A thread for Maintainers to share our daily menus!

(This thread is a spin-off from another thread I started that was open to all people at different stages. Meant to start this one specifically for Maintainers a while back, but am just now getting around to it )

Same format applies: To help keep things in perspective for everyone, let's try to note our height & weight (or BMI), gender, weight-status & how far out we are post-op (unless this is already stated in your side profile )

Post as little or as much info as you want. If you track macros, feel free to share your Protein, fat, & carb details...if all you feel like saying is you had a really yummy taco, that's cool too.

Weighed in at 169.6 this morning. Yesterday food was

Breakfast 1 egg scrambled with cheese and 1 turkey sausage Patty

Lunch 3oz taco meat, 5 chips, cheese, and sour cream.

Dinner 4oz tilapia and small spring mix salad with cheese and ranch( didn't finish salad)

Snack 1oz roasted almonds and a few grapes.

1 hour ago, Tracyringo said:

Weighed in at 169.6 this morning

YAAASSSSS! Back in your window, baby

Yesterday, Wed, Nov. 6
Maintenance : 5'2" / 1yr PO Sleeve / 114.2 lbs

...relatively low-cal day yesterday. I finished the last of my salad green stash at lunch and basically just ate grilled chicken for the rest of the day and it was very filling. I need to buy more greens at a time...I finished a costco pack of romaine (6 heads) + a costco organic spinach container in less than 5 days! I ❤️ salad.

9:00am - lemon peppermint tea with Stevia

12:00pm - salad greens w/ vinaigrette + carrots + 5oz grilled chicken + 1.5 fluid oz almonds

4:00pm - 3oz grilled chicken + 1/2 an avocado + 1 fluid oz walnuts

7:30pm - 5oz grilled chicken + 1 tbsp sour cream + 1/2 fluid oz sunflower seeds + 1/2 sweet potato w/ butter + 1 slice of green apple

11:00pm - 2oz turkey jerky

Totals: 1272 cals - 106g Protein - 33g NET carbs - 75g fat

Yesterday, Thu, Nov. 7
Maintenance : 5'2" / 1yr PO Sleeve / 113.7 lbs

...didn't get a chance to visit Costco yesterday, so I went through another day SANS salad. ???

9:00am - coffee with Stevia

12:00pm - 3.5 oz grilled pork chop + 1/2 package shiratake noodles + 2 tbsp salsa verde + 1 poached egg + 1 slice bacon

3:00pm - 1oz grilled pork chop + 1/2 an avocado + 1 poached egg + 1oz cheddar cheese + 1/2 fl oz sunflower seeds

5:00pm - 1/2 a Pure Protein Peanut Butter Chocolate Bar + 1 Keto Choco-Coconut Fat Bomb + 1 Almond-Caramel-Sea-Salt Kind Bar

8:30pm - 2.5oz grilled pork chop + 1/2 package shiratake noodles + 3.5 oz sweet potato & apple casserole + 1 slice bacon + 2 tbsp sour cream + 1 tbsp fried onion topping

10:30 - avocado smoothie (1 avocado + cashew milk + stevia)

Totals: 1909 cals - 100g Protein - 56g NET carbs - 135g fat

Gosh I honestly could NOT remember how to find the thread yesterday!!! TY yall for posting and bringing it back to trending topics!!

Yesterday was like the third day of hungry hungry heifer. So I threw more protein at the hunger and tried to keep "containment". I was really starting to worry last night about it, if this was a new phase or if my carbs were giving me bg issues and insulin probs.

But I think I was just in a protein deficit. I've read a recent study on obesity theory that talks about hunger increases when protein is kept too low over a long period of time? And that once you eat and eat and eat until your protein "reserves" (kinda sorta) are refilled, your hunger hormones will be psycho killers.

Interestingly, after eating so much protein over the past 3 days, I woke up prepared to fight the urge to eat and low and behold...I wasn't hungry until around 12:30pm. I had my same lattes to get my extra protein in, but didn't feel inclined to eat breakfast. I had a huge lunch and now feel totally satisfied with an abscence of food cues or cravings. So maybe there is something to that theory? It will be interesting to see how the rest of the day shakes out from here.

Planning a salad with shrimp tonight @ms.sss (oh yes, I'm talking about you Missy! The salad queen!)

@Tracyringo wooohooooo! And BAM! Just like that baybbbbbby! You are back in your window! It feels ridiculously good, doesn't it? Congrats!! Your menus have looked so yummy and gorgeous!

@ms.sss I seriously heart you! Love your menus. Love that you are fearless about trying different things and love that you're able to eat late and not gain! I've been having some nightly snacking going down...it's mostly corralled, but it gives me hope that I can have my cake peanut butter and cheese and eat it too! hehe.

