<p>Congratulations, Jym!!!</p>
<p>Now go have a sundae! :)</p>
<p>LOL EPTR-
No sundae for me, but I did have half of a very yummy avocado and cilantro eggroll at dinner last night, and 2 bites of a gluten free brownie.</p>
<p>Just came back from a 3 mile walk (did a little running but very little). Just stumbled across this list of the 10 worst things to eat-- no real surprises – #3 - donuts! </p>
<p>[The</a> Worst Foods You Can Eat | Reader’s Digest](<a href=“The Worst Foods You Can Eat”>The Worst Foods You Can Eat)</p>
<p>BUT I also found this article which was very entertaining - they did a study at the U of Tel Aviv – long story short- those who ate cake for breakfast lost more weight after the controlled diet was over, whereas those on a low carb breakfast gained back more than half of what they on average lost !! [Study:</a> Cake with Breakfast? You’ll Lose More Weight | Healthy Living - Yahoo! Shine](<a href=“Study: Cake with Breakfast? You'll Lose More Weight”>Study: Cake with Breakfast? You'll Lose More Weight)</p>
<p>Happy Sunday, everyone! LMNOP, hope you’re feeling better!</p>
<p>Looking forward to seriously getting back on track this week - have to re-lose the vacation 4 lbs and the “other 6”. You all are fun to hang around!</p>
<p>Less than a pound gain since Thursday. Other than the double scoop hot fudge sundae (it was lunch) and three lemon drop martinis in two days, I did well on portion and self control. I passed up a second ice cream the next day (just took a taste instead). We also got lots of exercise walking and biking.</p>
<p>Love the Tel Aviv study! So, bubula, a bissel nosh for breakfast, nu?</p>
<p>I doubt that cake for breakfast would work for me - if I don’t get protein for breakfast I’m starving by 10. I usually have half a whole grain English muffin with a little jam and an egg.</p>
<p>As for the worst foods:
- Hot dogs - eat a couple of times a summer, when my younger son drags me to Walter’s Hot Dog stand, the best hot dogs in America (according to Gourmet Magazine)
- Frozen dinners - never
- Donuts - only when traveling on the road (or in Atlanta and someone tempts me with a fresh off the rack Krispy Kremes)
- I never eat plain potato chips and I never buy them - but if my mother has salt and vinegar ones I can never resist, however I don’t eat a lot and luckily she lives four hours away.
- Never eat low fat foods
- Never eat margarine.
- I drink about one soda a year - the last one I had was after a day of helping son pack up his room in 90 degree heat.</p>
<p>If there’s something bad that you love to eat, I think it’s good to give yourself a food rule so that you can eat it very occasionally.</p>
<p>Great List, mathmom! VERY true.</p>
<p>LMNOP, my hat is off to you!</p>
<p>Am now down 68 lbs. since April 2011 and have dropped my BMI by ten points. Am quite thankful I lost much of that before the heart attack, as the work I had already done made it possible for the docs to keep me alive (and to have gotten back home where S2 could revive me vs. having a heart attack while climbing Masada).</p>
<p>I am keeping a food journal to keep me honest and to keep track of my sodium/fat/vitamin K intake (the latter because I am on three different anticoagulant meds). I enter it on Livestrong periodically so it can tally my totals. Also weigh in every day because of the meds and the possibility of excess fluid causing stress on my heart. Until I am cleared for exercise (which should be cardio rehab in early August), the weight loss has plateaued and I am maintaining at 1500 calories.</p>
<p>Trust me – I am a walking billboard for why one should get into shape and maintain a healthy lifestyle. A full arrest, five stents and a defibrillator/pacemaker implant make it easy to say “no thanks.” Now if only my DH would learn from my experience…</p>
<p>OTOH, I bought two MOG dresses today in radically smaller sizes. <em>And</em> they were massively marked down!! :)</p>
<p>So great to hear your voice, CD!! Wow on 68 lbs!! And congrats on all aspects of the MOG celebrating/shopping!</p>
<p>mathmom-
Krispy kremes hot off the rack get special dispensation.</p>
<p>^Luckily I’m not likely to get back to Atlanta anytime soon!</p>
<p>Countingdown, congrats on both being MOG and having smaller sizes to pick from! Also well done on not gaining weight when you can’t exercise - that would be very difficult for me. It’s hard enough when I am exercising!</p>
<p>You folks are doing great. Best of luck with your health, Counting Down. That must have been pretty scary.</p>
<p>My two favorite foods in the whole world are hot dogs (lathered with mustard & relish) and cinnamon doughnuts. I’d prefer to up my work outs rather than give them up. But I only have one each per week, so that’s just the way it’s gotta be. So there!</p>
<p>Luckily not coming back to Atlanta soon, mathmom? 
