What's on your Monday Menu RNYers? Gratitude Day 1

I was close too! Gestational diabetes during my last pregnancy as well as a genetic disposition on both sides of the family... So glad that my blood sugar levels are the low side of normal now.

Good morning! Posting from my couch this morning-sipping my coffee and snuggled up in a blanket, sorry to brag!

Accountabilty: Not too bad for the weekend.

Gratitude day 1: I am grateful for the ability to exercise. It's as good for my mental health as it is for my physical health.

B: latte, eggbeaters, turkey sausage links and 1/2 an orange L: if we head to the mall Chipotle bowl with shredded beef, lettuce, sour cream and cheese(no chips!) or if home albacore lettuce wraps and carrots S: pork rinds, nuts and carb master yogurt and maybe a popsicle D: chicken sausage and edemame ES: Greek yogurt with canned pumpkin and fiber cereal.

E: 1 hour stairclimber and 40 mins elliptical this morning

W/V on track

I hope everyone has an amazing day.

Brag away! I'm looking forward to my vacation this week!

Amen to Mental Health!

Happy Monday, Menu Peeps!

Today is my daughter's 18th birthday! I'm spending most of my morning thinking about how in the world time has flown by so quickly! Tonight we are off to a casino for her first trip there, really looking forward to it, and I hope she wins!

QOTD: I'm thankful for the surgery so that I can be so much more active with my kids as they get old enough to really understand where I was for so long. I love that I know they are proud of me, and not having to be embarrassed by my size (not that I'm sure that they were, but I always was).

Accountability: In the toilet... we were tasked with bringing yeast rolls to TG dinner on Thursday, so for some reason we decided to do a test run on them to see how the recipe was... suffice to say, I taste tested way too much this weekend (and still didn't find a good recipe, thinking Sister Schubert rolls are in our future). Not to mention a girl's night out on Sat evening, which may or may not have included very sweet drinks... sigh.

Weight this morning... at my OMFG WTH number!!! 140.6/ 18 months out/ maintenance diet

B: 3 ounces of taco meat and 2T of cottage cheese

S: cheese stick, but only if I get really cranky with myself before lunch

L: 3 grilled wings I made last night

S: cheese stick/pork rinds

D: Out at the casino most likely, but I'll do good!

Water, water, and MORE water ALL DAY... got to flush this weight out of me!!!

I am probably not helping but the best yeast rolls I ever made was using the dough from her cinnamon buns recipe. The recipe is huge and I didn't need that many cinnamon buns so I used half of it as dinner rolls.

Sorry. That should have said from Pioneer Woman.

Forgot to add that I hope your daughter had a wonderful birthday! Tyler turned 18 in January and it's so hard to believe.

Happy Monday. I love this week's theme. This weekend was a crapfest for me. All in all, not too bad, but there was movie popcorn on Saturday and last night I was on the hypoglycemia roller coaster (oddly, I had my lowest low WHILE eating dinner), so there was extra food thrown in. I'm also up in weight, which is bad mentally at the beginning of a holiday week.

QOTD: Today's gratitude is mobility. Last weekend a very good friend of mine was in a horrible car accident where she broke both legs, her femur in one and tibia in each other. At this time, she's totally dependent on others to get around. You don't realize how lucky you are to be able to get up and move, or go to the bathroom by yourself, until you see someone who can't. I was lucky in that even at my highest weight, I was really mobile, and watching her has shown me how bad it could have been and how lucky I am.

My plan. I'm going to try and stick to CAMAW to try and shed the hypoglycemia weight:

B: Ham

L: chicken thigh meat (4 oz)

D: NY Strip steak

S: SF latte, cheese stick

E: Spin if I'm feeling ok. I had a blood sugar low last week (in the high 20's) while in spin class and it scared me AND the instructor. I haven't been on a bike since, and I'm a little apprehensive, given last night's BS debacle. It will be a last minute decision.

I remember one time (when I was at a high weight) seeing a news story about someone who was in a bad accident and all the recovery & pt they went through to get strong and walk again. And I thought to myself how INCREDIBLY screwed I would be if I had to start getting strong at such a deficit. After that I noticed those stories all the time and actually freaked out a little that I was going to be in a bad accident and never walk because I was so weak from obesity.