Protein Power Pals-Tuesday

[ewinpa]

Good morning all, thought I'd jump on and say that the 1/2 lb came off and I have kept at 221.5 so I am changing my siggy.
Added blueberries to my cottage cheese and am planning my menu out on Fitday.

Lissette, I LOVE "Comfortably Numb", especially the version on the 1994 live Pulse album. I am a big David Gilmour fan :blush:

Ellie, they're probably looking at you because you look good! Enjoy it.

Marnie, we have our first taste of snow flurries today. Pretty tough to take since it was in the 50's last week!

More later, got to get ready for work.

[RobinBeBe]

WOW I can't believe it is the 2nd of December already!! We go into our Christmas hours next week, which means later workdays for me :( At least, not being in sales, I don't have to work 7 days week this year at Christmas!! At least I am almost done with my class for school.

Orang, I cannot find your pics in the gallery?

Food wise, I am doing well. I still need to work in bringing my lunch to work....I always run late and don't make it. Also need to bring snacks....I am usually starving by the time I leave work!

Have a good day all!

Robin

[BawdyWench]

OK, so has my poor diet lately (read: lack of food) caused me to be loopy or something? :daze:

Twice in yesterday's thread there were comments made to me that I have no clue where they came from.

First Rob says to "look up." Huh?

Then Lissette asks what I'm reading these days. Huh? I do tend to read a lot, but have I mentioned that? Here's what I'm currently in the middle of:

Practical Project Management
Blow Fly (latest Patricia Cornwell novel)
The First-Time Manager
Accelerated SAP (technical project management)
Scotland: History of a Nation
Project Management
Leading with the Heart (management stuff)

You asked!

Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to go have breakfast. I read through quite a bit of the LFL book again last night and decided to plunge into the weight-loss days. Today I'm supposed to have:

Breakfast: 3 ounces of protein, 1 fruit
Snack: 3 ounces of protein
Lunch: 3 ounces of protein, 1 fruit, 2 cups lettuce with fat-free dressing
Snack: 3 ounces of protein
Dinner: 3 ounces of protein, 1 fruit, 2 cups lettuce with FF dressing
Snack: 3 ounces of protein

I'm supposed to do this type of menu for 6 days of the week, and then have one protein day. Since I want my weekly protein day to be Friday, I'll do the weight-loss menu for 3 days, and then one protein day, and then get back on schedule.

Didn't weigh myself again this morning, but definitely tomorrow.

[Orang]

Got to sleep in my own bed (first time since the surgery) with no wires or tubes (first time in about six weeks). For all who have asked, yes it is wonderful to finally be free of all that. For those who have asked how I am doing - I'm healing well, but still have serious limits on what I'm allowed to do or to lift. My tummy isn't quite sure about going back to solid food - it doesn't hurt, but it doesn't feel right either.

I'm going shopping on my own today! Just a short trip to the grocery, but still... the little things start to matter when you don't have them for a while.

Yesterday's menu:

Nurse Rachet Carbage drink - 24 ozs

Snack 1: 4 ozs cottage cheese

Snack 2: 4 ozs veggies from veggie soup - mashed (LC veggies)

Dinner:
meat from two chicken legs diced (Ellie's Asian Chicken :yum: )
1/2 cup mashed brussel sprouts with butter
1/2 cup beets - sweet & sour - mashed with butter


Elaine:
What can I say about the weight loss except:
http://www.goofybloomers.com/cheergraphic.gif

Since you are needing variety for the Wendy plan - how about dividing Rob's Chocolate Mousse into 100 cal servings? It's practically pure protein except for the carbs in the dairy and can be made with plain yogurt if you don't have kefir on hand. I made it with blenderized full-fat cottage cheese instead of the kifir - so yummy my grandkids ate most of it...

When will they let you know about the MRI results?

Re: the Dark Side of the Moon album -- my first son listened to a lot of it in-utero so it was what he liked to listen to while going to sleep as a baby -- he used to giggle at the sound effects in 'Money'.

Robin:
Great to see you posting during this busy time -- take the snacks and dinners -- it will make a huge difference in how successful you can be with the WOE.

