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I went to my nutritionist yesterday and she asked me a very perplexing question. One that I
hadn't really given much tough to. I didn't realize that I need to. I didn't think it was important.
It makes sense. I tell my children when they do good in school or at home. I tell my husband he
is a good provider. I even tell my mother-in-law she raised a good man. I thank the check out person
at the store and tip my waitress when they do a good job. So why can't I tell myself?
What is so hard about looking in the mirror and saying "hey! you are great!" Why is it that my little
so called accomplishments are not important enough to me to warrent a pat on the back? Why cant I
give myself an acknowledgment? So my nutritionist wants me to start. Even if its small. So here goes...

Good job this morning Dani, You did your Pilate's and got 20 ounces of water in before 6 am!! Way to go!

Ok that felt weird,

Dani

Yeah I have finally decided on a surgeon for my TT with abdominal tightening and
Arm lift. And the winner is....
Dr. M. Kayser of Image by design in Roseville Mi.

He is awesome. Got all my jokes, made me feel very comfortable not only with the
surgery but with myself also. His staff were real women and they were just wonderful
to me and my husband.

So that was yesterday for the consult and today I am calling to set the DATE! I am
excited.

Dani

Every morning my alarm goes off at 4:45 am. Why? Well it's due to
the fact that I am crazy. Actually my 16 year old daughters bus
comes at 5:45am and I get to spend some time with her. Also
I have no excuse not to do my morning Pilate's routine. I am showing
my daughter that there is always time to exercise and I am making
a commitment to myself. And another benefit of my morning exercise is
it is already DONE for the day. I cant come up with any excuses not to
work out.

Anyone else a morning exersiser?

Dani

Went and bought a pair of Levi jeans today and in the dressing room realized I needed to get a different size. Only this time it was SMALLER! I got my what used to be a big butt, into a size 8 and they a comfortable. Really and truly nothing tasted as good as this feels. Me in a size 8 jean! I am so excited.

Well it has been six months since my surgery. I now weigh 167 pounds. I am told I look really thin. I have one woman who says I am anerexic (she is a different problem all toghether). Except that when I look at myself, and I mean when I look down to see if my pants are zipped, I see chubbs. But when I catch a look in a mirror I see thin. I know that this is very normal I just wish there was a happy medium. Some days I am happy with my new weight, some days I want to lose more and all this jiggling skin.

And I still am going places and looking to see if I am the heaviest person there. I need to make sure that I am not the fattest. I still feel like I am. So I will ask my family is that person bigger than me? I think I am driving them crazy. I know it's driving me crazy.

I know that it's Febuary and the whole country is below freezing temps. But I am FREEZING! I cant get warm. My fingers turn blue and I shiver all day. I have to sleep in socks and sweat pants and a long sleeve shirt. During the day it;s mandatory t shirt under my regular shirt and thank goodness I get to wear a lab jacket at work. I just dont know what to do about this. I am told that its normal. But my fingers are blue! My doctors office says my Iron levels are normal so wtf!! is going on. Sorry about the swear word. I am just really frustrated with this.
Dani

I love homemade baked beans on thanksgiving. However they have Molases and brown sugar in them. Now I was thinking that I could use Stevia instead of the brown sugar but what about the Molases? Will it be a problem since I had RNY? And should I try to substitute it? And with what? Anyone have any Ideas?

Thanks
Dani

It has been 14 days since my RNY. 14 days for me to rethink what I have done everyday. Dont get me wrong, I know that I did the right thing. It's just that the experience I had with the hospital, nurses, allergies, pain, None of it was what I expected. I had thought that the whole floor for the "center of excellence" hospital would have been gastric patients. It wasnt, therefor the staff ran around like they didnt know what was going on. I thought that the nurses would have atleast told me that "everything would be ok" I really thought they would have handled my allergic reactions differently. To put it all in prepesctive, I was very dissapointed with my experience. I am really dissapointed that my surgeon didn't even show up to my post op appointment. I didn't want to see some assistant, I wanted to see the person who knew what happened during surgery.
I am just happy that I havent had any complications, other than the allergies to the meds. I am down 20 pounds in 2 weeks. I am starting the mushy soft phase of my healing diet. My hair has stopped falling out from surgery. Now I just have to wait for a couple of months before it starts again. I am only getting about 50 ounces of water a day. I need to increase that somehow. I went back to work, did really good also. Timed my food so that I had some type of protien atleast every 3 hours. I am really thankful that I learned so much from this site. Enough for now.
Dani

Well it has been 5 days since my surgery. I cant say all has gone according to plan. To start the hospital had new IV pumps and all the nurses were complaining about them. Which kinda made me nervous. Than I woke from surgery with the Oxygen tube in my throat still, even though I pleaded with them to make sure it was out. They promised. Um really. Than about a couple of hours after I was weezing and itching and had welts. Morphin allergy! Really you just never know who is gonna be allergic to it. Than the dillauded pump worked great so they took me off of it. (why? I dont know) They then gave me loratab which I am allergic to also. So the put me back on dilauded. And should I mention the thirst. My mouth was so dry. All i wanted was ice chips! Than my IV went bad and they took it out and put in a new one. That blew right out of my skin when they started it. Scared the crap out of me and it hurt. So I  would not let them put a new one in and then I got deheydrated. That is when I got the picc line put in. That is an IV the run through your upper arm and around your heart. So now i am at home and a little sore. I am walking and drinking my water. I am also drinking my protein. Oh and did I mention my hair is already falling out in chunks. I just keep handing them over to my husband to throw away. I didnot realize that I could lose my hair this soon. So I am wondering why? Why did I do this. HOpefully soon I will know the answer.

My husband and I were asked to do a video testimonial for our Nutritionist. Just thought I would share with you all.
www.nourishingwayscenter.com/natural_weight_loss_testimonials.html