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Topic: RE: New Year's Hopes - Join Me?
Whelp.... I have steeper plans. No baby steps here because I need to get with it. I'm with you though. I got a copy of my blood work and also have low protein levels along with being defiicent in B-12; D and Iron. bad numbers all around. Anyway... For me... Come Friday it is a serious change. I am hitting the vitamin shoppe and loading up on: 1. protein 2. liquid vitaimns 3. protein bars 4. sugar free candy (Because i know i'll crave for sweets and this is the closest option without sabotaging myself). 5. high protein snacks... its completely back to the basics for me I have a ton of weight to loose and need to do this in order to get it off. I have to remember the basics and just get back to the way I'm supposed to be eating. anywhooo.... Next step will definitely be the working out. I just have to really take care of myself because I can feel myself falling apart here. My neck is hurting again darnit all and my foot is giving me problems. All need to be taken care of. Gotta focus on me for a while. I want to have a nice summer this year and be healthy and at a good weight.
Cheers!
Happy New Year!
Cheers!
Happy New Year!
Topic: New Year's Hopes - Join Me?
So I won't call them resolutions - just hopes for myself in 2009 - baby steps, feel free to join me if you like. Thanks for being such a great, wonderful source of support and friendship through these past four-and-a-half years:
1. I will get back to my fighting weight of 140 - it's where I feel my best and healthiest.
2. I will get back to feeling fit and strong by working out at least 4 times a week for at least 45 minutes per workout.
3. I will strive to be a better friend to this Board.
4. I will accept what I cannot change in my life, and change what I can if it is making my unhappy.
HAPPY NEW YEAR, MARCHERS! Maureen
1. I will get back to my fighting weight of 140 - it's where I feel my best and healthiest.
2. I will get back to feeling fit and strong by working out at least 4 times a week for at least 45 minutes per workout.
3. I will strive to be a better friend to this Board.
4. I will accept what I cannot change in my life, and change what I can if it is making my unhappy.
HAPPY NEW YEAR, MARCHERS! Maureen
Topic: RE: Happy New Year-Let's start over!
said perfectly. that was the point i was trying to make a few times on these boards about weigh****chers...not just our marchers boards, the point system is great and tracking the food you eat is a great way to watch what you eat, but their foods are not wls sensitive. they contain too much sugar and they are not really carb watchers per se.... but the meetings and the journaling is great! and way to go on the 6 pound loss!!!! i too am with you in regards to how differently im eating and how far away from eating like a wls patient should eat...and im hurting from it. bad vitamin levels low protein levels... too much sugar in the system etc...etc...etc... made my protein and sugar free list out today and am going to stop by the vitamin shoppe and stock up on the good stuff!!! happy new year!!!!!
Topic: RE: Happy New Year-Let's start over!
You girls are all too much!! Ha! If we can't laugh at ourselves, who can we laugh at?
I actually rejoined Weigh****chers (don't hit me!) and hid in the back of the room...and put a clothespin in my mouth to keep me from blabbing that I had had WLS. That would be like admitting making a deal with the devil to them...anyway, I took their journal and wrote down everything I ate that week and stuck to their program except I didn't eat any "extra" points. I actually lost six pounds but more interesting was the eye-opening journal entries! I was eating SO poorly. I not only added up their silly points but I also focused on my protein grams and tried to eat denser foods. My protein counts sucked and I was eating way too many carbs. II just hadn't realized how much I had navigated away from healthy WLS eating. I did NOT buy any of their bars, puddings or shakes sold at the meeting because I just didn't want to get started on that stuff. I also did not buy any of their frozen desserts at the grocery store. I actually weaned myself off of most sugars and limited myself to a nice carb for dinner and cheese stick w/a flatabread crackers for my snack (need that crunch, ya know!). Anyway, my point is that I used their program of accountabililty and it worked. I don't know how long I'll participate but now at least I feel like I have a safety net if I need one. Does that make any sense? Weighing-in helps keep me on the beam, too. I just sit there in the meeting, feeling so darn grateful that I have had this surgery because I have a tool that they don't! It is MUCH easier for me to limit my portions than it is for "them."
