Wednesday Roll Call

Good Morning All You Beautiful Illinois Folks (and visitors too!)!  I am happy to announce that I finally got my new scale set up in the house and this morning I weighed in and I am down 5 pounds!!!  I'll update the ticker later, but for those who are interested, I am now at 208.  Last night I had steak for the first time since my WLS.  It went down well.  I cut it into very tiny pieces and chewed forever.  It was yummy.  I hope everybody makes it over hump day with joy in their eyes!  Paul

see didn't we all say the #s would start to come off?

Steak - what a wonderful food. I am happy it worked well for you. I never have really had any problems with meats except dry, dry chicken and left over grilled hamburger. They both do not sit well with me. I always try to keep in mind that just because a food sits well one time - in the future it might not sit well one or two times. You never know how your body will react.

Going to be getting into the "get ready for work mode" here in a few after I enjoy some of my java.  Other then work not much. I will stop into my doc's pre surg seminar later tonight and speak to the pre ops.

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Chris

Give Dr Rosen and staff a big hello for me!

Karen

Good morning Paul and Illinois friends!

Paul, hmmmm steak sounds good.  I haven't ventured there yet.  I may have to give that a try soon.  I have been hungry for it but just haven't fixed it yet.  Did not know if it was too soon or not.  Congrats on the 5 pounds.  I seem to be stuck again -- I think that is my current mantra.  Lose 5 pounds and then get stuck.  Ugh! 

Hope everyone has a great day!  Woo hoo, it is hump day!

Good morning Paul and the rest of Illinois!

Congratulations on the 5 lbs!!!!  Way to go!!!

After work today, I have to run out to Rock City to pick up the kids, then bring them back into Rockford for a swimming party.  It is a lot of driving, but the swim party is reward for all their hard volunteer work over the summer, and they deserve it.  I may even swim a few laps for some extra exercise if the kids leave me room.

I am back at the exercise each morning at 4.  I have been riding the stationary bike for at least 10 miles at an average of 23 mph.  Today, I added some push-ups and leg extensions.  I am hoping to break my age old stall.  I DID look at The Daily Plate and I MAY be eating too little.  So, I am going to continue with the exercise and up the calories a bit and see if that will shake anything loose.  Can you (or anyone) tell me where/how to go about getting my resting metabolism tested????  What test did you ask your doctor to do?

Football 2-a-days start for David today and volleyball for Liv tomorrow.  They are being registered as I speak.

I wish everyone a bright, shiny day!

Good Morning Paul and all of Illinois.
This morning I am driving up to Yorkville, to go to lunch and window shopping in Naperville. I will be going with my daughter, granddaugher and a friend. At least the weather is suppose to stay decent. Then, possibly, out to dinner with friends here at home.

Yestertday I finished a rug that I started a while back, and finished sanding a window frame I want to use for my faux stained glass project. I also got the 2 lamps from Ikea that I bought, together. The first one took a couple of hours, couldn't get the instuctions through this thick scull of mind, the 2nd one took ten min. Something new and modren for the home office.

Paul, I am glad you are starting to lose again, the steak sounds great, but sorry to say, I can't eat hardly any beef. So enjoy!

Have a great day,

Hugs

Good Morning Paul and my IL family

Congrats on the loss Paul!!  that is awesome

Today I am heading over to my sister's for a Mary Kay "party" so to say.  She has never been one to wear make up and she wants to learn about it and so I am going to join her for fun.  lol   Jacob is staying home with Shane because I don't like to leave him alone at this point, he's going downhill pretty quick.

Tonight I will be taking my neighbor's daughter to her piano lessons because they got into a bind and asked if I could help.  Why not right?  I might need something some day....and he was my boss at my last job too..LOL  
Tyler started the official football season today, but he's got some very weird rash on his arm and part of his side that no one can tell what it is...so I am keeping an eye on that. 

I hope everyone has a wonderful day!

Good morning Paul,
Christine is right please keep in mind steak may have went down ok last night but the next time it might not! I had steak last night and I have had it many times and it did not work well. It came back up and today I don't feel so well! I have a upper back acke like I get when foods are stuck and I have some heartburn. I am doing liquids today to get it under control.  Oh I chewed it forever cut into tiny baby peices because I was sharing with my 1 yr old grandaughter! It must still be stuck because my coffee did not want to go down today!  Hot stuff always works!

Oh congrats on the 5# loss.
On a lighter note I am in the 170's now! going to update the ticker now!

Karen

Good afternoon all,  We were off running errands early this am after a late night yesterday.  I feel like life is getting in the way of my daily OH life.  Yesterday, we left early to go to Rockford for Earl's aunts funeral. Didn't get back till 10 last night. His aunt lived a colorful 80+ years, lived life to the fullest so it was a joyful celebration of her life. Spent the afternoon & evening visiting with her children( Earls cousins) & grandchildren.  My mother-in-law and her sister had been out of touch with each other for many, many years(30+). Noone seems to know why. We got in touch with a couple of them after Earl's father passed away, and to let them know about my mother-in-laws battle with alzheimers. To make a long story short, they are all wonderful loving people, so was his aunt. We did  get to see her about 3 times over the past 8 months and are very thankful for that. I wonder how and why  families drift apart.  Tomorrow was a horrible food day for me. Not a great time for that as I see my NUTR. on Friday. I have no energy today so I just had a protein shake..maybe that will help.  Paulette

Hi all,

This is the third time I have tried to post here today and for some reason it has not stuck.  So here I go again.

I am still in ABMC, had my upper GI today and all is ok.  I had my first "meal" this afternoon of chicken broth and sugar free jello.  Hurray!

I am still very sore, and exhausted.  I was on an insulin drip til this afternoon, whidh required accuchecks every hour on the hour even at night.  I really need some uninterupted sleep.  Hopefull tonite will be the night, 

I was reading on here, where people who have had this same surgery, were home in 24 hours and doing fine.  I cant believe it.  At 24 hours I still thought I was going to die. 

Im not sure when I will be discharged, probably Friday whcih is ok with me.  I am not ready yet. 

Thank you for all your well wishes!

Good night for now.

Eileen