I saw the doctor today. She said that it is possible that my ankle swelling could come back (grrrrrrrr)...however after telling her all of the other issues (two period this month and other pre-period symptoms) she concluded that my ankle swelling was likely the result of evil estrogen. She fixed me up with a diuretic. I told her that I did not always get the quantity of water in that I should and did not want this diuretic to make the problem worse. She said that the particular drug she had chosen focused mainly on the badly located water not the water I would need (I don't know how but hey..if she says so) ;).
I got my pills at around 7. Took one and tadahh..I am a--peeing again. My ankle is still swollen a bit but better this evening from the last couple of days. In other related good news...maybe..my scale read 167. If this water weighs enough I might actually recapture that goal weight that I popped away from over Christmas.
While in the office my doctor also checked my sore arm (poking the crap out of it actually) and wants me to go in for an xray. She thinks I might have damaged my radius in some way. I guess this will be a good excuse for my wimpiness over the last month but i am not sure that knowing that I broke it will be of much importance as It has already been a month and the healing I am sure has started.
My usual wonderful Friday was not to be today as Grace was home from school, I had the doctors appointment and then had to dash down to work for two meetings. The work meetings were on one hand good but on the other not so much. The first meeting was with my boss who talked about a bunch of stuff that I cannot put on here but he offered me extra hours for Spring term to teach an assessment and evaluation course (I do love to teach). This means that I will pop into full time benefit land and will get my medical and other benefits back (I sacrificed them when I quit my other job last Spring). The bad side is I have already committed to teach two classes at the community college. I believe this will pop me up to 1 and 1/2 full time (Probably not so wise). I will have to be super organized in order to keep sane I am sure. Thankfully the classes will be well timed, making the most of my time on either campus.
My second meeting followed. I got to work with my first advisee :) to help her get to work on her research project for her Master's degree. It was fun to dig into her data and help her figure out what she needed to do to analyze it for her final paper. It really highlights to me why i like to do my job..teaching and mentoring students. Tracking down data and sitting through meetings...not so much.
So..hopeful on the weightloss front., good and bad on the work front. and facing weekend...wahhooooooo :) Have a check at the previous post..I nominated a bunch of people with an award..
xxxooo
Living with a lapband after seeing goal is just as much work as getting there. This blog chronicles my journey to qualify for band surgery, my work to goal weight and now living with the band long term. Weight will always be an issue but there is a whole lot of living to be done.
Friday, January 28, 2011
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Award-but dont let that stop you from more shortbread recipes
I just received the wonderful stylish blogger award from Libby and Amber
I am supposed to list 7 obscure things about about myself and nominate 15 fellow bloggers that I love or have recently discovered.
1. I am compiling a list of shortbread recipes for a bake-off :) Keep the recipes coming. I don't even have to bake them as I am sure I can rope my husband into it.
2. I love fractions..they make me smile and are fun to teach.
3.prints scare me-I now own two dresses made from print-that is huge.
4. I haven't exercised seriously since I fell off my bike...Im skeered.
5. This is the longest I have ever kept up with a journal in any form (the longest other than this is about a week).
6. I get all excited about stuff and launch into it (like knitting, quilting, sewing, home-fix it, wood working,en garding and diets and exercise) but then tire easily and slack off when I either feel like I have mastered the skill or messed up the project I am working on. I think this personality trait is not good some of the time. The band has helped me not grow tired or give up when things got tough because I could always get a fill or change it up and make the pursuit new again.
7. I'm tongue tied. I cannot stick out my tongue or put it on the roof of my mouth. I discovered over Christmas break at the dentists that it can make getting a root canal much more painful.
The award now goes to:
1. Kellie-she is getting a fill today and needs the love.
2. Shannon-She is one of us proud over 300 club who is working her band (there are a bunch of us! and you can work it girl)
3. Cozy Coconut (what is your name?? it is driving me crazy to call you coconut however...you give great restaurant recommendations and whats not to love about coconut!!
4. Amanda at Amanda's Waning-well She lives right down the freeway from me. She is wise and she rides her bike. These are all purely wonderful traits.
