Good Morning. Welcome to all the lurkers, newbies and not so newbies

Former Lurker here, reporting in...Had a great day yesterday, today is my birthday and I feel like a million bucks! I love my RNY! On maintenance and yes, I had a small piece of Halloween candy yesterday, yikes! but it was sooo good! LW's have a great day and we will succeed and conquer this Halloween monster. 

Happy Birthday!!!!

Yes, ma'am! :::snappy salute... which hand do I use again??:::

I'm not too worried about the Halloween candy - I finally got a protein/yogurt mix that tastes to me just like a Reeses, so if I get too crave-y, I'll go have some of that instead.

However, I will also be sure to buy candy that I don't particularly care for, and send the left overs to work with DH just to be certain!

I'm currently maintaining my weight between 131 and 133, so I'm very happy with myself!

Okay, I thought you knew by now you're not allowed to post about a protein/yogurt mix that tastes like a Reeses and not share your recipe...           So give it up sister...  

Thanks,

Julie

Um... I was trying to sneak it past you? LOL!

Ok, I do it with 1/4 cup greek yogurt (Fage 0% or Trader Joe's Fat Free seem to work best for me, Oikos is a bit thin), 1 tablespoon peanut butter (sole ingredient - peanuts.  Nothing else), 1 tablespoon Smucker's SF chocolate syrup (found by the ice cream additions), and 22 grams chocolate protein powder.

It mixes up thicker than a pudding, and tastes delish!

The other occasional treat fave is 1/4 cup greek yogurt, 1 tablespoon of the same peanut butter, 1/2 teaspoon of ground cinnamon and 22 g of vanilla protein powder.  Tastes almost like a pumpkin pie.

The 22 grams of protein was arrived at because less protein left it too thin, but more protein made it too thick to stir.  Adapt as you choose!

Thanks!!  Sounds great.  I am definitely going to give it a try.

Morning everybody! No longer a lurker, thanks to all of you still have my eye on the goal. It helps me not to turn back to the food junkie I used to be. Even thou I haven't had my surgery yet...reeses peanut butter cups have been calling me...but thanks to Rebecca...I have a great alternative! Sherry

You're welcome - but please double check with your nut that you can do the peanut butter - I don't want any angry nuts coming after me!  If they say "no" to the real stuff, try getting PB2 from Netrition, and reconstituting that with water - it should taste about the same.

(I knew that there were just some things I had to figure out how to redo, and Reeses were first on my list).