Thursday March 30

Still no weight, but calories were okay. We went out to dinner for the last time in Florida last night. Today we can go back to our condo. They just have to grout a few places, the master bath toilet has to be reinstalled and the furniture put back. Then we can start packing... We leave @ 12:30 tomorrow.

I'm not looking forward to the drive or to the 40-50 degree weather on Cape Cod, but the dogs will be happy we are home and DH is looking forward to seeing DS (both DDs came to visit).

I'm somewhat looking forward to being in an environment where I can make my best decision on when to retire. Everyone here figured out that DH has dementia. Because DH can't really explain who he has seen, they are all advice givers on what we should be doing (neurologist, etc) and of course feel that I should retire now (since they all are). As if we don't know... Well meaning, but after a while it gets a little tedious.

I did set up a meeting with my boss for next week to talk about retiring in the near future and think I am going to propose a compressed work week for now. That might buy some time if they will agree to it. Yesterday at a meeting where I gave some background on why a certain claims process was established, someone jokingly said that I had to give 20 years notice prior to retiring...

Have a good Thursday!

Good morning all at the early hour of 4am.

goodness! Some of us are going through very hard times. Yikes!

well the rat has gone to meet its maker but of course that caused commotion and we are all up congratulating ourselves. Some of us are eating cake and ice cream. ( not me )

a good food day and a lovely lovely walking the lashing rain.

A great friend and I are planning a very gentle April Fools Day 'trick' on our wonderful caring boss. Any ideas? Nothing scary but something that reflects our respect for them.

i remember years and years ago a local radio station declaring that this marvellous paint had been invented. This amazing stuff came out of the tin with stripes. So easy for us who needed striped walls.

have a great Thursday. And carrying all of you in my heart.

Good morning, mates!

126's. Considering food choices yesterday and no compression gear, it could have been a lot worse. Now that my scale has a few days of records, it shows a graph of recent weights. How long does it think I want to stand there, cold and naked?

Carbon, I have always been terrible at tricks. I love a good trick but am unable to plot my own.

Liz, I'm hopeful about your company working with you to come up with a mutually beneficial plan.

Off to the races,

Hug your health today,

Shel

Fancy schmancy scale you have there! I'm still chuckling about the "Oh My!" comment from your Wii.

Best of luck with the retirement decisions!

136 OTD. Not sure why the gain, have not been eating horribly at all.

Frustrated about the mandatory leave from work. I'm doing my research though and I can tell you that they are messing with the wrong person. I think they are making up rules as they go and I'm going to be coming back at them with research that states otherwise! Hoping to be back tomorrow as long as my symptoms have subsided.

Paula

Paula--sorry to hear about your c diff and off work. About your bad luck, my grandma would say "there's got to be a pony in here somewhere"! (with all the S**T you've been dealing with)

Cooler rainy, weather now, which I don't mind. I like actually having spring!

Weight: 157.8 (boo). I think it's getting closer to stabilizing, and this time of the month may be some water weight too. Hey, still down 2.2lbs. in a week. It's alright. I think calories were about on track yesterday. And I did do a half-a$$ leg workout. I didn't really let myself get tired or need too much of my lungs. But that's okay, at least I went. And my hubby had a friend.

My appetite slowly began to return yesterday and is maybe back to normal now. Good and bad. It's so nice and freeing to not want/need to eat. My breakfast was normal, my lunch pretty small. But when I got home I noticed the end of a bag of doritos. Nothing has tasted so good in a week. I don't normally eat chips but I'm not going to be too hard on myself considering I haven't felt much like eating. After our workout I came home to crockpot roast carrots and potatoes which hit the spot.

I did get a momentary desire yesterday to just eat into oblivion. I never really did this when I was fat. And the only times I really ate poorly or had a cheat day were when I was about to go on a diet. But it didn't seem to matter back then. If I gained a pound or two before starting my diet, who cared? 276 or 278--is there really a difference? I guess in some ways I'm thankful that I can tell a 10lb. gain now. That's a weird way of putting it, but I'm glad to be at a point where it all matters. Sure, I have days when I eat what I want, within reason, like normal human beings. But I never feel like "oh well." Know what I mean?

I love your grandma's pony quote, I am stealing it.

Oh, another thing (can you tell I'm feeling better? chatty!)

I posted about long term PPI use a couple weeks back. Many on the board recommended I go with pcp's defensive medicine recommendation of endoscopy in a "better safe than sorry" approach. Which I get.

HOWEVER, what I totally didn't understand was people recommending I have a revision surgery!! I think most (all?) of us here are sleevers? I was always under the impression that the sleeve was the preferred surgery, and just a few reasons to go with RnY (insurance coverage, better cure for diabetes, if sweets are a problem). I just found that to be a really strange recommendation and tbh the last thing I would do. First, it's weird because the big recommendation to get a scope wouldn't even be possible with a pouch, would it? Also, I'm not sure there's a surgeon who'd be willing to do RnY on a normal weight, maintained for 6 years, healthy female who simply has acid reflux. I honestly still cannot wrap my head around the sense it would make to go under the knife, have RnY, potentially lose more weight post surgery that I cannot afford to lose, have the malabsorptive effects....etc. Anyone heard of such a thing? I originally was going to have duodenal switch surgery (and why I went with Stewart) but was talked out of it because of the serious malabsorption that surgery presents and people really trying to dissuade a 22 year old from having vitamin deficiencies of that magnitude for so long. I know RnY has less malabsorption, but I gotta tell you I'm not sure it'd be worth the tradeoff for me. My DH's ex wife, by some very strange coincidence, also had WLS. She had RnY. She's over 10 years out but has currently required an iron infusion weekly. So, yeah, I think I'll keep taking my prilosec. (I know the RnY has worked wonders on many, my only point here is that all surgeries are capable of having bad side effects, even far out. And I count myself lucky that my side effects are limited to acid reflux and nothing worse)

I think the recommendation for conversion to RNY is for severe GERD cases that can lead to Barrett's esophagus which can lead to esophageal cancer. If your GERD is well controlled with PPI's, keep doing what you are doing. An EGD wouldn't hurt to see if you have dysplasia or Barrett's and if so you can be monitored more closely/treated more aggressively for GERD. We think my DH might have had silent GERD which caused his esophageal cancer.