Monday

I am excited to see Monday roll around as it is my Friday..whew finally!!  I am taking my son to Kings Island tomorrow, 40% chance of rain over there tomorrow so hopefully we won't get too wet.  I intend to spend most of my day over there at the water park.  I bought my son and myself an annual pass for KI and we are brown baggin our lunches so I will see if I am actually able to go over there and not spend a ton of money. 

I think I need to take the scale back out of my bathroom for a bit, its making me so depressed.  I am stuck going up and down the same two pounds for three weeks.  I know they say you lose a pound for every 3500 calorie deficit but I am not convienced that is always true.  I dunno maybe I am in denial?

Peace and Love to you all.
Jeannie

Jeannie... you probably know all the standard answers... maybe you are losing inches, maybe you're gaining muscle. The thing to remember too, is, as you get smaller, your base metabolism uses less calories. So your body might have burnt a whole lot more calories just existing before!

Today is definately a Monday for me. It sucked having to get up to go to work when the boys got to sleep in!!! But I made it here. Tomorrow is jury duty for me. I would love to ge selected . I think it would be fascinating to be on a jury.

Linda

Good morning all! Busy busy day here for me.  Doctors appts, girls to pick up from a sleep over, more girls to pick up to go camping with us this evening....and of course, it is payday, so there is all the bills to pay.  Oh well, that just means I am healthy enough to work and have a good job to earn the money to pay the bills! Praise God for that!

Jimmy, our daughters, and 2 of their girlfriends are all going camping at Patoka Lake tonight. It is raining here now, so hopefully it will clear up before we have to go this eveing!  I certainly don't want to set up in the rain! It is going to be so much fun, since we are going with another group of people from work.  We have a whole section set aside for our group...way away from any other campers, so we don't disturb them too much! LOL  Wish us luck!

Tomorrow, I have to be at Louisville to film a commercial for Norton Bariatrics!!!  I am so excited, and thrilled to be able to do this.  I will make sure to let everyone know when the taping is completed and it is being shown.

Gotta get everyone up and ready to head out the door. Have a wonderful week all! Take care, and stay safe! God Bless!

Good morning!

I woke up about 7:30 and looked at the clock and thought 'this time tomorrow, I'll be in surgery'. Of course, then I rubbed my tummy and thought about how nice it'll be if everything is able to be repaired tomorrow.Yes, I am REALLY looking forward to tomorrow!

Today, I have some grocery shopping to do. Not stuff that we REALLY need right now but stuff that will be good for awhile and my coupons won't be good by the time I'm going to feel like shopping again. So..to save ~$40 or so, I'm gonna go ahead and get them. There's a few other things that I'd like to get done today too. If I do fine, if I don't..that's ok too. We'll just see how far the day..and my body...allows me to go.

Tiffany will probably contact Ellen & Gail so expect a post by one of them to let you all know how surgery went. It will be at LEAST a 3 hour surgery so don't expect any updates until after 10:30 at the earliest. I'll be at St. Vincent Carmel. I don't know what wing I'll be in. Dr. Gupta usually tries to get me in the bariatric wing but it all depends on how many post-bariatric patients they have on if I'll get there or not.

Time to get my stuff done....
Sherri

Hey Sherry,

Can I give you my grocery list to, I didn't get mine done this weekend.  Sherry I will keep you in my prayer and you will come out of surgery tomorrow as a new person.  Please let me know if you need anything.

Hugs


Peggy

Hi everyone,

I have not been on here in a while; I have been very busy taking care of my Mom lately.  Hopefully she will get to come home this week.  Just wanted to stop in a say Hello! 

Marvelous Monday to all

Busy here at work.  I am moving like and old person, my body is so sore and stiff from this weekends workout.  I am so proud of my front yard now, I got out Saturday and worked all day long, made 3 trips to Lowe's for top soil.  I lift 80 40lbs bag of top soil (some of these I lifted 2-4 times).  Was down on my hands and knees planting some beautiful flowers.  (I got one from Lowe's last weekend, it was sponsoring breast cancer, I wish I would have gotten more then 1 it looks so beautiful in the middle for my flower bed on the left side of my porch.  I got the top soil down on the right side of the porch, no plants yet, we have 4 rose bushes that we have to move before the city starts tearing up part of our yard for a new drainage system.  So I want to turn the right side of my porch into a small rose garden.  I got help from my husband on Saturday he got my tomato and pepper plants in my garden I still have alot of projects that I would like to get done before my surgery next month.  Our son Kyle is going to help us, he came over Saturday and got a tarp over our garage roof until we are able to get it fixed.  He also mowed the 3 lots that I didn't get done.

