What's on your Wednesday menu?

Good morning ~ We are at the halfway mark of the week! Yesterday was a blur of busy, that seems to be the way most of the time lately. Too much to do and not enough time. I'm nearing burnout, or maybe I passed it but I'm in denial? I can handle difficult things, people, crazy schedule, plus a commute but I'm starting to think its not worth the MH drain so I need to figure that out. My foot is 'okay' as long as I keep icing and wearing good shoes. I'm one bad shoe choice away from it coming fully back, so this is my life for a bit. All this to say that I was so tired/distracted yesterday after work that I forgot about my planned weight workout, ate dinner and fell asleep watching TV right after. Ah, but that step count - me marching around for the last 800 before I would let myself go to bed!! Today I have 2 meetings, reports and hopefully time to get organized and shake off some stress.

QOTD: Special occasions aside, do you eliminate or restrict any food or food group from your daily plan? What about specific dangerous for you foods? I had eliminated carbs for years, more like decades - or I tried to, and it would always bite me with an eventual binge. I work hard playing MFP food tetris to include my favorite carbs in my plan like potatoes and fruit as long as I meet my protein, fiber and calorie goals. It's made a huge difference in my food noise. Some of my most dangerous foods I cannot have in moderation are Gardetto's snack mix, Omega trail mix and cheese puffs. I'm can't stop eating them so they are banned from the house.

Accountability - great, 48 active minutes, 10,059 steps. I'm 167.2 today, 30 minuts done on the treadmill and a make-up weight/resistance workout after work!

b- coffee, legendary pastry

l- chicken, mini green goddess salad kit

d - pork chop and asparagus

s - jerky, apple

Have a great day!

Good Morning! I feel you on the burn out and hope each day gets better. I have some frustrations about some process flows that I need to have a meeting with my boss about but I haven't found the right way to verbalize it yet so for now I'm making notes so I can set up a meeting. I am glad what you're doing for the plantar fasciitis is working and great job on the hitting your step goal.

QOTD: Like you, I attempt to minimize carbs whi*****lude the yummy sugary ones like donuts, cookies, pies and cake. I also haven't had soda since surgery. If I have things like cheez its, cereal, etc in the cupboard I have a "handful" here and there but of course those add up so unless it's John's I've been trying to just keep them out.

TSS: 10 years 2 months

B: SF latte, 3 turkey sausage links, and an orange

L: Turkey and cheese sticks, carrots, light and fit yogurt and some fruit

S: A piece of fruit and yogurt

D: Turkey burger on keto bun, maybe green beans tonight, a banana, and some junior mints

ES: Protein ice cream and carbmaster toast

E: 1/2 hour elliptical, 1 mile on treadmill and 20 mins Pilates bar

V/W: On track

Totals: Cals:1228 Protein:125 Carbs:127 Fat:40

Have a great day!

It's funny figuring out what things you can have in the house and what you can't...for example, now and even before WLS, I could have pints of ice cream and they would be untouched/barely touched so long they would get freezer burned...but have me bring in the TJ's hold the cones or an ice cream sandwich and I will eat all of them in 5 minutes and be sick Other things, I know if they are available to me, I won't crave them....I always have a good chocolate bar or 6 in the fridge, knowing I could have one if I want it, they last forever and I didn't buy any GS cookies this year because I still had them in the freezer from the prior GS season. They are still in the freezer, just in case.

On the flip side of that, I bought some jalapeño cheese curds from a cheese place in Wisconsin and I won't be buying the again. Apparently I've transferred the "the sleeve is a serving" approach from thin mints to the jalapeño cheese curds. no one needs an entire packet of delicious cheese curds. I have one left and it will be the last!

I have the same problem with the Garlic cheese curd from Aldi. Especially at room temp when they squeak.

Mornin' All!