Rob:
Re: comment about "no stopping her now" - hmmm... that's pretty much what the doc said yesterday after they removed the tube - he was saying something to his nurse about attaching a ball and chain to my ankle or maybe a tracking collar????? :lol: Seems Nurse Rachet ratted me out for the weekend forays to the mountains.... She figured it out when she saw my muddy hiking boots and the mud / salt on my SUV

Now I wonder what the Reverend Yeti is cooking up today... Oh My !!!
Keto Pasta with green whey powder and kefir-- yum :rolleyes: yum What is in keto-pasta. While I really haven't looked closely at it (the one bite I got was enough to discourage me) I kind of thought it was a frankenfood ???

An 1800 cal day for the Yeti http://www.acidtrax.net/smileys/yikes.gif That is a first -- did you feel OK? I get headaches and dizziness when I drop my calories per pound that low (that's barely over 5 cal/ lb !!!) but that may be because my body's ability to detect the need to produce glucose from fat and protein is sluggish.

Wendy:
We didn't have a Wendy sighting yesterday at all -- did you dry up and blow away?

Nah -- bet you've eloped on rollerblades http://www.boomspeed.com/ntombi/rofl.gif There is definitely some photoshop potential for this...

Ellie:
So glad you are working out --- re: on-lookers --- proof positive the weight loss and exercise are paying off. You are a very attractive lady from what I saw in your Grand Canyon pics.

So glad you found a math tutor for you DD - it's sad that her teacher isn't explaining things well -- those basic math skills are so important to her continued success in science and math - I'm proud of you for being sure she gets a good foundation.

Rebecca (OneEye):
Missing you - hope you have time to share soon. How are things in the north now that winter has come -- are you doing OK?

Dreamer:
How are things going with the WOE?

Bawdy:
I went over to the confession thread expecting to see something about exactly what you do while wearing that French Maid outfit but it was all about how folks perceive us differently when our weight changes http://www.boomspeed.com/ntombi/rofl.gif

Seriously, the reading glasses we were discussing earlier have been shown to make a difference in power / authority/ presence for women in business settings in a number of studies. It has also been demonstrated that if manner of dress and hairstyle are the same, men in business take a woman who is near the ideal weight more seriously than someone who is significantly over or under weight.

I tried to post to your Gallery thread, but was having major ISP problems - it upload random characters instead of what I typed so I deleted it nearly immediately. That's why you got a notification, but nothing was there when you visited.

I changed ISP's yesterday - hated to do it (the owner is a friend), but some new server software they have installed was making it impossible for me to do several things I need to be able to do - I am a back-up moderator for several real-time 12 step meetings and the new software wouldn't let me block trolls or remove what they wrote - made for an interesting meeting Friday night :blush:http://www.acidtrax.net/smileys/yikes.gif :blush:

Lissette - Shelly
The out-law tradition lives on in the mountain folks -- there are places up there the local cops don't go unless there is some sort of really serious crime they can't ignore... which isn't a problem as the residents pretty much have and enforce their own laws.

:nono: re: your neighbor -- he can always move to the mountains here where his neighbors will go :agree: :thup: . They wing shots at renigade hunters here frequently, but they use small-guage shotgun shells loaded with rock salt which normally don't cause serious injury (unless aimed at the head), but certainly is unpleasant enough to discourage renigade hunters, animals getting into trash and other unseemly types. The standard legal defense if such a case actually makes it to a courtroom is "I thought it was one of those {bleep} wild pigs coming after my trash again" Wild boars cause a lot of destruction here and are in season year round. I don't think anyone has ever gotten convicted for rock-salting a wild hunter here.

I remember visiting a delightful elderly lady atop one of the mountains who looked and acted much like "granny" of Beverly Hillbilly's fame - she was living in the cabin she was born in --- had about two dozen pot plants drying on her back porch (she made tea with it) and a small moonshine still in the backyard... both for treatment of her rheumatism :D You'd have had to fight everybody on that mountain to remove the still or herbs from their matriarch.

Glad to hear you are starting the Wendy plan -- I'm easing into it myself.

Kristine:
Hope you will share soon - are you still having connection problems?

Karen:
Know you are reading - hope all is going well for you.

black57
We miss you.

Marnie:
Glad the techs bent the rules to give you an indication that all is well - I have my mammo's done at a breast surgeon's office because of all the scar tissue in that area - she reads them while I wait and does the ultrasound right then if needed (always is as the stab wounds show up as undetermined masses that have to be checked) so I get the results in the office.

So glad your weight loss is going well.

