What's on your Thursday menu RNYers?

That was soooo sweet of Emie pot pie!!

She still surprises me with her heart sometimes!

Good morning! Another day down and one more to go before we get another long weekend woohoo!!!

qotd: I'm terrible about keeping a journal! I was really good about logging my food into mfp until I hit my severe depression. Everything went out the window when that happened. Time to get it all back on track! Still struggling with it all but I'm getting there.

b: syntrax

l: leftover sausage

s: Greek l&f

d: tbd... maybe eggs?

v: patches and oral d and iron

e: going to take it easy today and just do legs and arm weights etc. (back is still killin' me)

hope everyone has a great day!

Continue to take it one day at a time, you got this!

Sometimes I have to take it one choice at a time--one day is just too overwhelming.

Thanks, Emiepie! That means a lot :)

I did mostly OK yesterday, but I was horribly hungry last night so I had a Fit & Light yogurt with a T of tahini in it. That shut my stomach up for the rest of the night, although I went over my calorie limit by about 100 (tahini is super high in calories - but it is SO filling). I was afraid if I didn't do that, I'd be eating junk all night, because I wasn't feeling in control. So I guess it was OK, given the situation. My weight was up over 148 this morning. I hate this! Although I think it's due to the accumulation of eating slightly over my limit most of the week (I never had one horrid day - it was more 100-300 calories over my limit most days), plus all the sodium I had yesterday (Pick 2 turkey chili + Asian chicken sesame salad at Panera Bread for lunch, plus pulled pork for dinner - all of those are pretty high in sodium)

I really need to exercise today, but it's too freaking cold to leave the house. The temp is up slightly (it's supposed to make it into the teens today - woo hoo!), but then, it's snowing. There are days I wish I lived in Florida... I hate feeling trapped in my house!! Maybe I can do some heavy housework and run up and down the basement stairs several times. I don't know -but I'm not going out in this!!

QOTD: I don't journal, unless you count food tracking. I probably have four years' worth on sparkpeople, plus I kept food journals in spiral notebooks for years before going digital with it. I have food records going back into the late 90s - maybe even earlier.

2 years 6 months out:

B: homemade pumpkin yogurt with 1 T tahini and 2 T high fiber cereal

S: coffee with half & half

L: either chicken salad (made with Greek yogurt) or a regular salad with some diced chicken breast on it

D: whichever one I don't have at lunch, I'll have at dinner.

if I'm needing a snack, I'll have raw veggies with Greek yogurt dip. I need to eat lightly today because a neighbor is coming over this evening for coffee & leftover tiramisu. I'll have a very tiny piece or else I'll have a piece of crustless protein pumpkin pie instead

It seems like months since I've been here when it actually has only been a week or so. Well, I've gained 2 lbs and will need to concentrate to get back into the groove b4 my next weigh in which is on 01-23 with my PCP. This will be 4 of 6.

QOTD: I've tried journaling in the past and do well for a period of time then 1 day of lapse turns into a week, then a month, and then I can't even find my journal. I started a food journal when I started my WLS journey and that didn't go so well either. However, I downloaded the app BARITASTIC and log my foods at least 6 days out of 7, so this has worked for me.

I'm pre-op so I didn't want to post here all that I was eating since it is more than what you vet's are eating. Kinda like not wanting to eat in front of someone without offering them any. You know what I mean? But in trying to get ready for my life after WLS, maybe I should start posting it here. What do you think?

I think that posting here, and tracking your food with a tool like MyFitnessPal (or Baritstic) is a great idea prior to surgery!

Thanks for taking time to reply. I appreciate it!