What's on your Thursday Menu, RNYers?

Waving hi to you! Welcome!

Thank you for the warm welcome folks!

Good morning! Yes, sometimes the machinations required for job openings can move slowly. Swordfish taco in a fishing village! Where was that??? My mouth is watering!

I had my 2 year WLS checkup yesterday. They are very happy with my progress and routine. I was able to reduce the number of labs they ran by having them access the recent ones my PCP did. Nice to be able to connect it up!

QOTD: Five Years would be 2013. We were living in central Mass and coming to the house on Cape Cod on weekends. I was working my demanding, stressful job but in a role I really enjoyed at the time. DH was struggling at work and we were starting to talk about him having to leave (he did a year later and we sold the central Mass house). DS was still in college (2nd go round), and DD had just been hired into the job she has now which she loves. So a mixed year.

2 Years, 1.5 months post-op

Always lots of coffee...

B: Eggs scrambled with cottage cheese and Canadian bacon

L: Tuna salad with pickles and cottage cheese

D: $5 Burger night (sautéed mushrooms and onions, no bun - yummm)

S: baked apple

We were exploring New Bedford which has changed sooooo much! The downtown area that is all cobblestone and historic (right on the water) has been completely redone and there are lots of fancy, lovely restaurants. I was shocked to see the transformation. It looks like Rockport or some other high-end tourist town on the water. We ate at the Black Whale and I swear the fish were caught after we ordered. It literally fell apart on the fork. I will be back :)

Neat! Sounds like a good day trip from here. Thanks for mentioning it!

Good Morning!

QOTD: 5 years ago I was a third-grade teacher and also had a lap-band! Now I am lap-band free and a 5th-grade teacher. I was having severe acid reflux with the band and was putting off the whole revision thing. So glad I revised!

Haha that's so funny that we were living parallel lives. I loved teaching 3rd. Perfect age, imo!

It wasn't my choice to move to 5th grade. Another teacher wasn't 'performing well' (the exact words from my principal) and needed a change. So here I si****ching 5th graders take the state assessment. I like the team I am on, so it really worked out in the end.

That's funny, I was moved from 1st up to 3rd because those kiddos were a rough bunch (I had them in 1st so I knew!). No other teacher in the school would take them so I was bumped over to follow them... I ended up loving 3rd so much more tan first in the end. Those kids were still absolutely bananas, but I really loved the age group.

Mornin'!

retirement-related documents were all turned in last week, and all the stuff related to the revocable trust have been turned in as of 10:00 pm last night. THANK GOD! Now I can relax. These two things had been taking over my life the last few weeks. Now it's finishing up these plastic surgery consults (another coming up on Monday!), picking a surgeon, and doing all this stuff related to a civic organization that I chair (ugh...need to get everything done for the organization before surgery - it's a TON of work in the summer, but at least I should have a couple of months since I don't want to have surgery until August).

accountability - I would not be surprised if the salad thing I had yesterday when I met my friend for lunch was 800 calories. That's what I decided to log it as. And that was only half of it. I have the other half in my work fridge - so that's 800 more calories today (mostly from the cashews and dressing - plus the thing was ENORMOUS). So I have to eat VERY LITTLE at my other meals today, or maybe only eat half of the half-salad. Maybe the latter is better. The thing did keep me full ALL DAY LONG yesterday, though...

QOTD: well, five years ago, I would have eaten that entire salad, for one thing. Otherwise - boy, I don't remember. Same job, same house, same husband. I was probably very sad because we lost three of our old cats in 2012-2013, so that was really tough. But we didn't have our youngest kitty, Kardelen, yet - she brought a lot of joy into our lives after losing so many of our old furbabies so close together. Am I happier now? Healthwise, oh God yes. I never dreamed how much happier I would be living my life as a normal-weight person. But it's been a very stressful year - it seems like it's been one thing after another. But ....only six more weeks of work!! YAY!!! Life is about to change again!!

2 years 11 months out:

B: homemade Greek yogurt with SF cheesecake pudding mix mixed in, sliced strawberries

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

L: that behemoth salad (with shredded chicken and cashews)

AS: probably nothing if I eat all the remaining salad

D: if I eat that whole salad at lunch, then probably just yogurt or a piece of the protein pumpkin pie - because I'm not going to be very hungry and don't need any more calories!!

ex: walk at lunch and/or the cross trainer at the gym