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I've lost 6 pounds since the start of my diet.  It's not the biggest weight loss, but it's a start!  I'm hoping for another 6 lbs before surgery!

I'm so dang sick of the medifast foods and always feeling my tummy rumble and move.  Ugh. 

Last week, I had an issue with the Beef Vegetable Stew and the Maryland Crab Soup where the veggies and some of the processed meats were just coming up and I wasn't even coughing or anything to get them to come up.  Just, Bloop! here I am!!  And the smell was so sickening that after I ended up just throwing the pieces away, the smell on my hands was disgusting and I had to wash my hands three times and then I still had to use hand sanitizer and lotion to get the smell off my hands.  I couldn't believe it, and I called my dietician, who really wasn't a bit of help.  She just told me to not use those soups, but then, what would I do for meals??? I have four boxes of those soups!!  Ugh...

My husband says that he can tell I've lost weight in my .... female lumps... yeah.  There.  Which, is AWESOME!!  Maybe I won't have so much of a time trying to find nice clothes! 

Saturday, my husband forced me to go off my diet.  (Which, I was upset about, yet I welcomed with open arms!)  We were visiting a friend who was up here from Tennessee and everyone was just loving their hot dogs (I hate those people... I'm dying for a hot dog!), while it was 8 hours after I ate my lovely powdered scrambled eggs.  Finally, I couldn't take it anymore, and I asked my husband if we could leave, since it was still another hour's drive home, and he said, "Why can't you just go to the grocery down the street and get a salad or something?"   First of all, thanks for the support (jerk), and second of all, thank you SO MUCH for letting me cheat!!!!!!!! (I LOVE YOU!!!!)  I got a plain salad with some cheese, half of a hardboiled egg, 4 baby tomatoes, and I used a 1/4 of a packet of fat free ranch dressing.  It was HEAVEN!! But a small, McDonalds
side salad was about the same size, and I was so full!! 

So, down to seven days left on the diet, and 8 days until surgery.  WOO HOO!!!

Everything I've picked to eat from Medifast isn't so bad!  I'm really suprised how much flavor the broths add to the soup mixes!  And the caramel brownie protein bar is AMAZING!!  I want three or four of those! :) 

Last Saturday, I met up with a few friends and some new friends from OH at Mitchell's Seafood Market.  It was so much fun, and such a learning experience for my husband, who already wanted to do the Lap Band surgery in the first place, but Ed really helped to convince him to go for it :)  Thanks, ED!!!!  And he loaned me two books on Weight Loss and surgery that I'm really looking forward to reading.

And I met Rhonda, and she's such a great person!  So sweet, open and honest... my friends liked her a lot, too!  We all need to get together again after the surgery.

So, now it's time for some Medifast Chicken & Noodle Soup, a sugar-free Jello cup, and my protein bar.  I hope the rest of the day goes by fast so I can start reading the books that Ed gave me :)

Yeah, I really am.  I know it's not that big of a deal, but to me, it is.  It's a major, life changing event that I'm going to go though, and I'm so thankful and blessed that I have the friends and family that I have to support me through this.  I'm still waiting to hear someone tell me that I'm taking the "easy way out."  I've been working on my soccer skills, and they might get a good kick to the hoo-ha area.

My stomach is still really upset after I eat things.  For every meal, there's about 30 minutes spent in the bathroom, and that's not good when I'm at work.  My boss knows that I'm really upset and the medicine I'm on can cause this, so he's really understanding about it.  Unfortunately, my tummy problems are also causing me to have a very short fuse with EVERYTHING.  I hate hearing gum popping, and the girl behind me keeps doing it all night, hence why I keep my earphones in.  There's a lady at work that I already can't stand, and whenever I hear her cough, I just wanna jump up and strangle her from across the room.  Someone is listening to a comedy CD right now and laughing really beligerently.... i'm thinking that some anti-depressants and some Xanax should be in order....

On the plus side, I'm so excited to finally meet one of my OH friends.  I'm having a "send off" dinner on Saturday evening at my favorite restaurant, Michells, and Ed is coming to send me off :)  I'm so happy and excited to meet him! :)  I have a few close friends at work who are coming, too.  They are so supportive of me and my decision to make my life better, and so is my husband.  He tells me every day how proud of me that he is and how he admires my strength and my courage to do this.  I told him that it's not like being Superman, or Wonder Woman in my case, but I will feel that way just as soon as I make it through the pre-op diet.  If I can get through that, I can do anything!!!!

