Day 3 - Post-Holiday Reset - AMAW/CAMAW - Back to Basics

Morning all and welcome to Day 3 of the challenge! I hope that you are doing well and if not, that you are up to starting again on the road to better health.

I didn't do very well yesterday. I hurt my back doing yardwork on Thursday and have been trying to ice and rest to let it heal. After our morning errands (when frankly I wasn't feeling well), I started to get a severe headache and very dizzy, so I ended up spending most of the rest of yesterday in bed. I ate pretty well, including a big bowl of chicken zoodle soup, beef biltong snacks and ham, but one blueberry waffle also crept in. Oh well, this is a new day.

We are having guests for lunch so I know the menu: spinach salad with cranberries & oranges, beef rib eye roast, fingerling potatoes (which I plan to skip), roasted brussels sprouts, fruit salad & mini chocolate cakes with cherries & fudge sauce (none for me).

No exercise other than lots of steps in the kitchen getting the feast ready.

I look forward to hearing how everyone else is doing!

Darn it! Lost my reply when I clicked Submit!

Some things were consumed late in the evening last night which were not on plan. That is typically my most difficult time of day. But most of the offending foods are gone now and my weight still dropped by .6, so I hope that gives me the incentive to keep on plan today. DS has some comp $ to use at work since it is the end of the month, so I may be able to get a couple of halibut meals for DH and I tonight which will make me happy.

I am at the point my body has resisted going below since Fall, so I expect slow going. I haven't been below 120 (my first goal right now) since October 13 and only for a day at that point. I haven't been below 118 since July 27 and not fully in my preferred range day after day of 115-118 since June. But I really want to get back there!

Today is a new day!

If anyone can do it, you can. I am completely sure of that.

Thank you! It is SO MUCH harder than it was in the first 18 months or so Post-op! That magical metabolism has gone dormant!

Good morning everyone. Yesterday was a good day. I really wanted to go to my favorite Lebanese restaurant and get a chicken kabob, but I did not feel like I could be tempted with the fresh pita that they bring to the table that is bigger than your head! So, I just came home and ate some deli turkey meat. I just keep telling myself that all those little choices will add up.

Janet, I hope your back is better today. Back pain is the worst.

Food for today-

40 oz water before coffee

2 cups black coffee, 1 with Miralax

2 eggs, 1/2 c. cottage cheese with EBB seasoning ( love this breakfast, 25 grams protein)

1 can albacore tuna with SG poppyseed dressing

Halibut with lemon and capers. ( I didn't eat it last night)

just 2 blueberry yogurt

Lots of water, hot tea, and vitamins on track

Maybe a walk after church today if it isn't raining too hard.

Good for you for not putting yourself in the position to fail! It's hard to make those choices sometimes but you are staying focused!

Mornin'!

I did OK yesterday (certainly better than I did most of last week), but it could have been better. I caved and had some Halo Top ice cream - after dinner and again at 3:00 am (I could NOT sleep last night to save my life). We also went out to lunch with my brother and I had two small tacos. I can usually work those in, but with the Halo Top, plus the sodium in them - ugh. Really feeling it this morning. I'm kind of wondering if my PS is making my salt retention issue worse - at least for now. I'm noticing more swelling than usual (I still swell occasionally at four months out - although certainly not nearly as bad as the first couple of months). But it's seemed worse the last few days. If so, it's an incentive to cut back on the sodium. I should also add more vegetables (for potassium - plus I could stand to eat more vegetables regardless!). And of course, drink more fluids. And exercise! All should help with that...plus all would be good for me no matter what!

today will be better...

Yesterday went pretty well; I really enjoyed my crustless pizza casserole! I didn't eat my planned yogurt or protein pudding but did have an extra half serving of the casserole so on a plan of 720/97/16 came in at 749/93/7 which is good.

Todays plan is

coffee with .3 premier creamer; tea

B - Blueberry Take 2 yogurt

Lunch - 1.0 of crockpot pizza

D - 1.0 of crockpot pizza

ES - 1 protein pudding

808/78/18 for the day

Good luck with your day!

So I looked up your crustless pizza. What do you think the calories are for it?

I loaded it as 8 portions and that was 300 calories each. I'll adjust the portion size if it turns out to be more than 8. It's definitley not a low cal every day option!