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

Happy birthday to your mom!

other than a good knife, my immersion blender is probably my favorite kitchen tool. You'll love it. They are so handy! 

Happy Birthday Dasy's Mom!!

Happy birthday DaizyMom's Mom!  What a pretty lady!!  Have a blast at Teddy's on the weekend, now there is a "meat palace" for sure!!! Wait until you can eat dense protein you will have a million choices there!  Nice to celebrate your Mom & Son together what a treat!

Yahoo on the 266.3, see told you it would go down!  

Keep up the awesome work girl!!! 

Good Wednesday morning menu gang!! Last night I ate my normal Ribeye from our local steak joint and my stomach started.  Ugh I usually dont have an issue with Ribeye at all.  This morning my stomach is still all growling and grippy so I made a protein shake.  I hope this is not a new norm for ribeye because its my go to food. 

QOTD- I usually love anything I get lol.  I am not picky and if I am not 100% in love with it, I still smile and make them know how much I appreciate it.  

Time since surgery 10 months 153.9 

B- Syntrax Chocolate Truffle 

L- Boiled egg 1/2 tsp mayo

D- 2oz Turkey breast 

S- not sure what I will eat depends on my stomach 

I hope everyone has a great day!!

Good Morning Daisy and Menu Family!

Daisy, that blanket-scarf story is hilarious!  I love that you are using it as a seat cover for the dogs to step on!  Ha Ha!

QOTD:  I can't think of any really hideous gifts I've gotten, but I'm always very gracious and thankful when I receive a present.  The person meant well and tried hard to get me something I would like and that means a lot to me.

B:  Grits with melted cheese

L:  Homemade chili

D:  Rib-eye steak

S:  Light n Fit Greek Yogurt

S:  Roast beef roll-ups with cream cheese

Exercise:  Walking the dog or exercise bike.

Have a FANTASTIC day everyone!

~ Karen  

GRITS?? yummm!

Good morning DD2 and Crew.  My hubby finally got home last night, but we got a few hours together and today he's driving to Kentucky.  There is a chance he could make it home tonight, if the repair goes perfectly and traffic is with him, but he packed a bag just in case.  I'll be honest with you all, I'm kinda numb about it now.  Last night I had such a feeling of despair when were talking about it.  Hubby asked if everything was okay, and I told him I was just tired, but I was so depressed.  I didn't tell him how I was really feeling because there is nothing he can do about it right now.  He hates the travel, and if he had a way to fix it for me right now, he would.  So, I don't want to burden him with my depression about it.  BUT, today is the day.  I meet with my new therapist and I'm hoping that we get along well.  The office is 10 minutes from my office, so it's convenient.  I told my supervisor that I would likely come back to the office afterwards, but if I was a snivelling mess, I'd just go and work from home.  She's okay either way.

I've been having very weird vivid dreams.  Last night was about work, and it wasn't a bad dream, but I remember it vividly.  I don't usually remember my dreams.  I had a nightmare on Monday night.  I don't like this at all.

Anyway, I did okay for food yesterday.  I didn't feel like I got out of control, though I did eat off plan a bit.  I ended up getting Mexican carry out last night.  I had some carnitas and beans.  I had 1 soft corn tortilla.  It was delicious.  

Plan for today

17 months 3 weeks since surgery.  Weight this morning 164.4

B: Egg cup (1 egg, 1 bacon and 1oz cheese), a packet of oatfit.  Coffee with SF Coffeemate

L: 2.5oz turkey breast with mayo and pickles on 1/2 a flat out wrap.  I scaled back the meat today after my overeating yesterday

D: Ham Steak.

S: Light and Fit greek yogurt.  1 cup of plain fat free yogurt and 1/2C of blueberries eaten throughout the day when I get the urge to shovel it in.  

totals: 

Calories 828 Protein 93 carbs 59 (I just ate the last of the oatmeal) fat 33

Have a great day everyone.

Good luck with the new therapist.

Happy Wednesday guys!

I definitely have days where I'm less hungry....and days where no matter what I eat I seem to get hungry sooner.  I just try and make smarter choices those days.   Yesterday I had a popcorn funeral...I made a small batch of popcorn in my instant pot and enjoyed the heck out of it....because today I'm getting my BRACES put on!!!  I'm excited, even though I know it's probably going to be a fairly annoying process.  Yesterday's cardiac visit went great, and Duke university (where my appointment was) is gorgeous.  I had my visit, they listened to my ticker, looked at the EKG results from December (the ones where my primary doc said 'probably normal'....imagine that not being good enough for my surgeon haha...who knows what he was thinking) and they declared me good to go.   My sister had the mass in her lung removed yesterday, it was a quick surgery and her surgeon said it looked like the same thing they found in her lymph nodes, so he's sent it to histology and cultured it as well.

QOTD:  I'm definitely gracious when receiving a gift that I won't use and then we either find something to do with it at home, stick it in a dark closet somewhere until the guilt of not liking it has passed.....then we either donate or regift it.  The most recent thing I can think of is a few years ago Hubby and I made a big batch of beef jerky - we had a dehydrator and we ordered 65lbs of top sirloin from our butcher.  It turned out great....and my FIL got hubby a jerky gun for his birthday.  It was one of the weirdest gifts...you were supposed to stuff it with ground meat and then like...squi**** out into sticks or something.  It was like something straight out of an infomercial (slapchop! slapchop! slapchop!)  I can see why FIL thought it was a good idea....but it never got used and we eventually donated it to goodwill in the hopes that someone else might find a use for it.

Also...Daisy all I can think of when reading your story about the scarf is this picture

MENU:

B: Protein Shake

S: string cheese

L: Protein Shake

S: Something Soft

D: Soup!  (notice a trend here...I expect my mouth to be tender!)


Have a great day guys! 

As cold as I feel lately, I'd LOVE to get a scarf like these!! LOL