Wednesday, December 29, 2010

3rd fill!

Hope everyone is doing well and surviving the last week of the year!

Christmas went well.  Spent as little time as possible with in-laws.  We were due snow, I asked DH to ask MIL to move dinner to lunch so we could get in and out of town before.  I didn't eat breakfast, got there and she had decided to not move dinner, just make a cheeseball and let us eat candy.  Cheeseball, crackers, and candy.  Now, mind you - all good stuff.  Not a meal.  Just the kind of thing I am trying to avoid.  So...good times.

Otherwise, it was great.  DH spoiled me more than I deserved and it was great spending time with my nieces and nephew.  DH and I also had most of Christmas afternoon and night to ourselves, so we watched all 3 Toy Story movies, marathon style.  Perfect way to spend the day!!

I am feeling better, mostly.  I am on day 9 of 10 of antibiotics.  I am still waking with post nasal drip.  I'm a little over that, but otherwise, I feel better overall.

I went in for my 3rd fill today.  I'm up to 4.5cc in the band.  I weighed in there, with clothes on, obviously, at 257.  They think that's great.  I don't think so much. I think the weight they had for me for the last time either wasn't recorded or it was me with my coat on or something.  They had me at 264.  Maybe that is what I was at Thanksgiving....I have to go back and check it out.  Anyway, I met with the nutritionist.  Do you all have access to a nutritionist whenever you go for fills?  Anyway, this one is the one I have liked from day one - she is kind and supportive and actually has realistic suggestions.  The other one once told me I should just bring my own frozen meal or whatever into the lunch meetings at work.  Where I'm trying to stay on the down-low on what I did.  sure.  Everyone else is eating pizza or Panera.  And the fat girl brings in a WW meal or a turkey sandwich of her own.  Very inconspicuous.  and very doable.  That would make me feel great.

Anyway....today I met with the good one and am getting refocused on the basics.  60-70g of protein and 64-80oz of H20.  Veggies and fruits as part of my snacks and meals, in a small way.  Up exercise to 4 x per week.  4 basics to get back to.  Also, I am getting back to planning our meals out.  We have gotten lazy and really the holidays are hard.  There is always some meal, some something to go to with food.  I rarely needed to cook.  We had leftovers from outings and leftovers from meals at work and so on and so forth.  So back to meal planning.  Back to bringing good solid lunches to work.  Back to making good breakfast choices.

It's the New Year.  I always have high hopes for the new year.  However, this year, it's different.  Last year, I thought that I could do this by myself.  This year, I have a buddy - my band.  I need a name for it.  This year, I know I have the tools to make good choices.  This year, I want to start trying to have kids.  I want to get down below 200 so that I feel healthy enough to be pregnant and actually get pregnant.  2011 holds a lot of promise.

I stopped on the way to work from my fill at Trader Joe's to get a protein drink, as I didn't plan well and leave with one this morning.  I picked up the Protein with Pizazz ready-to-drink  drink out of the fridge case.  Tasty.  I recommend it for a quick grab in a desperate moment.  a little chalky, but good banana and apple flavor to it.  almost 2 servings in a bottle (really?  Just put .8 more oz in the bottle, people) and 16g of protein.

Until later...

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Sinus Infection. Blah.

Hey all!!

I've been fighting congestion basically since Thanksgiving.  Finally got a little worse over the weekend and went to the Dr yesterday.  Sinus infection.  So, on drugs and feeling a little better already.

But struggling with eating or drinking enough.  Just feel blah.  How do you all do when you are sick? 

Oh and not helpful to have snacks and cookies around right now.  I stayed home.  I may or may not have snacked a little today too.  However, not much, in the whole scheme of things.  One cookie and 2 handfuls of chex mix. 

I just want to feel better before the weekend.

Tomorrow we are taking my nieces to see The Nutcracker.  Can't wait!!  They are so excited.  And a granddaughter of my parents' best friends is one of the children in it.  So...even more exciting!

MIL guilted DH into going to her house for Christmas Eve.  Boo.  I just think it's a bad idea.  But, he wants to make her happy - don't we all just want our parents happy?  Anyway, I have been secretly praying for the snow we are supposed to get - and now might not get.  I need it.  Just long enough for us to not go, but then to stop so everyone else can do what they need to for the holidays.  : )  DH passed his journeyman's test this week.  We both posted it on FB separately.  All kinds of people congratulated him on mine.  A handful on his.  None of his family.  Not even his sister or nieces.  Drives me crazy.  Completely crazy. 

