Thursday!

Hi everyone...it's the prodigal postal worker here...

I've been scarce...did anyone notice?  Had rural route inspections this week, whew! Now I have to find time to enter all that data in the next couple of days, along with everything else. My typist who has been off is back from her cruise, thank goodness. I told her she was grounded for a while!

Finally got the scale to move yesterday after a freakin' stall for the last couple of weeks - dang, I hate those! It was only a pound, but it moved in the right direction! It's going to be getting warmer and I plan to use part of my lunchtime every day to walk. 15-20 minutes is better than nothing, which is exactly what I've been doing. No wonder I'm losing slowly. I'm just such a WIMP with the cold any more.

Well, lots to do before I leave for work in a couple of hours. Hope everyone has a great Thursday!

Jenny

Good morning...

Well...tummy is a little bit quieter this morning..yay! I went ahead and stayed home though. My body just feels so weak from that ordeal. There's nothing at work that I was going to do today that can't wait until Monday. Well..I had a meeting for today but I usually skip these meetings anyway if they aren't mandatory.

So...I'll be spending another day watching tv and working sudoku puzzles. And trying to stay out of the bathrom some!!

huggs..
Sherri

Jenny,... you'll keep moving, dear. We all have those stalls while our bodies figure out what's happening to them. Sherri would say look at your PEW (protein exercise water). Glad today was a move in the right direction.

I am tuckered out. I have been falling asleep fine, but been having problems staying asleep. I might call my doctor today. I need to get some real rest finally.

Otherwise, not too much going on....

Linda
You definetly need some sleep.  I am fighting insomnia myself.  Dealing with some issues that I thought I would never have to deal with.  I continue to keep your family in my prayers. I could use some prayers to help me get through my crisis. Please give me a call if you ever want to do lunch or even dinner.  Take care of yourself and stay strong.  I am on my way to the hospital to see my new grandson being born this morning.

HUGS
Deborah

Good morning all.

I am gonna have a couple things to do today.  Nothing all too important at the moment.  I am going to plan for the Wabash support group meeting on Tuesday night. They have asked me to come and do their meeting for them sense their leader will be out of town.  I am kinda excited about that. 

Keep Janene and Taylor in your prayers today as they drive to Texas for the funeral of their friend. 

Sherri, I hope today you feel better and get some strength back. 

Deborah, I hope the baby makes it here safe and sound and congrats!

Linda, I hope Mikey makes it home very soon.  That is sure to help you sleep better too.

Jenny, work it girl!  Every bit of walking helps!!

I am hoping to tackle my treadmill in a bit myself.  I have some MOMTaxi work this morning but nothing as big as yesterday.  (thank goodness!)

Huge hugs,
Tracy

Good morning all. Busy morning here. Getting the girls ready for school today, and then having to run a few errands before work this morning. Thats always fun!
I got my hair done yesterday.  I went to the local beauty college and let them have fun with it! It is a little darker than I wanted, but it will lighten up eventually.  I will post pictures when I get some taken later this morning.
I have to work today. I am supervising today, so thats always a plus.  I don't get off wor****il 9pm tho, so there are drawbacks to the position! Oh well, the pay will make up for it!
Hope everyone is having a great day.  Prayers headed out to each and everyone! Take care!

Good Morning, I guess if thats what ya wanna call it. I haven't slept in days it seems like. A half hour here, hour there, that kind of thing. I'm just plain exhausted.

Today I have to make trip 2/3 to Indy this week, this time to downtown off Michigan to the dental school. My last fitting wasn't quite right so they had to do some playing round with my plates to make sure theyre perfect, today will be the final one though and then I can get them for sure next week probably. Tomorrow I have my 18 month follow up a little late. I'm beyond nervous about this. I feel like such a failure at my surgery. I don't feel like I've done good enough and like Dr C is going to be so disappointed with me. :( I've debated cancelling over and over but my therapist told me I better not and she actually called up there to tell them some of the stuff going on with me emotionally and with the eating disorder stuff and so now I HAVE to go. I just don't feel good about the appointment at all, I feel so grossly large still and I have barely lost (because of my medicine causing weight gain) at all since my last appointment and I just feel like a total failure. Oh well I have to go and DH is making sure of it anyways.

Does anyone know how they can tell the size of my pouch? The eating disorder clinic needs to know what size my pouch is because they need to be able to customize my meal plans to that for me to work me up to where I should be calorie and stuff wise.

Misty

This is from rules of the pouch. Maybe it can help you figure out the size of your pouch.

"I had patients eat until full with cottage cheese every three months, and report the amount of cottage cheese they were able to eat before feeling full. This gave me an idea of the size of their pouch at three month intervals. .."

Cathy

Thanks, I can't wait three months though. It's something I have to find out within the next couple weeks and I've not been able to tolerate cottage cheese. :( 

Misty,

I think you misunderstood Cathy's post. She didn't say you had to wait 3 months to do the test..she said she does the test every 3 months. You can do the test whenever you want to.

Get a full container of cottage cheese (fat free of course). Eat it as you normally would...but straight out of the container. Stop when you are full. Then, measure water out and pour it into the container on top of whatever cottage cheese is left. How ever many ounce of water it can hold until full is how many ounces your pouch is suppose to be. Be sure that you don't drink for 1/2 hour before/after/or during the test so that you don't wash any of the cottage cheese out of your pouch and give you a false higher reading. You can also measure out the cottage cheese into a measuring cup and eat until full if you don't want to waste what is left in the container by pouring the water into it.

Sherri