How is your son doing?

[BawdyWench]

Orang, where can I get one of those rock-salt guns?

When we first moved here, we had quite a few hunters wanting to hunt our land. We put up signs, they took them down. We put up more signs, had quite a few "conversations" with people, and over the years it has stopped altogether.

One guy had the audacity to say that since his grandfather hunted the land we now live on, he has a right to hunt there, too. Huh? I told him that if his name was not on the deed and he did not pitch in with my mortgage and tax payments, he really had no right to even step foot on my land let alone hunt on it.

Sorry I disappointed you with my "confession" thread. :lol:

I do look pretty great in my new glasses (buttoned-up librarian by day, hot momma by night!), and I always wear business attire. I've never had a problem with not being taken seriously. I know I look the part.

People like to think we're not judged by our looks. Wake up, folks. We most certainly are. For those people who don't know you, they have no choice but to treat you the way you look. Would you have more confidence in a doctor who is neat in appearance and wears a white lab coat, or one who wears sneakers, jeans, and a T-shirt?

I always try to dress appropriately, especially at work. At home, it's another story. On my days off when I'm running errands around town, I wear jeans, no makeup, and sometimes throw a baseball cap on my head instead of fixing my hair.

So one day I go into the bank to cash a check. I had taken the afternoon off work, so I was all gussied up (I clean up well). The teller, whom I had dealt with numerous times over the past month, didn't recognize me. I had to show her my driver's license before she would cash a check! One of the other tellers who has known me for years, just sat back and laughed her head off!

[ewinpa]

Hi. Orang, thanks for the cheers. Keeping this out in front of everyone everyday is really making me accountable.

Can someone reprint Rob's All purpose Yeti -endorsed mousse recipe (if not the Yeti himself?) I think it was back on the 'darkside' and I'm not sure if I copied it off.

Marnie, glad the mammo went well. I won't know about the MRI until either my doc calls if something is wrong or else I get the standard ok letter.

Hi Robin, hang in there with the food. Try packing the lunch the night before. It really helps with time in the AM.

OK, do we call her 'Naughty Bawdy 4 Eyes' or the 'Vision Vixen Editor'? :lol:

[Karen]

Karen: Know you are reading - hope all is going well for you. You must be psychic! :lol:

Christmas madness will begin this week in the restaurant. Nothing new, same old, same old.

My biggest dilemma right now is what dessert to make for a LC gathering. I'm thinking eggnog tiramisu?

Glad to hear that you're tube and wire free. It must feel fantastic! :D

Karen

[ewinpa]

Bawdy, I LOVE Patricia Cornwell, glad to hear there's a new one out. :)

Orang , your first son has exquisite musical taste :dazzle:

[BawdyWench]

Elaine, Patricia Cornwell's early books are excellent, but I don't like the newer characters she has introduced. I like the "Scarpetta" novels, but the latest ones, like "Isle of Dogs," are FOR the dogs, if you ask me. This latest one out is back to the Scarpetta character. The others she tried to get too humorous with, and they fell flat.

Nice to see you again, Karen. Do you own a restaurant? Eggnog Tiramisu sounds wonderful. Care to share the recipe?

[Chamellie]

Good afternoon :) Thought I would pop in for a minute, another busy day.

Elaine - Dark Side of Moon was my favorite PF album in High School, the Wall as second. I still love their music but now tend to favor R&B/Hip Hop. When do you get the results of your MRI?

Bawdy - LOL, it occured to me recently that I am in the High Maintenance club too :lol: I get my nails and toes done every two weeks, hair colored and highlighted ever 6 weeks. Is this high maintenance behavior?

Karen - Care to share the recipe? Sounds wonderful! I have a pot luck on Friday and plan to make a SF Brownie Sundae pie. I think I have the recipe worked out, just need to find some SF chocolate syrup :)

Orang - Glad you are regaining your strength :) Take it easy on your shopping trip :) Ione, my neighbor, is going to the Cardiologist today. She isn't feeling well, difficulty breathing. I am trying to get the doctor to order a visiting Nurse to check in on her but it is like pulling teeth :bash: I agrued with the nurses in Phoenix over the phone last week.

