It only took MONTHS due to 2 surgeries after the band, the initial and 2 additional fills, but today, the plateau is broken. 

I've been on liquids or mushies since Thursday the 28th, and have been stuck twice sine then.  Thanks, triscuits and an omlet.  But, with Sandy R's help and guidance, I've gotten control.

Now, I get to find out if the weight loss will continue with mushies and them solids.  I have one advantage now that I didn't before:  my 7.5 fill in a 14 cc band.  Please let this work.  I would love to be 45.5 pounds down by Christmas!

I love yellow squash.  I loved it before the band.  I've turned what I loved into a soup.  Here's the recipe.  I believe it has about 104 calories per cup and is good, at least to me.  I make it in quantity so that I can freeze it and reheat it as I want it.

4 large yellow squash
6 tsp. Kraft grated parmesan cheese (the green can)
1/3 c. low fat mozzarella cheese
1/3 to 1/2 cup I can't believe it's not butter spray

Remove the ends of the squash and discard.  Wash the squash and cut into 1 1/2 wide circles.  Place in a steamer and salt with coarse salt .  I use salt here rather than later.   Once the squash is pretty soft (you probably wouldn't be able to lift it with a pair of tongs), dump all of it and the other ingredients into the blender.  Turn that puppy on to low, then med, then high.  You will end up with a hot soup that can be refrigerated or frozen.  I love it hot.

Well, I finally managed to break the plateau-by 1/2 pound!  Joy.  I spent 8 hours yesterday dealing with my 18, soon to be 19, year old's mess from Mother's Day.  It was a total disaster, with screaming, crying, and threats.

I used to think that teenagers were easier.  I still believe that.  I think that a bunch of his anger towards me right now is that he is overweight and jealous that my mom gave me the lap band.  I'm losing the weight and he's struggling to deal with seeing it happen and me be so very dedicated to it.

And, by the way, the brownies are still in the house and I'm NOT eating them!!!

Well, I can't believe that I have been so weak, so wasteful of the money for surgery.  

My daughter was multitasking yesterday.  She ended up needing help with, of all things, my best brownie recipe.  Not the easy stuff, but the pouring them into the pans, scraping the beater, and then of course, telling if they were done.  I scraped and scraped and tried to get all the batter into the pans.  I didn't want any left on the beater, bowl or spoon.  But, I was unable to do the job properly.  I caved.  The batter from the spoon, the excess in the bowl, the beater-all devoured in a hedonistic manner.  And this morning, she left half a pan here for some reason, and I had two, a 2x2 and a 2x4.

I haven't lost an ounce in a week or ten days, I'm otherwise very strict on calorie intake, protein, albeit in powder form, vegetables, fruit.  I can't lose.  I'm not allowed to exercise right now, being less than 2 weeks out.  And now, I've tasted forbidden fruit.  

Where will this lead...?

Monday was spent driving to Denver for a check up with Dr. K., and driving back, attending daughter's final school concert, which coincidentally was her teacher's final one and the principal's final one.

So today, I actually used my protein powder to make a smoothie.  I used the xler8 build powder.  It is vanilla flavored, and made a very good smoothie.  Ate some of those steamed carrots with splenda and a touch of butter.  

Went to Physical therapy for my shoulder and was told i'm getting very close to once a week therapy.  That is a big WOOT!!!  I thought rotator cuff was supposed to be difficult to recover from.  I guess I'm just on a lucky streak!