How's That Tuesday View Lookin' for You?

Good Morning Everybody! How's that Tuesday "view" lookin' for you? Sorry I'm a little late this morning. Had a few things come up and this is the first chance I've had to log in today. So what's up in your world? How's the eating/drinking/supplements and protein going? How about exercise. I'm doing great on everything....well, except for the piece of pineapple upside down cake I had last night. It was yummy...but about 10 minutes after I ate it, I think I had a mild case of dumping - I felt nauseous. Never got sick...but I was in bed early last night because I was so tired. In fact, I didn't want to get up this morning. I'm doing some stuff around the house/running errands this morning and going to cut the grass (which I couldn't do before because of the porch construction debris) and then I'll be going into the office to work this afternoon/evening. I won't get home until later tonight, but at least I will have gotten everything done today. I have no wiggle room built into my schedule this week. I'm "catering" a party for a good friend this weekend and between preparing for that, working out and getting my hair done, I have no extra time. Don't mean to sound like I'm whining, I'm not. I like being busy (it sure beats sitting around being bored). I'm just so thankful that it is not as hard of a thing to be (busy) since losing all this weight. I have so much more energy! Well have a great day, I'm not sure that I'll make it back on here today. Take Care, Terry

Good morning. Sounds like Terry is going to be quite a busy beaver! Hope it all goes smoothly for you today. I am not too busy. A lot of conference calls happening and a couple of meetings. I am leaving work early to take Stephanie to her follow-up with the surgeon. I hope he tells me that we can stop packing her wound and just cover it with a good bandage. That will be much better than what we have been doing. Well, still not lbs lost. Yesterday the scale moved 2 lbs but today it was right back up. ARGH!! Oh well. I sure hope I bust out of this plateau soon. I am tired of not seeing the scale move and knowing that I am not even eating 1000 cal a day. One thing this surgery has done for me is taking my appetite away. If I am not in the mood for meat then I rarely eat anything. And it doesn't bother me to not eat. I only get true hunger when I go more than 6 hours without eating. But if the scale isn't going to move then what difference does it make. Sorry guys. I am just really bummed about this. I am exercising almost daily and feel like i am doing good. But the scale just doesn't support this right now. I am so afraid that this is going to be it. I don't want this to be over. I want to lose more and feel that I should be able to lose more given the fact that I have had surgery. I know I am being a whiney butt right now. Okay, enough of that. On with the process of life. I should be able to get in a good walk tonight since my kids will be at drama practice and my husband is working late. So I don't have to have dinner ready early. In fact, it'll most likely be left over night. I am looking forward to another good workout. Have a wonderful day! Terry, one thing that weight loss surgery does...give more energy. I love that! Enjoy your energy. Hugs, Robin

Hey Robin You may not be losing because you are not eating enough. At this point I would think you should be eating 1200-1500 calories per day! Your body may be thinking it's in starvation mode. Shake up your eating, go light one day and then eat a bit more the next. And concentrate on your protein and fluids. (I'm a great one to talk, I've been stuck for a year and have gained a couple of pounds , but I'm giving you the advice I've seen given time and time again to people who seem stuck and discouraged and admit that they are 'barely' eating!!!) I've got nails and toesies tonight after work. Getting ready for vacation on Saturday. Have a wonderful day! and enjoy your walk tonight ... I've been walking 40 minutes at lunch time again and it feels GREAT to be outside. Really perks up my afternoon. Hugs, Mo

Thanks Mo. Yes, I have heard about uping the calories. I guess my biggest fear is that I am going to over do it and begin to gain weight back. I really need to keep a very detailed log of my eating to make sure I am doing what I should. I tried to have oatmeal with protein powder in it this morning. Yuck!!! And it was the "natural" or flavorless powder but it still tasted really bad. I guess that won't work. I tried to have a protein shake and my blender broke! So I just ate half of a poppy seed muffin and am hoping I don't dump off of it. Not a good day so far for eating, huh. Thanks for the advice. I enjoy walking on my lunch break too. Hugs, Robin