Ok, so here goes:

Thursday 11.07 - Maintenance : 5'4" / 57y F/ 19.5mo PO RNY / 130.6 lbs

B-Protein lattes (4oz PP)

L-Green Soup (ate it in 2 portions)

AS-1/2c 2% Daisy Cottage Cheese + pepper (YUM!) + 1 frigo lite cheese stick

D-atlantic salmon mustard coated + broccoli in garlic + avo/tom

BS-Longhorn cheddar + peanut butter

Daily Totals: 1006 cals; 97g protein; 53g fat; 36g carbs; 9g fiber; 27g net carbs (Oh and I didn't walk yesterday. I was so exhausted and just felt flat and empty without reserves. So I took a day off. But this morning I woke up, peppy, full of energy, jazzed for the day and ran = rawlked for 55 minutes straight.)

18 hours ago, FluffyChix said:

Daily Totals: 1006 cals; 97g protein; 53g fat; 36g carbs; 9g fiber; 27g net carbs

My goodness that's alot of food for 1000-ish cals. Have you considered doing a bariatric meal prep side business? You could probably make a killing.

Friday 11.08 - Maintenance : 5'4" / 57y F/ 19.5mo PO RNY / 130.4 lbs

B-Protein lattes (4oz PP)

L-Sardines in water (drained) + yellow mustard + cucumbers with ACV & Tajin spice + baby carrots

AS-wasn't hungry

D-italian sausage + marinara + parm + 2 glasses cabernet sauvignon + 1/2 small dinner salad + blue cheese dressing + grilled shrimp (sorry forgot to take a pic)

BS-cottage cheese + pln grk yogurt + bananas & cream PP + frozen blueberries + walnuts + hemp hearts + chia seeds

Daily Totals: 1195 cals; 73g protein; 51g fat; 53g carbs; 10g fiber; 41g net carbs

My hunger stayed in check yesterday. Yay! Dinner was date night and extended, so we started with sharing Italian sausage in marinara and having a glass of wine. Then later we had dinner and a second glass of wine. I'm likely overestimating dinner--I found a hair in it about 1/3 of the way in and that was it for me. But I later got hungry, so went for my flavah fave...

Today is a swamped day! Y'all have a good one!! @ms.sss Ha! We're posting at the same time! Will bbiaf after I've read your posts!!!

Edited November 9, 20196 yr by FluffyChix

1 minute ago, ms.sss said:

My goodness that's alot of food for 1000-ish cals. Have you considered doing a bariatric meal prep side business? You could probably make a killing.

Yes! Also doing bariatric food coaching/meal plans/books. My old blog I no longer keep was low carb keto. I also had a fasting days healing days blog for a short period.

fluffychixcook.com

fastdayshealingdays.com

Yesterday, Fri, Nov. 8
Maintenance : 5'2" / 1yr PO Sleeve / 114.0 lbs

...lots of food and drink with the gal pals last night (while for me I think I was doing a serious job of packing it in, my food intake was still less than what my friends were eating). I am running on about 4 hours of sleep at the moment as despite coming home late, I woke up at 7am. I am way toooo tired and run down to go for a run right now, so I'm sitting on the couch in front of tv with my laptop instead. I'm likely going to stay in this postion for a while...LOL. Unless I fall asleep *crosses fingers*

Spoiler Alert: I dumped last night.

9:30am - coffee with Stevia

2:00pm - Salad greens w/ vinaigrette + 3.5 oz grilled chicken + apples

4:00pm - (the leftovers of my 2pm lunch) + 1 oz peanuts + 2oz chicharron

8:00pm - Wedge Salad (iceberg lettuce + bacon + tomato + blue cheese crumble + blue cheese dressing) + grilled vegetables + cauliflower mash + 3 oz steak + 4-5 bites of oreo ice cream cake.

10pm to 2am - Skinny frozen margarita + 1 amaretto shot + 4 tequila shots + 1 vodka soda + 1/2 apple tart w/ vanilla ice cream.

Totals: 3469 cals - 148g Protein - 300g NET carbs - 166g fat

Edited November 9, 20196 yr by ms.sss

18 minutes ago, FluffyChix said:

I found a hair in it about 1/3 of the way in and that was it for me

?

18 minutes ago, FluffyChix said:

@ms.sss Ha! We're posting at the same time!

AND we both had blue cheese dressing last night....?

2 minutes ago, ms.sss said:

?

AND we both had blue cheese dressing last night....?

I was channeling you But, then I forgot to snap a pic. But OMG...the hair. *sic* ??? Normally, I'd just put that restaurant on my list and never return. But, it's our favorite neighborhood place and we love the patrons and everyone who works there an owns the place. The owner felt so bad. I didn't want him to take it off my bill, but he comp'd the entire meal. I felt awful for him.

