Menus and Miles Tuesday April 14th

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!

Hellooooo LW's!!!!!  The scales haven't moved down yet but my dress pants and rings are loser and so are my shoes. I don't know why this Amazes me every single time but it does.    I'm not a carboholic since WLS but just eating a few extra carbs makes my ankles and fingers swell and gives me a bigger roll around my belly. I have no fear that the scales will also drop soon.  For years my left ankle has been huge.  Dr. even had me checked out (no reason found) but now I realize it was all of the bread, potatoes, candy and banana flips I was eating before WLS.

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

Breakfast:  Matrix Mint Cookie 35g

Snack:        Babybell cheese (lite)

Lunch:        Roast Beef from last nights dinner

Snack:       80 Calorie Light & fit Greek Cherry Non Fat Yogurt

Snack:       1 Meat and Cheese Roll-up

Dinner:       Not sure but definitely Protein

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

Hi Roz!  I've been seeing a lot lately in the news about processed carbs and how they affect the body - even to the point of behavioral issues with children.  

I couldn't get my treadmill to work this morning (ended up being user error) - so I'll get on it tonight when I watch The Voice.

B - coffee and a protein coffee

L - uh oh - was watching Rachel Ray - lol.  She had a bleu cheese HOT hamburg.  Use butter, garlic and wing sauce then put your hamburg in it (already cooked) and top with cheese.  I just used a regular hamburg - but the sauce was AWESOME!  And - no carbs! I put jalapeno cheese on it too.  

S - prosciutto cheese rollup pieces

D - corn beef.  I have it in the crock pot.  I'll take my portion out and then make it into hash for the kids.  

S - hmmmmmmmmmm

Vits:  not yet - I HAVE to

Water:  low - need to get me some tea!

Soooo disappointed Mia got cut from the Voice.  She used to cheer for our DD until she decided that singing was where her love was.

We have a treadmill downstairs that neither on of us ever get on. It's been so long I don't even know if it works.

I wouldn't be able to eat the hot sauce but it does sound very simple.  I'm glad you enjoyed it!  I like corn beef and cabbage but I haven't had it for a long time. I'll have to remember to buy some on my next shopping trip. 

Sounds like you had a Good Day!!!

I'm very moody/emotional today... trying to shake it. 

Breakfast: sausage crumbles/egg beaters (9 protein)

Snack: Mink Cookie Shake with Carbmaster Milk (34 protein)

Lunch: Crack Slaw (25.2 protein)

Dinner: ??

Vitamins: Check

Water: :( Not doing well.... 2nd day in a row)

Exercise: Day 2 of T25; 3 mile walk (if I have time, son has piano today so I may not get the walk in.)

Elizabeth, You can't just post that you ate crack slaw w/out a description!!!!   what is it?  Where can I get some????  Come on out with it!

Haha!!  It is a recipe they shared at my weight loss support meeting.  Here's the recipe. :)

Crack Slaw

1 lb lean ground beef
5 or 6 green onions, sliced
half a large head of cabbage, shredded, about 4-5 cups, (I used a bag of "slaw", carrots and cabbage mix that was about 6 cups)
salt, pepper, onion powder, garlic powder to taste
1 Tbsp sesame oil
1 Tbsp low sodium soy sauce
a few splashes of seasoned rice wine vinegar (I used about a teaspoon)

Brown the beef in a nonstick pan with onion powder and garlic powder. Drain off the fat and remove the beef to a bowl.

Put the sesame oil in the pan and add the green onions and cabbage. Cook and stir over medium heat until cabbage is wilted and tender. Season the cabbage with salt, pepper, onion powder, garlic powder, soy sauce, and vinegar. Add the beef and stir. Heat through and serve.

Serves 4

I would love that buy DH doesn't do cooked cabbage.  I do my protein (pretty much any kind) and cooked cabbage for lunch often. 

I had never had something like this before, it was a nice change for me. :)  Very filling!

Elizabeth C.,

How funny, I made the same thing today! I really liked it, and it was filling

I agree!  I had never had this before.  It was a nice change and filling!  I have it for lunch again today.  Waste not want not. :)