OK-enough about my dirty little secret! How are you guys spending the New Years? I am going to an AA meeting tonight to see my buds and then home to sit in my easy chair and read until the ball drops (or maybe DVR it if I get too tired!)!
Happy New Year to you all and get out there and boogie!!!
Hugs,
Karen
I actually rejoined Weigh****chers (don't hit me!) and hid in the back of the room...and put a clothespin in my mouth to keep me from blabbing that I had had WLS. That would be like admitting making a deal with the devil to them...anyway, I took their journal and wrote down everything I ate that week and stuck to their program except I didn't eat any "extra" points. I actually lost six pounds but more interesting was the eye-opening journal entries! I was eating SO poorly. I not only added up their silly points but I also focused on my protein grams and tried to eat denser foods. My protein counts sucked and I was eating way too many carbs. II just hadn't realized how much I had navigated away from healthy WLS eating. I did NOT buy any of their bars, puddings or shakes sold at the meeting because I just didn't want to get started on that stuff. I also did not buy any of their frozen desserts at the grocery store. I actually weaned myself off of most sugars and limited myself to a nice carb for dinner and cheese stick w/a flatabread crackers for my snack (need that crunch, ya know!). Anyway, my point is that I used their program of accountabililty and it worked. I don't know how long I'll participate but now at least I feel like I have a safety net if I need one. Does that make any sense? Weighing-in helps keep me on the beam, too. I just sit there in the meeting, feeling so darn grateful that I have had this surgery because I have a tool that they don't! It is MUCH easier for me to limit my portions than it is for "them."
OK-enough about my dirty little secret! How are you guys spending the New Years? I am going to an AA meeting tonight to see my buds and then home to sit in my easy chair and read until the ball drops (or maybe DVR it if I get too tired!)!
Happy New Year to you all and get out there and boogie!!!
Hugs,
Karen
Topic: RE: Dental problem for big baby pam
I survived the dentist but have got to go back next week. still in alot of pain.
the results were that my gums have receeded and the nerves are exposed. plus i have a root canal maybe 3 that need to be done.
i am fortuante that i have dental on my insurance the down side was that they called and due to weather where the insurance call place was or the holidays they were closed!!!!! they went on line to check my account with the insurance company and the companys web site was down!!!
heres the bad part. my dentist is closed today into the new year. if they did the work yesterday without approval and then the insurance company said no then I would be responcible to pay the whole shabang. i do not have an extra $2000 hanging around HA! HA! HA! of sure i could just pull it out of my spending money purse HAHAHAHA OMG I've just laughed so hard i might have wet my pants! Please note the sarcasum with the extra money hanging around!
so the choices were do the work with a chance i might have to pay for the whole thing or wait until next week/new year when hopefully the insurance place will be up and running but if not i still have the beginning of a new year of coverage so it will work.
the big downside is my tooth hurts. i'll just have to deal. I guess you know which option I choose,.
i'm not sure what it is we can take for pain in over the counter stuff. can we take asprin? ibrophin? advil? i'm very lucky that i don't usually get headaches (watch me get one now hahaha) or other things that require pain meds.
Thank you for sending your prayers.
the results were that my gums have receeded and the nerves are exposed. plus i have a root canal maybe 3 that need to be done.
i am fortuante that i have dental on my insurance the down side was that they called and due to weather where the insurance call place was or the holidays they were closed!!!!! they went on line to check my account with the insurance company and the companys web site was down!!!
heres the bad part. my dentist is closed today into the new year. if they did the work yesterday without approval and then the insurance company said no then I would be responcible to pay the whole shabang. i do not have an extra $2000 hanging around HA! HA! HA! of sure i could just pull it out of my spending money purse HAHAHAHA OMG I've just laughed so hard i might have wet my pants! Please note the sarcasum with the extra money hanging around!
so the choices were do the work with a chance i might have to pay for the whole thing or wait until next week/new year when hopefully the insurance place will be up and running but if not i still have the beginning of a new year of coverage so it will work.
the big downside is my tooth hurts. i'll just have to deal. I guess you know which option I choose,.
i'm not sure what it is we can take for pain in over the counter stuff. can we take asprin? ibrophin? advil? i'm very lucky that i don't usually get headaches (watch me get one now hahaha) or other things that require pain meds.
