Chicken Tonight

Today, I am very, very, very tired! I had trouble focusing a work. I am going to be hitting the sack early tonight folks.

Anyhow, here's what I ate today:
Breakfast: 1 egg scrambled with american cheese and tomato
Snack: 1/2 cup vanilla Ciobani, 1 packet splenda
Lunch: 1 cup Trader Joes Tomato soup mixed with 1 scoop unflavored Nectar and 1 slice chicken cold cut.
Snack: Canellini bean and Heirloom tomato salad (1/2 cup) with my version balsamic dressing.



Dinner: Chicken Tetrazzini (w/out peas because Dave doesn't like them). I used the recipe from Eggface's blog. Yum, yum, yummy!!! It was absolute heaven. I had it with some frozen spinach.
Snack: I will probably have a protein shake. We shall see what my lazy bum feels like doing in an hour or so.

Good night all!

Dentists are not scary!

Nope, but their drills are. I had a tooth break so I had to go to he dentist this afternoon. My dentist is really nice, very friendly and cares about the pain inflicted upon us when they drill holes into our teeth. He gave me some Novocaine and after ten minutes, I still felt sensitivity at the site of the illusive broken tooth, so I got more Novocaine. Yay (sarcastically). Not that I want to feel pain, but o me needing more Novocaine is not a good sign. Plus I loath needles. Anyways, it went fine. He had to take out the piece of the tooth that broke off and removed my original filling and replaced it with a medicated one. If it works out, I can get it replaced with a permanent one in 4 to six months. If not, I am looking at a root canal. AWESOME! So, I am sitting here now 5 and a half hours later and the Novocaine just wore off. It is sore, but not excruciating. We'll see how it's feeling in the am.

I know, why am I talking about my dental experience??? You didn't come here for that, right? Right, only I had to make some adjustments to my daily food intake today as I cannot chew comfortably at the moment. So, here's what I ate today pre-dental appointment:

Strawberry Kiwi Nectar drink: 1 scoop straw kiwi Nectar and 12 oz Vitamin Water Zero (mixed berry flavor)

1 egg, 1 slice American cheese and 1/2 whole wheat english muffin

1 cup wendy's chili with packet sour cream and packet saltines (and 1/2 whole wheat flat bread round)

Post dental appointment:

Trader Joe's Tomato soup with Roasted Red Pepper and 1 scoop unflavored Nectar

Pumpkin spice protein Shake:

1 scoop Vanilla shake mix

8 oz vanilla silk

1/4 cup canned pumpkin (just pumpkin, not the pie filling)

dash allspice and dash cinnamon

4 ice cubes

NOM, NOM, NOM!!!

Ok, so later I am having a cup of oatmeal with a few banana slices. Soft and easy going down, plus I definitely made my protein quota for the day... :) Go me!

I would normally try to have more veggies, but I need some soft foods, so I will add them back in tomorrow.

Anyone else LOVE the House of Night series? I just finished Chosen, and started Uninvited... These books are addictive!

Edited to add:

Here's a pic of my supper. I made old fahioned oats (1/2 cup) in 1 cup water, topped with sf maple syrup. Yummy. I could only eat about half.

Some random stuff

I went to update the look of my blog and noticed I have a really old picture up, and I cannot seem to add more, so I am going to here. This is a picture of me at my highest weight-280. Urgh, I never want to see that again!

Cringe!!!

And here is me two weeks ago:

I know, can't see too much of my new shape, but look at my face, big difference!! :)

Ok, that's really it for today.

Ah, jury duty....

I was called for jury duty. It started today and was well, lets face it, boring. We spent the day in a room waiting for something to happen and nothing did. No one was called at all... So, we get to go back tomorrow. We shall see. I did go to Whole Foods after and shopped for some things you can't find in my regular supermarket. I bought some coconut shavings (put in recipes from MY favorite blog to read-the world according to eggface), some tea I love, frozen peaches, some yummy cheese, and I hit up the warm bar for lunch and had a small bit of indian chicken something or other that ended up being incredibly spicy.

