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Paula is right! I am here to say....
If you have increased weight bearing exercise and you have been even the slightest bit sore from the workouts, I can 100% guarantee you have inflammation (the good kind) and are holding on to fluid to repair muscle tissue.
Three no fail remedies for inflammation: keep exercising regularly, increase your hydration level substantially, cut processed carbs and sugar way back. You'll be back where you were in 3-4 days.
121.7. I was a prolific pooper yesterday! DH scolded me for losing more prior to surgery. I know he is right! I might go 10 days between doses.
Still hazy with poor air quality today. We are in the dangerous for sensitive populations category today. DH and I did take our walk and now he is coughing tonight, go figure!
I spent most of the rest of the day working on DSDs photo book. I?m making great headway. Might even get done with it this weekend!
DSD was supposed to come for a visit this weekend starting today but she now won?t come until tomorrow. It will be a short one night stay but we will be able to celebrate her birthday with her!
DC came over for dinner. Chicken enchiladas with a green sauce. Yummy.
5' 4" tall, HW: 242, SW:215.4 Weight Loss - pre-op: - 26.6, M1: -15.4, M2: -16, M3: -11.4, M4: -11.2, M5: -12.2, M6: -7.4, M7: -7.8, M8: -2.0 Goal of 130 lbs. reached at 8 months, 2 days post-op!
Peps would tell you the gain is from inflammation from the increased exercise! Keep on keeping on!
5' 4" tall, HW: 242, SW:215.4 Weight Loss - pre-op: - 26.6, M1: -15.4, M2: -16, M3: -11.4, M4: -11.2, M5: -12.2, M6: -7.4, M7: -7.8, M8: -2.0 Goal of 130 lbs. reached at 8 months, 2 days post-op!
Greetings all
The sun is trying to come out. Hoping for it. I have gallery duty this afternoon and it is always better if sunny. Meanwhile lazing about drinking coffee.
So last night's studio meeting was about as expected. Some of these people were totally entitled "Karens" who wanted to know why they were not consulted or get to vote or have more meetings etc. A couple I think get it as a business decision to better use our limited space but the Karens were only focused on what they wanted us to do for them. Oh well, it's done and we have advised these people that they have input on the redesigning of their space and we will work with them. I was proud of how our staff handled the controversy. After all the drama I stopped at the grocery for dinner and guess what? ended up with more carbs than usual.
CC that summer soup sounds good. I don't think of cold soup as soup - more like liquid salad. Good gazpacho is yummy but too much effort. A pox on that big grass plant. Those things are indeed almost impossible to remove. Can you cover it completely and kill it off? Guess what, strong husbands don't always do what they are asked to do.
Liz gazpacho in your coffee? Yuk how awful. So odd that fresh milk was hard to find. That was true in the Philippines - a pitcher of cream was actually canned milk. Made for gross coffee.
Please be careful all of you in the smoke zone. I had no idea those fires smoldered under the snow. No wonder they are so hard to fight. Reminds me of those fires in coal mines in Pennsylvania and Wyoming that burn underground for years.
DH is off to lunch at the Mexican restaurant so that will be dinner tonight. Good thing. On impulse I brought home some pork ribs from the deli. Not so good. They were really greasy. Headed for the trash.. One thing about being sleeved is that I have no reluctance in throwing unwanted food out. Even a donut.
Hmm DD why is it that our bodies can put on pounds rapidly but the other direction is slow as a glacier. At least for some of us. Mysterious. But your new pounds don't stick.
It is almost sunny. Time to get going.
Diane S
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Back from working out, and it feels good. I had a doctor's appointment this afternoon (getting established with a new PCP) but it was cancelled. It wasn't anything urgent, and was still rescheduled this month, so I kind of welcome not having the afternoon interrupted.
The music was great last night, but hard to see the band because the front of the stage was filled with people dancing. Which is a good thing. The difference between the audience the salsa band pulled in vs the jazz band is notable. Jazz trio audience looks mostly like me, white and "mature". Salsa audience way more diverse in age and ethnicity, and full of great dancers, all ages. I especially like seeing the folks in their late 70s/early 80s dancing with their longtime partners. It's beautiful.
Smoke haze and temps in the lower 70s. It's wonderful to have the windows open and the breeze flowing through. It will be a great day for some yardwork .
One upsetting moment today: I gained 4 pounds this week! What the %$&$? I weighed on 2 scales because I couldn't believe it. I don't typically retain water in this amount, but I cannot fathom that it could be anything else. My eating hasn't changed, my exercise is greater, I'm doing okay on protein, my bathroom habits are regular... I will cut out the ****tails and see what impact that has. So not losing my mind yet, but since April there has been a slow, upward tick in weight, and now this big jump. There is room to cut back on food, not so much volume, but density of calories. But I thought that was the bargain my body and I made, I would be a little chubby so I could still eat cheese and have dessert once in awhile. Is my body changing the rules again?!!! This battle goes on.
Are those Zombie fires in areas with peat? If peat gets to burning several feet down it's very hard to put out.
Definitely strange to think that there is fire under the ground.
I don't like cold soups except for gazpacho which I agree is like salsa, but I like salsa. Funny story which I don't think I told you guys. The day we got to Madrid my SIL and I went to the store to get basics for the kitchen. She grabbed a carton of milk for coffee in the morning. I made my coffee the next day and started to put milk in it but it was dark! I looked more closely at the carton and saw the tomatoes on it - it was gazpacho. Needless to say I did not drink that cup of coffee. At the store we went to they only had shelf stable milk - not cartons in the refrigerated section. Those cartons were all gazpacho. It was actually fairly tasty though.
Liz 5'3" HW: 219 SW: 185 GW: 125 LW: 113 Desired maintenance range: 120-125 CW: 119ish
