Friday 13th -no ladders today
Hi Linda and my OFF family:
Good to hear your weight loss is going well. I remember those early days well ... although it's been nearly eight years. Ah, memories!
Last night, I went to dinner with a neighborhood friend, Pat, and my brother. Pat is my brother's age, but she and I and another girl, Nancy, hung out a lot together and played "Beatles" and "Monkees" ... Pat and Nancy actually went to a Beatles concert when they were in Chicago (I was too young to go). It was great remembering the old days. She had a rough childhood ... an abusive stepfather (didn't realize how abusive ... she said she slept with a knife in her bed, she was fearful he would molest her). He did beat her and was verbally abusive, which I figured. She said her friends and her grandmother got her through that. We had dinner at Applebees and then went to Starbucks to visit some more. It was a good time. I posted some photos on Facebook.
Today, I'm meeting another friend for a late lunch and then some high school friends for a late dinner. Lots more food than I usually eat. But it's going to be fine ... the high school folks are people I don't really remember but we've been chatting on Facebook. They all remember me ... I guess I don't have such a good memory. Oh well, that's OK.
Mag, glad your knee surgery went OK. Rest well and take your pain meds.
Everyone, have a good day. I'm not supersitious, so the 13th means nothing to me, just another day.
Good to hear your weight loss is going well. I remember those early days well ... although it's been nearly eight years. Ah, memories!
Last night, I went to dinner with a neighborhood friend, Pat, and my brother. Pat is my brother's age, but she and I and another girl, Nancy, hung out a lot together and played "Beatles" and "Monkees" ... Pat and Nancy actually went to a Beatles concert when they were in Chicago (I was too young to go). It was great remembering the old days. She had a rough childhood ... an abusive stepfather (didn't realize how abusive ... she said she slept with a knife in her bed, she was fearful he would molest her). He did beat her and was verbally abusive, which I figured. She said her friends and her grandmother got her through that. We had dinner at Applebees and then went to Starbucks to visit some more. It was a good time. I posted some photos on Facebook.
Today, I'm meeting another friend for a late lunch and then some high school friends for a late dinner. Lots more food than I usually eat. But it's going to be fine ... the high school folks are people I don't really remember but we've been chatting on Facebook. They all remember me ... I guess I don't have such a good memory. Oh well, that's OK.
Mag, glad your knee surgery went OK. Rest well and take your pain meds.
Everyone, have a good day. I'm not supersitious, so the 13th means nothing to me, just another day.
Went to a Sugar Bush today about 2 hours by car...Totally carbs and fat...only veggies were some home pickles (everything at the sugar bush was freshly and home-made and excellent)...It was also BYOB, so I brought 2 bottles, one white one red, and mostly poured it all letting others drink while etaing...no one noticed. I wasn't ( I drank before the meal started arriving!)..
Two years ago I had done the same annual Maple Syrup fest, eating for 2.5 hours, and as the driver on the way home with a full car, felt a sugar crash come on...Scary as vison blurs while driving...My BFF sitting next to me knows I have had RnY and when I told her quiettly to quickly peel me 2 BabyBel Lights in my purse, as I was going hypoglycemic, she did as told and it was qickly under control...
Today, with that memory of 2 years ago, and 2 others in my car as passengers today who don't know I've had WLS, I prepared a baggie with some of the omelette and bacon they were serving at the sugar shack in case I had an incident on the way home. And although the syrup was delish, had very little of it and only a taste of the sugar pie, and the maple mousse and the "Grandperes" ( "grandfathers" in French...they are dessert dumplings bathed in thick maple sauce, very Quebecois)...
There was split pea soup to start, fluffy omelette with sliced ham and bacon, Oreilles de Chris ( Christ's Ears, no offence meant, but they are deep fried pork rinds, very tasty and crispy), home beetroot, green and onion pickles ( do they count as veggies?? pickled in tons of sugary vinegar)...Wonderful baked beans in maple syrup and mini franks ( like ****tail) saussages, fabulous home cut double deep fried cubed potatoes, pancakes and syrup, egg poached in hot maple syrup, And after all that, the 3 desserts...and then outside to do the taffy roll: hot maple syrup poured onto clean chipped ice/snow and you roll up on a wooden popsicle stick.pure sugar high!..
TOTALLY NOT MAINTENANCE FOOD....( PS I didn't try the delish white baguette bread slices nor the split pea soup, or I would have been DONE!)...Pouchie today was a friend, I was able to taste everything, and leave lots behind ( "Sorry Madame, did you not like the food?")...
I missed it last year as is an annual event in a group of about 20 friends who don't know I've had WLS. Went this year again , and was prepared for a sugar dive ( I don't dump, but can have a hypoglycemic event 2 hours after a high sugar carby meal) while driving with some omelette and bacon at the ready ......No hypoglycemic event occurred, so think I am back to NORMAL, but so glad this type of pigout happens only once a year or every two...Don't even want to know the amount of calories I ingested...Am still feeling full 5 hours later and so thankful this is a rare event.....
Two years ago I had done the same annual Maple Syrup fest, eating for 2.5 hours, and as the driver on the way home with a full car, felt a sugar crash come on...Scary as vison blurs while driving...My BFF sitting next to me knows I have had RnY and when I told her quiettly to quickly peel me 2 BabyBel Lights in my purse, as I was going hypoglycemic, she did as told and it was qickly under control...
Today, with that memory of 2 years ago, and 2 others in my car as passengers today who don't know I've had WLS, I prepared a baggie with some of the omelette and bacon they were serving at the sugar shack in case I had an incident on the way home. And although the syrup was delish, had very little of it and only a taste of the sugar pie, and the maple mousse and the "Grandperes" ( "grandfathers" in French...they are dessert dumplings bathed in thick maple sauce, very Quebecois)...
There was split pea soup to start, fluffy omelette with sliced ham and bacon, Oreilles de Chris ( Christ's Ears, no offence meant, but they are deep fried pork rinds, very tasty and crispy), home beetroot, green and onion pickles ( do they count as veggies?? pickled in tons of sugary vinegar)...Wonderful baked beans in maple syrup and mini franks ( like ****tail) saussages, fabulous home cut double deep fried cubed potatoes, pancakes and syrup, egg poached in hot maple syrup, And after all that, the 3 desserts...and then outside to do the taffy roll: hot maple syrup poured onto clean chipped ice/snow and you roll up on a wooden popsicle stick.pure sugar high!..
TOTALLY NOT MAINTENANCE FOOD....( PS I didn't try the delish white baguette bread slices nor the split pea soup, or I would have been DONE!)...Pouchie today was a friend, I was able to taste everything, and leave lots behind ( "Sorry Madame, did you not like the food?")...
I missed it last year as is an annual event in a group of about 20 friends who don't know I've had WLS. Went this year again , and was prepared for a sugar dive ( I don't dump, but can have a hypoglycemic event 2 hours after a high sugar carby meal) while driving with some omelette and bacon at the ready ......No hypoglycemic event occurred, so think I am back to NORMAL, but so glad this type of pigout happens only once a year or every two...Don't even want to know the amount of calories I ingested...Am still feeling full 5 hours later and so thankful this is a rare event.....
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