*oohhmmm*  *channeling some peace*

Gifts are all bought and wrapped.  Cards did not get sent out, but I think I am going to send them after Christmas.  I don't know.  Haven't decided.  Everything baked.  Ready to enjoy the holidays.  Working on some plans for NYE.  So things are good.

I'm getting a fill next week.  I'm able to eat a decent amount beyond a cup at any one sitting.  Not starving between meals, but still not feeling restricted at all.  DH went today for his - he is barely drinking.  I think he might have over done it...but we'll see and I'll let him decide.  :)  You all know how that works.  Love him.  Stubborn and all.

OK...should be able to jump back on for a bit in the next few days, but in case you all aren't around, have the Merriest of Christmases, if that's what you celebrate.  If not, have a peaceful weekend!!

Until later

Thursday, December 16, 2010

Snow, days off, Inlaws

Hey all!

Gosh it's crazy how the holiday season just kinda takes over.  I have today and tomorrow off.  I needed them.

I work in HR and about this time of year, I get really tired of people.  We are a good company, we offer some pretty fantastic benefits, we do a lot of nice things for our employees.  This year for holiday luncheons we stayed onsite (easiest to do with a new shift set-up and 450 employees) and catered in a nice meal from a local famous ribs place.  Ribs, chicken, salad and these chips they are known for - along with ice cream sandwiches from a local famous ice cream place.

I can't tell you how many "can I order something different"s I got.  When I was standing with the free pop - choices were coke, diet c, sprite and diet mt dew, I got no less than 5 "do you have xyz pop?"  Really people?  Free meal.  Good meal.  Free drink.  Oh, you're welcome.

BTW, out of 450 employees, I only had to say you're welcome 5 times.  No other thank yous.

Sigh.

And a bunch of other "give me mores" that happened this week.  So, I'm done with being a people person for a few days.

We got about 5 inches of snow last night.  I'm glad to not have to go out in it until later.  I'm getting my nails done - trying this new Shellac treatment - supposedly stays crack and chip free for 2 weeks.  We'll see!!

I'm also doing my annual baking.  I give away cookies plus host an annual cookie exchange.  The good thing is that mostly, I stay away from eating most of it.  I just like making and giving.

And I've had ongoing in-law drama.  I grew up watching my parents friends struggle with daughter and son in laws and always thought, "not me...I'm going to be a great daughter in law".  I'm sad that it isn't turning out that way.  Without a ton of details, DHs family is just so different in terms of respect and appreciation and tolerance for one another.  It is nothing for the aunts (MIL is one of 6 sisters) to bash my DH or talk negatively about him.  DH has not always been a great person.  He is big - has been all of his life.  I'm pretty sure that when he feels attacked or uncomfortable, he goes back to the 10 yo being bullied on the playground and does the only thing he knows how - fights.  Not so much physcially now, but emotionally and verbally.  Anyway, I expect the aunts to be the bigger people and not pick at DH, but they do.  And so does MIL on some level, I am finally seeing.  But...the story everyone always tells is how mean DH is.  No one mentions or remembers that they picked at him first or were mean too....  Anyway - it just wears me out.  I haven't gotten a therapist, like I wanted to after the surgery.  Now I really think I need to.  I just get so upset for DH and for how horrible his whole family situation is.  I need to figure out how to better cope with them.  Luckily, DH decided we aren't going to MILs on Christmas Eve.  So this weekend we'll make a brief visit to the extended family gathering, see his niece and sister and then move on to more fun events.

Blah.

I just needed to get it all out.  Not much about food or band or that stuff.  Sorry.  But it feels good to just get it out there.

I'm going to weigh in in a bit on my home scale for my weekly.

Until later....

Thursday, December 9, 2010

3 lbs down!

I must have had a scale that wasn't quite awake this morning.  My official weigh in had me down 3 lbs to 255.2.  I'm good with that.  Would have loved the other.  But, it's all good.  Still moving in the right direction.

I hope you are all having a good Thursday!!!  Here comes the weekend.

A Giveaway and Freaking Out

ok - first things first.