Robin - Good to see you post :)

Thanks for the nice compliments everyone but seriously, these were not "I think you're hot" looks, these were more like "you have a big Zit on your forehead" looks :eek:

:wave: Shelly, Rob, Marinie, Rebecca, kristine, dreamer, and anyone else I may have missed :)

[Orang]

For Elaine:
Rob wrote - sometime ago at the DarkSide:
Started out the day with "LC Chocolate Mousse"- 8oz cottage cheese, 2 scoops "Designer Whey Protein Powder"(Chocolate), and an ounce of kefir(for a liitle semi-liquid)- used an immersion blender on it until smooth. came out to under 500 cals. 71 gm protein, 10gm carb, 11gm fat- and REAL tasty!!

[BawdyWench]

Yes, Ellie, you are high maintenance. Welcome to the club!

[ewinpa]

Thanks Orang for the Rob Recipe! I have to go out and get choc protein shake mix, used the last of it up last night.

Guess what, didn't eat my aft snack! First time THAT's happened. I am comfortably hungry for dinner but feel like working out first. First time THAT's happened. :lol: :lol: :lol:

Bawdy I agree, the Scarpetta novels are way better. Glad to hear the new one is one.

Hi Ellie. I listen to the U of Penn station alot so I hear the contemporary stuff too but I love classic rock. I guess DSOTM is my 'desert island album' :lol: What can I say, I am the resident hippie of our group haha.Have you been back to the gym yet?

[BawdyWench]

So this was my first LFL weight-loss menu day. I posted what I was supposed to eat earlier in this thread, but I forgot that you're also supposed to have one serving of veggies at lunch and dinner.

So here's my menu for today:

Breakfast: 3 ounces turkey breast, 1/2 apple
Snack: 3 ounces tuna
Lunch: 3 ounces turkey breast, 2 cups spinach, 2 Tbsp FF no-carb dressing, 1/2 apple (didn't know I was supposed to also have a veggie)
Snack: 6 ounces fat-free yogurt
Dinner: 4 ounces steak, 1 cup green beans with 1 pat butter, 2 cups spinach, 2 Tbsp FF no-carb dressing, 2/3 cup blackberries
Snack: 1/2 cup low-fat cottage cheese

This comes up to:
1063 calories
30 grams fat (27%)
51 grams ECC (21%)
126 grams protein (52%)

I feel like I've been putting stuff in my mouth all day long! When I wasn't eating something, I was drinking water! And yet I was hungrier all day than I have been lately. I'll stick with this, though, to see what happens. This is WAY more carbs than I'm accustomed to having. I counted 14 carbs for the yogurt. A lot of folks say the yogurt should only account for about 4 carbs per cup because the live cultures eat up the sugar carbs. I haven't figured out a way to enter this so that Fitday accepts the numbers, so the full 14 is counted.

Thoughts? Wendy, are you around? How does this sound to you? How about you, Elaine? How does this compare with what you're doing?

(In case you hadn't noticed, it's "All About Bawdy" day today!)

:lol:

[BawdyWench]

Just so you don't think I'm TOO selfish today, here's a tip for Robin, who said she always runs late for work and doesn't take food.

I always prepare my lunch the night before and line up all the little Tupperware containers (the ones Lissette hasn't absconded with yet!) in the fridge. Then in the morning I just toss everything in a small cooler with "blue ice." Keeps everything cold all day long.

OK, now back to ME ME ME !

[Chamellie]

Elaine, since I went to the gym last night I won't go again until tomorrow. I am hoping for a walk this evening but don't think I will make it.

OK ladies (Rob, close your eyes :lol:) I am still having horrible TOM problems. The nurse and my doctors office said to give it 6 months and now it has been 6 months. Tom is lasting 13-15 days with spotting in between. TOM arrived last Monday the 24th and seemed better than it has been finishing yesterday. This morning, it started all over again, cramps, bloated the whole thing. I called my doctor to get a referral and she insists I see her first. Just an excuse to charge an office visit and I can't get in to my GYN until January 12.

[ewinpa]

Ellie, what about an ER visit? May be a pain in the a** but at least they'd look at you right away. Would your health plan cover that? I don't have kids so I don't know if having had one has anything to do with it.I'm sorry you are having this problem.

