*Hugs* Molly...

Yeah, more doc appts after WLS? What the heck.. I know for me I have cut my appointments down TREMENDOUSLY.  I was in the office montly for diabetes, hypertension, cholesterol screenings before.  Now I go in there for labs and let me see... an ear infection and Tuesday for my "rash" to start the process for plastics :)   People are just clueless and love to blame everything on WLS.. so ridiculous. I chuck it up to that they are jealous.  I do get tired of being under their microscope with eating, waiting for us to gain weight, admission to the hospital (the nurses at my hospital), etc.. its like get a life!

Yes you can THANK you WLS for allowing you to detect those polyps early.  My mom has to go very often has since 30 since her mother died of rectal cancer.  She has had many precancerous ones but was told most of the ones they do find will be cancerous in 10 years if not removed.  Make me wonder why I haven't had one yet, guess I need to talk to the doctor about that huh.  Thanks for the reminder.

Ok well again, thanks for the pep talk.  I don't know why but my nerves have just been lit up lately where I can't even just "be", I have to be doing something and so many times that ends up feeding my pie hole which is just a very bad decision and I am gonna work on it. 

Thanks again... have a great weekend and hugs to you with the report, I am glad you are taking care of yourself.  A very good thing.

xoxoxo

Mel

Ah Elaine...a new crusade near and dear to my heart: FIBER!!!  I need to have increased fiber intake the rest of my life because of colon cancer scare issues so I attack this problem from all angles. 

In my daily coffee and/or protein drinks I add Benefiber (which is available in generic varieties at Wal-Mart and places like Walgreens), for a candy-substitute fix Fiber Choice sugar free tablets (I get the big bottle of it at Costco), Splenda packets with added fiber and now as many veggies as I can make myself eat.  Had a big dish of stir-fry last night.  Veggies aren't my fav. foods but I gotta do it.

For a near-daily carb fix I almost always have in the freezer some version of homemade sf bran muffins made with Fiber One cereal.  You can have such fun with the basic recipe...sometimes I add mashed baby carrots and spices to make it a 'carrot cake' muffin or applesauce and cinnamon, mashed banana...etc.  Definitely easy to do and fun to think up new concoctions. 

Remember those old commercials:  "Mmmm.....FIBER!"  

You are RIGHT...that had to be it: first pumpkin pie of the season.  I got the heck out of their way when I finally announced it had cooled enough and they could eat or else I thought I might get hurt.  Oh!  And DS was so funny when it was baking...he came in from outside and said, "Look what *I* found!!!"  Holding up a box of nsa vanilla ice cream with a smile on his face.  When I told him he needed to get out the cool whip instead because the ice cream was being saved for apple pie he RACED out of the kitchen to the freezer.

I'd better remember to wear jogging shoes when the first apple pie comes out of my oven!


Whoa...your kitchen smells were tantalizing to me and I wasn't even in the vicinity.  I think I could lose a couple of pounds just salivating over all that goodness.  NUM!!!

SIL's menu tonight is chicken w/dumplings (their family style which means really gooey, doughy 'dumps' topped with a cube of melted butter.  I think I'll eat before i go!  I'm all for fall soups and such but that is a menu without much possibility except for broth and chicken pieces fished out through the grease.  Ick...I so do not want to dump in front of my in-laws!  I am bringing a salad for our contribution to the meal.  It is gonna be clean, clean, clean!

 

Oos...brain spasm again...it was Marty Feldman not Marty Wilder.  Sheesh. 

Remember Madeline Kahn singing 'Ah sweet mystery of life at last I've found you!...' when the monster was working his, ah, 'technique'.  LOL

Good job avoiding the DQ cone...woot woot!!!   Wow, a 20-pack box of sf fudgesicles!.  ANOTHER good thing we don't have here in the backwoods of Spokane. I guess there's something to be said for living in a very small city.  Our 12 packs give me enough trouble (and gas!).   I was digging around in my freezer and found some Decadent Double Chocolate Bran Muffins that I'd baked and stashed so my mouth was happy, happy yesterday.  (And this morning!)

Bought a Splenda mini-mag at the store the other day and tried a couple of recipes so far...yum!  The pumpkin-raisin cookies might be a problem.  I've eaten four of them already.  They are going in the freezer today!

The pumpkin cheesecake is all cracked on the top, prolly overbaked.  I'll put the topping on it and take it along to my SIL's dinner tonight. 

mmmm...the coffee is brewing!

I am glad we are doing this.  I have done so much better this last week than I have in a while.  I am at the point now where I am not sure I can or even want to lose more weight.  I haven't reached my "goal" but when I see my face in the mirror I am concerned that I am starting to look weird.  Doesn't help that my little old neighbor had the nerve to tell me my face was looking saggy (why do old people think they need to point out every freakin flaw?).  I also know that I have a ton of extra skin flab (around my middle esp) and if I get a TT I'll probably lose 15 pounds from there.  The skin around my other parts is probably a couple pounds (ya know arms and legs and saggy girls don't usually account for too many LB's).  I would be happy after my TT with where my weight would be.  Heck I am happy now, but I am not happy with how my body looks (w/o clothes ;-) and getting the TT may help me in that arena even if I got no other PS.  At least this is what I tell myself.

I also do not want to get to a place that is impossible to maintain.  I like the amount of food I can eat at one sitting.  I feel "normal"  but I have to keep full aware of the mindless eating and nibbling that can destroy all of our efforts.  Hence the beginning of my planning and accountability.

Last night was a little difficult for me but not as it was a few weeks ago.  I did have a bowl of protein oatmeal with cinamon at about 9:00. 

Well today is going to be my real test.  I am also going grocery shopping and will pick up a few things to help me make it through (gonna try heavy cream in my evening tea to see if that tides me over).  But, on the other hand if any of you are like me...grocery shopping also mean having a plethera of things to choose from throughout the day, making it harder to stick to plan!

I ramble...my day off and have no adult intervention all weekend.  At home with the 4 YO.  weather is gonna be in the 70's so I think we are off to the park. 

B-Lots of coffee w/milk and splenda
s-boiled egg
L- 1/2 chicken breast w/dijon mustard
s- yogurt w/granola
D- homemade beef/veggie soup (making it in the crock pot)
S- warm tea w/cream

Hope everyone has a good day!