5. Caroline at Lonicera-The warmest hearted blogger who decorates her blog with
beautiful pictures. She is also part of my UK peeps!!
6. LindaBecause we are both moms who
want better for our kids.
7. Bunny-cause shes back and not giving up no matter how long it takes!
8. Justine-cause she is banded, is a UK peep, inspired me to multi-blog and likes her crafts.
9. Lyla-cause we both do the higher ed thing.
10. Read-she is really funny and brave enough to say things (that are totally true) that I am too skeered to say. umm...OOk I typed something here and erased it because really it may seem like I pretty much tell all but nope..i do filter..and I wish that I was braver not to. I also know she already got this award but..i am seconding it.
11. Allison She has scale wars and I know them well!! and she is also a UK peep!
12. TessieRose-The 48 blog and pics are everything I hope my 46, 47 and 48 is compared to my 40.
13. Sandie Lee-I hate bra shopping too!!! and thanks for the short bread recipe.
14. JacquieThe short bread recipe you provided was a hit at work today! and I ate wayyy too many. I have read your Journey from pre-band to now and wow you are working it!
15. Last but not least-Cara at the Dash. You have worked the band girl!! and come on..whats not to like about fractions?? :)
Now I am sitting here hoping the acid reflux I am having from the OJ (I thought it would go through faster than food!) will go away before I go horizontal.
I am supposed to list 7 obscure things about about myself and nominate 15 fellow bloggers that I love or have recently discovered.
1. I am compiling a list of shortbread recipes for a bake-off :) Keep the recipes coming. I don't even have to bake them as I am sure I can rope my husband into it.
2. I love fractions..they make me smile and are fun to teach.
3.prints scare me-I now own two dresses made from print-that is huge.
4. I haven't exercised seriously since I fell off my bike...Im skeered.
5. This is the longest I have ever kept up with a journal in any form (the longest other than this is about a week).
6. I get all excited about stuff and launch into it (like knitting, quilting, sewing, home-fix it, wood working,en garding and diets and exercise) but then tire easily and slack off when I either feel like I have mastered the skill or messed up the project I am working on. I think this personality trait is not good some of the time. The band has helped me not grow tired or give up when things got tough because I could always get a fill or change it up and make the pursuit new again.
7. I'm tongue tied. I cannot stick out my tongue or put it on the roof of my mouth. I discovered over Christmas break at the dentists that it can make getting a root canal much more painful.
The award now goes to:
1. Kellie-she is getting a fill today and needs the love.
2. Shannon-She is one of us proud over 300 club who is working her band (there are a bunch of us! and you can work it girl)
3. Cozy Coconut (what is your name?? it is driving me crazy to call you coconut however...you give great restaurant recommendations and whats not to love about coconut!!
4. Amanda at Amanda's Waning-well She lives right down the freeway from me. She is wise and she rides her bike. These are all purely wonderful traits.
5. Caroline at Lonicera-The warmest hearted blogger who decorates her blog with
beautiful pictures. She is also part of my UK peeps!!
6. LindaBecause we are both moms who
want better for our kids.
7. Bunny-cause shes back and not giving up no matter how long it takes!
8. Justine-cause she is banded, is a UK peep, inspired me to multi-blog and likes her crafts.
9. Lyla-cause we both do the higher ed thing.
10. Read-she is really funny and brave enough to say things (that are totally true) that I am too skeered to say. umm...OOk I typed something here and erased it because really it may seem like I pretty much tell all but nope..i do filter..and I wish that I was braver not to. I also know she already got this award but..i am seconding it.
11. Allison She has scale wars and I know them well!! and she is also a UK peep!
12. TessieRose-The 48 blog and pics are everything I hope my 46, 47 and 48 is compared to my 40.
13. Sandie Lee-I hate bra shopping too!!! and thanks for the short bread recipe.
14. JacquieThe short bread recipe you provided was a hit at work today! and I ate wayyy too many. I have read your Journey from pre-band to now and wow you are working it!
