Good Morning Airport Friends:

I hope you are all doing well this morning. Today is Thursday and yesterday we went to the Bariatric Center. We learned a lot. Here is what we learned. We met with our doctor and she has us step on this scale thing that gave weight and a whole bunch of stats and also gave me my BMR which is 1520. She removed 250 from that to give me a deficit as I am sedentary mostly. Right now she doesn't want me to change my exercise but just focus on food. My intake is 1270 for the day. I need 30% of my intake to be protein, 40% to be carbs and 30% fat. Those our the number and as we go we can tweak them a little. She said there is a certain order you should eat your food if you can. First eat your protein and then your veggies, and then your starches. She said by the time to get through most of your veggies you should have been eating for a half hour. So you need to take a half our to eat your protein and veggies. You do that because at that point it has been enough time for your stomach to release the chemical to your brain that you are full and that will make it so you don't eat as much starch but are full. Also she said stop calling your sweets a dessert. A dessert implies it is an every night thing. It is not. You need to call them indulgences. Because those only happen once a while. She also said stop giving yourself a treat. We give treats to dogs and we are not dogs. She said a meal is over 200 calories and a snack is less than 200 calories. I hope this helps someone else.

@Kurtize - Glad the home inspection went well. That is always good. As an insurance agent I have had clients call to get a home quote for a home they are thinking of buying and then when the home inspection happens they call and say they are not taking the insurance because they pulled their bid on the home due to the home inspection not going well. So I have seen things fall through because of that inspection.
@CSEGUIN2 - So glad you have a plan set up. Getting extra hours at work seems to be a bonus for you. I am also glad they feel you can handle something new. Way to go on losing some more weight. That is really hard to be starting a new job and not stress eating.

Well I hope you all have a wonderful Thursday.

Tabatha

Good evening, everyone! It's a mild day here today. My daughter says hello to all. She worked at her part time jobs today. Both budgie birds are doing well and say cheep, cheep! I went for a short run earlier this morning and I really enjoyed it. I went for a walk after lunch and I feel great! I'll be doing some dancing later on. I won two bingo games today in the rec room in my building. Have a great day, everyone! Take care and stay safe.

Hi all! Well it is warmer than it was Tuesday and Wednesday. I was able to walk the dog and walk with a friend. Hubby has off tomorrow. I think we are going on a longer ride tomorrow to get my daughter her Christmas gift of a bike.
@Tabatha_Cain -i hope you get good info from the bariatric place. And yup woke up this morning as good as new!

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@Tabatha_Cain I hope you can find a balance of your macros so you don't have to drink protein shakes all the time. My calories are set at 1200 and my macros are 35% carbs, 30% fat and 35% Protein, so not a lot different than what your dr. prescribed for you. I will sacrifice having more fats if it means I keep my carbs low to control my diabetes, but I always eat 3 meals a day and plan for a snack. I have never been satisfied when I try to drink my meals, I want to chew my food. Good Luck to you and your husband, you can do this!

@Tabatha_Cain
Thanks for posting the information they gave you at the center. It seems like a lot of good advice. I would say if you have to drink one of your meals to stay within your macros that you might look at your other meals and work on finding ways to shave off some calories. Eating whole foods will fill you up a lot more than a shake.

Good Morning Airport Friends:

I hope you are all doing well this morning. Today is Sunday and it is going to be a good day. I am just not sure how. We will figure something out. We have some things to do today and I am hoping I can get it all done. I also want to have time to relax. It is raining outside so not sure if I will get my walk in today or not but I am going to try if we get a break in the weather.

@cmoak54 - I think that is just what I am going to have to do. I know I need to keep my carbs low because my family has a history of diabetes and so does Joe's so we will be watching our carbs more so than our fat. It just has to be that way.
@Kurtize - Glad you are getting everything packed up. I am sure you are excited.
@sgod50 - I know it will be better later on as we are on budget with our food expenses and we have to eat what we have until today. Then we can go out and get better groceries. It was upsetting because I really thought I was doing well with the foods I was getting. I was getting salad mix for my husband and I was eating sandwich for lunch. My husband would take salads for lunch. He would eat an egg over hard on a piece of wheat toast, and I would have 2 slices of wheat toast with unsalted butter and peanut butter. Then for dinner we would have venison which is pretty much the only meat we eat and it is not store bought. I pay for a hunting lunch for a gentleman and then pay for the deer processing and get the whole deer minus the antlers and hooves and coat. The gentleman is an Amish man so they repurpose those. I have no need for those. When I process it I don't add anything extra at all. It is straight up deer meat so way lean. Then we will have like a potato or sweet potatoes for fries, but we don't deep fry anything we air fry things and we don't add oil or anything to it.

Well I hope you all have a wonderful Sunday

Tabatha

Happy Sunday

Hi all! My younger daughter had a very full weekend-which made me happy-she is known for spending way too many hours just in the house doing homework and chilling. Hubby and i went to the mall today while she was at a get - together.
@Tabatha_Cain -yup we got her bike! And bonus points she called just to chat today.

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