What's on your Monday Menu?

G'morning all!

Up and at em at an ungodly hr for me! Getting ready to go to the airport for our flight back home. We did a quick two days trip to San Diego to visit DS.

Sat was my 4th surgiversary. Where did the time go? I remember the excitement and fear with which I approached the whole process. The excitement because I was hoping the surgery would be an answer to all my weight loss attempts and failures. The fear that this will be one more way to fail. I am still pumped up and so grateful for the opportunity and huge help I was given. And I am still fearful that I will fail, but it's a good fear because it keeps me on my toes, so far, to not veer too far out.

QOTD: I can get rid of stuff in a nano second. DH is more the type of hanging on to stuff. Can't tell you how many shells and rocks are laying around this house. I get rid of them slowly and surreptitiously. But I do keep the bday, vday, and mother's Day cards the kids & DH give me. They are all organized in a box and dated, but I keep them.

My meals yesterday

• B: coffee
• L: cheese burger (no buns)
• S: ice cream
• D: sushi
• E: Rest day, but walked around a lot

Happy start of the week!

Congratulations on your continued success. Happy Surgiversery.

Happy Belated Surgiversary!!

Woo-hoo!! Congrats!!

I think it's good to have just enough fear. If I don't have that, I don't know that I would be able to keep discipline most Of the time!

happy surgiversary!

Mornin' All!

thank God they'll be removing my surgical drains today and taking off the dressings (and hopefully NOT replacing them). With any luck I'll just get a temporary compression thing for my head that I'll have to wear for a week or two. It's been super uncomfortable to sleep with these damn drains, and I've got a lot of redness and itching underneath the dressings. I'm not sure if I'm having an allergic reaction to something or if it's just friction - but it is driving me out of my mind!!! I'm also super swollen today. I did read that day 3 tends to be the worst for swelling, and I think that might have been true for my last two plastic surgeries, too. At any rate, the swelling is just making it worse - these bandages are super tight right now. I'll be so glad when 11:00 a.m. rolls around! (my appt time when hopefully I can get rid of half this stuff!!). Other than that, as usual, nothing going on today or the rest of the week, so I'll have lots of time to work on my classes.

QOTD: it depends on what it is. I have no problem pitching greeting cards, but for some reason, my usually pitchy husband thinks we should keep them. I'm kind of bad about family "heirlooms" though (I put that in quotes because it's a real stretch to call them "heirlooms". They're just ....things). I have all kind of stuff I got from both parents that belonged to my grandparents and great grandparents. I don't want this stuff (and neither did my sibs), but I don't want to throw it out or take it to Goodwill, either, because you know, it belonged to my ancestors. But then I start thinking that there's probably nothing particularly special about it - some of this stuff they probably just picked up at some department store, just like I've done thousands of times - yet I still have this crap boxed up in my basement. I don't know - it's tough.

accountability was good yesterday until I got out of bed at 3:00 am because I could not sleep to save my life and was horribly uncomfortable. So I drank a glass of Fairlife (milk helps you sleep, right?), but then I ate a bunch of these little cookies. So I devoured about 400 calories in five minutes. Oh well. I did it - it's over - today is another day. I may trim this menu a little to help make up for part of that. I'm not really trying to lose weight this week or next because I know my body is trying to heal and may need a few extra calories (and more protein than usual), but that splurge (and that many calories) was definitely NOT needed...

there's a lot of yogurt and skyr on here because it's really hard to eat - I'm so swollen that I can't open my mouth very far. Looking forward to being done with this phase... (oh - I just noticed the 1/2 muffin on here - that's definitely coming off the list..)

have a good day, all!

So sorry about all the discomfort. Just think of the final result. Hang in there.

One of my aunts is also very about the "but it was your grandmothers" and I point out that a thing could live in a box in my basement or it could go to a charity shop or e-bay or something and find a home with someone that will use and love it. That has helped with some things, like the 9,000 sets of china she had from all the various grandparents.

my mom has about 9000 sets of silver! Both tea services and silverware. I have one of my grandmother's tea service sets because it's art deco and looks kind of cool, but I have no desire for the rest of these. Maybe my sister will take them...

I hope that you start feeling better today.