Rally was great yesterday - I'm so glad I went (and no - I couldn't go to both the rally and class. Rally doors closed at 1:15 and no one else was allowed in after that, and my first class starts at 1:20). I made the right choice, though. Obama, especially, was fantastic. I hope to find a video of his speech online so I can watch it again. There was so much loud and enthusiastic cheering that I missed some of what he said. At least the crowd was psyched!

I've got another film discussion group meeting this morning. I'm also going to call Costco's hearing center when they open to see if they can get me in this week for a hearing test. I'm assuming I may need to get a hearing aid, but my regular medical clinic can't get me in for a hearing test until late January (and I made this January appt about two months ago! they are really booked up!) Since DH has to have his health benefit stuff for 2025 in by this Friday, that's way too late. The FSA stuff is due on Friday, too, and if there's a good chance I need a hearing aid, I want to put more than the usual amount in to cover it - or at least some of it. If they weren't very expensive, I'd just put the $$ in the FSA account to cover it regardless, and use it for something else if it turns out I don't need one - but those things are crazy expensive. Not sure I could spend the extra $1000+ on other things if I don't need to get a hearing aid. So...fingers crossed I can get an appt at Costco this week.

QOTD: I do eat carbs, but the good kind. It's not that I never eat the "bad" kind (donuts, cookies, etc) - but I try to limit that to special occasions or parties. DH likes that kind of stuff, so I make him hide it if he brings it in the house.

coffee with half & half

skyr with 2 T SF apple butter, thin slice of Danish rye with butter & cloudberry jam

1/2 pack of Loma Linda southwest burrito bowl on salad greens topped with plain Greek yogurt & salsa

protein muffin or protein ice cream

celeriac soup and some kind of protein

ex: too windy to bike and not much at the gym today, so I'll probably walk or do some cardio video

have a great day, everyone!

I have been wearing hearing aids since 2012. When I purchase from a hearing aid specialist covered by my medical insurance, they pay for one hearing aid a year and the cost for one is about $3,000. Because I wear two, I then pay another $3,000 for the second hearing aid. They last a few years, then start having problems and I replace them.

This year I decided to try Sam's Club instead. We don't have a Costco close. Sam's does not take insurance, but two hearing aids there were $1800 for the pair and they are working better than the $6000 ones I had been buying. I would highly recommend Costco or Sams.

Hearing aids do not improve the clarity of the words. They make them louder. It is like turning up the sound on a radio. For me they do not work well when many people in the room are talking or in places like resturants or in churches that have echoes. But in a the right enviroment, preferably talking to one person in a quiet room, they are wonderful.

I found it well worth to pay whatever extra cost is involved to get them with technology that works with WIFI. Then they can work just like earbuds to listen to your phone or other devices. When they do the hearing test and demo the hearing aids it will be in the quiet and ideal enviroment, so you really don't know how well they wor****il you wear them in different places. They should have a 90-day no questions asked return period for you to see if they are right for you. Also make sure you have insurance in case you lose one.

The hearing test at Costco will be fine. Their techs are well trained and their hearing aids are ranked excellent by users.

Hi gang. Quick drive by. It's about 2pm here. Busy, busy week. I'll give a full update next week. We just left the Roman coliseum in El Jem. I had no idea there were so many different ancient Roman sites here, and how extensive they were.

Food is all over the place, and it's too confusing to track. Lots of bread this week.

QOTD: There are foods I'll always eat, and foods I'll never eat. I only make things off limits when I want to rein it in and lose some. And then I don't cut food types, just calories. And it's easier to cut calories by trimming sugar and fats than by cutting protein. But my bottom line is always simply my calorie budget.

Here is me, my brother and my daughter at El Jem.

I don't see a bandage on your hand, hopefully that is good news.

They said I could unwrap the rest of the hand by yesterday, so I did. It was looking pretty disreputable. I've still got the pinky wrapped. They'll take that off next Monday when I go to the orthopedist. It's really stopped bothering me much, but it's probably ugly under there.

I had no idea they could suture two halves of a fingernail. That was remarkable to watch.

Wow, what a fantastic experience. So glad you go to go.