Eatin' Good In The 20's Neighborhood - Freaky Friday

Hi all!  How was your Friday?  I cheated and moved to purees a bit early but all went down fine and tasted sooooo good! B - 2 oz cottage cheese S - 3 oz cheesecake pudding L - 2 oz cottage cheese S - 2 oz ff refried beans, 1 oz shredded cheese, 1 oz sour cream (YUM!) D - I haven't had it yet but it will probably be either beans or cottage cheese.  20 oz Gatorade/Crystal Lite As before, I'm still working on getting in enough liquids and protein.  My calories are extremely low and I can't imagine how I'm supposed to fill 600 LOL.  Maybe once I can have meat and eggs and "salad" type items made with mayo (egg salad) lol. I didn't exercise today (tsk) but I had a very very odd day.  There's always tomorrow! How are y'all doing?

Today so far has been not bad - although I slept in WAY late again - I can't break this habit and it is driving me nutso!!!!

B - 4tsp. of yogurt
L - 4tsp. of mashed potatoes
D - Around 10:00pm I'm going to have some tuna and some toast - this will be my first attempt at my next stage!!!

Liquids has been a struggle today - but it doesn't help getting up so late...

Almost done 16oz of water - gonna try for another 16oz of water/crystal light - maybe some milk.

All pills/vitamins taken
Exercise - Walked around our mall for a bit tonight - felt not too bad. I did my weekly pictures/weigh-in/inches total today... I am down 36lbs & 18"

Congratulations!  Let me know how the tuna goes!  I still have a week to wait for that.

Gosh you guys make me feel like I eat like such a pig!...but I'm almost a year out and below goal so ;p .... Coffee and sf carmel vanilla creamer 9:00 a side of scrambled eggs from mcdonalds - it was gross 12:00 lunch was at my old favorite restaurant where I met up with my wife's uncle...This could have been really bad because they have the best chicken wings anywhere, but I made it work....2/3 of a lunch portion of chef salad with balsamic vinigrette and four honey-hot chicken wings...I was stuffed... later....two wings from the doggy bag! 4:30 - about six pieces of italian ham and a string cheese with honey mustard... 6:30 - About five waffle fries from chick-fil- a stolen from my kids' meals 7:00 - another string cheese and about five little slices of turkey peperonni later - I don't know maybe a protein shake or cottage cheese...

You're not a pig, you're just not on pureed and liquids.  As long as you're maintaining and paying attention to make sure you are maintaining - it's all good.

I'm pooped and starting to feel like I actually had surgery this morning... 11am - 10 oz orange juice and 4 saltine crackers in the recovery room, so I could get my IV removed and take my first oxicodone.

I was released at 1pm to my grandparents' care on a "regular bariatric diet".

1:30pm - about 4 bites of a chicken fajita burrito, 1 bite of refried beans, 2 bites of a honey sopapia  from a really good authentic Mexican restaurant

40 oz water, 8 oz decaff coffee w/ 4 oz steamed skim milk and 1 oz sf hazelnut davinci syrup

7pm -  M y family (grandparents, sister, nephew, mom and I) all went out to try a new Chinese restaurant.  So I ate 2 cream cheese wantons, 2 pieces of broccoli and I would estimate 2 oz chicken and 3-4 noodles.

I skipped breakfast at the house and just grabbed a slim fast on the way out. It was one of the low-carb ones. It was delicious. I drink them so fast.

About mid-morning I had a leftover breakfast burrito (potato, egg and cheese) and a cookie from our previous day's town hall meeting.

I went on my lunch break to the Mac counter at Nordstrom's to go crazy and buy a ton of makeup since I got a bonus today. I told the girl I was going to a nice restaurant tonight for my mom's birthday dinner and she offered to do my eyes for me. I wish I had taken a close up picture. They were BEAUTIFUL! She even put some false eyelashes on me for a fuller effect. Because I took so long getting makeup I didn't really have time to eat lunch so I nibbled on another chocolate chip pecan cookie.

We went to Stephan Pyle's new restaurant here in Downtown Dallas and it was out of this world. First, they brought out a little spoon filled with mashed garbanzo beans, feta cheese, parsley and jalapenos compliments of the chef. Then we split 3 appetizers: fried green tomatoes with fresh mozzerella, banana empanadas and calamari. Then we had a salad. I chose the Caesar salad. It was unique to say the least. Then came my entree. The Bone-In Cowboy Ribeye piled high (and i'm speaking the truth here) with friend onion strings. Bryan helped me eat some of the onion strings but I took maybe 3 bites of the steak and I was FULL! Bryan is a fiend for Dessert so we ordered 3 for the table: the heaven and hell cake which you can see in the 3rd picture, the coffee and donuts (which was 3 donuts and creme brulee) and a rasberry sorbet. It was a magical evening. For once I had a date to our family outing. I've known Bryan since high school but we just reconnected a couple of years ago through Myspace of all places. He is such a gentlemen. Mom loves him because he is Jewish. He's stuck around through my thin and now heaviest times and even when I didn't want to be around him. I just know there is a reason he is in my life. Here are a few pictures from last night. Me & Bryan Me & Bryan (I look like I have a hump-back) Me & Bryan once again (I hate it when my dad takes candid shots) Here you can see the heaven & hell cake. It was definitely heavenly and sinful at the same time!

Awwwe.  It sounds like you had a great time and a good friend (or maybe more) in Bryan.  I'm happy for you! 

Thank you so much, Amy! I am happy now and it will be interesting to see how things change once I have the surgery. So glad that your surgery went well and that you're back at home!

Aww Bryan!! I haven't seen him in a few months! I miss him! Looks like you guys had fun!