What's on your Friday menu RNYers? Photo Friday!

Good Morning! It's Fri-yay! Tonight we are going to a high school football game because it's "junior" night and all the junior high feeder schools perform so we will get to see Em's band perform.

QOTD: My weight gain happened after high school.

Accountability: On point yesterday!

Time since surgery: 3 years 1 month

B: SF latte, eggbeaters with roasted red pepper, ½ an orange and 2 turkey sausage links

L: Albacore tuna lettuce wraps, string cheese and baby carrots

S: Homemade Greek yogurt and ¼ cup bran cereal, and corned beef deli meat, and SF popsicle when I get home

D: 2 scrambled eggs topped with shredded cheddar, 2 turkey sausage links and SF pudding made with Fairlife topped with cool-whip

E: 60 mins stair-climber this morning and 40 mins of elliptical at lunch

V/W: On track

Totals: Cals:1029 Protein:114 Carbs:68 Fat:39

Have a great one!

Sounds like your evening was a lot of fun!

Yay! Friday!

qotd: I must have been around 5-6 when I started getting chubby. I was teased as early as kindergarten but when I look at pics of myself pre-school age I looked like an average sized child. I dropped a lot of weight in high school for softball, but I did so by taking caffeine pills and skipping meals, so not exactly the healthiest way, but "everyone else was doing it."

i need to go for groceries tonight...fridge is getting pretty bare.

breakfast: 2 hard boiled eggs, large skinny latte

snack: string cheese

lunch: spinach salad with 3 oz diced chicken breast

snack: Greek L&F

dinner: tbd on what I pick up at the store. Shrimp is on sale, so maybe shrimp.

Looking at everyone's pics, and in my morning rush I forgot to attach my own photo Friday pics! The first is a silly pic of DH and I at our local pumpkin patch. My company picnic was held there. Second pic is a Rose that finally bloomed after doing NOTHING all summer.

drive-by for now - I have to get into work because I have a desk shift in 35 minutes. After that I have to head over to my clinic to speak to a pre-op group. Luckily, nothing on my schedule for the afternoon, so I can get caught up with stuff. Next week is going to be a doozy...

QOTD: as a child I was overweight, but not obese. In high school I weighed in the 150-170 range. I became obese in college, starting as a freshman at 155 and ending up at 210 (I remember stepping on a scale my senior year of college and dying that I was above 200 lbs). Got back down to 150-ish after that after practically starving myself, then by the end of my 20s was back up to over 200 again - I remember being in the 230s for quite awhile. Once I was over 30 years old, the pounds really started piling on. I should have never let that happen. It's so hard to get rid of once it's there...

2 years 3 months out:

B: homemade Greek yogurt, fresh raspberries & 1/4 mango

S: coffee with half & half, SF pumpkin vanilla protein shake (forgot to put the Miralax in - crap!!)

L: probably just a protein bar since I'll be eating on the run

D: we're going to this place with some friends. Not sure what to get. So much of this stuff is either too expensive or too carby - or not my thing. Maybe the tuna or the chicken?

http://graftmadison.com/food

Hi folks!! Yay for Friday! Today is the graduation of the firefighter class- I really like going to graduation since its shows the fruit of our hard work, getting them on-board. After work I'm meeting a colleague for dinner at a Mexican spot. I tried to peep their menu online- but their site doesn't work. I'm sure I'll have protein friendly options, but would prefer to know. Tomorrow I'm going to the Hero Thrill Show- where Police & Fire demonstrate the cool things they do.

Accountability- I had a Philly soft pretzel yesterday- only off plan thing. But those damn pretzels are 70 carbs. I still have trouble believing the carb count in some foods. Denial is a B.

QOTD: I guess I was overweight all my life. I say I guess because this i the very issue I had to work through in therapy. Reality is I was not as huge as family and school mates etc made me out to be. And had I been encouraged to maintain and taught basic nutrition, rather than berated for being so fat, greedy, lazy etc- I may not have ever reached being SMO

199 today is in full effect ::sigh:: 2.4 year out

M1: 1 egg, 1.5 oz ham, protein bar

M2: protein shake

M3: Greek yogurt/berries

M4: Mexican restaurant

Happy Friday, everyone!

I wasn't a fat kid, but I wasn't super skinny like my little brother was, either. I always liked to eat, but getting him to eat was a chore. I remember being around 2-3 years old, saying hi one evening to a physician friend of my parents who was visiting. He was quite a bit older than my folks, and was a gifted artist as well as a doctor. I still have a painting he made for me, sitting on my fireplace mantel. Anyway, it was late, and I remember being barefoot and in my nightgown, about to go to bed, when he arrived. He had been vacationing in Europe, and brought me a decorative wooden shoe, along with a box of chocolates for everyone. He offered me a chocolate (which were also shaped like little wooden shoes). I must have responded with alacrity, because I remember him watching me, and then saying to me in a soft, confidential voice that I would have to be careful not to like food so much that I would become fat! I wasn't even 3 years old, but I recall being quite insulted by that comment! As if I would ever be fat! Evidently I had a vision of myself that didn't include obesity! Ironic, looking back on that.

First: vanilla protein drink

B: 1.7 oz. ham off the bone, 0.3 oz. cheddar

L: 2 oz. BBQ pulled chicken

D: 1.7 oz. turkey, 0.3 oz. cheddar

S: another protein shake

Enjoy your day, everyone!

Good Morning Teena and Menu Family!

It's Photo Friday! Where are all the photos?

QOTD: I was a normal weight kid and was even anorexic during high school and college. I started gaining weight in my 30's and then lost it, gained it back, lost it again, etc. I was skinny after my daughter was born for a while, but it didn't last and I ballooned up to my highest weight of 283 by the time she was in college, which is when I decided to have WLS.

Accountability: Yesterday: Protein - 58, Calories - 960, Carbs - 133.

B: prosciutto & mozzarella sticks

L: alfredo chicken

D: taco meat, cheese, sour cream

S: light & fit Greek yogurt, prosciutto & mozzarella sticks

E: Walking the dogs around the subdivision

Photo Friday:

This is a picture of me walking our two dogs, Tippy (chihuahua) and Blossom (mixed breed).

Have a WONDERFUL day everyone!

~ Karen

Cute doggos! I wanted to put in a picture but I'm not sure how to on my phone! Any tips?

Thanks, MeerKat! I don't know how to do photos from a phone but I'm sure someone here can tell you.