Menus and Miles Thursday August 22nd

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WARNING TO SELF AND TO ANYONE WHO WILL LISTEN!!!   AVOID 'BAD' CARBS AT ALL COSTS!!!  THEY ARE ADDICTING!!  THEY WILL SLOW DOWN YOUR WEIGHT LOSS DURING THE LOSING STAGE (and you won't even notice)!!  THEY WILL MAKE THE SCALE GO UP AFTER THE HONEYMOON PERIOD IS OVER.

Success in Maintenance starts with good choices during the Honeymoon Period!!!!!!!!!

We took 3 of our Grandchildren to the Rodeo last night and I had some bites of funnel cake...the sweets have to stop!!!  The wedding cake was the start of it and now it is getting out of hand.  The scales have moved in the wrong direction too!!!!

RNY Maintenance

Protein:   Matrix Mint Cookie 35g.  
Lunch:     Small Wendy's Chili
Snack:     Banana
Snack:     1/2 a cupcake......
Protein:   Syntrax Lemon Tea  23g
Protein:   Syntrax Lemon Tea  23g
Dinner     Not Sure
Snack:    100 Calorie Popcorn (98% fat free)

Calories      Protein      Net Carbs      Fat    Sugar

Hi Roz,

It is so hard once you get the sweet tooth!! 

B:  Protein Decaf Coffee
S:  Decaf Coffee
S:  Lemon Tea Protein Drink
L:  1 1/2 Meatballs w/ tomato sauce (Mellow Mushroom) - everyone else had salad and pizza
S:  Blue Bunny Sugar Free Butter Pecan Ice Cream
S:  Lemon Tea Protein Drink
S:  Piece of pound cake
D:  Couple bites of:  chicken & dumplings, okra, cream corn, the top of a piece of cornbread w/ margerine
S:  If anything it will be Chocolate Truffle Protein Shake

Vitamins:  Morning & Afternoon Done
Water/Fluids:  105 ozs
Miles:  None

Linda

My plan is to stick with Protein for a few days and hoping the scale moves back down.  I don't think there are any more sweets in the house and the next birthday isn't until Sept. 9th so that will give me a couple of weeks to get myself under control.

Looks like you had a little bit of a carb tooth today too...lol.

Hi Roz

Fair food is so tempting!

Move in to college day, very off schedule, but I did ok. Need to drink some more fluids.  It's always hot on move in day!

B Oats n eggs with swiss and ham, some left over fresh veggies

S Almonds

L Salmon salad at restauraunt

S piece of chicken breast at College cafeteria

D finally home  Greek yogurt with fiber one, walnuts and craisins.

Miles treadmill and upper body at the Y

Vites good

Anne

Move in day and you still had enough energy to exercise...I'm impressed!

Ut oh, Roz. Check into carb detox ASAP!

Hi guys,
Sorry about the boring Bites, I'm trying to get things back under control after vacation last week.

MENU: (DS Maintenance Mode)
B - 2 protein coffees (60g)
S - Fage Greek yogurt w/blueberries & slivered almonds, and protein coffee (30g)
S - peanuts
L - protein shake (30g)
S - popcorn
S - JayRobb bar
D - North Carolina pork BBQ, green beans w/corn, cole slaw and corn bread (rerun)
S - CarbSmart ice cream

VITES:
morning batch: done
4 calcium batches: done 
iron: done
evening batch: starting

MILES:
walking

I'm thinking I shouldn't have even had my regular Mint Cookie Protein shake this morning because it is so sweet.

Boring???  It doesn't look much different than your normal day...lol.

I'm SO glad I'm not a sweet person.  Give me chips and salt any day... don't get me wrong, I can eat it but I'm not drawn to it.

B - coffee

L - mashed cauliflower and some chicken as i was de-boning it

S - a SF pickle spear

D - more chicken (just a bite) and  more mashed cauliflower  I made 2 heads of it today and I could have eaten the whole thing.

S - about 3 cashews

Vits:  yep

Water:  good - love my decaf Ice Tea!

Sweets have always been my downfall.  Before WLS I would stop on the way home and buy a banana flip cake and loved cookies for breakfast.  I've only had a few bad days since surgery because I use to dump really bad but of course that's not as bad as it used to be.  I don't even eat Protein bars because I'm afraid it will set me off.   I'm hoping I have a good weekend with little temptation. 

Do you boil the cauliflower and then ma****  What do you put on it? Are your pickles sweet or dill?

I agree about the protein bars. I stopped eating them because they are a trigger plus they just don't sit well in my pouch.

I steam the cauliflower.  Then ma****  Put milk/cream/butter - whatever you would put in traditional mashed potatoes in it. I put just butter in this time.  But - I find I need a bit of salt to make it taste more like potatoes... just me - I like salt. The pickles are sugar free bread and butter pickles.  I used to eat these a LOT when I had my surgery, but found I had to be careful because even though they are 0 calories, no sugar, etc. my weight loss would slow down.