Weekend BOTT

Hey everyone... 

Tess is MIA - probably digging herself out ... We got some of that and I was housebound for 2 days.,  and I made some poor choices ... But I also shoveled my driveway and I can still feel that in my back and arms.  

Since the visit to allergist - and getting confirmation that I am allergic to dairy and soy..I want more of I know I should avoid.  And I ate more chocolate and soy containing snacks than before my doc visit.  I know that is crazy but ... It feels like "last meal (s)" before I really decide to give it up.  BTW - chocolate contains both - dairy and soy... Yea.. I know.. 

Anyway... I still wait for my brain to snap out of the childish behavior and start acting like mature brain and follow a diet. I may give it one more week and after that - I may take some actions.... 

I am still little bit scared to introduce eggs back to my diet.   The tests indicated I should be OK with eggs... But it felt like I had skin reaction (bad itching) in the past when I ate eggs.

Today I will try yo take it easy food wise. 

Coffee +coffee w/ Miralax

Bacon and sausage with veggies

Seared fish and scallops, asparagus, red wine..

Nuts as a snack

Pork loin, green beans, cucumbers

Berries with coconut cream.. 

Exercise: walking in high heals... 

New to the group.  I have been in maintenance for 6 months, but have been struggling for the last 6 weeks.  I had a regain of 5 pounds and while that might not seem like a lot, I know that this can lead to total regain and more.  So I am a food addict.  I abuse myself with food.  I have not been able to find peace with food yet. This has been my goal and thought having WLS would be another tool to help me achieve this.  So I reached goal and still have no peace.  I know my triggers and have not figured out a way of dealing with some of them without emotional eating. I know what to eat and how much.  I am a very good dieter and restrictor, but when I can take no more I blow like a volcano.  That is where I feel I am now.  I came to this group in hopes of finding ways to mange my head. I think what gets us off track is our minds. I am reaching out for support as I am not trusting myself at this point to treat myself with kindness by eating to fuel my body.  I do fine on the weekends with reduced stress.  During the week at work is the most challenging.  My anxiety levels are so high I can barely breath some days. I do what I can and stop and take deep breaths and remember the intention I committed to for the day.  Sometimes it works, but lately not so much.  I see people commit to what they will eat today.  I can do that, but I feel I need some concrete skills to practice during the stressful times.  Would appreciate any feedback.  Thanks for listening.

B-1 oz rolled oats with blueberries and 1 scoop protein powder

L- 4 oz turkey chile

D- 3 oz chicken with carrots and kale

S-PB2 or nonfat plain yogurt 

Water all day

shoveling my car out again this week and taking a walk for 30 minutes.

Because of high stress at work - I am now of low daily dose of Lexapro. Just enough to take the edge off.

Also - not skipping meals and eating pre-measured food at meal time helps me control my food issues most of the time (obviuosdly not lately ). I allow some "cheats"  in my diet - well I used to - now I will have to find new one.  My legal cheat used to be 85% dark chocolate that I allow myself eat as often as I wanted - after I ate meals and snacks.  (That is out now due to dairy and soy allergies) 

There are foods that I don't limit - as long as my body tolerates (volume). These are lean cuts of meat, low carb veggies (cucumbers, lettuce, NSA pickes, etc. )  

Low carb diet helps me with cravings - if I start eating carbs - I get hungry and want more carbs. Also artificial sweeteners (splenda, asparteme, etc) make me crave carbs and sugars. I use Stevia (not truvia) and that works well in my body, Green tea helps a lot. 

SA - sugar alcohols- affect me, so  I also avoid them. 

I hope you will find that this group is very friendly - and we are the last to try to be hard on each other. We all deal with some issue or another and most of us are more than couple of years out so we know how hard maintance is.

Welcome to the group.  This group is outstanding and I have found a lot of support here.  I am glad that you have recognized you weight gain early on, I wish I had.  Good luck to you.

Linda 

So glad to see a weekend cafe and cardio.  I hope we hear from Tess soon, it's been awhile.   I struggled a bit this weekend.  I made this high protein low carb cheese cake  yesterday.  It was so good I ate two servings.  I decided to not have any today.  

BKF

PremierProtein shake

Lunch

3oz of deli Turkey

lite and fit Greek yogurt

Dinner

grill chicken

spinach

snack

low fat baby cheese 

 Vitamins check

water in progress

have a great rest of the weekend.

Linda

You were doing great Linda... Such a good menu.. Have fun.. 

I've got the Lexapro too. Doc just doulbled it in an attempt to wean me off my estrogen. I get the occassional hot flash but I stay angry and just plain  without it every other day. She's happy with how far we've dropped down. I've figured out that the most important step I can take every single day is simply....WATER. If I don't drink enough, I get crazy cravings, bad skin, constipation (which leads to all sorts of anger) and a general blah feeling.

Hala I've been replacing my daily Splenda with Stevia...wow what a difference. One sure fire way for me to crash and burn was a bowl of oatmeal sweetened with Splenda. I loved it but then I had to fight carb cravings all day....unnecessarily. Add to that my moring commute of coffee sweetened with the Yellow goodness and I was fighting a losing battle.

I did good this weekend with the exception of Movie popcorn. Took the Kid-ette to see the Lego Movie Saturday afternoon. It wasn't bad. Why does it have to cost a small fortune to take a family of 4 to an afternoon matinee? $36 to get in and then nearly that much for 3 drinks a bottled water and 2 popcorns. Outrageous. I'd probably liked the movie a whole lot more if I wasn't suffering from sticker shock. No wonder I usually do redbox or netflix.

- iris  

Cool.. Glad you found Stevia.  Truvia - with some SA - still gives me some trouble - but not as much as  Splenda.. or Aspartame..

The only artificial stuff that do not bother me too much is the Saccharine but I only use that very little - diet tonic has that (Watch for store brands diet tonic - the Name-brands not store that uses splenda or nutrasweet). Diet tonic is my to go remedy for muscle twitching in my legs.. that really works..

I got cheap on the movies.. we go often  but I carry all my snacks and water with me.. big purse.. lol.. I can't have anything from them anyway.. But the prices are horrible.  I agree... 

I also make my own jello - using stevia, natural flavorings and natural gelatin powder.  

I know you are getting of estrogen - but for "madness" outbreaks - natural - bioidentical progesterone cream (OTC - most health food stores have that) is a dream come true for me.... and it does help sleeping..  like really does (just don't get the one that has ginseng in it or other stimulants) 

BTWl to have our group going - how about you start daily posts?  you are so good with that?  I do hope Tess is OK..

I should be able to get us started most mornings. I'm not as knowledgeable on the questions that come up so I'll be depending on you to fill in the blanks.