Bawdy, it has ALWAYS been about you :lol:

My menu today was
B: 1/2 cup cottage cheese with 2/3 cup blueberries
S: 1/2 cup cottage cheese with a hardboiled egg
L: 1 cup chicken broth with 4 oz cooked chicken
2 cups salad
1/2 cup grape tomatoes
1 T Newman's Roasted garlic/Parm dressing
1/2 cup lowfat yogurt with Davinci syrup and 3 frozen strawberries
S: did not eat one
D: 4 oz ground round hamburger with 1 T ketchup
1/2 cup broccoli
(eating this as I write so I am not sure how I will finish the night-more cottage cheese? Yogurt? 1/2 apple and PB?)
I also did a WATP 2 mile walk when I came home. My total cal so far is 1078.

[BawdyWench]

Ellie, that's awful. The only thing you can really do is see a specialist to determine the cause of the bleeding. That's certainly not normal.

I got to the point in my early 40s where my periods were thankfully brief (maybe 3 days), but EXTREMELY heavy. I do have a fibroid that the doctor thought was probably causing the problem. I went on BC pills every day (no placebos) so that I don't have a period anymore. Hallelujah! My fibroid shrunk down to nothing and I haven't had a problem since.

I've tolerated the BC pills very well, and allow (make) myself have a period maybe 3 times a year. We plan on stopping when I reach around 50 to see if menopause has set in.

Your doctor wants you to come to see him/her first before giving the referral? And you already have an appointment with your GYN on the 12th. To whom is the doctor referring you?

[Lissette]

HI everyone!
hey Ellie, you should get that looked at, I have had problems for YEARS, but when it got so bad that I had to be on perscription meds to make it through the day and could not leave the house :blush: then I had to end up getting something done, i had a partial hyst. 7 or 8 years ago, I LOVE it, I am finally free of being sick and everything else that comes with it! We were not planning on any more kids anyway.. Well I am getting ahead of things, just GO!!!! Oh and DID you have a big ZIT, I bet not, :nono: So it was just YOU!!! I would take it as a compliment anyway!!! :)

Bw, I thought you said LIGHT reading! :lol: I have not read any of the Cornwell books you have mentioned, but the Scotland one sounds interesting. (My Dad is 2/3 Scot.)
Did your pet problem finally get settled??? I had not read any more updates on the guilty one yet! BTW, I need some more tupperware for the church potluck Sunday! :lol:

Orang, thanks for posting the mousse recipe! I can't wait to try it! :yum: Glad that you are doing better, I love your determined spirit! Salt rock huh......sounds like a plan! :lol:

Elaine, or should I say Hippie chick??? Souds like things are falling into place for you! :thup: And especially when you say that you forgot to eat something, that means that it is working for you! :yay: :yay:
BTW, is the Newman dressing pretty good? What is it for Cals and Carbs???
I too am a lover of Classic Rock, they just changed ours to all modern, I was not a happy camper! I want my oldies back!!!!!!! :cry:
I do not like the rap stuff that they have out, it has gotten better then that ganstar rap that was out in the 90's, but I am old fashioned, journey,kiss,Ozzie,damn yankees ect.. i do like the new rock also though!!! :roll:

Well I better get off before I get the lazies and talk myself out of the treadmill! :nono:

Wendy, how are you doing?? Haven't heard from you !! I school keeping you busy, or a certain DF ;) ??? MISS YOU!

Marnie, good to hear from you! Is your son still there???

A Big HI to Rob,Black,Dreamer,Karen,Kristine,and to everyone else!
Have a good evening!! :cool:

[Chamellie]

Thanks guys, moral support is greatly appreciated :)

Elaine - Doctor has to refer me to the ER so that is not an option. I have lived with this long so I guess another month won't kill me :)

Bawdy - I appt with my general PCM is Dec 16, must see her before she will give me a referal to the GYN. I went ahead and made the appt with the GYN so I wouldn't have to wait that much longer after my appt on Dec 16. As it is, he won't see me until Jan 12. I wish I could take BCPs but I cannot take anything with estrogen.

Lissette- I am sorry you had to suffer so long before they were able to help. I am hoping I don't need anything like a hysterectomy. I am thinking that I probably need a D&C. Guess I will just have to wait and see. I think I have been avoiding this out of fear :( We don't plan on more kids, DH took care of that a few months ago, but just don't want to under go surgery.

[RobinBeBe]

Thanks for the lunch tips!! I know I need to be more organized. I used to be....I have just gotten out of the habit. With the holidays, I really need to now more than ever!

Orang....glad to hear you are feeling better :)

Robin