Today, I had to go to the Office for my Nutrition class, pre-admission testing, and got my Medifast food from the nutritionist.  I'm really starting to realize how much closer I am to making myself feel better mentally and physically,.. but that this is really happening! :)  I can't believe that it really, truly is happening.  It felt like when I got the call and my surgery date, it felt like it was miles away... and now, on Sunday, I have to start my diet before surgery, and that's just almost depressing :) LOL!!  But I can do this!  

Now, I'm at work, and trying to stay awake.  Another thing is that my stomach has been so crazy lately.  I'm the type of person who's tummy gets all in knots and upset over silly things, and even though this isn't a silly thing, my tummy has been overactive every single time I eat, no matter what it is.  So, I'm sitting here after just finishing my Progresso Clam Chowder, and I'm feeling that rumble.. and wondering how much time I have left before I have to do the "hold and run" across the building to the restroom.  My friend Brenda is wondering how I'm going to do after the band.  I've heard that you might suffer from some constipation... so that might help some! :)

Well, back to work... take care everyone :)

June 15th, here I come!!!!!   

I read this a few minutes ago, and thought, "WTF?!?!?!"



 

A 10-year-old girl suffered burns on 70 percent of her body after a 16-minute session at an unmanned tanning salon.

A few hours after she left the tanning salon in Port Talbot, South Wales, England, Kelly Thompson was taken to the hospital.

Doctors at the Welsh Center for Burns and Plastic Surgery said if Kelly had stayed in the tanning bed for another two minutes, she would have needed skin grafts. She must stay out of direct sunlight for the next 10 years, doctors told her.

Kelly’s mother, Sharon Hannaford, said Kelly went tanning out of curiosity. She is now making a public plea that all unmanned salons are shutdown.




First off, why would a 10 year old be ALLOWED to go tanning?!?!?!  Where the heck was her mother? 
And second.... "unmanned salon stations"?  Not sure how things are run in England, but every tanning place I've ever been to has someone on duty, and they even have age limits, and will tell you when they think you might be going too long.

Ugh.  Some parents.....

This past weekend, my husband and I stayed up at the house to start getting more stuff ready for our move-in.  Still didn't get the TV up there, so I can't watch Food Network yet.  I'm having withdrawals!

Saturday, after some lunch with my girls at work, I came home and there was a door missing from the garage to the patio.  My husband took it upon himself to change the door that was previously kicked in, thanks to the Fire Department's false alarm.  But the problem -- we didn't have a replacement door yet.  So, after a trip to Lowes and some supplies, we had a new, pretty door, minus the 2x4 that holds the door closed :)

Yesterday, we prepped the house for my new kitchen counter top :)  (IT'S SO PREEEEETTTTYY!!!!)  And I got bored and did some baking and cooking, but for some reason, I've not been as hungry on the weekends as I am at work.  I think my body is tying together WORK and BOREDOM EATING.  Last week, I couldn't get enough food.  On the weekends, I barely eat.  Strange thing...

And that's the extent of the weekend.  My new blood pressure medicine isn't so bad... but I kinda feel strange about taking a medicine that I'm not familiar with, and that I don't have the assurance that it will really work.  I'm such a puss.

Have a great Monday!

So, I'm chatting with my physician yesterday,... and the question comes up....

how long is a band supposed to last in a human body?

Dang.  I hate when he brings up good questions after I've already done a lot of homework on this....

So, really... I would think that with technology, and how people plan on leaving the bands in for life... would your body just erode the band over time and you have to replace it in 10-15 years??  or does it just stay perfect and never have to be replaced??

Dang.  And I thought I had all the questions answered....

I'm just DYING to know what's going on!  

I just had my physical with my physician yesterday for the surgery.  For the first time in my life, I have hypertension.  It was pretty bad - 170/104.  This past weekend was a major fight with my husband, so I'm sure that didn't help matters much, either.  So, I'm now taking Lisinopril for my blood pressure.  ugh.....

On a good note, I'm going to be moving, FINALLY, the big stuff up to my new house.  My brother is just going to have to deal that we are moving up there, because that's my house, too.  He's still in the mindframe that it's his house, and we are just living in it with him.  'fraid not, Son.