What's on your menu today (Tuesday) RNYers?

Thank you so much, Kelly! I'll try to be more regular at posting on here.

Good Morning! Daisy, that is super scary, please be careful-we need you!

Accountability: No bedtime snacking.

QOTD: My sister and I did competitive roller skating so we also had ballet/tap to help with skating.

Time since surgery: 4 years 5 months

B: SF latte, eggbeaters, ½ an orange and 2 turkey sausage links

L: Albacore lettuce wraps and baby carrots

S: Simply protein chips and carbmaster yogurt

D: Eggbeaters with shredded cheese on top, spaghetti squash "hashbrown", turkey sausage links, ½ Mikey's English muffin with PB2, sliced fruit, and 2 squares dark chocolate

ES: Homemade Greek yogurt with SF syrup and ¼ cup fiber cereal

E: 6 miles ran this morning and 40 mins of elliptical at lunch

V/W: On track

Totals: Cals:1251 Protein:117 Carbs:109 Fat:46

Have a great one!

Are you running this weekend????

I have not committed yet. Keeping an eye on the weather before I drop the money......I don't think I would do well running in the rain and if I pay I wouldn't skip it due to that.

Running in the rain does not sound fun to me either!

Mornin' All!

it's now -2 degrees F at 9:00 am CST, but this is nothing compared to what's moving in later on today. I finally was able to talk DH into working from home tomorrow & Thursday. I was so afraid his car wouldn't start while he was at work (45 miles away) or he'd get frostbitten walking from his (pretty remote..) parking lot to his building. I'm glad he'll be staying home the next couple of days!

accountability food-wise was good. I exercised in the basement with some old VHS exercise tapes I haven't used in years (I have several cardio ones - including "Walk Away the Pounds" as well as some Jane Fonda and Richard Simmons tapes (remember those?) - and a couple of weight-lifting tapes. They still "work" even though the tapes have degraded - but this will have to do since I am not leaving the house until Friday unless I absolutely have to!!)

QOTD: I never competed on a team, but as a kid I went ice skating 2 or 3 times a week during the school year and swam pretty much every day in the summer. When I was college-age I got lifeguarding jobs mostly so I could swim before or after the pool opened/closed when it was only staff there - so I wouldn't have to share a lane with anyone!

3 years 7 months out:

B: 1/2 C protein oatmeal topped with 1/2 C whipped & sweetened cottage cheese, 10 raspberries, coffee with half & half

MS: protein shake

L: 3 oz chicken breast on a Flat Out wrap with 2 T hummus

AS: light yogurt or baby carrots with 2 T hummus

D: if the meat is thawed and if I'm motivated enough, I might make a Mississippi pot roast. Otherwise, a cup of turkey chili

ES: same choices as AS

ex: some kind of cardio

G'morning Daisy & Menu peeps!

Wow Daisy, that looks scary. I can't even imagine so much snow that your wiper breaks!!! So this coming from somebody who has never been in this situation, but can you switch the wipers? Can you put the passenger wiper on the driver's side? That was my first thought when I read what you had to do. I'm happy you got home safe and sound.

DS is going through some tough emotional stuff and I am worried about him. He'll be 17 in a couple of weeks. He's been going out with a girl who just told him she is changing school. He is actually been hanging out with a group of girls that I don't like. I hate to say it but they are not ambitious and they are just cruising the school. None of them has college aspiration. DS has so much potential and this year (jr) is the last your he can impress colleges with his grades. But he is slowly slipping because he hangs out with a group that a B is acceptable. I don't know what to do to wake him up. He is isolating himself more and more from his old friends and just hanging out with these girls. Of the 5, three have already changed schools because supposedly our high school is tough and they couldn't make it academically. He is becoming more and more taciturn. Anyway, I'm worried for him emotionally and academically.

QOTD: in Europe we didn't have extra curricular sports outside the school, unless you were at a super competitive level. So we did all of our sports at school. They would rotate us every quarter between basketball, volleyball and dodgeball. Dodgeball was my favorite. I would come home with bruises on my thighs but it was so much fun. In high school I was also part of our ping pong team. That was a lot of fun when we traveled for tournaments.

B: protein coffee

L: turkey chili

S: L&F yogurt

D: chili lime chicken burger

Have a great day, everybody.

Sorry to hear your son is having a hard time - hugs to you sweet mama

I feel for you mama! Hang in there.

Ugh, trying to get through to a teenager is the worst. We have had ENDLESS conversations with Cyara (11th grade) about grades. Telling her how grades matter, college matters, etc. I feel like for the last couple of years it went in one ear out the other. So we have a new tactic now. First of all, we helped her to understand that she can get away with a lot of other transgressions when her grades are good, so if she wants her four parents off her back, having good grades is a great way to do it. And then we truly do lay off her on the little stuff when her grades are good. Also, we have started to correlate the things she likes in life to money. As in, "you like to fly on a plane to California for vacation as opposed to driving to a nearby state - it is much easier to afford those kinds of things when you have a degree and a good job". Not that a degree is the end all, be all...but stats do show that for many people, their lifelong income is directly related to their education, starting salary, and so on. I don't know how much kids can understand that, but I certainly think your son can relate to "we have a nice house in a nice area and we can go surfing and we can go visit family in Italy because we worked hard in school and continue to work hard". But then again, boys of any age are a mystery to me, so I can't say for sure that this approach would work!