What's on your Wednesday Menu RNY'ers?

Good morning! I'm already at work, coffee in my belly. Another woman who works here in the mailroom (I don't know her well) has decided to have bariatric surgery. She told a coworker that I'm fairly close with, and the coworker mentioned me as someone who's gone through it and could answer questions. I reached out to her on Facebook, and she's replied. I'm hoping to lure her here ;)

qotd: currently reading Uprooted but Naomi Novik. I've been working on it for a while, I just haven't had much time to read. But it reads like a Slavic medieval fairy tale and I'm really enjoying being transported.

AMAW was successful, I have dropped 5 lbs since last Wednesday and I'm going to keep up strict AMAW through Friday. After that I plan on adding veggies back in (I do miss them) but cutting out dairy for a while. I believe I was adding too many extra calories into my diet with unmeasured HWC in my coffee, too many unmeasured snacks of cheese, etc. those things aren't harmful in and of themselves, but the calories add up fast. I was plain and simply eating too many calories, in denial, and stalling myself.

breakfast: black coffee

mid morning: turkey meatballs with 1/4 C homemade spaghetti sauce (I don't add sugar to mine)

Lunch: chicken thigh

dinner: steak!

I also have a tuna creations packet with me, but won't likely eat it.

Yep, those darn sneaky calories do creep in when we don't measure (I am definitely guilty of that)!

Cheese is a slippery slope for me.

Apparently for me too.

It's just so calorie dense. I don't eat much. I use it for flavor more and buy strong tasting cheese.

Good morning everyone! Yay for Wednesday but there's still so much of the week left. Peach, the HS touring thing - can you select which HS your son goes to? Are they all in district or can you pick different schools in different areas (and how does transportation to/from school work)? Sorry for all the questions - rural route kid here, we had a grade school in each of the little farming communities and then one giant junior high-high school combo...and by giant, I mean 534 kids 7th to 12th grades, lol. So some of the stuff like selection, AP classes, GPA over 4, things like that are just interesting to me.

QOTD - I am listening to "It Ended Badly" on my commute (humorous non-fiction about some of the worst break ups in history; currently on the Norman Mailer chapter (spoiler -he was a bit of a tool)); and reading District VIII (random selection from the book of the month club I'm in at my local bookstore, it's a new author and a mystery set in Hungary with a Roma protagonist). I also have about 4 other books in various stages of completion.

Accountability - I ate breakfast late, so I had lunch late so I swapped my last round of deli meat for a little bit of protein shake in my evening decaf to hit protein goal.

B - coffee with PP, a little later I'll have a L&F

L - baby bell and 3 oz deli turkey

D - 3 oz chicken breast

S - L&F

Tea all afternoon

Exercise - giving myself a pass today; we did the self defense class last night and I can't straighten my arm out without pain -- must have thrown a few too many elbows at the mugger!

537 in jr High/high school?

Wow, and I thought my kids school was relatively small. High school is about 1200 kids. There is such a rat race for AP classes and higher GPAs that makes our school yrs like a walk in the park. It has gotten to the point that DS takes FOUR AP classes, but it's not enough, so he takes an extra class at community college to stay competitive. A friend of his is taking SIX AP classes - he doesn't have a life but he is shooting for UC Berkeley.

Sorry, didn't mean to butt in but it makes my blood boil what these kids have to do to get in college. One last thing - DD had a 4.2 GPA but I guess it wasn't enough. She went to George Washington Univ in DC but she was at the bottom of the barel with her GPA so no merit aid because there were kids with 4.6-4.8 GPAs.

at the time, the entire school district (3 elementary plus the jr-sr high) had about 1500 students, I think they might be up around 2500 now though! We had 54 in my graduating class -- and 5 of them were exchange students! An interesting and cool thing is that even though we were very rural (or maybe because of it), we always had 8-10 exchange students each year. It was wonderful for opening your eyes to the rest of the world and there are a few I'm am still in touch with all these years later!

i am amazed at what kids go through these days, there doesn't seem to be much time for them to be kids!

I never knew you could get above a 4.0 GPA. My high school we started with the largest freshman class 150 kids and graduated only 55. Not a very good record. I came from the big city around here Portland and my 8th grade class was larger than that. My parents ruined my life by moving to the sticks the summer of my 8th grade year, so I started as a freshman and because I hadn't grown up there and lived my whole life there I was an outcast. My first day of class only one person talked to me. Needless to say I hated that place and still do!

The only consolation was I could have a horse. I bought him with my berry picking money.

Oh, that's rough. How fun that you picked enough berries for a horse though! That's awesome.