Yesterday I was slow getting moving, but I did manage to get some laundry done, mopped my kitchen floor, and shampoo my front room carpet.  Steven and I went to BWW for dinner last night, we got to watch extreme rules on PPV (wrestling fans) it was great.  I am tried this morning, but it is a good sore/stiff and tried. 

I would like to Thank God for giving me the tool to lose the weight that I have and hopeful will be able to take alot more off after my revision.  I would not have been able to 1/3 of what I did this weekend 3 years ago.  I may be sore/stiff but I feel awesome, because I get to sit back and enjoy the view of the beautiful flowers. 

Tracy I hope you are having a wonderful first day at work. 

Hope everyone had a wonderful and safe  time at HW. 

I guess I better get back to work

Hugs


Peggy

Typical Monday for me. I seem to get jet lag from the weekend and then when Monday rolls around I am in denial that I must go back to work. LOL. We did get a lot accomplished on Saturday. I spent the whole day outside in the yard and did so much that my body is mad at me now. It does feel good even though my muscles are sore, I know I got a good workout. Sorry I couldn't go to Holiday World this weekend. I bet you all had a real nice time. Count me in next time!
Sherry, you take care tomorrow and we will all be thinking about you.
Have a good day everyone.

I screwed up and gained weight.  This is my accountability post.

My doctors, NUTS, family, and others all keep telling me that my body has found a comfortable place where it is stabilized and I should stop trying to get back down to that size 6 I was in. I teeter totter from 6 to 8 now & have been for a few years.  But here is MHO about what has taken place in the last few months. Since I  have struggled MOST of my life with weight issues & food issues, after bariatric surgery even a slight increase in weight freaks me out!   They told me I should stop playing the #'s game whether it be the scales or clothes size but I think I am OCD now.  LOL  I still weigh myself every single morning.  That's something I choose to do and it keeps me accountable as a FO (far out).  Since Jan I've weaned off of my HRT and migraine headache reduction meds.  That's 21 less pills a week. I'm weaning off Prozac too against another Doc wishes.  More about that later.

My Neurologist weaned me off  my Topamax that helps to prevent my migraines.  I've been on it over 10 years but am trying to get off pills!!   Topamax can contribute to forgetfullness, memory problems, recall, forgetting where I put things, &nd I have to write every frickin thing down & then I forgot where I wrote it down!!!    Lisa brought up memory problems in another post..  My God, we feel like we have dementia at times.  And Topamax makes it worse!

To top it off, I'm also on Lyrica for Fibro, which causes weight gain.  She wanted to INcrease the Lyrica to offset going off the topamax because it helps reduce headaches w/o the side effects of Topamax.  I freaked out I said there's NO way that I am going to do that!!!  She said, "What is more important to you?  Solving  this problem of "dementia" LOL + decreasing your headaches OR gaining some weight back.  I said "NOT gaining weight back is MORE important to me!!!!!!" She's been my specialist for several years so she knew me at 350#.  But she was still surprised by my answer. 

I have the self confidence & experience under my belt now to be willing to take RISKS that I personally have to conquer MYself.  I need to challenge myself to continue to grow & learn in my WLS journey.  I still live by my four 1's principle at the bottom of my post.  I can conquer this that way.  This is another step that I'm ready to take now.  My success at maintaining is done all in the inside of my body.  I can physically exercise but my brain has to "engage" for me to do it faithfully.  Losing the weight is drastically fast but engaging our brain is NOT!!  Changing all the misconceptions, bad habits, & excuses I had all my life about how to maintain good health & proper eating habits takes lots of practice, patience, faith in believing what we can't see.

I encourage all you pre-op's and new post-op's to start NOW on the mindless habits of your past.  That's what I focused on even during those honeymoon days of yesteryear.  JUST DO IT....WHATEVER IT TAKES!  I'm worth it & I deserve another chance at living life instead of being a prisoner inside my MO all my life. 

