What are you eating today (Monday) RNYers?

Good morning! I accomplished so much this weekend so I'm feeling pretty proud of myself! I don't know why, but I looked forward to work this morning. I think I like the routine and this weekend I was struggling with some sort of hunger, head or otherwise. I'm hopeful my schedule will help. I am looking forward to this holiday weekend but I'm struggling with the 'should I or shouldn't I' enjoy this or that and if I do, will it lead to a full blown multi day binge...If only I had a moderation bone! We are cooking our own thanksgiving dinner but will be joining my sister and her family for pie. A nice mix of our own down time and family - perfect, plus all the leftovers!!

QOTD - The furthest away from home I've been is on the west coast while home was the east coast and vise versa. I've never been out of the US!

Accountability - Extra hungry last 2 days - lots of almonds, extra yogurt and tons of crispy roasted green beans dipped on aioli- weight is stable though -go figure!

23 mo - 153.5

b- coffee x 2 L&F greek yogurt

l-albacore tuna w/SG honey dijon dressing

d-BBQ chicken

es-jello

v/l on track

e- cardio/abs and glutes

Have a great day!

Good morning,

Spent time with friends and my dad this weekend and a course my kitty. Saturday morning she got in the hood of my coat and laid there like I'm ready to go with you. If it wasn't so cold out, I would of took her.

Only have to work three days this week. It will be a welcome sight since my weeks have been so busy and it doesn't look like it's going to stop anytime soon.

Qotd the farthest I traveled was to Florida in 1982.

B ham and cheese omelette, string cheese and pork and beans

L tuna, cottage cheese and honeycrisp apple

D not sure since it's support group tonight

Have a good day

hi all

late one for me!very busy day so far which I'm super happy about.

weight up despite being under calories for the week its probably sodium. :(

saturday I went walking on trail with sister and neice, we did 3 miles and I marvel at how easy it was. still - 3 years out on Dec 15!

sunday stayed home and did house things

Food for today:

focusing on meat and not protein powder/shakes

chicken sausage

steak

steak

dinner will probably be grilled nuggets from cfila

DH and I carpooled today- it was good

QOTD: india or singapore for work

hey everyone, late post for me today since I was off work Friday, I had some catching up to do when I got into the office this morning, but it's all caught up now!

I got a lot accomplished Friday- had my yearly physical, got my hair done, ordered balloons for Story's party and then I came home and we baked and decorated her cake!
Saturday was all about the birthday party...it was a huge success- 6 kids was the perfect number I think...not overwhelming, and just enough noise and fun! the painting party was a great idea- all the kids loved it.
I will attach some photos here. I took a lot of them so I will try to narrow them down! LOL
She wanted ALL the sprinkles, which was fine by me since i hate them and it made the cake completely unappealing to me LOL

Yesterday was a totally lazy day. I managed to get the grocery shopping done and exactly one load of laundry. I think I just needed a day of down time to recover!

QOTD: the furthest I've been is probably southern california. Also Tijuana for a few hours once while I was visiting So Cal.

B: coffee w/sf creamer, 1/2 C Cottage cheese w/no sugar added fruit cup
L: white chicken chili
D: leftover italian beef probably. or buddig ham and a cheese stick.

Amber, Story is so cute, and she is such a lucky little Scorpio to have such a loving and creative mom! What a fun party she had, and everything looks so colorful and beautiful! Did she flip over her new bike? I love her rainbow cake, and those charming easel cookies. You are amazing!

Amber, you must be so proud. This party looks like a smash. Having 6 kids in the house is no small feat. I miss my kids being little and throwing them theme parties.

Funny thing, with all of my sweet addictions I was never attracted to bday cakes, it's something about frosting.

Monday greetings to all of my RnY kindred!

Thank you Jen for launching us today!

I have been super stressed for the past several weeks, but am hopeful the ship will right itself soon. There will still be water all over the place, but at least I won't drown.

I got some of that Alka Seltzer medicine yesterday and took a dose at bedtime. I still feel under the weather, but am confident that I will soon pull up and out of this cloud. I have a lot of errands to run today so don't want to take more until I get back home in case it makes me too drowsy. I got the only kind I found without NSAIDs and it may have been overkill. There was a warning on the package that people with thyroid disease should check with their docs before taking it, which I ignored. I just want to feel better!I

I have been thinking a lot recently about the trauma and craziness i experienced as a young teen, about how terribly i was thrown off track by it in my life, and how difficult it became for me to successfully move forward in various ways after that. I think that all of this stuff was buried under the 215+ pounds I've lost (I weighed in at 137.8 today!), and now it's being unearthed and seeing the light of day. It's not that I forgot it, ever, or didn't have counseling on it (I did), but what I went through was so heavy duty, and it went on for a long time (at that age a year or so is a long time). It all happened as my kid brain was still forming and developing, and it really, really messed me up. I have been blurting bits of this out to people over the past week or so - it's really right there exposed on the surface of my psyche. I feel that this stuff was the underlying hook holding my obesity in place. Despite it being truly inappropriate for casual conversation ( something I need to watch as it is bubbling up), I actually in a way feel really good about exposing it to the sunlight and clean air. I actually feels like I am lighter inside, not just weight-wise. I think I just got really tired of having that inside me, locked in a trunk, smothered under all of that fat. I will look into counselling, but to be honest despite the heavy duty nature of what happenned, I feel a sense of effervescence and it feels good.I

First: 3 huge mugs of tea

B: tuna w a little cheddar

L: chicken soup w a little extra chicken

D: same as lunch

Have a wonderful day, my friends!

I hope you start to feel better soon and I hope that you are able to come to terms with your childhood trauma. It's tough enough being a kid and forming your 'kid brain' let alone dealing with other crap that is out of your control. I see it all the time with my 5th graders and my heart hurts for so many of them. Looking into counseling is a great idea.

Hi:

I hope things improve for you soon. I, too, had terrible childhood trauma that tends to ooze to the surface at unexpected times. It can be so painful to relive it in your mind and realize how it changed the course of your life so dramatically.

I also understand the feeling of wanting to just blurt it out to the world when it becomes too painful to hold inside anymore. But, I also truly understand that it's not something you can just bring up in "casual" conversation.

I've been in therapy for so many years. As I'm starting to lose my "insulation from the world" as my weight goes down, I'm finding the need to talk about the trauma all over again and to try to stop blaming myself for its occurrence.

I hope you can find a place of comfort for yourself soon.

---Joyce

Big hugs to you, Cara. May the weight you have lost equal the weight lifted off your soul