What's on your Wednesday Menu, RNYers?
Good morning,menu friends! Beautiful day here in Illinois and Lily and I have our 4 miles in. We'll do another mile after supper. Accountability was good with no extra bites taken. QOTD kidney stone pain is first followed by the pain after my foot surgey:steel plate and screws in ankle after cutting out a wedge of bone and 3 toes broken with rods inserted to straighten them. Yeah--it was fun! Then no weight on it for 6 weeks. Then when healed from that one I had the other one done. Lots of pain but worth it to be able to exercise pain free now. I had contractures in my ankle and 3 severe hammertoes on each foot. When I was obese it didn't matter as I was very sedentary. When I lost my weight it became an issue so I had it fixed. Post op 5 years 9 months weight at 119 today. Still achy and swollen for whatever reason but do feel a bit better today. Heres today's food B 1/2c steel cut oats with proteinn and peanut butter L 4 oz deli ham and cheese 1/2 c blackeyed peas D 1 c ham and beans(leftovers) and riblets which I hate for hubby and sonS 5 oz cottage cheese with 1 T no sugar added jelly. Have a great day full of smart choices! Now for some coffee!!
Good morning :)
I have a massage this afternoon. I think it will be the last one for a while. I have to lay on my side for it which isn't very comfortable. I ended up with shoulder pain after the last one lol.
Yesterday my friend and I got to see the baby on the ultrasound. It was pretty awesome. We could see the mouth moving and the chest expanding with practice breaths. It is still breech though, the little booger.
QOTD: the worst pain so far was the gas pain after my RNY. I thought I was dying lol. My grandmother is the sweetest lady I know and I accidentally yelled at her when I was having the pain. I still apologize to her for that. I have told DH that the gas pain was a 10/10 pain. When I had my ulcer attacks last month the worst pain was an 8 or 9 out of 10. In anticipation of giving birth I told him I expect the pain to be a least a 12/10 lol.
Post-op three years, three months.
Breakfast - protein shake
Snack - toast and PB
Lunch - tbd
Snack - Greek yogurt
Dinner - spaghetti with meat sauce
Snack - pudding
All water and vits.
Good morning! This morning I stepped on the scale and was down 4 lbs. I'm trying to drop another 15 or so, and then I don't really want to lose more. I'm more interested in building a bit of muscle now, so the gym is helping with that.
Menu is quick again today. Bars and shakes, but I threw a couple of small Mutsu apples in with my stuff and ran out the door.
QOTD: I've had so many dings and dents and so on it's hard to tell. Oddly enough I've never actually fractured a bone. Lots of soft tissue damage and maybe a rib crack or two but no clean breaks, pins or plates. Back when I rode mountain bikes in trails I wrecked myself pretty bad going over the handlebars, crashing through trees and down ravines more times than I can count. I was a goalie in hockey and received some headshots that concussed me (so I left hockey). I recall a kidney stone years ago, that I crawled to my car to go to emerge. I got in the car and only then remembered....stick shift. That was an awful drive, and I crawled into the emerge too. I was the unfortunate recipient of a hit in football that bent both legs backwards and wrecked some ligaments (and some knee damage) in high school, then reinjured them in 2013 when I jumped into a lake off of a dock (feet first of course). Imagine landing normally and your knees bend, but then keep bending closed. I tore both LCL's doing that and it was months of walking around with knees that felt like a bucket of bolts rattling around. Let's see...I fell through a skylight and landed on my side on a bag of roofing nails while roofing a house addition.....fell off another roof when the shingle under me gave (wasn't fastened right) and I fell from one roof to the next, down to the back of a pickup loaded with old shingles, then to the ground. I'm glad for all of those intermittent things in that multi-fall because the initial roof was 35' to the ground.
That last one was probably the most painful.
For all of those, I've had a million jobs where I wasn't hurt, but that's the highlight reel off the top of my head. LOL
LOL Yeah, my mom really had her hands full when I was younger. It carried over into the "I should know better" age.
Oh I just thought of another. I stepped on a board with an 8" spike sticking up, which went through my foot. In a cattle barn where there are no germs, right? Haha
Sigh....I really should have been dead a few times over, purely from a logical view.
on 6/6/18 12:27 pm
Sounds awful, Carl! Did you get a tetanus shot?
When I was perhaps 9, my family visited another family we were good friends with for a few days. I was playing in the woods behind their house with the rest of the kids. There was a huge boulder there with a large crack in it that they called "the lemon squeezer". I had climbed on top of it, and looking down, saw a board with a nail sticking up, lying on the ground. I thought to myself that it would be fun to jump onto it to see just how far it would bend. So I jumped, wearing my little Keds sneakers. To my dismay, the nail didn't bend - it went deeply into my foot, necessitating a trip to the doctor and a tetanus shot which knocked me out. I slept throughout the entire rest of the visit! Weirdly though as I recall it wasn't horribly painful, just tender and sore.
I did get a tetanus shot! I seem to recall having a standing order with my doctor over the years. Haha
That experience of yours is eerily similar to mine. The hardest part of mine as I recall, wasn't even the spike. It was walking from the barn to the house with a 2x8 or whatever clunking and dragging behind me as my sister ran ahead of me yelling for Mom. Gosh, we were so young. I remember getting the shot, having xrays and them treating my foot for whatever but it was probably 35 years ago or more.