So I weaned off Topamax 200 mg a day.  (I use to be on a much higher dose) Topamax also will help with weight loss.  My doc says people will request topamax to help them lose weight, & use it as  a diet pill.    Well, I gained 5# after I went off of this and HRT.  But I don't like to use "excuses" for weight gain even if they are valid because that's what I always did when I was gaining weight all my life.  I also was in Ohio for 5-6 weeks helping dad recover from his kidney cancer surgery & helping mom out.  So my eating habits were different then they are here at home.  I buckled under the stress   My whole family was there to support dad and we ate hospital cafeteria food everyday, & went out to eat quite a bit.  My family are all obese or MO so they were eating anything that didn't eat them first.  

Going off the topamax increased the intensity of my headaches for obvious reasons.  I hope this is only temparary.  My insurance will only pay for 6 Zomig a month for my migraines but I have more than 6 episodes a month.  So I ran out of my Zomig while in Ohio & couldn't refill my script out of state.  Then add the stress back home to the headaches and bingo.....I am taking a few steps backwards in my old eating habits with all the people that I learned them from.  Also being around so many negative thinking people got to me.  My positive thinking was not welcome there.

I also felt very disconnected from all my bari friends back home.  I got very little time on the computer & I'm not in the OH directory yet so I only had a couple phone #'s to call.  (Thank God I have one now.)  And when I engaged in calls, someone in the family always needed me or mom even told me to get off the phone. She knew I was PO with her.  My bari friend can vouch for me on that with the only 2 phone calls we made to each other in 6 weeks.  It was really hard to even get all my vits & supp in.  I felt very isolated with people that didn't understand.  I even ask people at St. V's hospital in Toledo (where my dad was) if they had a bariatric center there so I could go visit them. NO.  It reminds me of AA mtg that people go too....I needed my dose of inspiration & encouragement that I get from my bari brothers & sisters.  Your're MY FAMILY. 

 Migraines are hereditery in my family but when I was growing up & got a headache, I "convinced" myself that it was because I didn't eat enough.  I truly believed that eating MORE during a headache would alliviate the pain somewhat.  Hummmm because I was comforting myself with comfort food.  That was my prescription of choice to help the headache go away. And I slipped back into that old pattern back home. 

But I am a responsible adult now that is responsible for making my own choices & decisions. I acknowledge that & its not their fault I buckled.  Its my fault.  I knew what I was putting in my mouth and chose to do it anyway.  So I suffer the consequences.  But I'm not going to sit around & say whoa is me, I screwed up so I might as well just give up. Quitting is not in my vocabulary anymore.   

I am telling those of you that are on this journey with me, but not 9 years out yet, that even us FO losers can't become complacent or lose focus of what we are saying to ourselves on a daily basis & the justification that we use for "taking just one bite."    It will still come back & bite YOU.  I'm not exempt from that.  Yes, I had my stomach stapled but not my emotions or my taste buds.  This is not easy for ANY of us.  It takes lots of discipline.  So don't have the WLS & think that once the WLS does what IT is supposed to do, that you are not going to have to take over the responsibility from there....maintenance.  Us FO don't have that thrill of losing 5-10# every month.  So my thrill is in conquering my old demons that still are residing in my brain & send them packing!         

Well, this was theraputic for ME just to put my thoughts & feelings out there.  The prozac, maybe I should wait a bit to d/c it like my doc says.  I think my body needs to stabilize from stopping the TOP and HRT.  I'd like your HO and support about all this stuff.  Thanks for listening.

Kathy -

You know you have my support.  As your sig line says, "1 change at a time".  Don't throw yourself into a tailspin by coming off too many meds at one time.  I would wait like your doctor suggested for d/c the prozac.  You may just need the prozac's support while coming off the HRT.  Just my .02 worth.

I agree - it takes a lot of discipline, and we can't afford to become complacent.  I will admit, I eat some things I probably shouldn't, and don't exercise as much as I should.  

However, I know the value of support - priceless.  That's why I come here - it's like Cheers - everyone knows your name; they know where you've come from, and what you're going through (unless they have blocked you, like some that will remain nameless).

Putting the thoughts out there for all to see is so very therapeutic.

Hugs!