Baked Potato FRENZY!!! Food Porn Warning!

I have been craving this soooo badly! This is the only decent pic I could find on the internet of a stuffed potato but down here in Texas (everything really is bigger...even the people usually) BBQ is the food of choice. There is this tiny lil restaurant where I live called Pappy's BBQ and lemme tell ya...they have the best giant stuffed baked potatos ever! It comes with butter, sour cream, cheese, chives, onions, jalapenos, chopped beef BBQ, and bacon bits! I get mine sans onions but it is DELICIOUS! I have always been a potato addict. A couple of years ago I ate a baked potato for lunch every day for about a month. Literally. Yeah I made myself sick of them but the craving is back! DANG!

Thanks for all your comments on my post from yesterday. And I didn't mention it but I do weight training also when I exercise. I do a couple of body parts at a time and cardio with it. I have been working on my legs every other day and then arms, back, etc on other days. I worked out again yesterday and I swear I feel like it's doing no good. I don't feel any different. Not to mention when I got on the scale this morning I gained another pound! WTH??? What am I doing that is soooo awful that this yo yo weight thing keeps happening? Also, remember the whole protein story from yesterday about the girl and the doc told her she was eating too much protein? Well I plugged in all the food I ate yesterday into my niftly lil calorie counter app on my i-phone and guess what?????????? It said I had something like 126g of protein yesterday!!!! Ok....if I'm not mistakened our doctors instructions said that we are to have 60g of protein a day and that's it. OH MY GOSH! Am I overdosing on protein now? See I have never been a big "meat eater" (sounds dirty I know...haha) anyhoo....In fact I was vegetarian for over a year a couple of years ago. But, ironically, I wasn't getting enough protein so I started eating meat again. And even then I lived off of carbs and might have eaten meat like once a day. Now I finally up my protein and it's double what it's supposed to be? FIGURES!

Then I think about the whole eating 1 cup of food a meal thing (which I don't usually follow). I eat until I am full and honestly it takes more than a cup to do it except when I first get a fill but within a couple of days I am back to eating more than a cup otherwise I would be hungry all the time. But I have thought about this before and 1 cup is not much and you are expected to eat your protein first and then what's left if you can. How do you get the nutrients you need to be healthy that way? It doesn't seem like eating mainly protein and very little vegetables would suffice your body. BTW, I am not arguing with the method at all, I am just trying to understand it. On the preop diet I was only consuming like 500-700 calories a day and lost 13lbs in less than 2 weeks. That's the most weight I have lost through this whole process. I lost all but 6 of my 20 lbs on the pre op diet. Apparently I need to cut my calories back down to that? But then I have always read/heard that eating that few calories is unhealthy and is poor nutrition. WELL WHICH IS IT????? It's like for every article that tells you why "so and so way of eating" is the best, there is always another article saying that same way of eating is the worst! I am confused.....can ya tell? HA! Well I bet the sunkist I just opened will help me understand! NOT!

OH well hopefully my fill on Monday will shine some light on the matter and give me more motivation.

Animal of the day: a baby snow seal