15. Last but not least-Cara at the Dash. You have worked the band girl!! and come on..whats not to like about fractions?? :)
Now I am sitting here hoping the acid reflux I am having from the OJ (I thought it would go through faster than food!) will go away before I go horizontal.
Everyone is Important and Shortbread Responses
The Tattoo
That tattoo is a bit of expanding art. I believe I wrote about it last summer but cannot remember for sure. My first tattoo was the oil lamp-I got it to celebrate my Ph.D. in 2006. Many universities use this symbol to stand for love of learning. In 2010 I added to my tattoo when I hit two milestones almost simultaneously. I had a turtle added floating in smoke that comes out of the oil lamp. That piece was in celebration of losing 100 pounds. I really had no idea at the time that I would manage to lose 50 more! The turtle is somewhat tribal in design (turtles are an important folk animal in Southestern tribal tales) but also matches the ticker symbol for slow and steady wins the race that I have always had on my weightloss ticker.
Finally in answer to your questions-the words are in the Cherokee language. In 2010 my father and siblings registered for and were accepted into the Cherokee tribe. I had wanted to do so for some years but it took ages to convince my dad and get our paperwork in order. The words are in the Cherokee language. They are pronounced-NeeGAHD UhlSGAYduh and they mean: Everyone is Important.
Amanda-yes do keep me up to date on any band get togethers and I would LOVE LOVE LOVE a good shortbread recipe. I am willing to keep trying until I find a good one.
That tattoo is a bit of expanding art. I believe I wrote about it last summer but cannot remember for sure. My first tattoo was the oil lamp-I got it to celebrate my Ph.D. in 2006. Many universities use this symbol to stand for love of learning. In 2010 I added to my tattoo when I hit two milestones almost simultaneously. I had a turtle added floating in smoke that comes out of the oil lamp. That piece was in celebration of losing 100 pounds. I really had no idea at the time that I would manage to lose 50 more! The turtle is somewhat tribal in design (turtles are an important folk animal in Southestern tribal tales) but also matches the ticker symbol for slow and steady wins the race that I have always had on my weightloss ticker.
Finally in answer to your questions-the words are in the Cherokee language. In 2010 my father and siblings registered for and were accepted into the Cherokee tribe. I had wanted to do so for some years but it took ages to convince my dad and get our paperwork in order. The words are in the Cherokee language. They are pronounced-NeeGAHD UhlSGAYduh and they mean: Everyone is Important.
Amanda-yes do keep me up to date on any band get togethers and I would LOVE LOVE LOVE a good shortbread recipe. I am willing to keep trying until I find a good one.
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Answer to Caroline's Question and the Big Blow Up
Since my marriage to a UK citizen I have come to appreciate British STUFF. Caroline asked me a couple of posts ago what I particularly missed when I was home and not visiting. The things I have come to enjoy from the UK are: Chocolate, Fruit, magazines, yogurt, cream products, shortbread and Tesco's Trifle. Now as far as cheese goes...Grommet...I prefer mine cheap and American :) My cheese tastes have expanded over the past two years but we stock two kinds of cheese in our drawer. I have good old orange American style mild cheddar. David has his own boring old white and sharp British imported Cheddar.
Chocolate:Cadbury's fruit and nut (click on the words to see the price I pay) is my favorite but I will take any chocolate as long as it is not dark. I can get this here for a price and I pay that price. One has to be careful in purchasing though. The U.S. made Cadbury's chocolate is crap--tastes just like the hershey's wax pile that American cheap chocolate is. British or Cadbury's from the middle east is smooth and creamy. My number one favorite find in the UK is this.