Well ladies lots of stuff going on and I missed a few days logging. 169.8 was my weigh in this morning and I am still 1 pound over my window of 167 to 168. I am not sweating it I just need to get on the ball. The holidays are coming and so is my first cruise in Jan ! YIKES

Breakfast 3/4 slice of Caseys breakfast pizza and 2 bites of biscuit and gravy

Lunch 1/2 cup of spaghetti and meat sauce

Dinner 3oz tri tip with green beans

Snack braum frozen yogurt and handful m&m

I know I need to start pulling away from all the carbs, so this morning I started out with an egg delight and it wasn't to bad

5 hours ago, Tracyringo said:

Well ladies lots of stuff going on and I missed a few days logging. 169.8 was my weigh in this morning and I am still 1 pound over my window of 167 to 168

Ah, I thought your window was below 170. Well in any case you are like a hair away

Yesterday, Sat, Nov. 9
Maintenance : 5'2" / 1yr PO Sleeve / 114.9 lbs

..."leftover" salad lunch, followed by a birthday dinner at a chinese restaurant and then cake and coffee at my place afterwards = mix of both fair and poor food choices yesterday. I feel round of bloat coming on, as I've got brunch with BFF and our fams in a couple hours and brunches are oh-so-carby.

9:00am - peppermint tea with Stevia

11:00am - Salad greens w/ vinaigrette + 2.1 oz grilled chicken + 2.8 oz steak + asparagus + cauliflower mash + peaches + avocado

3:30pm - 4 oz crispy pork + 1/8 cup fried turnips + 1 bite of squid + 2 sauteed shrimp + 1/4 cup Chinese broccoli + 5 cashews + 1/4 cup sliced mangoes

6:30pm - 1/8 cup lemon raspberry cheesecake + 1/8 cup mango cheesecake + 1 Halloween fun size Reese's peanut butter cup + 1 oz chicharron + 1oz peanuts

10:30pm - * leftovers from my 11am meal *

Totals: 1844 cals - 142g Protein - 100g NET carbs - 89g fat

Edited November 10, 20196 yr by ms.sss

Saturday 11.09 - Maintenance : 5'4" / 57y F/ 19.5mo PO RNY / 130.2 lbs

Congrats @Tracyringo I'd count you there too. Congrats on making a great breakfast choice! I love your menus, and love @ms.sss. And I also get to live vicariously through you 2!

Yesterday I was AWESOME SAUCE. Until last night happened...uh oh. It was a stressful day. Ha! Like life doesn't happen to everyone and our challenge is know ourselves and not eat because of emotional issues. But it was a stressful day all around, starting with our support meeting and ending with working to clean out our storage units all afternoon. Ugh.

We got a slight sensitivity building lesson from our group leader yesterday about not being judgemental or too harsh on the newbies to the group. Cuz apparently one had complained that we were too mean to her and too Judge Judy. And I'm pretty sure be we she meant me. So I felt bad for hurting her but I also felt marginalized. I also feel like we are not there to enable someone--especially someone so soon out of surgery doing terrible things and who still had well over 100lbs to lose--who wasn't losing well.

This girl wasn't even 2 months out and was already going out eating pizza, Chinese and Mexican food and boozing it up, talking about taking multiple shots with her son and passing out at a bar and needing to be carried out and what a buzz she was getting from it, and then complained she wasn't losing. So I told her that everything in moderation is a myth to many of us and that it wasn't magic bean surgery. That she needed to not squander her honeymoon period or I could pretty much guarantee she would never make it to goal. In fact only one other lady in our group besides me is even close to goal. One girl was, then life happened to her too and she's regained 40-50lbs. The other will never make goal cuz she eats too much and too much good stuff.

Then I promptly went out and didn't follow my advice. I did good at lunch, but by last night...LOL on date night and late date night--yeah, all hell unleashed. I found cauliflower crust pizza at a local pizza joint and had 1 1/2 pieces of a 10" crust and some chicken caesar minus the croutons with about 1tbsp dressing (and a glass of cab). Felt delightfully satisfied without being hugely full.

Dinner I had 4 deep fried mushrooms then could only eat a small amount of salad and 2 grilled shrimp. So nicely satisfied. (Over estimate food portions to try to keep things honest.) But the 1 glass of wine with lunch, 2 glasses with dinner, then the whiskey and decaf coffee at the end of the night with more snacking is where it all went wrong.

Oddly enough I'm down 0.2lbs so this morning I'm 130.2lbs and Saturday is definitely in a cheat day range for the week.

Daily Totals: 1690cals; 81g protein; 87g carbs; 9g fiber 78g net carbs.

(Woke up hungry this morning and thinking about having chaffles with butter and syrup with eggs and bacon...I'm thinking late night eating and too many carbs/booze is to blame. Today I'm gonna stick to salads and grilled chicken or shrimp. And tomorrow it's back on the straight and narrow. )

Edited November 10, 20196 yr by FluffyChix