Thursday Roll Call

The babies warmed up to her immediately, little ones know when good folks are around them and when they're not.  The weather is great now, nice wind blowing. 

Dawn, sounds like you are even busy with your kids being out of the house temporarily. What a neat project for the neighbors to be working on. That is what I love about small town America, togetherness. Even though we live in the 'burbs we still have a pretty tight knit band of neighbors. We all meet at the fest or on each others driveways etc and "do" life together. Chris

Need to get moving here soon.  Want to go get my hair trimmed.  Now that I have the shorter hair cut I'll have to go see the beautician a little more often.  My computer is not communicating with my digital camera right now so I haven't been able to update my avitar so that you all can see my new do.  When I figure out the problem I'll update the avitar. Been meaning to rip into 2 different rooms in the house before my daughter gets home from camp on Saturday so I need to get busy with that. Want to try making those doggie treats here in the next day or 2. Bought a cake to make to celebrate my daughter's home coming.  I'm going to make a vanilla cake with choclate sugar-free, fat-free pudding on top.  Never made it before so hopefully it turns out. Then Friday night I'm going out with Jeff (another Dr. Rosen patient).  Don't know exactly what we are going to do yet but it'll get me out of the house and hopefully give him a chance to relax after a hard week at work.  He lives in Sycamore so it's been nice to have a fellow WLS person so close for support.  With Sam being gone he's been fed real well too.  LOL  Poor guy has been kind enough to help me eat what I've been cooking.  I have a hard enough time cooking just for 2 and with Sam gone and only being able to eat half cup meals I haven't known what to do with all the food!! LOL  Don't get to excited yet though guys, we are just friends at this point in time.  Well better run or I definetly won't get done half of what I want to get done. Shelley

I went for my first pre-surgery class yesterday at the Wellness Institute.  It went pretty well.  They want me to start by substituting 1-2 meals a day with either a protein bar or drink or a frozen meal.  I think I can handle that.  Doesn't sound terribly unreasonable. I'm really on a mission to drop as much weight as I can before surgery.  Someone told me the other day that the best bit of advice she gives to pre-ops is to follow the food plan and drop weight before surgery.  She didn't take it too seriously and dropped a small amount before surgery and now she regrets not working harder at it.  So I am taking that tidbit to heart.  The nutritionist gave me a sample meal plan and it definitely looks doable.  If anyone has any recommendations on protein bars or drinks, including which ones to avoid,  I would be glad to hear them.  Someone told me AchievOne makes a pretty tasty drink that tastes like a Starbuck's Frapaccino.  Haven't found it in any of my local stores yet but I did find a place about 30 miles away.  Tonight I'm going to join a gym which is affiliated with a local hospital.  Their normal registration fee is $350, but for the month of July it's only $25!!   I'm taking that as a sign that I'm supposed to join! Next on the agenda is my initial consultation with the surgeon on July 18. I'm on my way!

Have a great day everyone.

Pat

You have been busy this past week. Good, hopefully the time has gone faster. That is nice of you to take Jeff under your wings and give him support. Is that the construction worker PO guy? If that is him, he had beautiful dimples. Chris