Over at The World According to Eggface, she is giving away 4 bottles of yummy holiday flavored Torani Syrups.  I am finding that adding SF syrups to my protein shakes TOTALLY makes them managable.  And it allows me to have some good flavors without 1000 kinds of protein powder.  I'm so excited too because it includes the new SF Salted Caramel syrup.  Hello???  yummo!!  I love me so salted caramel hot chocolate - so this would let me have the great flavor - without the cost or the calories.  So...run over there and enter to win because it would be almost as fun if one of you won!!!  : )

Now, for the freaking out segment.

I got on the home scale this morning.  247.8.

I am trying desperately to keep peeing and getting the weight to stay just like that until 12:30 when I have my official weigh in at work.  eek.  As part of the weightw@tchers thing - this would put me past 10%.  Heck, in regular life,t his would give me more than 10% lost.  I really want to see it today because i don't have another meeting until January - because they are at work meetings.

Eeeek.  Think light thoughts for me today.

Monday, December 6, 2010

Blogger Picture error and Christmas

Seriously.  turn your head to the left so you can look at my tree.  It is saved on my hard drive correctly.  It is up and down and normal.  When it comes over here, not so much.  and I've worked on it.  And it didn't help. So...no, I don't hang my tree on the wall.  I just gave up the frustration.

But I love our tree this year.


and these are our holiday plates/china.  I love that they are wintery enough that I don't have to put them away as soon as Christmas is over.  I usually keep them out until about Valentine's Day.  They are discontinued.  One day, I'd like to have more glasses that go with them.  Right now I only have 2.

Decorating makes me happy once it's done, but gosh is it a pain to get done!!

Have a great week everyone!!

Sunday, December 5, 2010

What in the world??? And holiday spirit....

I just did my Sunday morning weigh in for the Holiday Challenge.

249.6

Really???

Everyone look at me.  I'm in the 240s.  And look quick...I'm about to be seeing TOM so I'm not sure it will last that long.  I certainly hope so though!!  I mean, hello motivation!!!  Since my official weigh in day is Thursday, I'm not moving the ticker yet...but I'm liking this twice a week weigh in to see how I move from days to days.

I'm going to get out some of my older WeightW@tchers stuff later and see if I can figure out when I last saw the 240s.

Speaking of the W meantioned above, did you hear they have a new program?  I learned all about it this week.  Guess what???  They finally did what I had been most struggling with them about since I joined up right before my surgery.  They added in counting protein to the program!  They now take protein, fiber, carbs and fat into account to figure their point system.  It makes me so happy to finally have them coinside with what I needed to be counting anyway.  I am finding this week that I am actually using their system instead of half assing my way with theirs.  And as we knowing, tracking only helps.  So....we'll see.  I think I enjoy my work group rather than the WLS support group that only meets monthly and doesn't really get past any of the basics.  I'm finding between other blogs...and at work meetings...and my DH that I am having a good amount of support.

Speaking of good support....how fun is it that I finally discovered a fellow bandster blogster in my general area??  Weeeee!!  Fun to know someone in town.  I love the blogging community!!

Let's see, what else.  We got a bit of snbow yesterday - perfet kind of snow.  The ground was still warm, so it didn't stick much to the driveways and sidewalks, so no shovelling, but accumulated on the ground, so pretty to look at.  And on a Saturday where there wasn't much need to go places.  DH and I got our tree last night - in the snow from a little lot I had heard about.  Such beautiful tree - felt like a little scene in a movie.  Like the tree getting scene in When Harry Met Sally?  Although we don't live in the big city, so we promptly tied it to the top of my car and drove it home rather than walking it home.  We put lights on last night...and the ornaments will come after church today.  Then the rest of the decorating happens.  I am going to get my Christmas plates out and replace our everyday plates with them for the season, so we can have a little more holiday spirit.  We haven't used them the last 2 years.  2 years ago, we had just gotten married and I had just replaced old plates with our wedding gift plates.  And last year I just didn't feel the spirit.  This year...I'm doing it.

Do you all have Christmas plates?  What kinds of things do you look forward to bringing out?  Linda from Linda's Bandwith challenged everyone to post pictures of the things making people feel the spirit, so I look forward to posting pictures later here for me and seeing everyone else's!!

Talk to you all later!!

Thursday, December 2, 2010

Hi from the 250s!!

Those of you who have been around a while know I have been waiting for this, for forever.  I officially weighed in at 258.6 today.  Hello from 250s!!

I have been hovering around there for a few days, so I am feeling like this one is going to stick for a while!!

More later...just sharing my excitement!