Fruit: In December the fruit one can buy in the U.S. is just a waste of space. wimpy tasteless grapes that are often shriveled up. Soft mealy apples, tasteless strawberries. In the UK even at Tescos you can by sweet, crisp, large grapes that taste like summer. You can buy small UK grown strawberries that taste like June fresh from field strawberries. The bananas are creamy, Bramley apples are wonderfully tart and crsip (we don't even have those here)...I do not know where or what the growers are doing but ours are coming out of cold storage and do not taste good at all. I can only get this fruit when I visit. :(
Magazines: The first thing I do when I travel to Wales is go to Tescos and gaze and the huge racks of magazines. Grace has several good magazines (with learning value not just Disney movie stars) to choose from. I have several gardening, knitting, home decorating or even just multi-mix good housekeeping like ones to choose from. Best of all they are 2 and 3 pounds to buy. In the U.S. we don't have this many magazines to choose from and even in the few places where there are several they cost considerably more (I have seen 10 dollar magazine at the check-stand here).
Yogurt-The yogurt tastes better in the UK. They also have really funky and cool flavors like gooseberry and rhubarb. On my Tesco run I always pick up a 6 pack of funky flavored yogurt to eat with big crisp grapes for breakfast.
Cream Products-creme fresh, clotted cream, double cream, whipping cream, light cream. The cream variety is impressive. Although this is a cholesterol nightmare I love the cream products on a Victoria Sponge with strawberry jam or scones. We can only get half and half or heavy whipping cream-the rest I have to wait for.
Shortbread-Walkers is damn good and I can get it at our local import shop. it costs quite a bit but like the chocolate is worth the expenditure. We can make it but it is not the same (well we haven't found the recipe yet anyway
Tesco's trifle...berries, berry jello, sponge cake, birds custard and whipping cream...heaven in a fluted bowl. I can make this at home but have yet to match the perfect storm of jelled sweetness. I buy this on my first Tesco run.
Man o man I am glad we will be over soon :) July!! We are buying tickets either tonight or later this week. The dates are: July 2-August 6. I will be in and out on side trips but if any of you UK peeps want to meet up I am more than willing and excited in fact to make it happen. Name the pub and I will be there with bells on.
Ok...now to the blow up part: What do you call the opposite of a NSV? I am having a non-scale regression. One of my co-morbidities was edema. At 304 my ankles, especially my left ankle would swell up after a day's work, a trip, a day at my desk..you name it and my poor ankles and feet blew up like crazy. Until today I thought my weight loss had pretty much licked this problem. Sure on a vacation where we walked all day, I sat on an airplane for 24 hours and I didn't get any sleep my ankles would swell a little but this...this is extreme swelling. So much so that I will have bruises on my ankles over the next week or so. See picture-
Ignore the hairy legs (It is Winter after all!).
I am not sure if I should go to my GP or my lapband surgeon...I am not sure if I should go in at all. In my own non-doctory opinion I think this is being caused by my hormone messed up body (remember the two periods in a month thing? Well I am guessing I am facing another one any day now). I think it might also be from one night when I stayed up past midnight and then got up at 7am (I have done this post weight-loss before though without a problem). Basically it is a pain in the rear and disappointing as it was one of the major reasons I was scared to keep carrying around the weight. I was afraid that eventually my circulation would get so bad I would lose a foot. Now the fear..have I still lost that circulation? I would prefer to keep my feet thank you very much.
Chocolate:Cadbury's fruit and nut (click on the words to see the price I pay) is my favorite but I will take any chocolate as long as it is not dark. I can get this here for a price and I pay that price. One has to be careful in purchasing though. The U.S. made Cadbury's chocolate is crap--tastes just like the hershey's wax pile that American cheap chocolate is. British or Cadbury's from the middle east is smooth and creamy. My number one favorite find in the UK is this.
Fruit: In December the fruit one can buy in the U.S. is just a waste of space. wimpy tasteless grapes that are often shriveled up. Soft mealy apples, tasteless strawberries. In the UK even at Tescos you can by sweet, crisp, large grapes that taste like summer. You can buy small UK grown strawberries that taste like June fresh from field strawberries. The bananas are creamy, Bramley apples are wonderfully tart and crsip (we don't even have those here)...I do not know where or what the growers are doing but ours are coming out of cold storage and do not taste good at all. I can only get this fruit when I visit. :(
Magazines: The first thing I do when I travel to Wales is go to Tescos and gaze and the huge racks of magazines. Grace has several good magazines (with learning value not just Disney movie stars) to choose from. I have several gardening, knitting, home decorating or even just multi-mix good housekeeping like ones to choose from. Best of all they are 2 and 3 pounds to buy. In the U.S. we don't have this many magazines to choose from and even in the few places where there are several they cost considerably more (I have seen 10 dollar magazine at the check-stand here).
