Late Weigh-In again

Oops, I've been mentally behind a day this whole week and thought today was weigh-in for some reason. Shall we do it anyway? Here goes, I'm not proud of this: HW: 268 SW: 230 LW: 133 (?) CW: 136 Riding that stress weight-gain roller coaster and gotta get off of it!!!! Next week is going to be tough, I'll be home all week and around food. Yikes... Hopefully i'll get a LOT of sewing done and you can't sew and eat at the same time. This week I'm going to increase my water by an extra bottle. That should help. Molly

I have NO idea what is goin on... HW-358 W-338 LW-241 CW-246!!!!!!!!! I am shocked to say the least..We had ham for Easter and leftovers (I said HAM not chocolate eggs) and I know I am retaining water BUT 6 pd..sad thing is it was 7 and one is gone! I have been working out around 3 times a week! (I am not even going to post this but I though what the HECK....) Diana

Wow, from reading these posts were all having post-Easter ham gain. I have stayed out of the leftover ham, thank goodness but the other stuff... Did you have a lot of sides hanging around? At least you have been working out, I've just been at work. You keep up all that hard work, the scale is bound to be nicer next week. We are expecting snow tonight and snow tomorrow and I'm supposed to be going to a rose pruning seminar across town. Just what I want....to stand around freezing my bones in snow looking at bare rose bushes. NOT! LOL! Molly

I ate like 2 bites of Potatoe cassorole on Easter, NO Mac and cheese, NO rolls. I made a spinach salad and had that the next day and fruit salad and the best green beans. Honest to gosh I am SHOCKED. My husband has eaten peanut butter eggs and 1 time said can I have 1 little bit. I packed ALL the open candy and sent to my dads and had my kids put there baskets in their rooms as I did not want to look at it.

YES! Diana.. I AM SO PROUD OF YOU!!!!!!!!

Don't be to proud of me..I was up 7 pds the beginning of the week I am staying away from the scale till next week as I think I am about to CRY each time I get on it.. I do have to say last night was BuNcO and I was not perfect. I made spinach dip (had a little) and a HUGE chef salad and ate a lot of that Someone brought huge shrimp and fruit salad but the peanut M&Ms on the tables killed me. I kept moving the bowl but not before I took a few out... ON a postive note I did 45 miniutes on the ellipital yesterday. 2 months ago when I joined the gym I got off at 1:30 sec..How sad is that? and yesterday 45 mins!! I think I called everyone I knew on the way home...good thing I don't have your number..lol Diana

Ah but I *AM* proud of you... those are huge things you did at Easter.. we are human. Stuff does happen but we gotta make it seldom and on special occasions and not part of our daily routine. As for bunco night.. maybe bring your own planned snack and you can ONLY have that.. as long as it is something you really like and is good for you (say a power crunch bar - yummy or something like that) would that work? Try it.. see what happens and bring a YUMMY drink also to sip on. I am so proud of your elliptical work.. i cannot do it that long, kicks my butt! You shoulda called me, I woulda been shouting from the rooftops with you!! Honestly, I will give you my number and love to hear from other WLS patients.. call me anytime. Let me know if u want it!

Hi Molly, I totally blew this thread off too.. prolli b/c I am not proud of my weight lately.. I am trying really hard but have momentary lapses in judgement at times. Today I ran 3.1 miles in 35 mins.. thats a 5k. I am training for one on April 19th.. need to get outside and start training as soon as these puddles dry up. Hang in there..that darn scale can be so vicious sometimes. Do some research on the Krebs cycle.. do you remember that from school? Basically higher cabrs attract more water.. thats why when we do mostly protein we pee it off.. its so strange but it makes sense why the scale can fluctuate so much in a day. Anyways.. Here are my lovely (grr) stats. HW: 328 SW: 280 LW: ? i donno prolli 137? CW: 139.4 (GROWL.. working on it) Lowest weight recorded: 131.6.. gonna get there again. On a brighter note, I have a plastic surgery consult set for May 5th. My friend had her plastics before kids and was told that was ok as insurance MAY pay for it if she does it now.. and they did (part of it) but if she waits and has 2 kids first they prolli wouldn't see it as "necessary" that far out.. makes sense. I asked her how she felt about the skin stretching with kids.. she said and the doc said.. "yes it will stretch but never to the point that it was postop WLS".. true very true.. thinking I may go forth with it IF i can get some of it covered.. if I can't we will wait obviously. can't hurt to do a consult and get a feel for what they think.

Your PS consult is scheduled, how cool!!!! Crossing fingers for you to get insurance to pay that would be even better. Wow! I will look up the Krebs cycle thing; totally doesn't ring a bell with me. However after what has gone in my mouth today I need to pay attention. Was all set to have a relaxing start to my vacation today and then got a call from work which has blown my stress meter right off the charts and what have I been eating....CARBS! Healthy stuff, but carbs! Grrr.... Man oh man, on top of the job stress now I gotta be mad at myself for the way I reacted. Will it NEVER end? Will I never get control over carbs???? Molly It is snowing. Will someone please flip Mother Nature's calendar over???

I am sorry work is stressing you and as for the carb monster.. all I know is he shows no mercy.. like the article "just this once" states.... "the carb monster shows no mercy.. not today.. not yesterday and not tomorrow.." So TRUE! I have to detox on protein drinks/high protein diet to get rid of it.. its tough. Hang in there!