Thank you for sending your prayers.
Topic: RE: Dental problem for big baby pam
you and i must have gone to the same dentist as kids! i have memory of mine basically straddling the chair over me ( and he was a very talllll man) to do some work-we went every 6 mos like clockwork for our cleaning and etc...i went about 5 yrs ago and had some stuff done- not happy at all--before that it was almost 20 years--i would love to just have dentures too!!!i wanna be put out to have the teeth pulled and wake me up about 3 weeks later after my gums have started to heal.....
alas-no money no insurance-and right now -thanks to God no problems....well- receeding gums and last week a tooth ache....today nothing.....
here's a hug pammie!
alas-no money no insurance-and right now -thanks to God no problems....well- receeding gums and last week a tooth ache....today nothing.....
here's a hug pammie!
I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult.
- E. B. White
Topic: RE: Happy New Year-Let's start over!
Karen, I LOVE this post! I love your sass and your grit and your invitation to start over - which I am absolutely 100% accepting! Lead on, fearless one - lead on! Maureen
Topic: RE: Happy New Year-Let's start over!
Where have you been? Sure would love for you to catch us all up on what's been going on with you. Hugs. Maureen
Topic: RE: Dental problem for big baby pam
im there with you... its been sooooooooooooooooooo long since ive been to the dentist... so long that im petrified what they are going to find!!! Hang in there! THey sound nice. :)
Topic: Dental problem for big baby pam
I am the biggest baby where dentists are concerned. I wait until the last minute when I am in extreme pain before I go to them then I want them to just pull it. I'd be thrilled to have dentures. The dentist that i've gone to for years is nice he's good but he's not got the big daddy thing that i need. ok so i'm 56 but when i go into a dentist office i turn into 6 years old.
when i was 6 they wanted you to be tough. don't be a baby get your teeth taken care of. my mother was good and did what she was suppose to about taking me for check ups but that was how they handled kids back then. you had to just take it. i had to have a tooth pulled with i was 6 and they used gas to put me under. i woke up as they were pulling the tooth and started to struggle. the dentist was hanging over me the nurses where holding me down and my motehr was yelling at me to stop being a baby that it needed to be taken care of. that stayed with me
i found a new dentist i'm going to today. he uses sedation denstisry but because i'm not already a patient with him he needs to meet with me first to go over that. so no sedation today for me. but he can take care of the edxtreme pain that i have been in all night. no sleep last night for me. i'll have to have novacaine. they seemed very nice on the phone and have come well recommended. i don't have a choice right now. its the day before new years eve and everyone will be closed for a week or more. i want to get someone that i will be comforatable with because i have alot more dental work that needs to be done.
I've had a good cry about it. reminded myself i'm not that 6 year old little girl anymore and this dentist is not that old mean man either!
please say a pray for me and for them at that dentist office!
good luck and god bless, pam
when i was 6 they wanted you to be tough. don't be a baby get your teeth taken care of. my mother was good and did what she was suppose to about taking me for check ups but that was how they handled kids back then. you had to just take it. i had to have a tooth pulled with i was 6 and they used gas to put me under. i woke up as they were pulling the tooth and started to struggle. the dentist was hanging over me the nurses where holding me down and my motehr was yelling at me to stop being a baby that it needed to be taken care of. that stayed with me
i found a new dentist i'm going to today. he uses sedation denstisry but because i'm not already a patient with him he needs to meet with me first to go over that. so no sedation today for me. but he can take care of the edxtreme pain that i have been in all night. no sleep last night for me. i'll have to have novacaine. they seemed very nice on the phone and have come well recommended. i don't have a choice right now. its the day before new years eve and everyone will be closed for a week or more. i want to get someone that i will be comforatable with because i have alot more dental work that needs to be done.
I've had a good cry about it. reminded myself i'm not that 6 year old little girl anymore and this dentist is not that old mean man either!
please say a pray for me and for them at that dentist office!
good luck and god bless, pam
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