Vacation going on 2 weeks
Jul 06, 2009
7/6/2009
Still on vacation, in Arlington, TN suburb of Memphis. I found the scale...not so good...when i first weighed myself it said 175# Tuesday 7/2/09 I gained. I also hadn't taken my thyroid medicine in about two weeks. After weighing myself I promptly went to the pharmacy and paid cash for my medicine since I didn't bring my insurance card. I weigh myself on Mondays so today was the day and I am down to 173.5# which is pretty close to where I was when I started this vacation. The scale here only does whole and half pounds. My scale reads point .2, .4, .6,.8, 0 so its a little more detailed. I have started walking everyday for the last 4 days for the last 2 I have walked for at least 45 min morning and night. Boy are my hips sore. I walk thru the subdivision which is hilly. When I sit down for a while and then get up I'm limping from the pain in my hips. I'm very proud of myself for walking while down here on vacation...even when my BFF didn't go I still walked. We usually push one another so I am glad I am self motivated which hasn't always been the case. We have a pool party down here this weekend I want to loose a little weight before then. I hope that is possible.
July 1, 2009
Still not home. I’m now in Arlington, Tennessee. I still miss my scale. I even dreamed that I got to weigh myself. Were staying at my BF’s home and I am hoping they have a scale in their master bath, because there isn’t one in the guest bathroom or the half bath…I know it is wrong because I am just waiting for him to get up so that I can sneak in their room and weigh myself. Sneak…why am I ashamed that I MUST weigh myself. If I weigh myself here at least I will have a general idea of how much I weigh, but it won’t be the same as getting on my own scale. Her brother Pete noticed right away that we lost weight. His wife Denise never said anything about it at all not even when he pointed it out, she never acknowledged it. That’s okay because when I noticed that she had lost weight, she was already thin but had a pouch (like Michelle Obama), I didn’t say anything either. Why I didn’t is beyond me. Maybe I thought it would be insulting. IDK. So maybe she is the same. She has gained weight and I definitely won’t mention that. Well today I want to go see Graceland and try to run into my friend that lives in Memphis that I haven’t seen in 20 yrs. She never saw me fat except for my facebook pics, so me being 170+/- will be a fat me to her.
6/30/2009 I started out on vacation 06/25/09 heading to Atlanta. The hardest part to me really is being away from my SCALE. That my check and balance. For the most part I eat what I am supposed to but being on vacation I have a few treats along the way. In Atlanta they have a fabulous seafood restaurant called Pappadeaux. OMgoodness is it awesome. Every time I visit ATL I have to get their blackened shrimp and crawfish fondue. It’s an appetizer that comes with a small loaf of French bread toasted with garlic butter. So me and my surgery partner ate that as our meal. We shared and still hand a lot left to take back to the hotel and the bill was less than $25. That’s only because we added the decadent cheese cake that they carry…mmm, mmm ,mmm. We both had like two bites each and still have a HUGE piece left. One of the great things about this surgery is that our restaurant bills are so much smaller. Everytime we go out to eat we pick something we can both handle and share. I know the waiters are probably thinking that is not enough for two people their being cheap….lol…we are cheap but when they come to check on us and we ask for a doggie bag and still have a lot left, I wonder do they realize our secret then??? While in Atlanta I finally got to wear my two piece swimsuit, which is my modification for jiggly thighs. One of the members on here suggested board shorts to me as an alternative to the skirt swim suits that still leave too much of my jiggly thighs out. Pictures will be posted. My wow moment was, that I bought my swimsuit two weeks or less before my vacation. I had to get an extra large from Sears because the large wouldn’t fit over my thighs, the XL was too big in the waist but I was going to put elastic in it, put ripping and running before the trip I didn’t have a chance. I took the elastic with me and did sew it in but it was still just too big. So I went to a Sears near out hotel to get a pair of men’s board shorts or some kind of substitute, they had the same board shorts I bought with me. My surgery partner told me just try them on since they were on clearance there…..AND THEY FIT!!!!!!! Wow I was so glad…I bought two pair. Thank God for WLS. I’m in the car now headed to Tennessee to visit my surgery partners’ brother. Now one of the greatest perks as having my surgery partner as a best friend is that her brother can cook is @ss off. So I may run into some trouble, especially since we are going to be there over the 4th of July holiday…I’m salivating as I type. Miss my scale. At least that would let me know if I’m over doing it. Even if they have a scale at their house I’m not going to trust it because it isn’t MY scale, the calibration may be off or WHATEVER….I freaking MISS MY DAMN SCALE!!!!!!UUGGGHHHH!!!! I think I may be a little addicted to the scale. We were just wondering if they (he and his wife) will be able to tell we had WLS, by the way we eat. I hate lying about it to most people but not to condescending people or people who may say you took the easy way out(his wife and we love her too)…risking your life by having your insides rearranged is not easy. Your day being consumed by prepping for what your most HEALTHY snacks and meals will be is not easy. The tool is very useful though, but not easy. Some people just won’t ever understand as I didn’t quite get it until AFTER I had the surgery and truly adjusted my lifestyle. She (my BFF and Surgery partner) will probably give it away because she always says to people oh I can’t eat that. So they will be wondering why can’t you eat chicken when you’ve eaten it all your life? Oh, well. Just like she never mentioned she had a tummy tuck, just not our business. While in Atlanta we learned a few tricks to make our lives easier since it was close to 100 degrees every day we were there. Ten minutes after we left the hotel our water would no longer be cold so we used our small cooler every day. That not only saved us money but made life so much more enjoyable. We carry our Crystal light packs with us and just go all day without worrying about not having something cold to drink. My BFF still can’t tolerate plain water, (cramps her pouch) so there aren’t a lot of options for her…caffeine free/no sugar/ no carbonated…good luck finding something like that that you would like when you taste it. So preparation is key. I packed almonds and pistachios as snacks for myself, pistachios are more of a treat. We would usually pack Pepsi, coke, chips, poppy cock, and candy bars. So this change in eating isn’t easy it just shear will and preparation. If you don’t have it you aren’t going to reach in the bag of snacks and eat it. That’s my motto period for my new lifestyle. So the pistachios are in the back seat way in the bottom of our traveling snack tote bag. Making it the least accessible.
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