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It has been a while.   I  need to  exercise  more this summer.  I eat  what i consider  normal.   amounts close to what i ate in high school.   I dont  miss the huge amounts of food.     Took grandson and dil to  Florida for a wedding and then we did the  amusement parks.  I did not   gain any weight and we  ate out almost  3 times a day for   10 days.     Waiting for    strawberries to be ready this week.  I want to go get a few.   I  do love  to walk   so need to get  that in at least  4 times a week.  I will get some swimming in when i go get my  pool.   Hope summer gets here soon.  I still have  10 pounds to lose  before i see surgeon in November  so i need to get off my butt and do it.

Wow it has been  13  and  a  half months since my surgery.

I am doing  great.  Still losing  weight but it has slowed way down.   I am lucky if I lose a half a pound a week.
some weeks I lose nothing.  But I did not gain  over  the holiday so that is a  good  thing.

I  need to bump up the exercise  a little as  it is winter and cold out and i  dont get out.  I do carry wood  now and shovel  so that counts for something.    i  will do my wii  in a bit for at least  another  30 minutes

I find that  now i am thru the honeymoon period that  i can eat mostly  everything  but  i eat now in moderation  as  my stomach does not accomedate large amounts of food.  I  can go out to eat and order things that either i can bring home  or  can eat more of like salads and shrimp.  good standbys.  Trying to be compliant   it is not hard  but got to learn to sit and eat and not graze.   Being alone  during the day  makes it easy to graze.  

Most people think  that  after rny you  cant eat anymore or socialize or  have fun.   but  some of that is just at the beginning when we are learning   all the good habits that we have forgotten  along the way  thru our life.  

My gram always said to slow down  and chew.   No drinking with meal.   Eat the  meat  first.   and  lay off breads.  Dessert  was an occasional thing and never rewarded supper with dessert.


Wow  how right she was.  I  do  not crave  carbs like i use to.  I was such a  bread person.  Maybe not eating them  has made me  not want them.   A  loaf of bread goes bad in our house now  but  now we  drink  two gallons of milk a week instead of one.  

Staying  compliant is  one thing  that i want  to  do  for  2009!!!!

I have met some  wonderful people here  and  hope and continue to meet more.

Thanks all for   listening to me when i need help  and i hope i can help  someone too.

I  didnt believe   the difference.  Woo hoo i getting skinny lol

I had my  six month  appointment and I weight  211 at his office.
My   labs were great  so he said  keep doing what i was doing.   Only thing different  i am doing tho is taking   an extra  b  12.   My mom  when she was alive  took b 12 shots every winter  after she turned  55  so just in case i might be  on the lower end i  took an extra b  12 on days that i was real tired.

that  is  79 pounds  since surgery  woo hoo.

I had a three week stall  but  i need to exercise more too.
I keep my   calories  between  800  to 1000.   Some where in there.
Summer is better for me as i usually lose a little weight and get more exercise.

Had a great   meeting with  the  dietician  

Have a great   week all!!!!

As of yesterday  i am  down   to to 213 woo hoo 13 more pounds to onederland..  This morning i was down to 212.  
I got some  fage yogurt yesterday at the   natural living center in  Bangor.  It is a little pricy but  i didnt let that stop me.   I like plain yogurt so the plain fage is fine.   but i did add a splenda and  rasberries to it and it was wonderul.   I love the ceamy texture.   could almost be like ice cream.  Bet it would be good frozen too sweetened.

I have had my  blood tests before i went to  Mexico so that my vitamin d level will be a true level.  I have my  six month in a couple of weeks.   I cant wait.

I have met some wonderful people on this site.  Maine board you rock.

Have a great day all and a better month of May

Had my three month  nut   class!!!

Was great saw some that were three months out  like i was and it was interesting to compare notes.   We all seems to have problems with hard protein so i guess that is par for the course.

I am down  53 pounds  and feel wonderful!!!

I had  steak last nite   I ate  about  7 bites and that was enuf  but this time it stayed down and didnt come up   I am so glad.

Well   that is all for now.

I had a  nut  appointment of the  8th and a doctor appointment on the  9,  I met with dr clough  and not sure  who my doctor will be  but one of them i am sure. lol

I have lost  35 pounds and gained a pound of muscle.   I  am oked  to step up the exercise  so for me   hating to exercise  to stepping it up will be a challange but i will try.

Did  do  an extra  10 minutes on the bicycle   each day this weekend.

Wednesday November 21   was the big day.

I got in and out of surgery  on time and back in a room around  noon.
Was   not in a lot of pain but i was on pain meds thru the iv so that was to be expected i guess.

Dr Lalor  told me my liver was big.  but he had no trouble getting around it.
He put in two drains  which i am not sure was a good idea or not. but  not my choice.  And i had a cathater in which  didnt make me very happy but again not my choice.

Thanksgiving day   i told my family to  stay home  and as i wasnt  feeling well  i was glad i didnt have to entertain lol.  I talked on the phone a bit and that was great. 
Saw  dr that morning and when i was walking around thursday nite  he came back in.  He  just was checking to see that i was feeling better and that i was up and at em lol

Friday  they unhooked my iv and took the catheter out.  WOO hoo  i was free.  Did better walking with a pain meds as it limbered me up.  But i only took them  every   8 hours  or so.   Wanted off them  bad.
Started itching  friday from the pain meds and they gave me benedryl.

I had wonderful   nurses. and pretty good  roommates.

A little nauseaus  at times  in the hospital but have not been since i got home.
Got home Saturday  woo hoo.


Monday i was real gassy  when i drank water so have switched to crystal lite lemonade .
to day is tuesday and have gotten 38 ounces of  fluid in so far today.
should have no problems getting my fluid in today.

Hubby bringing home  egg drop soup and i cant wait for some good tasting broth.  will have a carnation instant breakfast at lunch and snack to make sure i have all my protein in.

Went for a little walk out side today will do that a couple more times.

Bored want to go back to work lol