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Yesterday B: ff yogurt with fruit L: 2 oz cheese D: 2 oz roast beef, baked squash with apple S: handful of raisins and a ff yogurt

Yesterdays menu B: 1 oz cheese S: 1/2 cup of melon L: 1/2 stuffed zucchini boat; 1/4 cup ff yogurt D: 1 oz poached salmon; 2 slices tomato; 1 broccoli branch S: ff pudding (2 of them...tsk tsk)

Today B- 2 oz cottage cheese & 1 oz low fat yogurt, 3 bites of a HB patty S- handful mixed nuts and some cheese puffs:frown: L- Smart One Beef Pot Roast w/veggies, 4 wheat crackers D-3 oz boneless BBQ ribs

gosh my body burns lol. worked out for an hour-burning 575 cals and i'm aching! today: b1: tall skinny latte, 90 cal b2: whips yogurt, 160 cal l: orange chicken lean cuisine, 300 cal s: (if i have a snack in the afternoon it will be string cheese, 80 cal) Sometimes i need it before the gym..sometimes i don't. d: i might do a 5 cheese pasta lean cuisine, 330 cal s: i usually "need" a snack for head hunger purposes in the pm...it would be a 100 cal pack or a 150 cal ice cream. whatever moves me at the moment. total possible cal: 1110 Will workout for 60 minutes today...even if it kills me:lol:

Breakfast-EAS Shake 110 Calories and 17g Protein Snack-Oikos Greek Yogurt 90 Calories 10g Protein Lunch-Mcdonalds Southwest Grilled Chicken Salad w/low fat vinagerette dressing-340 Calories 30g Protein Snack-Oatmeal 150 Calories Dinner-Low Carb Tacos with Lean Ground Turkey 1/3 cup of ff refried beans and grated cheese-370 Calories 27g Protein Snack-EAS Shake 110 Calories 17g Protein & 1 serving of baked hot cheetos 130 calories Total-1300 Calories 101g Protein (had to make up for yesterday)

Today B-5.3oz greek yogurt,1 tbsp peanut butter,cinnamon L-ww bistro roasted turkey,mashed potatoes D-3oz Buffalo chicken,1/8c Couscous,1/4c Chopped salad

Not sure if you like oatmeal, but I recently saw a recipe for an smoothie that looked super thick. It was made with a ripe frozen banana (sliced), cooked oatmeal, yogurt, and almonds. I imagine the banana and oatmeal would work pretty well with the PB2. You could try starting with the frozen banana, cooked oatmeal (1/4-1/2 cup), PB2, protein powder, and a splash of milk and blend everything together. You can add more milk if needed, a little at the time, until you get the right consistency. If you don't like oatmeal, just adding the frozen banana and less milk will give it a thicker consistency. I use frozen fruit in most all of my smoothies and they are usually the consistency of a milkshake. You can even make banana ice cream by blending a ripe frozen banana and little to no milk....it is seriously like eating ice cream and the best part is that it is super healthy!

Zumba today! :thumbup: 6:45/B ff French Vanilla Yogurt, 1/4 bannana, grape nuts 10:30/s Ralph's Sweet & Salty Almond Chewy Bar, Crystal lite pkt 1:15/L Crab salad (mayo & relish) 1:45/s Frigo string cheese-x2 5:30/D Swiss chz burger, onion, thousand island dressing, lettuce, pickles, tater tots x6 w/ketchup, crystal lite pkt May have a snack later 8 cups of liquid for the day as of now. Might do 2 more before bed. Earned 684 extra for exercise today Calorie used 1,309 (had 1,884 to use)

so last night i was really bad and snacked a lot. no idea why..i wasn't even hungry. i had dinner then later on i had the following: scoop baked apples with scoop lf frozen yogurt, then later i had- 100 cal pack pringles, then 100 cal pack cheese puffs. UGH. I'm disappointed i ate just because i was bored:frown: Today: b: tall double skinny latte & oatmeal with pb & syrup, 250 cal l: about 3-4 oz of roasted chicken and a salad, about 350 cal d: i might do a lean cuisine today because the flat bread makes me pretty full and i'm less likely to snack. My goal for today is to NOT snack today...wish me luck:ohmy:

