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Well, this weekend was a total bust as far as my eating plan. But, I am proud that I made some progress in getting my house all cleaned, so that was major! Usually, I don't have enough energy to do much of anything, but since I've been on the CPAP at night I am really noticing a difference. I figured even though I messed up this weekend with my eating plan, that I will still post it anyway for my level of accountability. So here it goes, the good, bad & the ugly in all its glory!

7-7-07

Breakfast
1 Protein Shake- 1 scoop protein powder w/ 8 ozs. 1% milk
1 banana

Lunch
1c. cherries
1 slice cake
2 scoops of vanilla ice cream

Dinner
3 slices pepperoni pizza
4 sweet & spicy wing dings (KFC)

Water- 3 16.9 oz. bottles
16 oz. Swiss Farm Diet Ice Tea (w/ Pmegrante & Blueberry)

7-8-07

Breakfast
1 Banana
4 oz. OJ

Lunch
1 Burger King Whopper Jr.
1 slice apple pie w/ 2 scoops vanilla ice cream

Dinner
1 c. Shrimp Primevera
1 slice apple pie w/ 2 scoops vanilla ice cream

Snack
2 SF popsicles

First, I want to say Happy Birthday to my dh, he is truly a wondeful man, and I honor him this day! Okay, now to get down to the business, here is my food journal for today, I'm not totally pleased, but it could have been worse. Let's just say, I didn't get the birthday cake I didn't like!

Breakfast
1 Protein Shake- 1 scoop protein powder, 8 ozs. 1% milk
1 Banana

Lunch
 5 slices Hillshire Farm Deli Selects Turkey Breast (Ultra thin sliced)
1 1/2 slices 2% milk american cheese
1 1/2 C. Field Greens salad mix
2 T. Light French Dressing
1 c. cherries

Snack
1 slice hubby's birthday cake
3 scoops of vanilla ice cream


Dinner
3 small salmon cake patties
1/2 c. vegetarian beans

Snack
about 15 Baked veggie Crisps Tangy Tomato Ranch
1 SF popsicle

Water- 3 16.9 oz. bottles

Tomorrow is a new day!

Here is today's food journal. I must say posting this here is really helping me. My appt. with the Nut is on next Thursday, so i will post my journal daily until then. Its an accountability thing. Tomorrow is DH birthday and I have to buy him cake, maybe I will just get a kind I don't like!!

Breakfast
1 Protein Shake- 1 scoop protein powder, 8 ozs. 1% milk
1 c. cherries

Lunch
1 1/2 c. Field greens salad mix
1/2 c. Short cuts chicken breast
1 slice Kraft Cheese Food Product
2 T. light french dressing
1 3.9 oz. SF Jello

Snack
1 3.5 oz. unsweetened applesauce

Dinner
2 pieces baked flounder
1/2 c. mashed potatoes
1/2 c. cooked spinach

Snack
1 SF popsicle

Water- 4- 16.9 oz. bottles

Now here is my food journal for today. Didn't go as well as I would have liked it to, but not as bad as it could have been.

Breakfast
Protein shake- 1 scoop powder, 8 ozs. 1% milk
banana

Snack
cherries
1 3.9 ozs. unsweetened applesauce

Dinner (cookout :-()
1 hot dog w/ bun
1 hamburger w/ bun
tiny piece of rib
about 2 T.spoonfuls of seafood salad
"      "   '      "                     macaroni & tuna salad
"      '    "     "                     potato salad
2 deviled eggs
spoonful of baked beans
1 slice of buttermilk pound cake

Water- 4-16.9 oz bottles
1 bottle of Crystal Light

I didn't do very well today, but I am determined to do much better tomorrow. Oh, sleeping with the CPAP is pretty interesting, I have been trying to keep it on all night, but it is a little strange. They say it takes some getting used to, we'll see!

Just wanted to take a few minutes to post my food journal for today. It was pretty good, thank you, Lord!!!!!

Breakfast
Protein Shake- 1 scoop of Designer Whey Chocolate powder, 8 ozs. 1% milk, 4 frozen strawberries
banana

Snack
1c. fresh cherries
1 3.9 oz.. sf jello

Dinner
1 Cheddar veggie burger (little ket, must, relish)
1 light hamburger bun
2c. Field Greens salad
2 T. light french dressing
1 3.5 oz. unsweetened applesauce

Snack
1 c. fresh cherries
1 sf popsicle

Water- 4 16.9 oz. bottles

Now, tomorrow is the 4th and I am going to a cookout, but I make a decision now to stick to my plan! I will be successful tomorrow! I will make sure to post my food journal for tomorrow. Please pray for me!

