What's on your Wednesday menu RNY'ers?
Good morning everyone, I'm late to the party, but even with a late post, I had to come and tell you the good news. I got a call from my clinic yesterday to report that we have TWO NORMAL EMBRYOS 
! Given my history and testing, this is such unexpected news, especially because it was an entire week early. Honestly, I was 100% bracing myself for none of the embryos to be normal. I still feel like it can't be true. Now, we'll do a "mock cycle" to make sure the transfer is done at precisely the right time, but a month(ish) from now, I could be transferring an embryo and waiting for a BFG (that's a "Big Fat Positive" in the fertility world). Wow! I'm giddy!
QOTD: as a vet (I just had to say that) the questions have died down, but I absolutely got a MILLION questions when I was more newly pre-op, especially given the public nature of my job. The answer really varied depending on the person. I often was much more open with morbidly obese people, but my stock answer was something a long the lines of "I worked with my doctor to make big lifestyle changes." It was true enough, but didn't give more info than I was willing.
TSS: 5 years
B: egg cup and coffee
L: yogurt and turkey sticks
S: apple and almonds
D: lemon chicken
S: PB pretzels
I'm about to do a lunchtime Trader Joe's run and I can't wait! I'm in desperate NEED of their light string cheese. It is so much better than all the other string cheeses - IMO. I love hitting up TJ's and just seeing what new things they have. Anyone especially enjoying something new?
RNY @ Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia with Dr. Tatyan Clark 3/18/2014
YAY for the embryo's! amazing news!!
Amber
RNY 2/12/18
5'4 1/2" tall, HW : 315 lbs, Surgery Wt: 297lbs.
M1: -17.5lbs M2: -11.5lbs M3: -12lbs M4: -13lbs M5: -13lbs M6: -13.5lbs M7: -12lbs M8: -14lbs M9: -10.5lbs M10: -7.75lbs M11: -5.25lbs M12: -4lbs M13: -3lbs M14: -7lbs M15: -2lbs M16: -1lb **made it to goal!**
CW 148
on 3/20/19 1:01 pm, edited 3/20/19 6:02 am
Hello my RnY kindred! Happy Spring Equinox!
it's been in the mid-70s here for the past few days, amazing since just last week it snowed! I have been so enjoying witnessing spring unfolding - many of the cherry trees have begun to blossom, gorgeous creatures that they are! The forsythia is it's exuberant self, joyfully jetting pure yellow into the air. I wish I had my own garden and yard, I would plant absolute masses of snowdrops, crocuses, tulips and more to welcome this beautiful season!
QOTD: I moved to Seattle from Santa Barbara a bit more than a year ago. At that point I had already lost 130+ pounds post-surgery, and I was already feeling slinky and happier about my weight. Now I've lost an additional 100 or so pounds. Up here, only my son, daughter-in-law, her family, and the guests at their wedding 3 years ago saw me at my heaviest. I did get an intrusive question about how much I'd lost from my DIL's stepmother at Easter last year, but other than that, I've had very few if any comments, other than my kiddo observing how improved my mobility is (100%). In daily life the people I encounter never saw me heavy and don't know my history, so any reactions to me are not based upon any perceived change.
In general, the world is very much kinder to those whose weight is more proportionate to their height than it is to the SMO. I have received comments here and there about my body, but they've been positive, inoffensive, and meant as compliments. It's a relief not to feel the negativity and judgement I used to randomly receive. Some people can restrain themselves from commenting, but their thoughts are deafening!
My adorable nephew Ian is going to visit me in a couple of weeks with his girlfriend Jasmine, yay! I can't wait to see them. Ian hasn't seen me since my last 100+ pounds loss, so there will be an observation or two made, but he loves me and I him, so it will be all good.
First: coffee - two huge mugs!
B: some ham
L: tuna
D: probably turkey meatloaf, green salad.
I hope that everyone will enjoy the first day of spring!
Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland ride Wearing white for Eastertide. Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again, And take from seventy springs a score, It only leaves me fifty more. And since to look at things in bloom Fifty springs are little room, About the woodlands I will go To see the cherry hung with snow.
A.E. Housman
Jim Age 58 Height 6 Feet Consult Weight 344 SW 289 Pre-Surgery -55, M1 -25, M2 -16, M3 -21, M4 -10, M5 -5, M6 -1, M7 -4, M8 0, M9 +4, M10 -4
on 3/21/19 1:04 pm
What a beautiful poem! Thank you for posting it, Jim. I especially love the image of the cherry blossoms hung with snow. There are cherries blossoming all over Seattle now, with many planted in an allee and lovely grove at the University of Washington. Some varieties are due to peak over the next week or so, while others, including some very pink ones, peak a bit later.
I am fond of ukiyo-e (17th-19th century Japanese woodcuts - a translation is "pictures of the floating world" - the name itself is beautiful!), especially those moody night images of cherry blossoms, the glowing moon, perhaps with the scalloped edge of a temple, etc. If I had a house up here, I'd love to plant a pair of cherry trees (as well as a pair of apples, plums, persimmons, Japanese maples, and hollies). I'd need a big yard!