Hi all: Well gonna hop on board again and see if I can lose the weight.: Here's the short version on my weigh tloss history: Preview Highest weight: 11/12/04-@ 362 lbs Band date/weight= Dec 13, 05/ 320 lbs Lowest weight: 268 lbs- 4/17/06 11-11-09 345 lbs ( First DR visit since 8/5/08) 1-05-11 339.2 lbs ( restart -did 5 day pouch test) 3-9-11- 328. 5 lbs 3-16-11- 326.5 lbs 6-3-11- 325 lbs 8:00AM: Coffee 9:30AM 1 cup of oatmeal 1:00 PM- 1 cup of soup 5:00 PM- 1 0z of BBQ chicken ( Not very hungry) 7:00 PM - Light and fit yogurt

sorry san diego mom!!! yesterday - b- 3.5oz cherry fage greek yogurt w/handful of fiber one cereal s- peanut butter cheesecake protein drink l- chicken salad on half an english muffin s- handful of cashews d- 1 spring roll & few bites of chicken pad thai

B - 4 oz. Activia light yogurt S - chicken broth L - ff refried beans, salsa, dab light sour cream S - 2 sauteed chicken livers D - eggbeaters

have not been posting - and havent been too bad (little though ) but must restart: yesterday: B: activia light yogurt and 2.5 strips bacon S: grande iced skinny vanilla latte L: 1/3 c. creamy swiss chicken and some tasters at whole foods S: 3 sf popsicles, 1 tsp pb D: 1 c. cream of broccoli soup, a truffle

I'm not going to completely admit to what I ate yesterday, as my period arrived today. Suffice to say it consisted mainly of sugar, combined with a little fat. And for variety last night, I added alcohol to the mix :shades_smile: Once a month doesnt hurt, right? Anyway, back on track today. Breakfast: Barbecued pineapple and peaches (they were going soft, had to use them up) brushed with maple syrup, served with Greek yogurt. Yummmmmmmmmmm. Worth the effort to fire up the barbie on a school morning. Snack: a banana smoothie made with skim milk and vanilla and a banana . Followed a 10km run. Lunch: A sushi/sashimi pack - I mostly ate the fish and left the rice. Small bottle of orange juice No afternoon snack, that was quite a bit of food this morning and I'm really not hungry. Dinner tonight is going to be roast lamb, roast potatoes and pumpkin, steamed broccoli and carrots.

Today B-coffee, 5.5 oz Cottage Doubles w/strawberry topping L-4 wheat crackers and 1 babybel cheese S- 3 tsp greek yogurt w/ peaches, 1oz cajun trail mix D-1 small baked porkchop and 1/3 c green Beans

Yesterday B: ff yogurt with banana slices S: 1 oz cheese L: 1/2c egg salad; an apple S: ff yogurt D: 3 oz grill chicken with1/2 c corn niblets

B: 3 oz yogurt L: 1/4 cup salad w/ blue cheese, 2 small chicken strips dipped in honey mustard d: 4 pieces of calamari, 2 bites of cheeseburger (no bun) and 2 sweet potatoe fries ( all of this I ended up pb'ing.. uggh) s: 1/4 of ice cream bar s: glass of merlot went to foxwoods casino for dinner and jeff foxworthy show so ate and drank more than I should but lost my entire dinner.

