WHAT'S HAPPENING FRIDAY....2/12/10?
Jan is missing in action so I'll start the day. The sun is trying to shine this morning and we didn't get more snow.
Yesterday I tried the dietician's suggestion for lots of carbs and I'm up 3 lbs. this morning so I'm going back my low carb diet. It's crazy to think I can eat 600 calories, half my daily calories, in carbs. All I wanted to do was eat and this morning I'm still having the hungries and I can't hungry. I need to decarb!!Today my office is bringing in pizza. I let them know I won't be eating it so they're getting me a salad. Pizza doesn't even sound good.
Bec, I wish I could get my Gazelle out to use. I think I would really like it. When I bought it, it was in a box so I didn't see how big it is. It said it folds for storage but it still takes up a lot of room. If I can get Max to clean up all his paperwork and the mess he has around the computer desk, maybe I can put it in there. I didn't us the air climber last night (too busy eating) but I did look at the DVD for it. Looks like it will be a great little machine.
That head hunger really gets on my nerves. I've been drinking water everytime I think I want to eat. Meal time is a struggle but I can sure snack big time so planning my day and spreading the food out works best for me.
Jeanie_Rae, you're making a good start with your exercise. Before long, you will be on the treadmill for 30 minutes. Just take it slow.
Anyone have big plans for Valentine's Day. I told hubby I want Russell Stover SF candy and Blue Diamond almonds. We will go out for dinner after church since I have a Stephan Ministry class at 3:00....ugh. I need to get him something.
Everyone have a great day!!
~Jo~
RNY: July 8, 2008
Dr. John Price
Kansas City, MO
Sure had the night from H__ll last night…was just so chaotic , crazy, all the doctors in and seeing patients while I was trying to help them im also trying to help the aides since we were one aide short and then one of the aides kept getting sicker and sicker so he was sent home. Then we were two aids down. It was horrible. We are really needing some new aides…they have two positions open right now and there are 4 of them moving and quiting the end of this month. That will be six. There is no way that we can operate
Like that.
I had this all typed up last night and don’t know what happened to it. I must have hit don’t save instead of save lol cause it wasn’t there this morning.
wasn’t much any way just a bunch of boring typing.
JO:::::all of that mess about your calories and carbs and stuff really sound complicated to my mind this morning….I just got up and it is 10 am so you know I slept hard ….all I know is that Dr. H. told us no more than 30 good carbs at a meal….but I cant eat that many or I gain weigh….unless I am exercising good every day…I think last night would be considered exercise for 8 hours ….I was either stressing and doing orders or I was running down the halls ways answering emergency lites. Like the bed lites that someone has gotten up that wasn’t suppose to by themselves. ….it was crazy.
Dr. H told us that sometimes what you are feeling is not hunger at all but thirst. And when you drink water the hunger you thought was that goes away.
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BEC::::: the boot camp is up in the air since I am working we would have to all schedule 5 days off together and stick to it. No one has said when would be a good time for them…I think it should be before
it gets too hot don’t you?
Bec the drinking lots of water might help your head hunger too. don’t know but try it ok? How much are you forcing yourself to drink a day now? With your heavy exercising I would say you need more than the average person to wash those fat toxins out of your body….you break them down with the exercise but you don’t wash them out with enough water ….that is what I read on something and I cant remember where I found that at.
If I were as good of a cook as you are I might have trouble fighting off the cravings for food too but im not so it doesn’t bother me as much. Maybe if you make Pauls meals ahead for a week at a time and then the only thing you are cooking is what you can have….and just stick with meat and green veggies it might be easier. I know you would have to heat it all up but just keep your mind filled with something else while you do that.
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JEANIE RAE:::::: just don’t quit on the treadmil….do they have water aerobics???? If so that would be your very best thing to work off soreness and get your bones limbered up….that is what Sugar used daily for the first year…only now is she adding the other things. I sure wish I was close enough to do it.
See you tonight sweetie…..
JO�thanks again good i count on you and others....i just got up late ....i think a truck ran over me last night.....lol
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I wondered if you would be able to do the boot camp and work too? I think it should be before it gets to hot too... maybe when all your tulips and early spring flowers are at there height of color?
About the water... I am setting my timer for every 30 minutes and drinking 8 oz., added with my coffee and shakes too... sometimes I drink the Crystal Light in there along...
I enjoyed the forward you sent about the exercise too... had some interesting thoughts in there.
Yea... that liking to cook is NOT so beneficial in my current situation...
I had just thought about cooking up a bunch of recipes like I did before surgery and having them to feed Paul. I think it would help alot... I am having a heck of a time cooking anything for him right now and not being just miserable with it... so I got the things I would need at the store today to do just that.... I can make enough for nearly a whole month in one weekend if I work real hard at it.... going to cook a turkey and make some casseroles.. at the $ store they have these covered tin foil pans that are just the right size for him. Going to make a dressing casserole he likes and a turkey and rice casserole, burritos, 15 bean soup, a lasange type casserole an omelet filling too... that will help me lots when it comes to feeding him and he will not feel cheated and I will not have to suffer with it so much. Just have to get in that dress before the 1st weekend in June you know? ~ha
Thanks for the suggestions I am listening to all that you wonderful ladies have to say and trying to adjust all that I can to be successful at this seemingly LONG journey.
