Monday Roll Call

Good monring Nancy and the rest of IL!

Crystal I am SOOOO excited for you!  I will be 3 weeks out when you have your surgery tomorrow!  I will be thinking of you and wishing you a very fast recovery!  Let us know what time your surgery is please!!!  

This weekend we had gone to my dad's and my kids had a lot of fun!  It was nice!  I ate a scrambled egg for the first time yesterday since before surgery!!  It was good!

Today I have to go to the grocery store and get a couple things!  It is Spring break so I will be taking my 3 kids with me!  They will be thrilled I am sure!  My neighbor asked me to watch her daughters this afternoon for a couple hours so I will do that and then I have to go feed another neighbors cat's and pickup their mail!  Not too exciting!

I hope to finish a Jodi Picoult book I am reading!

Stay warm and dry!

Jen

Good morning Nancy and the rest of IL,  Yesterday was another great day, We did get some yard work done and cooked Chicken on the grill last night  also had a little campfire, it was so nice'.
Today ran to walmart and not much else going on as of yet, We did plan on going to Rock Cut Park with the dogs for a walk but the rain took care  of that for us,

Crystal I want to wish you a safe surgery and speedy recovery tomorrow, Please have you Friend let us know how you are doing .

Monica you must be so proud of your son, I know I would be,  Tell him Congrats on a job well done.

Connie Welcome home,  You will have to bring you pic, of your trip to the next Meeting, I would love to see them,

 Well  not much else going on here,
Hope everyone has a great week,
Take care and hugs to everyone

Hello all, I had my 3rd fill a couple of weeks ago. I seem to have restriction more when drinking then when I eat food. Taking a potassium( a big oblong aspirin  like pill) is very uncomfortable even broke in half), I can eat salads with no problems, My weight loss is slower but still ok. I  don't do well at eating 3 meals a day, I usually end up eating more and only 2 meals. My favorite is 3/4  cup of chili with lots of meat, beans and  a dollop of sour cream, a bit of cheese and onion. Sometimes I eat it a both meals. Can I be ok with this?  Do you miss having a regular sandwich, I do. I've tried a half of piece of toast with no problems , but it wasn't worth cheating for.  Before surgery I bought these special little pretty plates and bowls which now seems unnecessary. I really question if I am going to fail this, Does anyone out there relate to this? 

After more than a year with the band, I still find each day to be different in what I can eat. I do always eat three "meals" but they are small and frequently I have something in between--usually a cheese stick or a protein bar or a half banana. The most important thing is to get the 60 grams of protein. I still count the protein daily. As to repeating the meal, I do that a lot, because even though my partner also has had the surgery, it is still hard to make small amounts of food. I like the chili meal and also black beans with hamburger, cheese, onion and low fat sour cream. I eat all my meals on salad size plates or small paper plates. I don't usually eat salads but if I do I put them in a small bowl like 1/2 c size. There are days when I could eat a sub sandwich and other days when a small cottage cheese is plenty. This is a really great experience at listening to my body.

Give yourself time to learn what works for you! Good luck!

Connie 

Sorry I haven't been around lately.

I have been trying to get by to write, but spring break is always so much extra screwing around.

It is wearing me out.

In a couple weeks I will be all back on tract.

Anyway, I am still losing weight. I still feel great.

I have been dating and working and going to school.

Ran out to mom's this last weekend and changed out 3 toilets. She always saves all the work around her house for when I go visit her.  So i put a new toilet in the upstairs bathroom, then I took the one from upstairs downstairs and put it in there. Then I took the downstairs toilet out to our cabin and put the downstairs toilet in the cabin. The cabin one froze and cracked this winter. I think it froze and one of my brothers bratty kid**** it with something and broke it. But it is new now.  Well, new-used.

All is going good. School is going good. I am on spring break this week, so I am actually getting time to screw around and study.

It is nice.

Everyone have a good day.

Dave

 First day of Spring Break.  I am feeling antsy, but we didn't do much today, just went to the bank, to Meijer, and to gas up.  I went swimming my regular time.

No clue if the rest of the week will continue to be this exciting.

Crystal, good luck tomorrow, I will try to go out to visit you on Wednesday.