What's on your Thursday Menu?

^^actual photo of a post op body without plastics, haha!^^

Morning all! Or is it the middle of the night still? I just never found sleep last night and after tossing and turning for hours I just quit and got up at 2:30am. Luckily today is a pretty passive day of meetings. I will be attending a marathon zoom meeting from 11 - 3, but just as a participant, yay! I do have trainings of my own to run from 7am - 8am & 3pm - 4pm, but I'm super familiar with the content and could give these trainings in my sleep, which is good, since I probably will, haha.

Yesterday's meeting with my NUT was good. We have worked together for 7+ years out of my 12 year WLS adventure, and I trust her. We talked at length about everything... I shared my screen and showed her many months worth of MFP menus (the good bad and ugly) and she's asking me to try changing my macros pretty dramatically.

New Plan: lower the calories (by a lot!)... lower the protein & fat by a little, and up the carbs by a little, too. She is not anti-keto or low carb at all, but one of the things she cautioned is that fats are the hardest thing to measure accurately and I may be inadvertently adding in more fat (which would lead to much higher calories) without being aware--even though I weigh and measure. Being as small as I am, adding in a hidden 150 calories a day could really make or break my goals!

Anyway, I trust her, and I am up for the adventure. For the last 2.5 years I have really flitted around trying to figure out the right macros for me, and I am up for trying this! I played around with my menu yesterday and added and deleted things for hours until I could get to close to her numbers. It will be tough until I go to the grocery store, but I think I can make it work for a few more days.

QOTD: What was your favorite purchase (big or small!) of this year? Mine is probably my NordicTrack iFit Treadmill! I am really happy that I have had a way to virtually travel and exercise during these last few months and it will continue to be a wonderful gift to myself for years to come, even when I am back to commuting.

Good morning all! I'm exhausted this morning. Quick post before starting work as I'm running behind!

Accountability was really good yesterday...it's been pretty good all week actually. I haven't been so ravenous like I normally am thank goodness! And this morning I am finally 2 ounces away from completely losing my regain! Yay! So I can finally focus on getting back on track to meeting my goal!

QOTD: I can't remember if I bought my Ninja single serve blender this year or last year but it's definitely my favorite purchase as I use it daily for my protein shakes! Also another favorite is my new ninja coffee bar I purchased a couple weeks ago. My old one stopped working properly and was making my coffee taste nasty. I am finally drinking delicious coffee again!

B: coffee w/Splenda & sf creamer x 2

B2: protein shake

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

D: 4 oz baked salmon and broccoli

S: L&F Greek yogurt & an apple

So happy for you, you've worked hard! Great job.

wahoo for losing regain!

Doing a virtual happy dance for you!

WTG. Glad you found a happy place on the scale. I knew you would do it. You worked very hard. You need to be proud you deserve it.

Great job at keeping at it to lose the regain.

Good morning from Florida (for 3 more days). I changed my flight and am going home Sunday instead of Tuesday! Yeah! I am missing everyone and after this Covid bout am really looking forward to going home for a few weeks. But I think I have to tell DS about my illness before I get there. I was going to tell him in person but he is making noise about quarantining me.

In the meantime I am driving my car to Mike's for a couple of days so I can get my stuff there in preparation for flying home on Sunday.

QOTD: Hmmm... I bought a lot of nice clothes (many Lilly Pulitzer so I am done buying that brand for a while) and a pair of Tory Burch shoes I really like. And I just ordered a Roomba for Florida, my annual gift from DH, even though he isn't here anymore. I might end up loving it. After doing a thorough cleaning here this week I decided I liked the idea of having my floor automatically vacuumed. ETA: And I love the necklace I had made from my wedding ring and a pendant DH had given me when we were first married:

TSS: 4 years, 8 months

B: Coffee!!! Eggs and cottage cheese

L: unsure

D: unsure - probably out

S: blueberry cheesecake yogurt pie and/or nut thins with cottage cheese

Such a beautiful necklace.

love that!