B in teh S - day 2

OK peeps, how are we all? Are we winning against the carb monster? I have finally found a breakfast cereal that I don't dump on - fruit & fibre which is good as it seems to fill me and not give me carb cravings. I had 2 shortbread cookies and 5 bite size chocolate candies again, but dinner was chicken & veg. Didn't actually want to eat it all but knew I needed the protein. So I'm pleased with today. It will be better once all the holiday food is gone.

ok i'm back in the saddle and my saddle sores are healing nicely. Thursday and Friday were REALLY ugly and I cried at work, not from stress not from anything that happened there but from the carb addiction....my boss held me then told me to go get a hard boiled egg and meet her back for our meeting. Yesterday and today I feel a little less desperate for food and I'm doing well overall and I'll take that! I am getting in all of the fluids I just need to work on the supplements. This week i'm going to put them in individual baggies and shove them in my briefcase which i take to work every day this way i will have them! No excuse not to take them if they are with me! I also danced like I was on Dance Fever on Friday night and on Saturday i took the kids, my sister and my niece for a walk up hill and they were moaning and groaning but we all did it. How will you make this week easier on yourself? What one new thing will you add to your week to shake it up? This week i'm going to try a Zumba class, it's a new latin/african aerobics class and even if i make it through only 30 minutes instead of the full 60 i'll be pleased and consider myself a success. Small, incremental changes that propel us forward is what i'm looking for. ANDI

You're right Andi, one new thing at a time and before we know it we'll have made a dramatic change. For me, I plan to eat a well balanced lunch. Usually I don't prepare anything so end up eating hardly anything at all, but then keep snacking when I get home after school. If I eat right then I shouldn't be hungry when I get home. Planning and preparation is the key for me

You know what Ruthy i'm not sure you are right about a healthier planned lunch will help you not eat or make bad choices when you get home. I know that eating a healthy lunch is important but i Feel that i'm using the food when i get home to help me transition from employee to mommy! There is no down time for us "working mothers" what an oxymoron that is, every mother is a working mother. What I started doing last week (and it seems to work for me) is that I fill my water bottle (24 ounces) with diet/decaf iced tea or I make a hot decaf tea for the ride home and that helps me to unwind so i'm not crazy like in my search for food. When i walk through the door I have a slice of deli meat and cheese and i microwave that until it's gooey and i eat that with a slice of pickle, it's not a huge meal it's a snack and that helps hold me over. I think i need the comforts of home when i first get home because i've got so much going on over here it's a never ending job so it's not like i can rest! Hugs, ANDI

You may be right - I need to think of a strategy for when I get home as well. I'm watching a tv program at the moment about a woman who was the heaviest person to undergo gastric bypass. My hubbie doesn't like watching things like this, but it is good to remind myself of where I've come from and the daily battles I used to face. Gives me a renewed sense of purpose on this journey. Just to think how desperate and hopeless I felt. I really was at the end and knew that it was surgery or just keep getting bigger and getting sicker and sicker. It was scary. But here I am / we are, living lives, getting about and have turned our lives around. We have come so far Andi and all the others on our board, we need to pat ourselves on the back and congratulate ourselves. There are many who have had wls who havnt' got as far as we have, even if we are not at the point we'd like to be yet. We are only 18 months out - still babes really. Lets' keep takin it step by step, and we'll get to the end eventually, because we are determined.

yesterday was day of mixed emotions. my grandson's first birthday, I busted the scale, 156.6, that is up 13.5 lbs from my lowest low in 2006. I can not imagine how, since I busted my tail in the yard for 6 hours solid, raking leaves, picking them up with a pitchfork, and standing on them in the trashcan, 17 (40 gallon) bags later the yard looks great, I feel wretched. while I was working, I was drinking water or vitamin water. I ate two 1/2 sandwhches with smoked turkey and a slice of cheese to keep my blood sugar level, but towards the end, I was still getting woozie. the birthday party was nice, BBQ'd me a killer little steak, I ate it with my fingers, it was that good. it held me off for a couple of hours and then sitting at the table, with sugar cookies, cheeze crackers, and birthday cake, just kicked my tail. by the time I went to bed, I was seriously dumping from all the cake (no frosting, just cake). I tried to get more water down, but that was just not happening. I plan to get more water down today, so far I have had one pancake, and a couple of handfuls of trails mix. Maybe I should make me a tea or coffee.