Yogurt-The yogurt tastes better in the UK. They also have really funky and cool flavors like gooseberry and rhubarb. On my Tesco run I always pick up a 6 pack of funky flavored yogurt to eat with big crisp grapes for breakfast.
Cream Products-creme fresh, clotted cream, double cream, whipping cream, light cream. The cream variety is impressive. Although this is a cholesterol nightmare I love the cream products on a Victoria Sponge with strawberry jam or scones. We can only get half and half or heavy whipping cream-the rest I have to wait for.
Shortbread-Walkers is damn good and I can get it at our local import shop. it costs quite a bit but like the chocolate is worth the expenditure. We can make it but it is not the same (well we haven't found the recipe yet anyway
Tesco's trifle...berries, berry jello, sponge cake, birds custard and whipping cream...heaven in a fluted bowl. I can make this at home but have yet to match the perfect storm of jelled sweetness. I buy this on my first Tesco run.
Man o man I am glad we will be over soon :) July!! We are buying tickets either tonight or later this week. The dates are: July 2-August 6. I will be in and out on side trips but if any of you UK peeps want to meet up I am more than willing and excited in fact to make it happen. Name the pub and I will be there with bells on.
Ok...now to the blow up part: What do you call the opposite of a NSV? I am having a non-scale regression. One of my co-morbidities was edema. At 304 my ankles, especially my left ankle would swell up after a day's work, a trip, a day at my desk..you name it and my poor ankles and feet blew up like crazy. Until today I thought my weight loss had pretty much licked this problem. Sure on a vacation where we walked all day, I sat on an airplane for 24 hours and I didn't get any sleep my ankles would swell a little but this...this is extreme swelling. So much so that I will have bruises on my ankles over the next week or so. See picture-
Ignore the hairy legs (It is Winter after all!).
I am not sure if I should go to my GP or my lapband surgeon...I am not sure if I should go in at all. In my own non-doctory opinion I think this is being caused by my hormone messed up body (remember the two periods in a month thing? Well I am guessing I am facing another one any day now). I think it might also be from one night when I stayed up past midnight and then got up at 7am (I have done this post weight-loss before though without a problem). Basically it is a pain in the rear and disappointing as it was one of the major reasons I was scared to keep carrying around the weight. I was afraid that eventually my circulation would get so bad I would lose a foot. Now the fear..have I still lost that circulation? I would prefer to keep my feet thank you very much.
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Sunday Sunday
Sunday is open house day. Our real estate agent holds one every Sunday unless we beg off. It gets tiring sometimes to have to clean Saturday night and then do a mad floor clean and bathroom clean Sunday morning. We do not have a single morning a week where we just sleep in and laze about. We did it again today and went...
To our habitual Vietnamese lunch. Grace had the beef noodle soup (I had two slurps of the broth). David had the Thai curry (I had two bites of the sauce). I ordered crab/cream cheese waontons for all of us. I ate two and about died of feeling full. Hence only the bites from the meals I had planned on sharing. I was a tad sad but also really happy that my band seemed to be back to normal in its firm tightness that I like.
Shopping to Ross (local discount store). I tried on 15 dresses for my upcoming valentines day dance. I found one to wear!
This really looks better in real life (in the picture I look way more thick in the waist and matronly). I do think I still need a new push-up bra!
plus a suit on the off chance that the job I applied for this week calls me for an interview.
Note the single shoe-I bought this gray very cool pair of shoes back when I bought my boots. I have not yet worn them and now have the perfect suit to wear with them only a little problem has developed. One has gone missing. I have looked and cannot find it. Very annoying.
