LipstickLady

Ahhhh... Protein shakes at their finest.

Well poop on a biscuit! I've been using a good old fashioned straw. I have noticed the triple scoop of ice cream adds Protein and helps cut the carbonation in my soda.

Not me. My insurance only offered the wine, straw and Oreo package. I can't do Pasta, rice or chicken. I may get plastics for that later.

Maybe I should skip the taquitos and substitute manicotti?

As a MexItalian, I commonly make meatball tacos. Does that count as one or dos?

I love being able to eat just one!

Bush, tree, it's all the same.

Right now I can eat MAYBE 4 ounces. If my end result is being able to eat 8, I think I will be fine. So will you.

You're gonna get all fat and give birth to a lemon bush!! Oh no, wait. You only get pregnant from watermelon seeds. No worries. You're fine.

So I graciously smile and nod through most of the goofy compliments because I know people mean well. The "you are wasting away to nothing" (I'm not), the "I need to go on whatever diet you are on" (no, you don't, you weigh like 80 pounds MAX), the "you were pretty before but you look SO MUCH BETTER now" (I do), etc. I chuckle on the inside when people ask me how much I've lost and how much I weigh now because I know they want to do the math and see what a manatee I was. I know that if they are ignorant enough to ask that, they are incapable of doing the math without pencil and paper. I smile along when they ask me if my husband likes the new me, cuz GOD KNOWS how he could have ever liked me before. I can even take it when I pass on a goodie while out in public and someone says, "OH YEAHHHHHH!!!! You are dieting!!!!!!", and look knowingly at whomever we are with. But the one thing that happens almost every freaking day that grates my last nerve is the salad bar at my local grocery. Yes, I do realize this is petty and that it's really nothing to be upset about. I'm NOT upset, it just irritates the FOOK out of me for some reason I can't name other than the fact that I am a grown adult. I work out of my car most days. Our local grocery chain has a great salad bar with fresh fruit, veggies, Soups, meats, prepared mayo-based salads, etc. I can go in and get a few pieces of fruit, a tablespoon of my favorite seafood salad with a little extra crab leg mixed in, a bit of teriyaki beef with a stir fried onion, maybe some light tuna salad or a hardboiled egg, whatever I am in the mood for and just the right amount for less than $2. It's a bargain and I rarely ever need to throw anything away. It's great! The only drawback is the cashier, and it's a different cashier EVERY.FREAKING.TIME because I go to different stores and through different lines almost every time. The comments on my pathetic little plate make me want to jam a pencil through my eye!! "Oh DEAR!! That's not enough!!!" (Uhmm...thanks for letting me know!! I'll run right back and get more!) "Goodness! Are you trying to starve yourself?" (No, if I was trying to starve myself, I wouldn't be eating at all.) "Honey, I am sure your husband wants you to eat more than that!!" (My husband doesn't feed me nor does he tell me what to eat.) "Is that all you are having? That's not enough to feed a baby!!!" (Thankfully, I am not a baby.) "You do know it's OK to eat in public, don't you dear?" (Have you seen the size of my ass? Yes, I know.) "Now you know that you are just going to go home and eat if that's all you are having for lunch, right?" (Well, yes, I do plan on eating again some time today.) I could go on and on. I know they mean well/are just trying to make conversation/insert whatever excuse you want to make for them here, but it drives me up a wall. I try and hold back my smart ass rebuttal, but I am so afraid that dam is going to break one day on some poor unsuspecting cashier. Sigh... Lord help me.

I'm not a fan of the Victory bars. They are too much like Quest bars.

It's a 20 oz drink.

Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Crystal-Light-Pure-Lemonade-7-Count/dp/B004BKHX0U Other flavors listed on the link, too.

You can order any flavor you want. This is one of my few sugar free things.

It's not the coffee, it's the milk in the latte.

Awesome!

So jealous. Wings are a favorite of mine but I've not been able to tolerate chicken since surgery.

Sure is!

Oh my Gawd! It's like Christmas morning every freaking day!!! I giggle like a school girl about my new self all day every day. I am ecstatic.

I love bacon. Eat it most days.

I have a venti skinny sf mocha hazelnut latte at 170 calories and 16gr of Protein several times a week. It's a great high protein snack or meal for me. I eat mayo based seafood salad any days for lunch. I also eat full fat blue cheese dressing on my "salad" or burgers. I eat so little, I can afford to eat real foods that are not chemical filled fat free products and I am so happy. Even with these "sins", my calorie count daily rarely hits 800.

I was at three months before I had my first salad. Chopped salads are awesome and my NUT advised me to eat the yummy toppings instead of filling up on useless lettuce.

Ppppbbbbbtttttt.

Your "leg"?

You don't have to buy it, just TRY it.