I know what you mean, but still, it sounded funny :(</p>
<p>I eat low fat foods. I am not sure why they are a no-no other than may be higher in sugar and calories, but I prefer them, for the mostpart. My occasional little indulgent snacks are bite sized york peppermint patties and in the summer some of the Weight watchers or skinny cow ice creams.</p>
<p>Eat the donut inthe morning, hayden. That Tel Aviv study says you’ll still lose weight.</p>
<p>I am still teetering back and forth up/down at the same weight-- still need to get that last 4.5 lbs off. It will happen. (current BMI is 23.47)</p>
<p>A simple glazed donut is not healthy, but it doesn’t actually have very many calories - usually around 230. I eat low fat yogurt, and use 1% milk, but don’t have much else that is marketed as low fat.</p>
<p>Lucky not to be in Atlanta soon only from the Krispy Kreme point of view! I really enjoyed it, including seeing family and friends.</p>
<p>There seems to be only one person here who appears to think that donuts are healthy. The rest eat them on occasion because they call our names out 
That said, I haven’t had one in months. Hmm…</p>
<p>There is a Krispy Kreme shop right across the street from our local hospital. If I stay away altogether, I am fine. Once I have one, I am sunk. Same thing with Doritos. One chip, and the bag is gone. I will have an occasional bite of dessert at home (have been making fruit cobbler w/egg substitute, light margarine and very little sugar). One good thing about being in the “deep freeze” following the heart attack – I was unconscious for the caffeine withdrawal. Have not craved diet soda at all since. I find when I drink water, I eat much better, too.</p>
<p>Not much going on w/the MOG stuff. They are coming here for a small civil ceremony at the courthouse en route to CA. Celebration will be next summer. Since the law firm that was handling fiancee’s work visa screwed up, she is coming in on a fiancee visa, which means they must be married within 90 days of arriving in the US. They had planned on the wedding/reception next summer, but they do not want to spend another year apart and she does not want to go for a year without income (future employer said they’d hold her spot til next year’s H-1B cycle, but she and S1 are ready to get on with their lives already).</p>
<p>I look forward to the exercise because right now the measuring tape says I haven’t lost much off my waist. I desperately need muscle tone and aerobic/cardio capability.</p>
<p>Have you started cardiac rehab yet, CD? That will help with the toning.</p>
<p>I finally broke the plateau and am down another lb. 16 down, 3 1/2 to go. Actually I’ll aim for 4 to make it an even 20.</p>
<p>Vacation Snowflake checking in from the beach … my muscles are happily sore from biking, long walks, swimming in angry waves and generally moving all day long. I don’t care if I don’t lose a lb this week, but the sun and movement is a dream state. I’m sure I’m eating more than my working week caloric amount, but I’m hoping the movement and exercise at least keeps me even. No scale here for me to step on this week … freedom!</p>
<p>Snowflake, that sounds like heaven! Enjoy!</p>
<p>I like even numbers, jym…</p>
<p>On my second antibiotic–the first round didn’t get completely rid of the the bug.</p>
<p>jym, cardiac rehab clearance appointment is 8/7. Hope to start the following week. I am excited to start doing some real exercise without worrying about keeling over while home alone. Ejection fraction went up, and the doctor is thrilled with all the lovely colors I now have post-defib implant (ROYGBIV, minus the red and orange). Said with all the anticoagulants I’m on, she expected me to be even more colorful. </p>
<p>Those two dresses I bought this week – both sleeveless. My left arm is blue and purple down to my elbow. At least both dresses cover the incision site. </p>
<p>I will need to perfect the Model Stance for any pictures.</p>
<p>CD - you and my hubby can have defib chats! </p>
<p>He has had his implant for about 3 years and all is going well. It took a little while to get some of his meds tweeked, but he is back to biking 30 - 40 miles each weekend. </p>
<p>good luck to you!</p>