Bec
I'm ignoring the dietician's instructions. Just won't work for me. I'm sticking with what I was doing....40% protein, 25% fat, 35% carbs. Can't remember where I got that info but probably here on the RNY board. The carbs make me think I'm hungry all the time. I do find drinking water helps a lot. I've been a big water drinker for years. I have a quart container and I drink 1 before lunch and 1 after lunch. When I think I want to eat, I am drinking water and waiting 30 minutes. The hunger usually goes away. I plan my food for the day and my new rule is I can't have it if it isn't planned. I also won't allow myself to eat unless 3 hours have passed.
My surgeon refuses to give me a morning appointment so I won't be seeing him. My PC does yearly bloodwork so if there are any problems she will find them. I take my vitamins, calcium and iron daily.
This afternoon I'm going to an orientation for teaching people to read. This evening I'm going to get all the handwork done on the dance costumes while I watch a movie. I need to get them done.
~Jo~
RNY: July 8, 2008
Dr. John Price
Kansas City, MO
Just wanted to get out today so Paul and I went to Marshall, he took back a hitch receiver for my new Gator... then went to the groceries and $160 later and very few sacks we were back home and out for a walk... it was nice for a change to be out in the snow... and it wasn't so very cold either...
Boy after yesterday I sure could tell that I had not been on my Gazelle for a time... it was HARD when I hooked up the resistance...so will have to work back up to the 30 minutes.
Jo ~ you are right it does take a lot of room for the Gazelle but it's worth it to me because it is so easy on my back with it being a no impact machine... that helps me lots and lots.
Will be interested to hear how you like your new machine? What does it do and look like?
I just can't believe your dietitian wants you to have that many carbs... I sure had not heard of that before but then every program is different... I know what you mean about wanting to eat more once you get started on them... I have years and years of bad habits to try and break and I'm not always so successful at it.... but know if I ask the Lord to help me and do not give up, keep trying no matter how much I fail, I will eventually overcome it.
No big Valentines plans here... I am going to make Paul a homemade peanut butter pie that a neighbor showed me how to make....egads it was wicked!
She made a real crust (think I will make mine out of crushed up peanut butter sandwich cookies) and then crushed Butterfingers bars over it and put it back in the oven till those melted and then she made a "from scratch" thick vanilla pudding pie filling and put 1 cup of peanut butter in it after she had it all cooked... then she crushed more Butterfingers over the top and topped it with a beautiful meringue.... I am going to put real whipped cream and garnish mine with crushed Butterfingers... isn't that purely sinful? Oh a thought just came into my wicked mind 
... shouldn't there be some cream cheese in that somewhere? ~tee hee Heck if I am going to be BAD ... then I'll BE BAD!!! No... I am going to "try" and be real good about it 
and hopefully just have a taste to see how I did? That will be my gift to my good man. He is so good to me and I want to be good back to him 
... that will be about all he gets besides a cherry pie for some time to come (I can make those without too much temptation and he really likes them) I just can't make most desserts without eating it and I know I have to stay away from it. 
How do you like the Stephen Ministry? Our church does that but I do not know much about it?
Thanks Jo for your input... I have been drinking alot of water the past two days and it does help... at least some.
Here soon I am going to try spreading smaller amounts over more times in the day and see if it helps with the head hunger
... I know me though and I might not want to stop with the smaller amounts... but will sure be worth a try. I got some Greek yogurt today at Wal~Mart... it sure does have more protein in it... but how do most eat it? I got the vanilla... do most add fruit to it? It says one serving is a cup. That seems like a lot... but then it is 22 grams of protein... that's great! It has a different consistency to it too.
Well still have crunches and weights
to do yet this evening so better get on the ball... ~haThey are calling for more snow for several days yet... will have to take the keys away from Paul he took my new gator out today and got it stuck...
he was just seeing how well it would do in the snow....he came back in and said he needed me for weight in the back!!! Can you believe that? 
I told him I WAS NOT good for that anymore! ~ha and that HE would have to get in the back! ~tee hee I fussed with him for some time about that!
He just smiled like he does and went right on....Well keep warm all and have a good evening.
Bec
Yesterday I went to Scooters with my gift card for a latte. They drinks are so high in calories and price, I never go unless I have a gift card or someone else is buying. I asked for a sugar free latte, but apparently he forgot and it wasn't SF. After a few sips, I started feeling sick and I got so hot. I tossed it and won't go back.
They brought pizza in for my department and I told the organizer I didn't want pizza so she orderd me a salad with grilled chicken.
I do think liking to cook can be a hindrance to us. My husband eats what I eat with the exception of pasta and starches. I fix them for him but pasta doesn't go down well for me so I avoid it. I eat potatoes occasionally but I can pass them up.
I need to get going on my exercise today!!
~Jo~
RNY: July 8, 2008
Dr. John Price
Kansas City, MO
For the Greek yogurt I add protein powder sometimes, Splenda and berries.
~Jo~
RNY: July 8, 2008
Dr. John Price
Kansas City, MO
