What's on your menu today (PHOTO FRIDAY) RNYers?

Hello Menu Crew! Happy Friday! Happy long weekend to all my fav Americans! Today is Photo Friday open topic, post whatever you want! Anyone got fun weekend plans? Today is my nieces 22nd bday, my sister is doing a small get together for dinner and making chicken wings, I hate chicken wings! And Sunday I am going to a retirement party for one of my all time fav Nurse Managers I work with, I am going to miss this guy so much!

QOTD: Mosquito bites! Are you the person that mosquito's go after? Do you have a reaction to the bites? Do you layer on the repellent if you go out? Mosquitoes' rarely if ever bite me. I literally can't explain it. They LOVE my husband. We have done multiple tests where we both sit outside in the backyard, short sleeves & shorts on, the mosquitoes will every time pass me to go bite him (or even my dogs but not me!!). I might get one or two bites a whole summer and I have zero reaction. My husband has a major reaction, the bites swell up huge & red and get so itchy he wants to die, its quite bad.

3.6 yrs post op RNY / 126.6 lbs / maintenance food

B: coffee with vanilla premier protein then 1 chicken sausage + bbq sauce

L: 4oz greek souvlaki chicken breast skewer (take out from work)

S: 2 babybel

D: 4 slices of oven roasted turkey breast deli slices + swiss cheese + honey mustard

S: Skyr vanilla yogurt + bran buds + SF raspberry jam

TOTALS: 941 calories, 121 protein, 36 carbs (trying higher cals & protein just for a test)

V: patches are on

L: I average 120 oz a day or more

E: 5km run at the gym and if not raining 3km run with the dogs after dinner

Have an awesome weekend everyone, be fabulous

Here is my photo friday pic: this past week we have a male & female duck pair camping out on our front lawn. They come every evening about 7pm, poke around, have a nap and then leave about 9pm. I have no idea why. I live in a big busy subdivision and there is tons of green space/ponds around so not sure what they like about my lawn? I took this pic last night, the red pole is my neighbours for sale sign, ducks were asleep.

Cute DUCKS! You know how much Grim and I like ducks ;)

Friday couldn't have come fast enough! We are going away this weekend to celebrate a friend's birthday, which should be fun, but I would have really liked a weekend at home. Oh well.

QOTD: I can't explain it, but until RNY I was extra sweet and tasty to the mosquitos, but literally right afterwards they left me alone. I assumed it was because I no longer had any sugar in my system, but I was told here that that's "not a thing". Well then, no idea why, but I sure don't miss 'em!

22 months post op / ??didn't weigh in today / maintenance diet

B: Fit Frappe Chai Protein & Babybel Cheese

S: Cherry Greek Yogurt

L: Roast Turkey Breast & Cheese Crisps

S: Chomps Meat Stick

D: Steak or burger, probably?

Vitamins: patches on

Exercise: committing to over 12,000 steps

On Fridays we are allowed to "dress down" as long as we wear college-themed clothing and don't have any external meetings. So today I am wearing my new University of Sorbonne sweatshirt :)

Interesting that you've had a change in how mosquitoes are attracted to you. I'm going to search for any studies about what makes them like one person over another!

I haven't been able to read a lot of posts the last couple of weeks. Was Paris as wonderful as you expected???

It was AH-mazing. Perfect weather. Perfect company. And such an unbelievable setting!

I always thought the same! No sugar , no mosquitos...LOL

Me too Mike! LOL!

You know how much I love ducks too. Yum!

Yes, Happy Friday!

Thank you everyone for your condolences at the passing of my MIL. The support on OH always overwhelms me. What a wonderful group of friends!

QOTD: I've always been the one mosquitoes are drawn to, especially around my ankles (smelly feet maybe?). I do get bit many other places, but those are the ones that drive me crazy! But I LOVE the summer (sun, beach, water), so I'll put up with those little ankle biters.

B: eggbeaters and cottage cheese

L: tuna salad, pickles and cottage cheese

D: ? - company here for funeral next week

S: Need to keep very high protein, low-cal as weight is at the top of my comfortable range

This is a picture of the Cape Cod Canal Railroad Bridge. We don't see it down very often (and I've yet to see a train go over it), but we enjoy seeing it:

My Brother lives in Plymouth!

Give us a holler if you ever come visit! Grim and I are very nearby Plymouth!