What's on your (PHOTO) Friday Menu?
Mornin' All!
Like Jim, we didn't get as much snow yesterday as they were predicting, either - 2-3" was all. It's supposed to do a lot of blowing around today, though, and it's cold as all get-out. Minus 11 last time I checked five minutes ago. We rarely get those kinds of temps any more, and almost never this early in the season. That's the stuff of late January (when we get them at all...). Regardless, it'll be a PJ day for me, too. I'll be making the marinara sauce for the Christmas lasagna (will do the rest of the lasagna tomorrow and then just re-heat it on Christmas day - it's always better re-heated on the second day than it is right out of the oven). And I'll continue reading this book my urban history professor friend recommended to me on mid-century redlining in Chicago (and other things that caused the extreme neighborhood segregation - but redlining was the main factor). The book is huge, but luckily very engaging.
I noticed the other day that the MFP/Fitness pairing has an option to do negative calorie adjustment, where instead of just keeping you at your baseline all day if you don't get up off your butt (and only starting to give you some extra calories when you get above a certain amount of steps, which for me seems to be around 3500), it actually starts to DELETE calories from your baseline if you don't do a lot of moving around. I thought this would be an incentive to get up and move every 45 minutes or so - on top of getting 30-60 minutes of intentional exercise, but it's really starting to get to my head. I'm starting off the day today with 155 calories deducted from my baseline - which makes sense since the only "exercise" I've had so far is going out to the kitchen to get my morning coffee. Yesterday I was also homebound - so I did a half hour of some youtube dance video, and I went from -188 calories to -40 calories after exercising (and ended the day with -65, since I didn't get around to intentional exercise until around 8:00 last night. I evidently got docked another 25 calories before going to bed because I didn't get any exercise between finishing the fitness video and the time I went to bed). Good Lord this thing cracks the whip! I may have to turn it back off if it starts mucking with my mind too much.
QOTD: I did up until I was five or six. We lived in a predominantly Jewish neighborhood, so my friends clued me in...
B: plain skyr with cranberry/cherry compote, coffee with half & half
MS: protein shake
L: salad and Thai-style curried sweet potato/lime soup
AS: protein muffin
D: I think I'll make an Indian curry with sweet potatoes and chickpeas (I bought this monster sweet potato the other day - 2.5 lbs! I used half of it for that forementioned soup, so I need to deal with the other half soon. This curry sounded pretty good...)
ex: I might have to do two exercise videos today - otherwise MFP will be punishing me yet again!!
have a great day, everyone!
RNY 06/03/15 by Michael Garren (Madison, WI)
HW: 373 SW: 316 GW: 150 LW: 138 CW: 163
forgot to post a picture. My husband took this last night of our almost-18-year-old arthritic kitty. I think his new arthritis med must be working - it's been at least a year since we've seen him on top of the fridge - yet there he was!!!
RNY 06/03/15 by Michael Garren (Madison, WI)
HW: 373 SW: 316 GW: 150 LW: 138 CW: 163
Good Morning Queen JB and Menuers,
I could never eat the deer cookies there too cute.
I been up since 4:30 to put my crockpot on (ham with brown sugar maple syrup and Jack Danials) for the potluck here at work and could not fall back to sleep. When I woke it was 45° raining and windy. By the time I left the house at 8 it was 6° frozen over and blustery blowing snow. It took a little extra time to make the 20-mile truck through the storm, but I made it safe and sound. The power at home flickered a couple times so I am keeping my fingers crossed. The family gathering with my cousins that was scheduled for tonight has been cancelled and I decided tomorrow I shall sleep in. I am not going to the gym but should after this potluck. I have already been nibbling at the cheese.
QOTD: I did till age 7 when my middle brother told me and showed me where they hid the gifts. I did get my Smiley lamp that year and made a bunch of money on it years later when I sold it on eBay.
Accountability: 2 glasses of wine and 2 pizzelles
SS: 5 years 12 days 157.8 Lowest (129.4)
B: Coffee with Coffee Mate SF chocolate caramel creamer
MS: Light and Fit Creme Brulee Greek yogurt and berries
CB: Coffee with Coffee Mate SF chocolate caramel creamer
L: Potluck
D: Ham
Exercise: Nope
Water and Vitamins: On track. I take a Bariatric Advantage Ultra multi w/iron I use bariatric advantage Calcium chews and 500mg of Magnesium. I also use Miralax and fiber in my first coffee of the day.
Have a great holiday my friends.
Brightest Blessings.
Chrissy
This is and updated Side by Side for my 5-year surgiversery
Ron and I at the Christmas Pageant thing last Sunday.
HW 299 SW 290 CW 139 GW 140 2/08/2019 OPERATION: Surgical Hernia with excision of total surface area of 55 x 29 cm of abdominal skin.
Fabulous, you look great and must feel even better!
- Pre- Surgery/ Type 2 Diabetes, High BP and Cholesterol, treated with 6 medications, including Insulin. Post Op- low dose BP med 2022, Mounjaro 10/2023
HW - 299 , Consult day weight - 277, Day of surgery ( 11/19/2014) - 259,LW - 178, GW - 195, CW- 194.2 - reached goal
