What's on your Wednesday Menu?

Morning! Half way through the week. Ugh. I need to get to Old Navy and pick up a Christmas gift that ended up as curbside pick up instead of shipped. That has to happen tonight or tomorrow or they're going to put it back! I'm nearly done Christmas shopping already, which I'm happy about.

QOTD: I would want a chef. Not so much for weight loss maintenance, but just because I love to cook only when I want to cook. I would love for someone to come up with meal ideas and execute them. Honestly, I even love the idea of Home Chef or even a meal plan service where I get ideas to cook meals. I just don't like spending the extra money for those things. I feel like we end up recycling the same things for dinners over and over. I also don't always appreciate the time it takes post work day to make a nice meal.

My Food:

• Coffee w/ Cream x3
• Eggs, Bacon, Sweet Potato
• Fish Pie - It's Jon's night to cook and he wanted to attempt this. I truthfully have no idea what it is other than it includes a rough puff pastry and salmon and it has rice in it. Per the usual, I'll do what I can with the protein and supplement with veggies as needed.

Yum fish pie! There is a restaurant near my old house where I used to get this every time I went. The one I used to get had spinach and a cream sauce, not rice. Not low cal, but 100% worth it!

Good morning all! I'm so glad it's Wednesday and the end of the week is finally in sight! It's only been 2 days of work this week so far and it already feels like it's been 5! It's just been so busy and hectic. I'm so looking forward to the Thanksgiving 4 day weekend where I can relax! Accountability was ok again yesterday....not great but not horrible. I just could not seem to get enough to eat yesterday. It definitely was NOT a small pouch day! Praying today will be!

QOTD: chef for sure! I'm not much of a cook....I mean I can cook and do enjoy cooking to a certain extent, but more so enjoy it when I have someone to cook for. I don't enjoy cooking just for myself. Lol

B: coffee w/Splenda & sf creamer x 2

B2: protein shake

L: 2 oz low sodium turkey breast and a laughing cow cheese wedge

D: 4 oz rotisserie chicken and veggies

S: L&F yogurt & an apple

hi all

demo went fine though my laptop couldn't get hooked to the input in the room which meant I had to scramble to login to the machine in the room and my test DB urls were not readily available. it was sooo annoying and I was 10 min late starting because of it. anyway...

QOTD: I would say chef over the two choices OR neither but instead a live in therapist... to walk me through the times I want to eat all the XXXXXX!

Today marks my lowest weight since may which is pretty awesome. I've lost almost 4 pounds since the beginning of oct though weight is fluctuating. it may not sound like much but that feels like an impossible task to lose after regain. I'm beginning to think I have to eat 1100-1200 daily to lose when I add in my exercise also to it. When I was tested and also when I got my macros numbers it was more like 1550 but I think that is the range...

I ran by aldi yesterday on the way home for a few things till our trip.

B: coffee with premier creamer

1 egg/ egg whites with cheese

b2: shake?

l: beef fajitas with mushrooms

d: more beef fajitas and zuchinni

s: unsure maybe yogurt

Congrats on the lost pounds, great job!

I have the same issue - losing weight at this stage is next to impossible!! I've lost about five lbs this year (well, when I'm no****erlogged!), but it took eight months to do it!

The further out from surgery we get, the better the body seems to get at holding onto weight. There is a theory that our intestines develop super strong cilla a few years after surgery. Cilla are the fingerlike appendages on the wall of the intestines that grab the food as it passes through and extracts the calories from it. Many of them are removed or destroyed with RNY and it takes about two years for them to grow back.

The body knows that it has been starved. It knows that it was getting food but not absorbing it. So it becomes very efficient at trying to make sure that never happens again. My surgeon told me that the body is a "smart animal" that will work hard to make sure it survives.

So I really don't believe that the standard way of figuring how many calories we burn works for us. Because I think we become super absorbers. I maintain on the amount of food that used to have me losing five to seven pounds a week.

I believe this. I was gaining 30 pounds a year starting at 2.5 years out. and I wasn't eating like a 'normie' which totally pissed me off. Then I was like - something medically is wrong with me and the tests say- oh you can eat 1700 cal a day plus your workouts and lose?

I'm just now 5 years out and realizing that I will not be able to eat what I thought I would be able to and lose. I know now that 1600-1750 is maintenance range with lifting 4x a week plus cardio.

My surgeon starts educating us about regain right from the start. When I reached two years with no regain, I started to think he was wrong. By 30 months out, I started regaining and was gaining a pound a week. My maintenance range if 1200-1400 per day. I am 5'2 and my goal is 136.

Before surgery, I would lose weight quickly and easily at 1200 a day. Now I have to stay at 800 a day to lose.

I realize now that my surgeon is the exception in how he educates his patients.

I was bawling in the surgeons office because I had gone from 118 pounds to 160... he was like this is normal and you don't need to be ashamed to weigh this. now I weigh even more and have more to lose back. I was eating 800 calories at 118 pounds.