Yesterday: B: Protein chai drink S: oatmeal raisin cookie L: 1 c. chicken chowder S: couple bites bacon & mashed potatoes - was tasting recipe (smashed baby yukons with salt and nonfat greek yogurt) :thumbup: D: pecan crusted chicken 3 oz., 4 green Beans and 1/3 c. smashed potatoes S: 1/2 slice pumpkin pie

Boy it seems like I'm eating a lot! :mad: With the new site that I'm using (myfitnesspal.com) to journal my food, I'm posting everything as you can see because I really want to see just how many calories I'm really eating. This is new for me. Way back when when I tried counting calories, I found it to be to time consuming. But it's easy now! I've calculated my calorie intake to be at 1,200 a day to lose 2 pounds a week. So far so good, even with all this food.:wub: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Today B/Oscar Mayer - Turkey Bacon, 2 slice Large Eggs Fried W/Pam Potatoes - O’Brien, home-prepared, 0.25 cup S/Cheerios Honey Nut L/Souplantation: Chicken 2 oz 2t Rnch Dressing & 1t Balsamic Dressing 1 hardboiled egg 4 Sweet pickles ½ celery stalk 1 radish 2 cauliflower florets ½ c ice berg lettuces Grated carrots 2 bits Mac & cheese & Tuna Tarragon ¼ brownie Vanilla Lowfat yogurt ice cream Chopped nuts S/Nurti Grain Cereal Bar/Blueberry D/Oscar Mayer-Turkey Bacon – 1 slice Large Eggs Fried W/Pam Potatoes - O’Brien, home-prepared, 0.25 cup 1,316 Calories (Over by 116 cal.) ___________________________________________________________________ Yesterday B/Yoplait French Vanilla Yogurt – 1 Container Honey Nut Cherrios – ¾ c No mid morning snack L/Mission fl tortilla Ketchup ½ T Mustard ½ T Mayo ½ T 3 pickles 1 sl White American Chz 2 oz Ground beef 1 package snack size Dorritos Cool Rch S/(beach w/the kids for 4 hours) Mozzarella/Cheddar chz stick 100 cal ritz snack mix 7 cheddar chz nips ½ banana 1 c Koshi Heart to Heart Honey Oat Cereal D/1 c stewed chkn 2 T Kc Masterpiece Honey BBQ sauce 1 package snack size Frito corn chips 1,755 Cal (exercised, rec'd extra calories)

yesterday: B: malted mocha protein shake S: chips & salsa, candy at the nurses station L: the toppings and 2 bites of the crust from a sm. piece pizza D: 3 oz plain nonfat greek yogurt w/ 4 large strawberries, 1/3 c. mango ginger granola

