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Good morning, everybody!
I have an appointment with the dentist tomorrow morning. I suspect that this will require more than one visit to fix, however. Since I am going on my way to work, I will need to drive into the office tomorrow. I'm trying to take the train whenever possible.
Since my accident in April, I have been driving less if I can. With street congestion and road closures, I find I don't really want to be behind the wheel. And Trying to turn left into traffic has become a nightmare.
Marilyn is due back tonight, but she may stay another day depending on the weather. It's Happy Hour, but low key for me with the dentist tomorrow.
QOTD: I might have had some loose skin on my neck taken care of.
Breakfast: bagel
Lunch: catered
Dinner: pasta
Have a great day, all!
Jim Age 59 Height 6 Feet Consult Weight 344 SW 289 Pre-Surgery -55, M1 -25, M2 -16, M3 -21, M4 -10, M5 -5, M6 -1, M7 -4, M8 0, M9 +4, M10 -4
Matt, I am sure you know that conflict happens in every relationship, and I am glad things worked out. That is one amazing car.
QOTD: I did water aerobics for most of my life, starting at about 20. I only took six weeks off after my weight loss surgery. The clinic for my surgery had a water aerobics program for patients and I attended that. When I slacked off on exercise, it was easy to start gaining weight again. I found that keeping the weight off is a combination of exercise and watching what I eat, but food is the principal problem. Exercise helps but only in combination with low calories for me.
Real life begins where your comfort zone ends
Good morning all and Happy Wednesday,
Quick rundown... I'm still packing for a Monday move. It's been hot here but a needed 20° drop is in store today. I finally got MRIs on the right knee and right shoulder. I see the Orthopedic tomorrow to find out if surgery is ahead for either. I think I read the results as tearing in the rotator cuff, no meniscus knee tear, fluid in the knees, severe arthritis in both.
My landlord is being creative with passive aggressiveness and I welcome the challenge to not engage. Paula and I had totally unnecessary flight. She asked me to do something, I did it, and was angry because I followed through. I just chalk it up to being a hard day for her and taken out on me. While it ended fine, it brought up questions about future conflict resolution.
QOTD- I would have started going to the gym and have a set routine earlier
B: Dannon light and fit yogurt, cherries.
L: ??? Maybe hospital cafeteria after today's treatment.
D: ??? Maybe leftover chili or wings or brats. Green vegetable.
Passed by this fella on the road.
HW: 371 SW(8/9/21): 324 CW: 208 lbs 0 lbs til goal of skin reduction surgery. I'm still looking for a new plastic surgeon.
"I wonder if pizza thinks about me, too."
Happy Hump Day Menuers!!! We are all halfway through the week and I can't believe July is almost over. I swear the older I get the faster the years go by. Even though I ended up working until 4:30 I was still able to get done the couple of things at home I needed to do.
I want to reiterate what Teenie said on her post yesterday. Everyone regardless of what type of WLS you had or even if you haven't had surgery, you are all more than welcome to join in on the menu thread. No need to lurk, we are here to help each other out whether it is with food ideas, exercise, vitamins, etc. If anyone out there has recently had WLS or is getting ready to have it, I highly recommend checking out this blog theworldaccordingtoeggface. Shelly put together years' worth of recipes and ideas just for WLS patients.
QOTD: Is there anything you would have done differently after having weight loss surgery? The one thing I would have done differently is join the Y a lot sooner than I did. Even though it didn't open until 2019 I still should have looked into it and joined then. Exercise is the one thing that I really didn't focus enough on.
B: coffee and squash and eggs
L: chili and pork shoulder
D: chicken salad stuffed hot peppers
Hitting the Y tonight.
Have a great day everyone!!
Dr. Sanchez Lapband 9/12/2003
hw305/revision w280/cw197/gw150
Revision from Lap Band to Bypass on 2/4/2015 by Dr. Pohl
If you like eggs there are so many different ways to make them. I always have a bowl of either hard or soft boiled eggs in the fridge to grab.
Take a look at this blog. Shelly had weight loss surgery years ago and started this blog which has so many different recipes for people who have had WLS. I used a lot of them when I first had my revision in 2015. theworldaccordingtoeggface
Dr. Sanchez Lapband 9/12/2003
hw305/revision w280/cw197/gw150
Revision from Lap Band to Bypass on 2/4/2015 by Dr. Pohl
The last three weeks the scale has only inched downwards a little and I know not to be frustrated because my body has just lost 31 pounds in three months and it probably thinks it's in a famine. Knowing it and not being frustrated is a different thing.
The best plateau buster I know really can't be done right now: hard exercise. That used to work for me every time but I'm still on PT to try to strengthen my legs and am not up to the hard stuff. Last week I was making many trips up and down the stairs carrying hefty loads and did something to my upper back that it is still screaming about.
Seems like all I can do is change up my diet but...I've also landed in Food Fatigue Land. The foods I eat still do the job and I'm not tempted to cheat but I dread trying to come up with a meal idea for dinner every. single. day. We're a 2 meal household because Hubs is a T2 diabetic and also hates anything vegetable or healthy, haha.
Could you throw some plateau-buster ideas my way please? Dr. has me aiming for 100 grams of protein and less than 20-30 carbs. Net carbs which she neglected to say in the beginning. Considering that I'm probably under 20 g a day already.
Thanks!
Molly
Thank you for the link on the chicken wings, that sounds delicious and so simple for a busy day. Hope you are able to find a chiropractor you like and get some relief before you can make the ortho appt.
Congratulations on the great milestone...why isn't there something cute for getting into the 200's like the 100's has? I'm sitting on a bench near you re: regain weight. It took me awhile to post a ticker with numbers that anybody could figure out along with my old goal numbers here. You have the Mounjaro and I have the generic Contrave but it's still us making use of our rny's and doing the hard work. I'll toot a horn for you any time!
Thanks for a good reminder on the peppers, I love the Hatch chili roasting events here and may have to can more chili's.
Sorry to hear your humidity has come back, how awful but you have the right attitude that it is better than snow and ice.
If I still ate popcorn I'd be scheduling to get some ready for when that person has to come back to work and face up to the new policies and the people who saw her cheating the system with the time off.
QOTD-yes and it was awful because they were both nice but manipulative and tried to take advantage of my wimpy-ness. I am SO not cut out for management.
I've hit not only a plateau but also stuck in Food Fatigue. Lunch isn't needed and when dinner rolls around I'm not even hungry so it is a scramble to find the highest protein foods and extra fiber (besides the Metamucil and a stool softener) and keep my carbs low. It's almost 6 now and i could care less to eat.
B: The chocolate/coffee/collagen shake is still yummy.
D: 1/2 cup quinoa, 1/2 cup black beans and salsa?
LS: A Korean cucumber?
I made it clear that I wanted to work with computers and numbers. People made me crazy. Most of the time I have been able to get people to shape up when they were slacking and I was assigned to do something about it. But working with people is so much harder than numbers.
Real life begins where your comfort zone ends
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