What's on your Friday menu RNYers?

Awesome, how cool is that??!!!

I love this picture!!!

I love this picture!

Awesome!

Yay! Friday!

qotd: I do have a big family and I love it! My mom's side of the family specifically (I don't have much relationship with my dad's side). I have 5 siblings, but only one full-blood brother. The rest are half siblings or step. We get together frequently and its always a good time. We're very close, and there's always lots of laughter and fun teasing and support. My husband's family is very small, just his parents and he has one brother that lives in Denver. So his parents usually come to my family's events and holidays.

On plan yesterday except I changed my mind for dinner and had steak instead.

Breakfast: scrambled eggs, cheese, salsa, and leftover steak.

snack: celery and PB

lunch: deli turkey and Swiss cheese roll ups

snack: Greek L&F

dinner: either taco salad (lettuce, taco meat, cheese, sour cream, salsa) or maybe shrimp. We'll see.

photo Friday is from the pumpkin patch, I befriended this camel

Hi everone,

The last few days have been busy. I posted a couple of days ago, but OH ate my post, and I was too pressed for time to repost. But all is well. I have lost 75 pounds as of this morning, 3.5 months out from surgery. Yay! I have noticed that every single time I weigh myself and record the number on the scale, I write a "1" instead of a "2" . I am still far from Onederland, for heaven's sake! Apparently I still find it hard to reconcile that I got (and still am) as fat as I became! I read today's article about which bariatric surgery to choose, and one thing which struck me was the caution not to regard ourselves as being ex-obese. Rather, the advice was to think of ourselves as having "well controlled" obesity. In other words, obesity is a lifelong condition, just waiting to spring back into full bloom if we aren't careful. In the past when I became slim after heavy dieting, I always wanted to shove the entire notion that I had ever been obese into the dead and no-longer-significant past. That attitude did me no favors, and from now on, though I will enjoy and be grateful for being slim again, I will retain the awareness that I am always going to be perilously close to the edge of regain, and I will do my best to keep my actions in line.

QOTD: My family is small. My parents, both passed on now, were European; I am a first-generation American. My mom's one sister died when my mom was just three. My dad was an only child. I have one brother, and both he and I had just one child. I do have some more or less distant cousins in Europe and have met a few of them. My ex-husband was the oldest of 5, and my son also has married into a big family, which I am happy about.

First: Vanilla protein drink

B: Greek yogurt with a little protein powder

L: 1.6 oz. turkey

D: 1.7 oz. BBQ pulled Chicken, 0.3 oz. cheddar

S: one more protein drinK

lots of water!

Thats a great point. We will never really be normal people. Thats why my before picture lives on my frig. That little reminder of where I was keeps me making good choices 5 years out.

You know I really needed to hear your words...it is so true that obesity is a lifelong condition. I am working on losing a regain...in 21 more pounds lost i will be back in onderland and then will keep losing until I feel healthy and capable of living a more comfortable and busy life...and walking on that beach holding hands with my husband.

Good for you Rosemi! As someone on my VSG maintenance group said, we are all just one crisis from fuckdom and potential regain. We need to be careful all the time, and if we have regain, we need to eventually get back on the program and use our tool again.

Good for you for tackling our sneaky, beastly dis-ease! I love the image of you, slender, fit, and happy, walking hand-in-hand with your husband on the beach! You'll be there before you know it!