What we are eating,and what's eating us,Wednesday..
Today I ate:B-s/f peaches and cottage cheese L-broiled salmon,romaine lettuce,bermuda onion,sliced tomatoes,black olives. S-s/f applesauce with cinnamon and sweetner..yummo. D-Chile Con Carne with ground turkey,4 crackers S-orange and yogurt.
The smaller I get,the fatter other people look,not my people (obese),but the people I sort of admired,you know the game,"If I was only her size...etc)".I am working on only seeing the best of someone else,and the worse of myself.
WHAT WE FEAR,WE CREATE.
I have been at the church office this week. Nothing much going on there but tomorrow starts the new church bulletin format and I haven't done that before so heaven only knows what that is going to take from me....oh dear!!
Food has been somewhat here and there. Nothing bad but just strange if you ask me. I know that it is better at times and then others it is bad. I am hungry right now so I know that breakfast is coming. I know that it is going to be cereal too....Wheaties I do believe!
Yesterday wasn't to good of a day. A congregant brought us in breakfast from McDonald's and it smelled so good I ate the dang old stuff!! I wished I hadn't after I did it but it tasted good going down.....oh well....that is yesterday and today is going to be a better one! I got cheese in a baggie for me to take this morning....and of course my hazelnut iced coffee to go with it. I can't start the day without that. I can when I am at home but not when I go to the office.
Yesterday the food was:
B: egg McMuffin with Canadian bacon and a potato cake..yes I know!!!
L: nothing
D: made Spanish rice for Bill and had a few Tablespoons of it...it was good!
S: 5 small caramel rice snacks...they are good and I feel like I am having something bad for me and they aren't really bad. I got them at Aldi and boy they are better than good if you ask me.
I better get going. I have to get ready to go to the office in a bit and breakfast is calling me....
Have a great day and know that I am sending love and hugs to you along with prayers being said for you and yours. Spread the happiness and joy around...you never know who is going to need it.
Edit....I usually get told that I don't look my age...even though since having the wls I am not told that as often...must be the turkey neck and the wrinkles..I earned it all though. The other day a maintenance man from the complex was fixing something at the apartment and he mentioned about Bill working. He asked how old he was and I told him 53...then I told him that I was 2 years older than he is. He was surprised and then proceeded to say to me that he was surprised that I was 55....I asked him why and he told me that he thought I was OLDER!!! That is the first time I was ever told that I look older than I am! I told him that at least he is honest...even if sometimes honesty hurts! ha ha
It's not what you gather, but what you scatter
that tells what kind of life you have lived.
I am happy to hear your breakfast sit well on your tummy. You are on maintenance girl!! What the heck is wrong with enjoying that?? Did you run out and try to eat the whole diner?? LOL!
Ahh yeah,I still get compliments on my skin,the last time being a darn ER nurse,while I am laying there suffering,she is complimenting my skin! I see the age,and I have not been jazzing myself up,I will when I go back to working. Who wants to get sexy for surgery??
How are you feeling otherwise? You sound good.
You know how I feel about you,my dear Miss Brenda!
WHAT WE FEAR,WE CREATE.
I had my upper GI x-ray yesterday but still don't know if my band has slipped. Although I saw the images on the monitor, I couldn't make any sense of them. During my last upper GI, I could clearly see my esophagus, band, and stomach. I asked the x-ray tech her opinion but she wouldn't say anything but that my doctors would have the report sometime today. That was frustrating.
But, I got a job yesterday! Yeah me! It is a part-time, minimum-wage job as a sales associate at our Goodwill Store (where I buy most of my clothes). Good thing they don't offer an employee discount or I'd be spending all my pay there. I'm so pleased, you'd think I'd gotten a CEO position!
B: breakfast banana split (banana, strawberries, cottage cheese, yogurt, nuts)
S: iced skinny latte
L: salmon, tomato
S: banana with PB2 dip
D: lamb with white beans, spinach salad with creamy raspberry vinaigrette
S: watermelon
Jean
Jean McMillan c.2009-2013 - Always a bandster at heart
author of Bandwagon (TM), Strategies for Success with the Adjustable Gastric Band & Bandwagon Cookery. Bandwagon for Kindle now available on Amazon. Read my blog at: jean-onthebandwagon.blogspot.com
LOL - you are too funny! Good reading for early morning. Have a wonderful day!
Hi George and Brenda. I wish you both a great day too!
Jean, I hope that you get some good news about your band not slipping, but I hope you get answers to whatever seems to be wrong. Congrats on your job! Woo Hoo! You'll get to see things first-hand now and really get some great bargains.
I hope everyone else has a fantastic day. I'm going to try and squeeze in a doctor's appointment today for this sinus/cough issue that just isn't going away. Hopefully, I'll get some med to clear it up since the over-the-counter stuff isn't working.
I've only had coffee so far this morning, but I made some fruit salad yesterday and can't wait to have some of that in a little bit. Cantaloupe, strawberries, blueberries, and red grapes - YUM!
Happy Wednesday!
Debbie
Congratulations on the new job...and you never know...you might become CEO of Goodwill!
It's not what you gather, but what you scatter
that tells what kind of life you have lived.
I am so happy you found a job,and you will be helping with a erstwhile venture!I know how frustrated you feel,I am sorry. I will have to find out about band slippage,if you would like to explain it,I believe we would like to know.
I hope it is not painful.
You take care,dear lady.
WHAT WE FEAR,WE CREATE.
I agree that the more weight that I lose or have lost, the larger my friends who were my dream size get. So, fat is relative to where we are on the spectrum of size. I remember when I weighed over five hundred pounds thinking if I could just get to three hundred, I'd be happy. LOL. Relative.
Today, I added an egg to the toast and am going to wait a bit and see if I can eat some yogurt. I really want to recoup the pounds that I lost while on my wonderful two weeks of travel. What interested me is that the dietician said that I don't necessarily need to stop my exercise but just up my calories. Also, she said that I don't have to go over 1200 calories all in one week. The other one insisted that I get over 2000 calories a day starting from when I first went to her. Let me just say, physically impossible with our pouches and my ulcer and mentally impossible with all this time of thinking about weight loss to suddenly start thinking about weight gain. So, I am liking this different approach.
S: peanut butter in the spoon
L: chicken and a vegetable
S: cheese
S: crackers and peanut butter
D: Meat plus green beans. Maybe minute steak since it is easy on my pouch.
S: This drink the dietician is having me drink. I forgot the name, but will put it on here tomorrow. We'll see what's up with that.
What I eat is what is eating me. I think that we all spend so much time thinking about food and how we are going to manage our food that I envy those people who don't really have to plan or up this or down that. I mean, I had hoped that the ulcer meds would heal me and now that I know that they are only management, well, and that I need to make that decision about what to do and when, and in the meantime, I still want this skin removed and so I want to gain the required health to have that surgery, and when did eating become such a problem for me...for us?
That's all. Miss Kitty has her big butt flopped on my arms and typing is problematic at best.
Eat well and prosper.