We went over the Bed Bath and Beyond and got some steak knives. The steak last night was such a hit we decided that we needed steak knives to help Grace actually cut her own. We are planning on this dish once a week.
We did some other shopping and buying (big pot for my upcoming birthday party event) and some shoes for David, a sweater for Grace and some clogs too. Instead of eating out (totally what we would have done before) we came home to cook up the planned mizithra and browned butter linguine. It was divine and my lunch time tight band was quite pleasant allowing just short of a cup to slide through.
Tomorrow it is back to the work week slog...I love the weekend.
xxxooo
To our habitual Vietnamese lunch. Grace had the beef noodle soup (I had two slurps of the broth). David had the Thai curry (I had two bites of the sauce). I ordered crab/cream cheese waontons for all of us. I ate two and about died of feeling full. Hence only the bites from the meals I had planned on sharing. I was a tad sad but also really happy that my band seemed to be back to normal in its firm tightness that I like.
Shopping to Ross (local discount store). I tried on 15 dresses for my upcoming valentines day dance. I found one to wear!
This really looks better in real life (in the picture I look way more thick in the waist and matronly). I do think I still need a new push-up bra!plus a suit on the off chance that the job I applied for this week calls me for an interview.
Note the single shoe-I bought this gray very cool pair of shoes back when I bought my boots. I have not yet worn them and now have the perfect suit to wear with them only a little problem has developed. One has gone missing. I have looked and cannot find it. Very annoying. We went over the Bed Bath and Beyond and got some steak knives. The steak last night was such a hit we decided that we needed steak knives to help Grace actually cut her own. We are planning on this dish once a week.
We did some other shopping and buying (big pot for my upcoming birthday party event) and some shoes for David, a sweater for Grace and some clogs too. Instead of eating out (totally what we would have done before) we came home to cook up the planned mizithra and browned butter linguine. It was divine and my lunch time tight band was quite pleasant allowing just short of a cup to slide through.
Tomorrow it is back to the work week slog...I love the weekend.
xxxooo
Saturday
1. I think my 4th grade daughter is hitting puberty and if this i sign of things to come I am very afraid. That girl has a mouth...We are working on it. I am planning on contractual things..like goal setting, rewards and consequences. I have never been very good with follow through. Wish me luck!!
2. Today was a pretty good food day (minus the 1/2 price British Cadbury's had at our local British grocery store). I skipped breakfast and coffee (when you punish your child sometimes you get punished too). We were supposed to get the coffee before her knitting class but we were late because she refused to get dressed. We were supposed to go after but miss lippy lip got lippy and I had to remove the reward. We had scrambled eggs for lunch at home instead. Those eggs held on in my stomach really well.
mid-afternoon brought the chocolate (Grace was gone and I could have a well-deserved treat to reward myself for my difficult morning). I had a coffee drink at Costco in the afternoon. and then dinner was medium cooked steak and a tablespoon each of cooked spinach and mushrooms. Tonight I did have a bit more chocolate and a British style cookie. This is all probably more than what I ate during my peak losing phase but better than what I have been eating since before Christmas. I still do think I might need a fill but I am going to tough it out for a while and see how much self-control I can exert and whether the tight loose thing stabilizes.
3. I looked at protein powder and bought some protein bars. Still not sure if that is the answer or not.
4. We did a crud-load of shopping. It took us four grocery stores to get all of what we needed. Now I ask you..how is shopping different from when we had a green grocer, a butcher and a baker??? I still have to schlep around just now I have a car and miles in between them. Question though--David didn't know the answer to this one. When we just shopped from specialty store to specialty store..which one sold the toilet paper? hmmmmmmmmm :) Out here in the states I have always shopped at a supermarket. David grew up with the triple local specialty shopping. I pine for those days sometimes. While shopping we counted the amount of pre-packaged items our cart contained-we are now down to 3 (raisin bran-that I do not eat), protein bars (I do eat sometimes), bread (I do eat). We debated whether canned tomatoes and lunch meat counted. We also debated whether flavored yogurt did. Not bad really though considering our cart was filled with fruits and vegetables. We shunned the rest of the meat to get it organic.
