I Dumped!

It was my own fault. I got ****y and it caught up with me! This whole past year I have assumed I dump, just in case I really did. And at first it really kept me on the straight and narrow but the last few months I’ve tested it. Not intentionally really just small tastes here and there. You know how it is….a small piece of chocolate here, a small frozen yogurt cone there. Nothing happened so, of course, in the back of my mind I figured I just didn’t dump. NOT!

Yesterday was our Sewing Sisters monthly meeting. For one reason or another, this was the first time since March that all 6 of us been together. We had 4 birthdays to catch up! See where this is going?!? I had a couple bites of birthday cake…cake only; I knew not to taste the pure sugar icing. Later on the fresh baked white chocolate macadamia nut cookies started calling my name. I resisted…more than once…then they got moved to my table…right in front of me! I caved in and had one. Ah….that first bite was SO good, the first I’ve had in almost 2 years, and I should have quit but of course I didn’t. About an hour later I had another one.  Lunch was a few grilled chicken strips and some raw cauliflower. Not nearly enough protein. Mid-afternoon I ate the Honey Crisp apple I had taken, it was a big one. I wasn’t feeling really good when I left the quilt shop. Nothing specific, just not right. But I just thought I was tired since I didn’t get much sleep the night before.

 A friend was in from out of town so while I was on her side of town we met for an early dinner. To follow the rest of the day’s poor decisions, I had a small bowl of twice baked potato soup and half a grilled cheese sandwich. After about 5 minutes the stomach cramps started, I got that nervous, twitchy quiver in my chest, nausea, hot flashes and clammy skin. I had to leave. Linda is a very good friend and totally understood. Bad thing is I was almost an hour from home! I almost called Beast to come get me but I kept thinking if this passes quickly, like I’ve read some do, then he would have made a trip for nothing. If I keep driving I could be home by the time it either gets worse or is over, so I kept going. I made it home and felt like I’d been run over by a Mac truck! By then I was achy all over. I felt like I had the worst hangover in history except for the headache…at least I didn’t have that! I went straight to bed well before dark and slept until about 5am when I got up to potty then went back to bed. I finally got up around 10am. I felt like crap! Same hangover symptoms just not quite so bad.

This morning I made my chai tea but couldn’t face anything else to eat. My little belly has been ‘tender’ all day. That’s a new feeling for this Iron Belly of mine! So I’ve pampered her all day with shakes and simple food. She’s feeling better but is still not back to normal. So it’s no longer a question…I DO dump, it just takes a lot for me to do so. Cake, cookies, big sweet apple, bread and high carb soup. Sugar and simple carbs...yep, that’ll do it! I still don’t really know just exactly what my gram limit is just that it’s high enough that a little sweet something doesn’t do it…at least for now, but who knows if that will change or not? I have a feeling I won’t be testing these waters for a long time!

Aaahhh, yes, a lovely little reminder that the tool DOES still work.  Sorry you felt so crappy - uuuuhhh, been there/done that.  I can't EVER have soup and sandwich at the same time because it's like drinking and eating so it makes me feel yucko in a mega-fast minute!  I do the exact same thing the following day, just baby the tummy and be kind to it all day...sometimes the day after that, too!  I don't do it too often (six YEARS post-op on Tuesday) but when I do, I swear to myself, "oh good grief girl, note to self, do NOT do that again"!!!

Hope everything is back to normal soon!

Hi DEe -  I do feel your pain -  I too dump   -  but it does take a lot..for me to dump.........Just did this whole thing last night at Red Lobster.......Not enough protein - too much crap..

Pina colada
coconut shrimp.....yes with the dip too..........:( 
and then  1  - just only 1 bread thingy that they serve at the beginning of the meal - but I was good -  STOPPED AT ONE!!   

by the time we left the restaurant...I couldn't get home fast eniught.............30 min of going around the house   - MOVING - gathering trash - doing dishes.....ext -  I felt much better............

The pina colada - did NOT have much rum in it - so it wasn't the alcohol.....my bro nor my daughter could taste any of the rum in it - so it was mostly juices..........sugar sugar sugar.....

Yikea ! 

 Dee.....if you ever do those things again  you may not dump.   That is the beauty ( if you want to call it that ) to dumping.   What causes it once...may not do that to you again.    UGH or at least that is how it works with me.    Sorry you dumped but at least you know that tool is there and it works perfectly too !!!   Hope your tummy and you get to feeling much better soon.   I have dumped 2 times in the past month.   UGH


Hugs and blessings ~~~ Vivian

Thanks goodness you made it home safely - what an ordeal!

Hope your grouchy pouchy is better today......