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"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe" ----"Anatole France"
"Joyously grasp the ties that bind you, for they lead straight to the heart"---"Wm."
Kimberly...
edited to add...can you tell its another sleepless night and now I want pie arggggg...lol
"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe" ----"Anatole France"
"Joyously grasp the ties that bind you, for they lead straight to the heart"---"Wm."
Kimberly...
"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe" ----"Anatole France"
"Joyously grasp the ties that bind you, for they lead straight to the heart"---"Wm."
Kimberly...
The worst attack I ever got was when I hiked the Grand Canyon last year or was it the year before. I didn't have them before the canyon hike. Leg cramps were to be expected after a 10 mile hike down rocky terrain, but this was just craziness. My calves would cramp, both of them, and when I stretched out of that, the shins would cramp. If I tried to stretch out of that, I was rewarded with foot and thigh cramps along with the calf cramps. I've never experienced anything like that. My sister was beating on my legs and pushing and pulling trying to help, but my muscles were rock hard. This went on for hours and it was brutal. People in worse physical shape than me were just fine. If I wasn't better in the morning, we were seriously thinking of medivacing me out of there. Luckily the cramps were gone the next day and at the end of the trip, I rode out on horseback because of my back. I shudder to think of what my legs would have felt like after a 10 mile hike up out of the canyon. I never related the leg cramps to wls, but I guess that makes sense now. I've been having leg cramps at night ever since.
Every other Saturday morning, I go pick up my fruits and veggies that I order from this food co-op that I belong to. I could go every week, but I have a hard time eating everything I get in two weeks anyway. So here's the deal... I joined a food co-op called bountifulbaskets.org. A couple of ladies names Sally and Tanya got together and worked out a deal with a produce distributor that they would order in bulk and get the same wholesale prices that grocery stores and restaurants get. I and a whole bunch of other people go online Tuesday or Wednesday and pick where we want to get our food on Saturday morning (56 places in the Phoenix area and spots in Utah and around the rest of Arizona), order what I want and pay for it, along with a $1.50 handling fee. There's a standard fee for a basket of 15.00 (organic is a little more) and you can add on things like organic bread, cases of apples or mangos or blackberries (it changes every week) and most weeks they have an add on pack like Mexican veggies or Italian veggies for about $7.50. You can get 5 loaves of fresh organic 9 grain bread for 10.00. I have no idea of what I'm going to get in the base basket for $15.00.
After Wednesday, Sally and Tanya figure out how many people they are buying for and order the food. On Saturday morning, the distributor delivers the food all over the Phoenix area - mostly to parks - and volunteers sort the produce evenly into baskets. I get up Saturday morning, take my own baskets to the park, transfer my produce from their containers to mine and come home. If you don't pick up your food on time, it gets donated to a local fire house. Here's what I picked up this morning:
5 pounds of bananas 3 pounds of Ranier cherries - I weighed them and that would have cost me at least $21.00 in the stores here. 2 large red bell peppers Asparagus 1 English cucumber 1 head of broccoflower 1 Heirloom cantaloupe 1 seedless watermelon 1 head of Romaine 13 peaches 8 Fuji apples 7 Roma tomatoes The Italian pack had: 1 eggplant 2 zucchini Fresh Parsley Fresh Basil Fresh Rosemary Fresh Thyme 1 yellow onion 1 red onion 3 heads of garlic 8 ounces of button mushrooms
I paid a total of $24.00 for all that fresh food. Look for food co-ops like this in your areas and if you don't have one, maybe you can start one. It's really a thing of beauty and it runs like a dream. One week there was a mix up on my order and the distributor delivered my food to my front door by the time I got home. You can't ask for better than that. If you go to bountifulbaskets.org know that the website is a disaster and it took a leap of faith for me to order the first time.
Here's to healthy eating.
Connie
Hello all of us normal weight loss surgery people!
What? You don't feel normal?
but hey back 5 years ago we didn't feel normal at our biggest weight now did we?
I went and read past posts from the aprill and february 2004. they all are typing the same issues we are!
weight gain - I remember learning about this at all of those support meetings i went to before and after.
vitamin issues - yup we all got those
weight gain fears - yup again!
So I'm thinking that as far as everyone else the same year we had ours we are all normal with the group.
What we are above normal is that our marchers post more frequently and regularly than any other 5 years board!
I have a feeling that this will continue. we'll all be in nursing homes typing away at the nurses station computers.
Joanie
"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe" ----"Anatole France"
"Joyously grasp the ties that bind you, for they lead straight to the heart"---"Wm."
Kimberly...
