and sip water till I get home to my protein friendly options.  

Good Morning JB and Menu Family!

My plans for this weekend involve surviving the big ice storm that is predicted to hit us on Sunday and Monday.  My daughter works at Menard's (like a Lowe's) and they sold out of generators yesterday by 2 pm!  

QOTD:  I love dreams!  I went to a Dream Workshop once and it was amazing how symbolic & meaningful our dreams are if you write them down and pay attention to them.  Many of my dreams lately have my late mom in them and I like to think she is visiting me from Heaven in my dreams.

B:  crepe w/ peaches & cream cheese

L:  chicken & wild rice soup

D:  stuffed peppers

S:  Light n Fit Greek yogurt

Exercise:  Exercise bike

I'm gearing up for CAMAW starting on Monday!  I went to the grocery store yesterday and stocked up on meat!

Have a FANTASTIC day and weekend everyone!

~ Karen  

Hi Karen, isn't it great that you get to visit with your mom in your dreams. Hope you don't get hit to bad with the ice storm. Stay safe. 

Thanks, Lizz!  

I do believe they are visits!

Me, too!  

My deceased dad has been in a few of my dreams as well and I always wake up happy to have seen him if only in my dreams. In some cultures seeing your loved one in your dreams is very symbolic and I worked with someone who was quite upset by the fact that his dad had come to visit other family members in their dreams but not him. He believed it was very important to his grieving process. 

Maybe your coworker had been visited in his dreams by his dad and just didn't remember it?  Yes, I've had some dreams that my deceased dad was in, as well.  When my grandmother was dying she told the nurse that I had come in the night and taken her to see her deceased relatives and named them all.  I like to think that I came in my sleep and took her up to Heaven to see her deceased relative that she would soon be joining.