Menus and Miles Thursday April 16th

Hello to all of our Lightweights!!!  If you are visiting WELCOME....PLEASE JOIN US and POST!!!!!   Besides my tool,  I count  Posting on the LW board as my #1 reason for being successful on this exciting journey!!!!     

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.

I feel I need to repeat this:  I am a FIRM believer in Whey Protein Drinks!!!!!  I have IC (Irritable Bladder Syndrome) and I can only have them occasionally while I'm having a flare up.   It is sooooo much harder to do Maintenance without them!

Afternoon LW's!!!

Maintenance:   6+ years out and started the new year right on target!!!

Protein Matrix Mint Cookie 35g

Breakfast:   Scrambled Egg, Eggbeater Whites, 1 piece of bacon

Snack:         6 grapes

Lunch:         Egg Salad on a piece of white toast

Snack:         Scramble egg and 1 piece of bacon

Dinner:       Steak

Snack:        3 TB. of unpopped Popcorn   (didn't start this until I was on Maintenance)

Good afternoon!

Breakfast: Healthwise Oatmeal w/ 1/2 cup carbmaster milk (20 protein)

Snack: Hard boiled egg & bell peppers (6 protein)

Lunch: 3 oz. Rotisserie Chicken (14 protein)

Snack: Matrix Mint Cookie with carbmaster milk (34 protein)

Dinner: Pasta primavera (adding chicken/reducing pasta)

Water: On track

Vitamins: On track

Exercise: Day 4 T25 and hopefully a 3 mile walk (I have missed this the last 2 days)

Sounds Good!

Hi Roz & all my fellow Lightweights!  Roz  oooh egg salad, so missing that option, gotta add that back in...

B- 1-Scrambled egg w cheese

L- One & 1/2 chkn tender

S Baby bell light

D- Chicken w/curry

Water & Vits working it

The egg salad was delish! 

I like that you are eating Protein at every meal but I'm still concerned about you not getting enough "good" protein and your totals.

I had a talk with myself this morning.  This week I've been bad about snacking and that has to stop.  I figured up my calories, protein, etc., yesterday and I didn't like the numbers.  My WLS was in 2008 and in the summer of 2009 I bought a pair of white slacks and a pair of white crop pants at the thrift store.  I probably have about $3 invested but they haven't fit since that summer.  The other day I tried them on and was not happy with the results.  I remember how good I felt wearing them.....zipper and a waistband......no elastic.  Time to get my act together.  Back then I was wearing belts too. 

Eats today:

B:  Inspire Peanut Butter Cup shake

S:  2 Jack Links beef sticks

L:  Burrito; strawberries

S:  Roadside Lemonade

D:  Chicken

S:  NO POPCORN

I have 2 pair of dress pants that I can wear comfortably.  I need to get this off too. At least my cardio appt was good and after my stress test next week, I will be ready to get back to work hard.

I can't wear things from my first year either and I finally had to give them away instead of looking at them dreaming.  Where are you with your BMI

Sounds Good!

Roz, don't tell me that.  It's not like I have a lot of money invested in them.  It's the great feeling I had when wearing them.  I want that feeling back. 

My doctor's goal for me was 15 lbs. less than I reached.  I think it was such an improvement I became complacent.  I was off all my meds except thyroid and could shop in the Misses department.  Working the last 5 1/2 months has not been good for my weight.  I'm sitting most all day and I wasn't exercising.  The last 2 weeks I've been riding my stationary bike for 30 minutes a day, but not sure that's really all I need.

This week I'm going to start going to the gym after work.  I know I need to work up a sweat but oh how I hate the thought of sweating. 

Just checked my BMI......ugly.

I Roz - I've been getting carby again... go into popcorn last night (after doing SO well during the day - ugh!)  Today...ugh

I love egg salad - I need to make it again. 

B - coffee x2 (no protein coffee - bad me! and that isn't the worst part...

L - a Wendy's fried chicken sandwich and ate all the chicken and 2/3 of the bun... bad me...

S - some of the kids' french fries (OMG - what is HAPPENING to me??)  

D - I hate to even think what this may be (just kidding - going out with Nicole and the girls - I'll HAVE to make a good decision!)

Vits:  yes - at least I did THAT right

Water:  ok - not great.