Breakfast, Lunch and snacks

Hello all! Today I thought in advance and took pics of what I packed to bring to work today. I have breakfast, lunch and two snacks at work as I am there from 7 am to 3:30 pm. Today, I had an english muffin with peanut butter and sf preserves for breakfast at 7:10 am, Peach Ciobani for snack at 10:00 am, 1 cup homeade chili (from last night) with a sprinkle of cheddar cheese for lunch at 12:00 pm and 1 serving peanuts and all natural no sugar added apple sauce for a snack at 2:30. Here's the porn!

Gotta love it!

Sorry for being MIA. I have to tell you that I have been sick. Not surgery related (phew!). I had a (TMI ALERT) UTI and then, no less than a week later, I had a sinus infection. Needless to say, I have not been up to blogging although it is now one of my favorite things to do! :(

On a happy note, I have some food porn!!! Tee hee!

I made a kick butt chili tonight. Yum, yum, yummy! It is low fat and not only made me excessively happy, but my Fiance is gobbling up the last of it as we speak... Luckily, I already nabbed some for tomorrows lunch... I so sneaky.... LOL ;)



This is the mix I used and I added a can of red kidney beans. You can also add onions, peppers or whatever you like in it. I put a little shredded cheddar cheese on top. It was super tasty!


Edited to add:
My last meal o the day. I had a Butterfinger Protein Shake from the Bariatric Foodie blog. YUM YUM! You have got to try it!

WOOT WOOT! Awesome DINNER!

OMG! So I am sure all of you know who eggface is. She's that awesome blogger that posts fantastic WLS friendly recipies. I made one tonight. It was soooooo gooooodddd!

It's called Chili Renello Casserole (posted on March 16, 2008), it's easy, quick and so yummy my Fiance asked for a second slice and then sang the "Yummy, yummy, yumy, I've got love in my tummy" song. LOL, so cute (yes, you can all puke now). Here's the PORN!

So it's been a few weeks...

I am well. Just keep on truckin. I am now officially down 80 pounds and 2 pounds away from Onederland! *Let the joyful noise commence!* It has been over a decade people! A DECADE! I am so happy. Tonight for dinner I had a mini pizza (food porn to follow) and here's what I had for the rest of the day:

Breakfast: Atkins Milk Chocolate Shake
Snack: Ciobani Vanilla w/1/2 cup Kasji Go Lean
Lunch: 1/2 a Classy Italian wrap (lots of the wrap torn off)
Snack: The other half
Supper: Mini Pizza (small flour tortilla wrap topped with sauce, cheese and turkey pepperoni.

KK, ready for the PORN! Here it comes!!!!


Oh yeah! That's the stuff right there. Enjoy people! Muah!

3 Month Check-up

I saw my Surgeon today... well, the physicians assistant. Apparently he was present for the surgery. Cool with me, the more help for the surgeon, the better. He was really nice, asked how I was doing. I am great, IMO. No stomach issues, just the lactose thing, but I take Lactaid before cheese and what not, so it's not really a bother. I did forget to get my bloodwork done, so I am going this weekend and they will call me if anything looks off. I think it will be fine, I feel great, I am not kidding! No regrets!

Today was a fun food day for me, I had an awesome shake for breakfast:

PB&J Shake
1/4 cup Peanut flour (16 grams protein)
1 cup 1% milk

3 ice cubes

5 small frozen strawberries

2 tbsp sf Strawberry Torani Syrup

YUM!

For a snack, 2 wedges Laughing Cow cheese with some baked multigrain tortilla chips. Also yum!

For lunch, I had left over dinner from last night. For an afternoon snack, 1 sf Reese's PB Cup and 1 Ghiradelli dark chocolate square. Then, Dave and I went to his parents house for supper. Has Mom was celebrating her birthday, so she made proscuitto wrapped cod with Chicken Flavored Orzo. It was wonderful! I had my small amount. But I didn't take a picture, sorry, that's just rude at the dinner table. :)

Finally, to round out my day, I am having a that low sugar Apple and Cinnamon Oatmeal with the other half of the banana from yesterday. So, you can look at a pic of yesterdays breakfast if you want to see that.

I am watching Failure to Launch, what a cute movie. Gnight all!

Dietitian Day!

I went to see my dietitian today! She said I am doing great! I then went over vitamins with her because frankly, I am sick of mine. I bought a 3 month supply of calcium and multi vitamins prior to the surgery and I miss the Flintstones and Calcium Chews. There's a lot of discussion among WLS patients over whether or not Flintstones are appropriate (they lack selenium) and whether we absorb calcium carbonate. To be honest, I have been informed that since I take the calcium with meals, they will absorb whether they are citrate or carbonate and the surgeon checks my blood levels and would notice a deficiency, so I am not going to worry anymore, and I am going to save some money and by this stuff at the grocery store, not online where I have to pay for shipping and obscene amounts of money for special vitamins.


Moving on, I had some decent meals today... Wanna see???


Ok.

Breakfast: Yummy yummy yummy! I had low sugar apple and Cinnamon oatmeal (made with water) and half a sliced banana:


For a snack, I had the pepperoni chips again with a Mozzarella stick.For lunch I had the chili again that I had yesterday, only today I also had some steamed broccoli because I noticed my veggies were lacking.
For a snack, I had some of the cantaloupe I cut up last night and 4 oz ciobani vanilla yogurt (I add a packet of splenda to sweeten it a bit more).
Supper was ground beef sauteed with onions on top of 1/2 cup pasta mixed with pasta sauce and roasted zucchini. Roasted Zucchini is sooooo easy to make and by far my favorite way to eat veggies. I simply chop the veggies, toss in a little olive oil and garlic powder (not garlic salt!). Place on a pan and put in a 400 degree oven for 20 minutes turning halfway. Yum, and it makes the house smell good! Bonus!
On another note, I have been exercising like crazy! I joined Planet Fitness (I think I have mentioned this before) and man, I am tired. I try to do at least 45 mins a day, five days a week. My dietician says 30 mins a day, 5 days a week is good.

So, looks like I am doing well there.

Right now I am watching bones. Love Booth! Sigh, he's total beefcake.

What are you watching?

Gonna be a long one...

So, I got out of my nightly habit of posting, so I was careful to keep track today and take pics of what I have been eating. So, here's everything from today with the exception of my afternoon snack and dinner 9the pics didn't come out nice).
Breakfast was a Banana Protein Smoothie:
Snack was pepperoni chips and a mozzarella cheese stick (as you can see it's torn in half). This is the first time I tried the pepperoni this way and I gotta tell ya, it's awesome!!!! Nuke pepperoni for 45 seconds on a couple paper towels. Num, num, num!

For lunch I had 4 oz of my turkey chili with a wedge of Chipotle Cheese by Laughing Cow

Not pictured, I had 4 oz ciobani (vanilla) with 4 frozen strawberries, thawed and for dinner I had chicken with tom sauce and mozzarella and some steamed broccoli.

For a snack tonight, I had some melon and 2 cheese wedges. I have been craving cheese today. It's yummy!

I guess that's it for today. Night all!