Oh Lunasa---you can officially calm down---it is nothing like you are fearing!!! There will be times between now and you finding a good spot of restriction that yes you may be hungry. But they will not last forever! Right now, you have the fear of the hunger, the upcoming surgery---everything coming in at you at one time. Once the surgery is behind you---you will likely have several days or even longer that you simply are not hungry. I don't know how much your Dr. told you, but the nerves (I think my Dr. called them the Vega nerves) are located at the top of your stomach, and they are the nerves that send the signal to the brain that you are done. Which is why now, pre banding, you have to eat a LOT to truly feel full. And once those nerves are hit, it takes awhile for your brain to fully recognize and tell you to stop eating. There are often times quiet simple signals---that you will learn, to know you are full. Once you are banded, and there is just a small pouch at the top, it is quite simple to hit those nerves quickly---in just a small amount of food. The first days following surgery the nerve pretty much stays activated, due to swelling---your stomach often swells over the indignity of that tight belt being slapped on there!!! Once the swelling goes down, hunger will return, often with a vengeance---because you are on liquids. Liquids are given to allow the band to set into place, and stitches used to do that to heal. When liquids are consumed, they usually slide right through, so the nerve is not triggered. This is the time referred to as bandster hell. A band with no restriction. It is not easy---but if you just repeat to yourself that this is the last time you truly have to "diet" ever again---and weight frequently to see the weight dropping off---you make it through. Then you begin the fill process. With my first fill of 1.25 cc.'s I suddenly felt my band work! I had allowed myself in the hunger of things to slip into some former bad eating habits! Suddenly when I ate too fast, or did not chew, it hurt! Nothing serious, but I knew that the band was there---and I was scared of a real PB or getting "stuck"---so I worked hard on my bandster eating habits. My Dr. allows a fill in 4 weeks, if you are still hungry within an hour or so after eating hard protein. I was---so a month later I had my second fill. It was small, only 1/2 a cc. I thought if 1.25 didn't do anything--then .50 is going to be a waste of time and $$$. Wrong!!!! With that little tweak of .50cc I got excellent restriction! I was no longer hungry----EVER! I am still not ever what I would call hungry. I occasionally feel hollow or empty, and realize I need to eat---but hunger---like the raging, fear inducing, more important than ANYTHING, kind of hunger----gone from my life! Used to be when I would come in at the end of the day, I grabbed anything close and easy---a bag of chips, or cookies, whatever, just so there was lots of it. Now, since I am not really hungry, it isn't a big deal to take a few minutes, and throw a salad in a bowl, or make a half a pita with some chicken salad...finding a healthy alternative, is easy, because there is no rush! I still can have some chips with a sandwich---but I get full very fast, so if I eat the worthless chips, I have taken up valuable space, with not so valuable of a quality of food. If I eat ribs, or a steak for lunch---I can easily not eat another bite of food until morning if I don't force myself. I get busy now and forget to eat---my granddaughter tells me when it is time to eat now!!! And we eat better than I used to, without a doubt. Food is no longer the center of my thoughts. I don't know what is for dinner tonight, and it is time for it---but I'll throw something together, and it will be fine, it will be enough---it isn't a concern. I used to plan dinner as I ate breakfast. I always thought that was one of the reasons I was bigger than my DH, I planned all the meals to what sounded good to me! Occasionally he would say, let's have such and such for dinner, and I always tried to do it, but sometimes it just didn't appeal, so I didn't eat so much. But no, I planned meals way before time to have them, what side dishes would go best, based on the tastes.....now it isn't a big deal. There is a saying I had always heard, of Eating to Live, not Living to Eat. I get it now---I live it! It isn't a real concious decision to change---but when you are not starving all the time, it loses its appeal. You learn that you actually only get the big pleasure of the taste in the first 2-3 bites, then your tastebuds are adjusted...so you totally enjoy the 2-3 bites---and are done with it. I know I have gone on FOREVER---but I want you to know it DOES change---life simplifies, and changes----you enjoy moving your body----and not being chained to the kitchen----it is nice going, and not caring if someone else eats more than their share of an appetizer! When you are going through the bandster hell---we will all be here, to help you and offer suggestions to make the time pass---and suddenly one day you will wake up and be heading out the door to go somewhere, and think, 'oh yeah I better grab a yogurt or something'----because you forgot to eat breakfast---it WILL happen. Your band will be in there waiting to work with you---so when you and your Drt. can begin the adjustment process---get ready for a change!!! Til then, relax---it is all gonna be ok. Kat

yesterday B: peanutbutter banana protein smoothie S: 1 oz cheese L: ff yogurt; 1 oz cheese D: 2 oz skinless chic breast with 1/2c delicata squash S: 1 oz baked squash seeds

b: 6 oz yogurt (came back up) L: half michelena's meatloaf dinner (came back up) d: 1 small taco (came back up) s: 1/4 cup ice cream (came back up) very bad day.. very stressed out causing my band to close completely! Probably a good thing since if I could have would have eaten everything in sight. no gym, went to bed at 6:00 decided day just needed to end

OK.. here's the thing. My doctor doesn't require protein shakes post surgery. He and the nutritionist say that the protein will come from yogurt and/or skim milk the first two weeks post surgery (clear liquid phase). I just put a call into the nutritionist to comfirm that cause I read in just about everyone's post about protein drinks..

B: chobani yogurt, coffee w/splenda L: 4 oz meat loaf, .5 cup pinto beans D: 4 oz meat loaf, .5 cup pinto beans (so sick of this meal) S: carrot cup cake