What's on your Wednesday Menu, RNYers?

Morning everyone! JB, Glad you got a good night's sleep! This week has been... The Week. And it's only WEDNESDAY??! Daughter forgot to get the trash from upstairs last night (after missing it last week, and last night hubby reminded her just as she was doing it!), so we told her she needed to just be home tonight, no going out (child is rarely home these days)... she stressed out and looked at me with tear filled eyes and told me the reason she NEEDED to be out tonight is so she can work out, because that relieves stress... then she started crying and said "Stress from being bullied at school!!!" (and she stomped off to her car for school) I'm not quite sure what to make of it, because I'm not sure if it's 'true' bullying, or what I would call girl drama... long story, but now I'm worried (of course) and will need to wait until tonight to find out WTH is going on. Part of me thinks this is more of a temper tantrum because she'll be missing this military training that she goes to every Wednesday, but of course I need her to talk to me about what's going on at school... sigh.

QOTD: Crazy diets... I did the Susan Powter diet, and for some reason I remember that being crazy... plus I gained 5 lbs doing it... I've done a rendition of the old grapefruit diet, that was awful. Oh, yes, and the little diet pill Alli... don't eat fat with that one!!!

Weight this morning 147.2. 11.5 months out, eating a maintenance diet apparently because I haven't lost anything in a while now

B: Chicken alfredo/spaghetti squash casserole

L: Meatballs and marinara sauce

D: Nothing taken out... last night I ended up eating leftover gyro meat and 1/4 of a grilled tomato - oh, and 2 pieces of the pita that was left with the meat! grrrr

S: My love... My Latte (2 oz fairlife milk and SF syrup)

**Last night I snacked on beef jerky and cashews before dinner, and had 1 Russel Stover's SF caramel turtle... here's my issue peeps...**

If I could only eat what is listed above I'd do OK... I know what my issue is, and I need to fix it, but I haven't yet. I think I need to have a 'regulated' snack between lunch and dinner... I'm snacking on things between when I get home and when we eat. Mostly 'approved' choices, but I'm not weighing it and portioning it like I should... I'm just not getting it together to do this! Which is why I am maintaining and not losing...

I totally get you on the girl drama. We deal with it too. Hope it turns out to be nothing.

I hope it's girl drama and not something more serious. Thinking good thoughts.

i eat 5 or 6 small meals, and it really helps keep the snack cravings away. You might try that planned snack and see if it helps.

I did the Susan Powter diet too! She was crazy, but I liked her.

Susan Powter was a huge inspiration to me when I was a teenager. She was the first person I had ever seen lose a ton of weight and look like a totally different person. I just googled to see how she looks now, and she still looks great. Good for her :)

I loved her books! I remember being amazed at her comparisons - like for the same amount of calories, you could eat half a bagel OR 20 pounds of spinach, lol! Glad to hear she still looks great.

Sorry about whatever is going on with your daughter. I hope it's nothing too serious. Not that girl drama, isn't... I remember it well =(

I schedule 6 small meals a day. Some days I end up eating all 6, and most days I only have 4. But I need to plan them in and make sure that if I am hungry, I know what it will be and already have it in MFP. I feel much better if at the end of the day I am deleting things I didn't eat from MFP, rather than adding things I didn't plan on.

Right now since I am trying to aggressively lose, I am planning fewer meals and making myself stick to it, but on the average week, I need to eat more often to stay successful.

Crazy morning at work but I'm taking a break to check in.

I'm officially in a stall. I'm not really worried because I know that the scale will move again. I'm doing the right things, but it is frustrating when the number reward isn't there.

Yesterday I did a long walk around the city at lunch time. It was nice to be out and not have it be too hot. Then I had water aerobics in the evening.

In gym news, I found out that there is a trainer on duty on weekday evenings, so that means that I can use their expertise to learn more about the weight room. I can't say that I like working out in the evenings particularly, but since that's when someone is available, that's when I'll go.

QOTD: I did a tuna fish diet and ate 2 cans of tuna everyday and little else for 2 weeks. I didn't really lose much wait and now the thought of canned tuna makes me ill.

Breakfast: hard boiled egg, turkey sausage

Snack: Ice tea protein shake

Lunch: 3 oz. TJ's Balsamic chicken

Snack: cottage cheese, unsweetened applesauce

Dinner: Something quick since I'm headed to the gym afterward

Exercise: long walk at lunch, weight training at the gym and maybe 30 minutes on the bikes

Glad you got a decent sleep. There are nights where I do, some that I don't. One thing I will say, is I sleep better even with the weight loss so far. I never had sleep apnea even way back at 391 lbs but the general quality of sleep now is just better. I do fall asleep watching tv a bit more, but I'm comfortable, relaxed and warm, and not overly engaged with what's on the tube anyway. Who wouldn't? LOL

Anyway, the menu:

1 laughing cow jalapeno wedge on the 75 min. walk to work, plus when I got to work, my protein shake.

MS: 1/2 cup cottage cheese with 1.5 oz of strawberry

Lunch: Protein shake, 25g protein/2g carb.

AS: 1/2 cup FF Greek yogurt with 1.5oz strawberry

Supper: 2/3 cup beef barley vegetable soup, homemade. I know I'm only early out, but don't get too excited about the "B" word back there, lol. There isn't a whole lot of it in the entire crock pot, so I get maybe 4 or 5 pieces in my little bowl. Anyway, 2.4 g fat, 119 calories, 6.8 protein, 5.2 carbs. Beef was cut up into 1/4" squares and slow-cooked for 10 hours, and it's basically liquid beef now. (that thought just made me maybe not want to eat it...hahaha). Usually there's chicken soup, but not this time.

ES: I'm stuck at work quite late tonight, I likely won't get one in but I do have an emergency shake supply if I need it.

Overall, not including the ES (which would boost protein by 25g):

84g protein, 24 carbs, 6g fat, 512 calories. 956 calories burned walking on my commute. Gonna need new shoes by summer. :)

Welcome RNY'ers!

QOTD: I really never tried many diets. I 'knew enough' to know that cabbage, grapefruit etc diets were nonsense. Outside of WW, my efforts have always been calorie based. The wildest calorie based approach was attempting to eat only 500 calories every other day. I heard a DJ on the radio said she'd lost weight with that approach- so I gave t a shot. I was immediately discouraged by learning I drank 500 calories in juice/soda, independent of a meal. At that point I basically assumed that nutritional info was wrong and there couldn't possibly be so many calories in my favorite things. I'm pretty damn good at sticking my head in the sand, lol.

196.2 today (totally my fault- I bombed eating well the past two evenings), 2 years out

M1: 2 scrambled eggs, 4 turkey sausage links, 1 slice cheese

M2: 1 oz cheese/cashews, apple

M3: was supposed to be a tuna packet with above mentioned cheese & cashews-- but I forgot the tuna packet at home ...grrr. So it''l be 3.4 oz bourbon chicken chunks

M4: No idea- I have some things to do out- so it may be dinner on the run-- or I may wait til I get home and saute shrimp.