Well, here I go...
Today, I went to see the Card and the appointment went pretty well, I have to go next week for my stress test. I'm not having the treadmill test because of my knees, but I am having one that they inject something through the IV that will cause exertion, w/o exertion (how cool is that?). I also went today to pick up my cpap machine and that was really interesting, I will see how it goes tonight.

Also, I have finally come to the realization that I am addicted to food! I am having a hard time trying to buckle down and lose this weight before surgery. I have tried a little as far as drinking the protein shakes twice a day and eating one meal, but that doesn't seem to be working to good for me, by the time I get home for that one meal, I am starving! Lord knows, I am going to have to get a grip on this, what do I think I am going to do for those first few weeks post op!Food has played a very major role in my life, I eat when I am happy, sad, bored, stressed, or for any reason. I never really paid to much attention to my eating habits before now and this food thing really goes deep. I think of it as any other kind of addiction.Now, please understand, for me to say the words "food addiction" is a major thing to finally admit after all these years. So today,I confess, I am addicted to food! 
The best news in all of this is, I am connected to the one who can deliver me and set me free from this bondage of food. He is the one that can give me the strength to maintain self control in my life, and his name is JESUS! He has to have first place in my life, and I must submit this as well as ALL areas of my life to Him. I will conquer this, because I am more than a Conquerer!!!!!
Even though I have tried a little to do some things different in my eating habits, I know that I have not done all I could to buckle down and get this weight thing movin. I have to be honest and true to myself about what it is that I am eating, and must be willing to  own the "number" whatever it is. Whether the scale moves or not, that is totally up to me, sooo even though I didn't have any movement at all on the scale this week, I can only blame me. After all, I have everything in front of me to make the decisions to begin this journey of a healthier life, its is totally up to me to choose which road I am going to walk down. How bad do I want this? Is this worth it? 

So I will dust myself off, not wallow in pity, no woe is me and get back on track. Tomorrow is a new day!

The word of God says to write the vision and make it plain, so here is my goal for this week:

I am going to work extra hard at trying to lose the 5lbs. the Nut gave me three weeks to do.

Here is my plan:

I plan on following my Weight Watcher point system for this week and I will write down everything that I bite! I plan to continue drinking the two protein shakes each day. I also plan to have at least 64 ozs. of water daily.

I can and will do this, In Jesus' name. He said: I can do ALL things through Chrsit that strengthens me!

I make the confession now, that I will be successful, because the Spirit of Success is on me!

Well, here I am again, this past weekend was a really rough one emotionally for me. I mean as far as this WLS thing goes, I really was thinking that this may not be the best route to go, Will I be able to make the LIFETIME commitment that this thing is going to take? What will my health condition be 2,3, 4, & 5 years down the line? Will I look sick and malnurished? I was thinking about all of the things that could go wrong, and I think it was good to think about those things and ask myself some very difficult questions, Like why I am having the surgery? What do I want the surgery to accomplish that all the other weight loss plans (over the 24 years) didn't accomplish? Am I thinking that this tool is some kind of magic something that will make my weight issues go away overnight? Am I really trusting in God's strength to help me get control over this weight issue? What is the underline reason for this weight issue?  Have I really thought about the lifestlye changes that this surgery will require? Am I really wanting to be healthy or just want to be thin? Am I ready for the emotional rollercoaster? I can go on and on with more questions, but I won't. I had to spend a lot of time reflecting and seeking God's face about some of the answers to these questions.

In service on Sunday the message was "The hunt for a loyal heart", and  I must say that this message has given me a whole new perspective on things. Where does my loyalties lie? Every person on this earth is loyal to something! When I think about beginning this journey in to WLS, I became very diligent and devoted to educating myself, very diligent and commited to the process, etc. etc., but in the whole scheme of things none of this really matters if my "heart" is not loyal to God!  If I am loyal to someone or something I am completely devoted to that thing or person. I have been very humbled by this.

Okay, well back to my WLS journey. As of today, I really believe that I am going to go with the Lapband. I believe that this is what is going to be best for me. I also truly believe that God has given me a release to go ahead with my plans for the surgery, so I am grateful for that! I just know for me that I have to be so committed to the things of God as I am if not more than the other things I do. 