I just finished making faux fried zucchini and parmesan dip (from world according to eggface) and I loved it (as did my fiance-who just finished gobbling up the rest). This evening, I will make baked bruschetta by request of the fiance. I am thinking I won't have any as I have had some issues with cheese lately. I don't remember if I posted something about this yet, but it as been causeing some digestive issues lately. I hadn't had any in a while, due to some poor experiences, and yesterday I tried an ounce of munster. Let's just say it wasn't pretty. Eew and ouch.

So I don't know what I will have for dinner. Will possibly post it later.

Oh, and I am officially down 62 pounds. It feels incredible!!!!
How are you all doing that have had the surgery, too?





Edited to add:


What I had for dinner. Dave and I went out to lunch yesterday at TGIFridays. I had a right portion/right price meal. It's called Parmesan Crusted Chicken and it's about 4 oz chicken with crunchy parmesan topping (not breaded), tomatoes and mozzarella balls (the small one's and there were two cut in half) and 5 spinich and ricotta stuffed-yeah, stuffed (NOT) tortellini. I was glad there was only a little filling in the tortellini. I ate half there and the other half tonight. Apparently I did a great job eyeballing the meal because when I weighed what was left today, it was 2 oz chicken and 2 oz tortellini. I ate most of the tomatoes, I got full, so I stopped. But I ate my protein first!!!! Here's a horrible pic of it:

Well, that's all for today. Ciao!

Holy Crap Moment

Ok, maybe not too holy crap to some people, but I got on the scale today and I way 219 pounds! I am officially down 61 pounds! I have lost a small child. Holy CRAP!

Ok, moving on...
I am trying to continue with posting what I am putting into my mouth, so without further adieu:

Breakfast:
Egg (fried) with pam and 1 slice american cheese on 1/2 english muffin
Lunch:
3 oz Chicken (left over chicken marsala) with 1 oz potato (baked) and 5 green beans
Snack:
4 oz Ciobani vanilla yogurt and 1/4 cup frozen strawberries (also, 1 packet splenda mixed in)
Supper:
3 oz Chicken and 1/2 cup long grain wild rice
Snack:
2 deviled eggs (way to go protein!)

So, I am supposed to have 6 meals a day, as you can see that did not happen. Will try again tomorrow.
Peace!

Ho Hum

I am going to vent here. I am apparently one of those people that become lactose intolerant after surgery. Bye bye mini pizza's, bye bye cheese, bye bye milky protein shakes. Ok, I am done.

So I have planned my attack. I will sub milk for Silk for my shakes. I will have to avoid cheese (pouting). I can tolerate yogurt, which is good because it's a huge staple in my diet. I think tomorrow I will try yogurt in a protein shake with water... Hmm, I will experiment and get back to you.

I think I will start taking pics of food and posting what I am eating. For now, I will put what I have eaten so far today:

Breakfast: 1/2 cup south western eggbeaters

Snack: 4 oz vanilla ciobani, 3 sliced strawberries and drizzle sf caramel sauce

Lunch: Perdue Chicken Cutlet topped with Prego traditional pasta sauce

Snack: Peach fruit cup (no sugar added in it's own juice) and 3 small sf cookies.

Dinner, I don't know yet. I will update later... :)

Lil Update

I am happy to announce I am now down 44 pounds! YAY! This is the best thing I have ever done for myself, I highly reccomend it to people that want it and qualify.

So, I have been ok'd to have veggies, fruits and grains. I have been exploring many options and here is a short list of those I really love:

Half arnold round topped with tomato sauce or bruschetta and cheese toasted in the oven. Yummy mini pizza!

6 wheat thins topped with 3 oz cheddar cheese (28 gr prot!)

1 packet low sugar maple and brown sugar oatmeal

1/2 arnold round, deli mustard, honey ham (1 oz) and swiss cheese (1 oz)

chopped cucumbers (peeled and seeded) and chopped tomatoes topped with 2 tbsp balsamic vinegar and a splash of olive oil (you can add fresh mozzerella to this for protein)

Toasted arnold round with reduced fat peanut butter and sugar free strawberry preserves

So, that's a few of my favorite things... Until next time!