What's on your (PHOTO) Friday Menu?

Queen JB
on 4/14/23 2:18 am
RNY on 07/20/15

Happy Fridaaaaaayyyy! Hope everyone has a nice weekend planned. I have been a proTAXinator, and yeah.... they are due Monday and I haven't started, so I guess I am doing that today :/

It's summer in Boston all of a sudden! As usual we skipped the Spring season completely and went from the 40s to the 80s in just a few days. Today we expect record highs in the upper 80s--it's 72 right now at 5am. Wild. If I finish my taxes, I will reward myself by setting up my patio furniture and reading outside this afternoon.

A few cookies from this week:



QOTD: Your wish is my command. What are your favorite WLS friendly items from Aldi or Trader Joe's? I'm not much of an Aldi shopper but I love love love Trader Joe's and they have so many great and unique WLS friendly items. Yesterday I stocked up on a bunch of things, but I don't get there often enough anymore, so I got a lot and I'll freeze some of it! Sous Vide Chicken Thighs, Sous Vide Turkey Tips, Sous Vide Sliced Beef, Crumbled Blue Cheese, Turkey Meatballs, Protein Plates (salami, cheese & almonds), Prosciutto Wrapped Cheese Sticks, Cauliflower Thins, Eggwich Sandwiches.......... So much more!

Excited to eat some of it today!

B: Protein Coffee

S: Prosciutto Wrapped Cheese Stick

L: Sous Vide Chicken Thighs

D: Beef & Blue Cheese

  • High Weight before LapBand: 200 (2008)
  • High Weight before RNY: 160 (2015)
  • Lowest post-op weight: 110 (2016)
  • Maintenance Weight: 120 (2017-2019)
  • Battling Regain Weight: 135 (current)

Partlypollyanna
on 4/14/23 2:44 am
RNY on 02/14/18

Good morning and happy Friday! I have been up since about 11:45 last night and I'm not feeling my usual productive self when I wake up so early (or late, depending on how you look at it). I started a new book and I watched Top Chef but have really just been killing time. I am wishing I had some toast but I don't and none of the grocery stores are open so that's probably a good thing, lol. I will probably go ahead and start work at 4 and get done early. I am taking my bike to get a spring tune up this afternoon, it's just a few blocks away so I'll go even in the rain.

We had a couple of glorious summer days with temps approaching 80 but it's raining all day today and expecting a bit of snow overnight, not a lot though, only up to 3 inches. No complaints here about that though, my youngest step sister was put on evacuation notice for a fire earlier this wee****il the FS/FD got it under control. Bring on the moisture. It will stop by afternoon, they say, which is good because some friends and I have tickets to see Samantha Bee on Saturday night downtown. Other than that, nothing much planned for the weekend.

QOTD - I go to Trader joes a lot but I don't really buy all the much besides cheese and sparkling water. The unexpected cheddar is always good, I like their samosas too. I do get their GF ginger muffins and the olive bites when they are in season. It's a good place to go if I need to get some barebells bars but I have two boxes in the fridge now that I am working through - pumpkin spice and raspberry cream. So really just whatever interesting cheese they have and a few seasonal items plus samosas. I really, really love their hold the cone items but have stopped buying them because I can't not eat them all and then I'm sick for hours. Know your weaknesses!

Menu today will be

coffee plus FLP X 2 (already done)

omlette

deli turkey with cheddar

not sure about dinner

my photo friday is the gorgeous sherbet colored sky on my drive to the office yesterday.

HW: 306 SW: 282 GW: 145 (reached 2/6/19) CW:150

Jen

Grim_Traveller
on 4/14/23 3:14 am
RNY on 08/21/12

Is "hold the cone" some sort of ice cream?

6'3" tall, male.

Highest weight was 475. RNY on 08/21/12. Current weight: 198.

M1 -24; M2 -21; M3 -19; M4 -21; M5 -13; M6 -21; M7 -10; M8 -16; M9 -10; M10 -8; M11 -6; M12 -5.

Partlypollyanna
on 4/14/23 3:18 am
RNY on 02/14/18

HW: 306 SW: 282 GW: 145 (reached 2/6/19) CW:150

Jen

Grim_Traveller
on 4/14/23 3:26 am
RNY on 08/21/12

I have a low tolerance for ice cream. Those look small, so I might be able to eat two of those. Maybe. But I'd feel like crap for hours if I ate more.

It's a blessing, in a way, to not be able to eat much of something so calorie dense. It's a good reminder that almost 11 years later the surgery is still working.

6'3" tall, male.

Highest weight was 475. RNY on 08/21/12. Current weight: 198.

M1 -24; M2 -21; M3 -19; M4 -21; M5 -13; M6 -21; M7 -10; M8 -16; M9 -10; M10 -8; M11 -6; M12 -5.

Partlypollyanna
on 4/14/23 3:44 am, edited 4/13/23 8:45 pm
RNY on 02/14/18

I don?t have any issues with ice cream?except these and that is 100% a self control issue. Ice cream usually ends up freezer burned and disposed of rather than eaten - pre and post op both. Except for these.

Actually, now that I think about it, I probably should check for some yasso bars that have probably completely crystallized in the freezer and get rid of them, lol.

HW: 306 SW: 282 GW: 145 (reached 2/6/19) CW:150

Jen

Grim_Traveller
on 4/14/23 4:23 am
RNY on 08/21/12

I never kept ice cream at home. I'd usually have it a couple of times a year, and almost always out somewhere. Chips and chocolate were my biggest poisons.

6'3" tall, male.

Highest weight was 475. RNY on 08/21/12. Current weight: 198.

M1 -24; M2 -21; M3 -19; M4 -21; M5 -13; M6 -21; M7 -10; M8 -16; M9 -10; M10 -8; M11 -6; M12 -5.

Partlypollyanna
on 4/14/23 4:28 am
RNY on 02/14/18

Ice cream and chocolate I can have in the house! Chocolate is also something that I periodically have to throw out -- Sheila might stab me but when I spring cleaned the fridge, I realized I had chocolate I had brought back from Italy and I finally got rid of it (I was in Italy in 2018..it had even moved with me, lol).

Oreos, I cannot. Chocolate chip cookies, I cannot. Gingersnaps, nilla wafers, anything made by an elf...nope nope nope.

HW: 306 SW: 282 GW: 145 (reached 2/6/19) CW:150

Jen

Icecream Dreamer
on 4/14/23 4:40 am - Central Coast, CA
RNY on 06/26/17

You and I need to live together. I'll take care of all the icecream and chocolate so you won't waste them. I love The yasso icecreams, especially the salted caramel one.

SW:261 6/26/17 GW:150 10/6/18

CW: 142

PGW: 140-142

Queen JB
on 4/14/23 8:22 am
RNY on 07/20/15

You and I should probably not live together because we would be fighting for the same food--except for ice cream. I will take the FroYo and Gelato off your hands, though :)

  • High Weight before LapBand: 200 (2008)
  • High Weight before RNY: 160 (2015)
  • Lowest post-op weight: 110 (2016)
  • Maintenance Weight: 120 (2017-2019)
  • Battling Regain Weight: 135 (current)

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