What's on your (PHOTO) Friday Menu, RNYers?

Hope your tests come back negative and you are good to go on Tuesday!

Fingers crossed for you!

Good morning menu friends! Lily and I had a wonderful walk already and got our 4 miles in. We'll do another mile after supper. Somedays she goes with me in the evening and some days I go alone. I always get at least 10,000 steps in somewhere though. Accountability was good with no extra bites. QOTD recent NSVs are being the most limber,fit and active person on our work teams:slithering under bed frames on my tummy to paint the floor,climbing on ladders without worry and even doing a zipline. Also having the energy to walk 4 miles with Miss Lily AFTER a day of physical labor. This whole adventure wouldn't even have been possible 6 years ago. This week I have to work on cleaning and restocking the camper as a week from today we leave for 4 weeks near Bloomington,Indiana. We'll be working getting Camp Indisoco ready for the summer. Heres the food for today B 1/2 c steel cut oats with protein and peanut butter L 4 oz deli turkey and cheese 3 baby carrots D 4 oz pork patty 1/2 c broccoli S sm apple with 1 T peanut butter. Have a great day all and make some smart and conscious choices that move you closer to your goals! Now to find som coffee! Pic is Lily at this moment.

Awwww, what a sweetie! You wore her out!

Yes but she drug me out of bed and walking when I really didn't have the motivation. We're both really good for each other!

Mornin' All!

I have a lot to do for this estate attorney and for my retirement within the next week or two - forms to file, documents to get and copy on pass on, charities to research, etc. Feeling really busy even though work is winding down (one more week 'til the semester ends - yay!!). Also the plastic surgery stuff still isn't settled. Two more consults, and then I'll decide. Both consults have been scheduled. Yesterday I talked for quite awhile with the nurse of a surgeon who specializes in body contouring for massive weight loss patients and has been in practice for 40 years. He's the most expensive so far (I asked her for a ballpark figure) - but it's probably because he'll only do body lifts in a hospital. The others use surgery centers. He also has you stay overnight at the hospital, too. She says for something that major, he prefers to do it in a hospital. So I'm sure that accounts for the extra cost. So much to think about...

QOTD: I've been thinking lately about a lot of things you guys have mentioned - fitting in normal bathroom stalls, going up stairs with ease. I also wore a dress on Wednesday which I hadn't done in years. Since I was apple-shaped, dresses made me look *enormous*. No more! I've also been thinking about the fact that so many people now never knew me as fat. And because I do yoga c. 3x a week and do physical therapy exercises every day, I'm always aware that I can now do things like get up off the floor in a snap!

2 years 11 months out:

B: homemade Greek yogurt, homemade blueberry/blackberry sauce

MS: coffee with half & half, Miralax/protein shake

L: tuna salad

AS: L&F yogurt or protein pumpkin pie

D: ?? Maybe just yogurt. I've been overdoing it too much lately - not awful - but about 100 kcal over my limit every day - it shows up on the scale after awhile...

ex: 30 minutes on the cross-trainer

yikes - just edited to add my photo. This was taken a couple of weeks ago. I'm wearing a scarf that one of my cousins knitted for me. Luckily we still had cold weather then so I could wear it! (it took her longer than expected to get it to me...it came in April!)

You look great! Keep us posted on either forum about the PS.

will do! I'm liking this hospital idea (it sort of weirds me out that most surgeons will do a 5-6 hour surgery and then push you out the door a few hours later - eek!), but not liking the extra cost. But we'll see what he says. He's supposed to be excellent - if nothing else, I'd like to hear his ideas since he does this all the time and has for many years. And he's the only surgeon I've found in Chicago that actually specializes in this (the others I've contacted do truckloads of them - but they're still generalists. But the fact they do a ton of them is OK with me, though. I just don't want someone who just does these occasionally - I know it's pretty complicated surgery)

I made a personal decision to go with a surgeon who performed surgery at a hospital. It is definitely more expense, especially since I am staying overnight (18 hours) one night, but I feel more secure that way.

I also agree that finding a surgeon that you trust is important.