Menus and Miles Friday March 24th

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 Good Whey Protein Drinks!!!!! It is sooooo much harder to do Maintenance without them!

Afternoon LW's!!! THANK GOODNESS IT'S FRIDAY!!!!!!!

8+ years

Breakfast:

Protein: Matrix Mint Cookie 35g

Snack: Nuts, Cheese, Berries

Lunch: Scrambled Eggs, Bacon, and Cheese

Snack: Greek Yogurt with cherries

Protein: Matrix Mint Cookie 35g

Dinner:

Snack: Nature Valley Roasted Nut Crunch Bar

Post Op RNY 11+ mos

Happy Friday morning all! We made it. Desperate times call for desperate measures. WTH ... down 1.1. lbs....up 1.2....net up .1. I'm ready to give up. Clearly my body has said enough. Well we'll see about that. One last ditch effort....I don't think I'll be at the gym this weekend so maybe a couple days of liquid diet will kick that scale in the numbers (I can't do that when I have a workout because I wouldn't get through it). Or maybe I'm done, but at 11 months out, I would have thought there is more to lose. Sorry to keep whining about this but I'm a person that needs to understand the science and this case I just can't. Sitting at 189 you'd think I could lose with a daily calorie intake in the 1000 - 1100 range. Will discuss at my 1 year follow up but I'm sure they'll tell me to eat more carbs....is that the (right) answer?

My blood work all looks good (to me) with the exception of a high phosphate level, I have no idea if that's important or not, again, we'll see on April 6th when I see the doc.

B - premier protein shake

S - skyr yogurt with coconut clusters (20 gr for crunch)

L - Chicken taco salad (restaurant)

S - deli turkey (4 slices)

D - premier protein

Total Cal 734, carbs 34, Protein 114

If I need something tonight it will be more deli turkey or another shake.

I'm new here so I don't know you're history, but god knows I've had a lot of diet experience over the past couple of decades!

Things I've found that have helped break a stall include the following:

1. Fast day of liquids only and total calories under 400 (usually just one day but I've done this for two days a week for a couple of weeks at times).

2. Back to back higher calorie days then a fast (like 1700 calories of good quality food).

3. Stomach flu (just joking)

CARBS ARE NOT THE ANSWER!!!!!! I definitely wouldn't cut back. I thought I was done at 8 months so I increased my calories with Protein for 3 or 4 days and then I cut back. It jump started the scale moving In the right direction and I lost another 27 pounds.

Like the Variety!

Five days till my RNY!!!!

Today I will be saying goodbye to a dozen wings. #notproud #justsayin

B- skipped again (so bad)

L- left over chicken and dumplings

AS- smoked almonds

D- wings and a beer

Miles - I'm really happy that I've been able to significantly increase my steps over the past week :) It's not great, but I went from an average work day step count of 1500 to 4500 I was able to get between 8 and 10 K steps in on Saturday and Sunday which totally made me happy!

5 Days.....SOOOOO Exciting!!!!!!!

Yay for Friday!

Coffee with cream to start the day.

Breakfast: Scrambled eggs with added protein.

Lunch: 2 Hard boiled eggs.

Dinner: Dunno yet. Hubby comes home from DC tonight, maybe we'll go get burgers. (Nope-I don't eat the bun.)

Weird, I've wanted eggs twice today, usually just the thought makes me sick. They went down and are sitting well, maybe eggs are back on the menu? Hopefully.

I'm still not especially hungry, so I'm taking advantage and keeping my calories low. I know once I get active again I'll be eating a lot more.

It was quite a while before I could eat scrambled eggs. You would think they would go down so easy but I felt like I had food stuck. One time they were stuck for 2 days before they came back up. I was a miserable person at that point. It took me a long time before I decided to try them again. Now I love them. I mix mine with egg beaters for extra protein.

Sounds Good!