Robin - Wow!!! Hope everything works out for Stephanie!!! Just the words, "packing the wound," are enough to make me want to run screaming from the room!!! Poor thing! I sympathize with you on the whole scale issue - but I wish I could "not" eat when I'm not hungry. I'm thinking I'm going to have to seek professional help (seriously) to deal with the emotional eating aspect. It's what got me into trouble before, and I'm bound and determined it is not going to get the better of me. But Mo's right, if your body thinks it's starving, it's going to hold onto EVERYTHING! But I understand your not wanting to overdo it! Quite the quandry, isn't it? Eat, not eat, eat too much, eat too little - it's enough to make a sane person want to OD on chocolate!!! Hang in there - it's a lifetime learning curve!!! Hang in there, honey, we're all with you! Tia

Thanks Tia. Yep it truly is a lifetime learning process. OD on chocolate sounds good to me. LOL. Today is not going to be a good eating day because I tried to eat oatmeal with protein powder and it was really gross and now every bite I try is hurting my stomach or making me nauseaous. So it's better to just not eat for awhile. Emotional eating is hard to overcome. Even with all of my limitations (which will become fewer and fewer with time) I still try to eat when I am stressed or upset. But I am working on it. I am trying to refocus myself when I feel I need to turn to food. I try to get busy with something else and most of the time that works. Although not always. I appreciate the encouragement. Hugs, Robin

ICK Robin! Oatmeal with protein powder just sounds disgusting!!!!!! Sorry, but we just had a luncheon here with deli meats (I was hoping for pizza), and the turkey was toooo dry and Randy, my pouch, is saying, "Um, no thanks, none for me!" I haven't been sick in a long time, and I can tell that I won't have to make myself sick, it should pass on its own, but in the meantime, it's a miserable feeling!!!!! If you got sick after that nasty combo, it could just be that your pouch is irritated, so be kind to it for the rest of the day. I do not rely on protein powders any more - if I do a shake, I do the RTD kind and pour it into my coffee as creamer. It's not bad that way, and I don't have that gritty taste/feel. You know, it's funny - DVR told me that instead of snacking at night, I should find something to occupy myself - I wanted to laugh as I thought of how insanely busy I am sometimes. My eating is usually during the day, while I'm sitting here chained to the desk, so I try to keep healthy, good choices handy. It's not necessarily that I'm eating a lot or bad things, but it's the frequency that I want to eat that bothers me. As I said, a work in progress. Someone else said that when you want to eat but know you're not hungry, you should count to your goal weight and see if the feeling goes away. I'm going to try that, so we'll see. Take care, Tia

Morning Terry Oh, believe me my view is of the weekend for sure this Tuesday! I have a lot to accomplish between now and Saturday evening when we leave, but I am soooo ready for it. Yesterday was truly a MONDAY !!! Had a customer paying a bill in cash with a suspect $50 bill in the mix. She became borderline unruly when we couldn't process the payment and asked her to wait for the police to come. Fortunately, we didn't have to wait too long for an officer and he handled it for us. The downside for the customer was that her $50 was confiscated and she still owed us the $50. Then, we have had an ongoing issue in the office that has dragged on far too long with no real resolution and we had a hand full of incidents with that issue yesterday. My boss is out and in her place I am more or less the 'acting' Chief (some times being an indian is often a better place to be .. even though I am a chief in my own little domain). With all that stuff going on the day flew by. When I got home I worked another 5 hours on Excel spreadsheets that I am trying to put together some statistics with. I am unusually alert considering I didn't go to bed until 11 and I was up at 5 a.m. Have already had a meeting this week and I'm back to juggling my spreadsheets of statistics. I want to get those finished today, but I am SURE there will be other interuptions and it will take me days to be done. We still don't have a resolution on the proposals either, but I think I've done everything I can do where that project is concerned. Now they just have to haggle it out. Have a good day! Hugs, Mo

Hey Mo - Wow - sounds you like had enough of a Monday to not have any for a while! I can't blame the customer for being po'd - she basically was out $100!!!! Although to get "unruly" at your staff wasn't right, but she obviously wasn't being rational! Not sure I would be, either!!! Yes, we often have too many Chiefs, not enough Indians here - the problem is, they're wearing badges and guns. It can create some "interesting" problems. I KNOW you're waiting for vacation. Poncho & Lefty called me last night and said, "Tia, PLEASE remind Mommy to bring our favorite cat food so we don't have to drive the RV through the front of Wally World!!!" So, please, for your furbabies's sakes, take enough food!!! C YA, Tia

OMG .. I am rolling on the floor here with the idea of the boys driving through the front of Wally World!!!! Hugs, Mo