So, I am going to go to the support group tonight at my surgeons office and I really look forward to that. As far as my pre-op testing is concerned I am just about finished, just have to go to the Card. on 7/2 and back to the Nut on 7/12. BTW, the endoscopy went well, was a little sore afterwards, I got the sleep study results and I have to use the CPAP! They say that  during the sleep study my breathing improved the second half of the night while wearing the cpap machine, but my breathing wasn't too bad. So I have to go back to the Pulm. on 7/31. So that is my progress up to this point. I will keep you all posted.

Be Blessed!

Well, hello everyone, its been a little while since I posted so I wanted to give an update on my progress. I am just about finished with all of my pre op appoinments, tomorrow morning I am having the endoscopy(sp?) done and then I just need to see the card on July 2nd. As of today, I am still undecided about what procedure I am goig to have done, so I continue to pray. I'm not sure when I am going to have surgery, but I think the office is trying to have all of my paperwork done and submitted to the insurance company by the end of July so that we can target an August surgery date, the only drawback to this is that my surgeon has a requirement that he will not perform the surgery on anyone that is more than 300lbs., well guess what, I am, at today's weigh in with the nut, I was about 312 lbs. (a 6 lb.loss since my consultation with the surgeon), So I need to lose about 20-25 lbs before I can have the surgery, and that is what makes me a little concerned because I just don't know if I can lose that much weight for the August target date, I don't know what I am going to do, the only thing I can come up with is to find another surgeon, but I don't want to start that process all over again and I like Dr. Katz. This whole weight loss thing is kinda stressing me out today, but I just have to keep the faith. August would be a very good time for me to have the surgery because the kids are out of school and I don't have the added responsibility of picking up my grandaughter from school and in addittion to that I have a bride that I am helping out with her September wedding, so August would be an idea time, but who knows, I will just have to wait and see. I am really going to have to buckle down and get focused on weight loss, the nut wants me to lose 5lbs. by the time I come back in three weeks, I will try my best. Well that is it for now and I will post again soon.

Well, I had my pulmonary appt. on yesterday and all looks well. I am going to have to have the sleep study done, I am scheduled for that next week. Today I had my upper GI, and yes, I did survive, WHEW! They really do need to come up with a better tasting Barium, and then they want you to drink the whole cup, FAST! The radiologist said that eveything looked fine, but she did see quite a bit of reflux, so I don't know what that mean. I am just going to wait and see. 
I am still on the fence about what procedure I am going to get done. This week I have really tried to cut back on my food intake to prepare myself for the two week before surgery diet. The doc says that I am going to have to do a fast before the surgery, a protein shake for breakfast, one for lunch and a sensible dinner. Well, I have tried the IsoPure grape protein drink, wow, that stuff is really dense, but I mixed it with some Crystal Light and it was much better, it is 40 grams of Protein in the 20 oz. bottle! It is expensive though, I paid like $3.50 for one bottle. Then I tried a RTD Protein Shake that is sold at GNC, I can't remember the name though, it was pretty good, I had the strawberries and cream. They were like $2.25 for an 11 0z. can and had 35g of protein per can. I also tried the EAS Advant Edge RTD Protein shake and it is pretty good also, I had the chocolate fudge and it has 17g of protein in each of the 11 oz. containers. The price for four is $4.92 at Walmart. So so far these protein drinks are pretty good, I am going to go over the weekend to get the Any Whey Flavorless protein powder and mix it with the Sugar Free Carnation Instant Breakfast (thanks Trish for that idea) and see if I like that or not.

I think it is a good idea to start as early as you can with trying different protein shakes to see what you like. Well, that's it for now, but I will be sure to keep you all posted on my progress.

Peace & Blessings

Well, I didn't have my pysch eval today. Apparently there was some sort of mix up in the communication when scheduling my appointment. They didn't realize that I was coming in for a consultation and WLS clearance and scheduled me for a doctor that doesn't do that. Well, I was in the office waiting for about a half hour and the young lady came out to tell me about the mix up, she was very apologetic about the mix up and that she would reschedule me another appointment with the right doc. Then she told me that the eval visit was covered by my insurance but not the consultation and report, that would cost me $275.00, I didn't know that. She then gave me some information for another practice that would do the report for $100, so I called them and made my appt. for next Monday the 11th. So, we will see what happens then.

Tomorrow is Pulmonary, Thursday is Upper GI so I have enough to keep me busy or this week!

Yet, will I trust...God!