We must be the least talkative monthly bandsters ever.

*gasps* Do we have any other Feb '07 Bandsters out there lurking???

Hi, Andrea! Sounds like you're doing great! Don't have too much fun with your little hoodlums!

I had to go to in school suspension once. I was pissed it was not out of school. Glad to hear you are doing well. I also was overfilled but it caused me to gain because i could not consume anything but liquids.

Yeah.. Lazy bypasers!

Anyway, I think I'm screwed! Can't eat whole meat (steak, chops etc) no chicken. Can eat popcorn, icecream, chili, & eggsalad and for some strange reason McDonalds double cheese burger w/out the bun! What gives?

What are you guys eating these days? Just looking for variation of menu.

Some anniversary party we'll have with 4 people:wink2:

RTL: You might be just a tad too tight.

One of my most favorite things right now is Hormel no bean Chili over baked potatoes. YUM! Lots of Protein in that. I usually nuke a very small red potato for about 5 or 6 minutes, cut it in half and smoosh it up a little and then dump on the chili... SO good.

Another fave for Breakfast is instant grits with shredded cheese in it. 210 calories, and 6 grams of protein!

For lunch, I'll mix up some tuna and low fat mayo, and eat that on a wasa cracker. Or have a kid size microwave Dinty Moore Beef stew cup. I also like some of the frozen microwave meals. I always try to get the ones that are 250 calories or less, and I can rarely eat the whole thing.

Snacks can be mozarella sticks, cottage cheese with salsa mixed in, or Triscuit thin crisps and hummus....

I always keep Kraft Handi-snacks SF pudding on hand for a sweet tooth, 45 calories

Yesterday, I threw some frozen meatballs in my crockpot, dumped a can of cream of mushroom Soup over it, cooked it all day, melted some cream cheese in it when I got home, and served it over noodles last night. YUMMY!

Sometimes if I'm feeling lazy, I'll toss some frozen chicken breast in the crock pot, with a can or 2 of Ro-Tel tomatoes, cook it all day on low, shred the chicken when I get home, and serve it over rice with a dollop of sour cream.

Hope this gives you some ideas!

I have actually gone vegetarian and then vegan in the last month. I eat pretty much anything I want that does not have animal in it. Today I had a bowl of high fiber cereal with soy milk for breaky, a vegan waffle and banana for snack, a veggie sub 1/2 of a 6 inch from subway) and a little salad for lunch, peanut butter on toast and chocolate soy milk for snack, and dinner will be a veggie burger with salad. I pretty much feel like I am eating all day but the weight is coming off again.

I agree with TG that you may be a tiny bit too tight.

And it is so good to have people here actually chatting it up.

OK, educate me, Babygrl. Vegan is nothing with a face, or anything that comes from something with a face, right?

And (purely out of curiosity, I'll ask) what was your motivation to go that route? Just something to try out?

Vegan is no animals or animal products (milk, eggs, etc) I draw the line at honey because I think bees are assholes. Many vegans will not wear fur, leather, use anything with beeswax, yada, yada, yada. Vegetarians will still eat dairy and eggs but do not eat anything that used to have a face.

I started out with the no meat thing because of reading the book Skinny Bitch. I had also stopped eating refined sugar since I was having huge problems with sugar addiction and I just figured what the hell. After a few weeks with the no meat thing I decided to remove the dairy from my diet because cheese is really fattening and I was eating a lot of it. It has been more of an experiement than anything else and it seems to be going well. The scales are moving in the right direction and I am eating pretty much anything I want whenever I want. I wish I could say I am doig it for a more valiant reason, like the suffering of animals, but no it is purely for health reasons. I feel better than I have in a long time. I am not tired in the morning, I have not needed any coffee, I am not exhausted all day long. I feel pretty effing great.

Oh and I have lost 13 pounds since December 27th so it must be working.

Very interesting...

I just made a cheese less pizza on a tortilla instead of the veggie burger. It is delicious.

If you must have cheese, I've seen tofu cheese, I can't remember what it's called, but it comes in individually wrapped slices like american cheese. Can't say though if it's worth a darn, or if it gets melty like cheese.... And, since you cut that out because of it's fat content and fattening qualities, I also can't say whether it's high or low in fat, sodium, etc, either.

Yucky stuff. I am sure there are some good brands but the ones I have tried were nasty. I have been doing pretty well without it. I was tempted by some cheese bread last week and boy did I pay for it. I was so violently ill that even that the smell of my kids pizzas with cheese on them did not even smell appitizing.

Ouch! Violently ill because you were stuck on it, or ill because of the cheese itself?

And I had a feeling that the tofu cheese was yucky stuff, hence the reason I couldn't say if it was worth a darn... The thought of it makes me cringe.

I have had tofu a couple of times and not hated it, though.

The cheese itself. I got up in the middle of the night with diareha and had horrid cramps. I was crying, my pulse was racing and felt like I had to puke. I seriously thought I was going to have to go to the hospital. It is probably the closest to a rny dumping episode you can get without actually dumping.