Saturday, in the Park....
Linda,
Having the sensitivity to sweets is the best thing in the world for me because if I didn't have it, I'd already gained back all the weight I lost. I have another quirk from surgery: when I eat too much food, my nose starts running and I sneeze until the food empties out of my pouch. My doctor said that the nerve that controls sneezing and the nerve that controls the full feeling are very closely associated as they go up the spinal cord to the brain and sometimes, with wls, the nerve in the stomach sort of crosses connections and that fullness stimulates the nerve for sneezing...I really should do some research about it but throwing up with sweets and sneezing are like my two holdovers that I am very happy for. I couldn't eat a lot of fried foods either.
I am probably going to head down to Houston soon to visit my brother. Before I leave, I'll holler at you and meet you for coffee. If I can talk him into it, I'm bringing him home with me....that's a fact.
I am going to have to renew my passport soon. I hope they let me keep all the stamped pages from all the countries that I've been too...In July of 2017, I'm going to Thailand and of course, I have to go back to China soon and again before Christmas. I am due back in the Middle East in Feb., but honestly, I am really going to try and get out of the China and Middle East trips...I am just way too mouthy...you know?
Well, girl, have a good rest today. I sure do hope your Hot Spring's condo sells...I love Hot Springs...I am taking my granddaughter and her BFF to the crystal mines and I promised them I'd teach them how to wrap the crystals for necklaces....that will be fun...yeah!!! We need to get a bunch of us gals to meet in Hot Springs and go do the crystal mines and maybe even the diamond field...that would be fun. We could do a little retreat or something.
Good Evening Ladies!
Here I am bringing up the rear at 9pm EST. It has been a long day, but not a bad one. Lazed out this morning then dealt with a situation Jazzs mom had that resulted in her coming to stay for the wkend...
Then jazz & I drove down to my youngest daughter's home 30 minutes away for a hike in the State Park near her home. I was able to walk for 75 consecutive minutes...a NSV for me. I have been doing 40 around our area, but it is very flat here whereas the park was up & down with rougher terrain. A good workout, but then I ate a small piece of cake after dinner...grrrr.
Jeannie, I love reading your posts about your day to day life as well as your life experiences. It makes me hurt to hear stories about the loss of your mom so early, the doll you had as a child, the polio, etc. Half of what you went through would traumatize & immobilize alot of kids, but you have an inner strength that enabled you to not only survive, but succeed in so many areas.
You are quite the role model!
Sounds like alot of traveling plans on the horizon! My daughter went to Thailand this past January & said it was her favorite trip so far, but it was also her first out of the country!
Linda, I envy you your plans to consider different locations for future living arrangements... I am absolutely jealous that you might have multiple homes in such beautiful parts of the country. That would be the ultimate dream for me, but not meant to be...???
Julia, glad you are finding a solution to your dog situation. I am sure that was very unsettling. Hope things work out with that! I enjoy hanging out in my nightclothes... to a point. However, I know from years of allowing myself to indulge I have a tendency to get lazy if I do it too often. I really need to get up,showered, dressed & moving or I will waste the day away. And that reminds me too much of my last 6 months of being huge...where I could barely get off the sofa & went to bed after coming home from work, doing the dinner routine & getting Jazz in order.
I know it's very early on for me, but I hope to never go back to very morbid obesity. It made me so emotionally, mentally & spiritually sick...not to mention the medical problems. I really worked hard last year to change my eating habits, get & keep moving, etc before I even had the surgery!
However, I succumb to sweets a few times a week even if I justify it by thinking I am still staying around my calorie & carb limits. Sometimes I think the gastric bypass instead of the sleeve would have been a better choice so I dumped if I ate sugary stuff. But what is done is done...sorry you had that experience, Jeannie!
Well I need to move...start getting ready for closing down for the night.
Trish, I almost forgot you had posted...hugs...glad you had a decent day. And I don't see yoga in my future so don't feel bad...lol!
Kathy
Kathy,
my friend had the sleeve and loves it and has actually lost all the weight she set out to lose. I've known people who have had the gastric bypass who could eat anything and some like me who cannot eat sweets or pasta and others who can eat sweets and all kinds of pasta and bread. The key is sticking to your plan and what has worked for you. There have been previous folks post right after surgery that they cannot eat sweets but they continued trying until one day, they were able to eat them...I can eat chips like there's not tomorrow but I know that eating chips can pile the pounds on me so I don't every buy them and if I do, I get pretzels because they have less fats. From time-to-time, I do take a bite of a cookie or something but just a little bite. I think it helps me that I am lactose intolerant and have been my entire life but since WLS it is much worse. I can eat cottage cheese and a few bites of cheese but milk not ever a good idea.
You are doing so great and you are just going to do better and better. You'll see.