5. I did not check my computer all day! it was liberating. Instead I knitted, talked to humans face to face and did some more spinning. My Welsh Highland sheeps wool is now yarn. I still smells like the Newport train station.
6. I have eaten in the evening again (chocolate and the cookie..I am afraid about acid indigestion in bed tonight).
7. I love weekends..even when Grace is a poop. Honestly tonight was fine-I think our joint consistency and individualized attention for a day was effective. Long may it last.
Well I'm off to bed..Happy Sunday!
xxxooo
2. Today was a pretty good food day (minus the 1/2 price British Cadbury's had at our local British grocery store). I skipped breakfast and coffee (when you punish your child sometimes you get punished too). We were supposed to get the coffee before her knitting class but we were late because she refused to get dressed. We were supposed to go after but miss lippy lip got lippy and I had to remove the reward. We had scrambled eggs for lunch at home instead. Those eggs held on in my stomach really well.
mid-afternoon brought the chocolate (Grace was gone and I could have a well-deserved treat to reward myself for my difficult morning). I had a coffee drink at Costco in the afternoon. and then dinner was medium cooked steak and a tablespoon each of cooked spinach and mushrooms. Tonight I did have a bit more chocolate and a British style cookie. This is all probably more than what I ate during my peak losing phase but better than what I have been eating since before Christmas. I still do think I might need a fill but I am going to tough it out for a while and see how much self-control I can exert and whether the tight loose thing stabilizes.
3. I looked at protein powder and bought some protein bars. Still not sure if that is the answer or not.
4. We did a crud-load of shopping. It took us four grocery stores to get all of what we needed. Now I ask you..how is shopping different from when we had a green grocer, a butcher and a baker??? I still have to schlep around just now I have a car and miles in between them. Question though--David didn't know the answer to this one. When we just shopped from specialty store to specialty store..which one sold the toilet paper? hmmmmmmmmm :) Out here in the states I have always shopped at a supermarket. David grew up with the triple local specialty shopping. I pine for those days sometimes. While shopping we counted the amount of pre-packaged items our cart contained-we are now down to 3 (raisin bran-that I do not eat), protein bars (I do eat sometimes), bread (I do eat). We debated whether canned tomatoes and lunch meat counted. We also debated whether flavored yogurt did. Not bad really though considering our cart was filled with fruits and vegetables. We shunned the rest of the meat to get it organic.
5. I did not check my computer all day! it was liberating. Instead I knitted, talked to humans face to face and did some more spinning. My Welsh Highland sheeps wool is now yarn. I still smells like the Newport train station.
6. I have eaten in the evening again (chocolate and the cookie..I am afraid about acid indigestion in bed tonight).
7. I love weekends..even when Grace is a poop. Honestly tonight was fine-I think our joint consistency and individualized attention for a day was effective. Long may it last.
Well I'm off to bed..Happy Sunday!
xxxooo
Friday, January 21, 2011
Friday is Thinking Day
Thanks for the comments yesterday! I do go back and forth wondering if my band is too tight. Here the problem though-it was not too tight when I was 163 and i made this 168 pound situation. I hate to get an unfill only to need a refill in a few short weeks. I have thought about going back to basics (basically similar to the 5 day pouch test). In the past when I have irritated my band I do a day of soups and liquids then hard core protein first, veg second and carb last (which means no carb because i do not have room). I also had a look at the protein supplements at the grocery store yesterday. This summer I threw out my protein powder (two years old!!) and stopped eating any protein bars. I had really stopped using them but I wonder if I don't need to re-institute some protein laden items to get back on track.
Today I am having soup for lunch followed by a crazy day of school pick up (Grace is back at school and lice free so far), horseback riding, an evening meeting for me and then bunco tonight. I am sure I will be late to at least two of the above events :)
xxxooo
Today I am having soup for lunch followed by a crazy day of school pick up (Grace is back at school and lice free so far), horseback riding, an evening meeting for me and then bunco tonight. I am sure I will be late to at least two of the above events :)
xxxooo
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