Wednesday, April 27, 2022

Hi everyone! Well, I'll start the thread at 4:30om central time. :)

Big news here, A new hot tub cover was delivered today! We ordered it 9months ago!!! Apparently there was a foam shortage. When it kept getting delayed, we shopped around other places, and everyone else had them on back order too. But yeah, the old cover was water logged and I couldn't lift it.

Had to go outside and admire the new cover :) DH could barely manage the old water logged cover, so, if I wanted to use the hot tub, I had to get him to open or close it. Now I can manage it by myself again.

I am convinced really committing to protein is doing me a world of good. The exhaustion I was feeling was like post surgery fatigue, I would feel like I was filled with lead. I am still tired during different parts of the day, but its normal tired, not 3hojr nap everyday tired.

I read a few articles about long term post surgery success. It seems we have a few outliers in the group who have managed to mostly beat back regain. One article I read about 12 years post op, the average maintained was 30% of the original loss. Another article said that when WLS patients regain, some are very demoralized, thinking they've failed at what was their last chance, that there are no other options. The author said weight loss surgery clinics should do a better job preparing patients for the fact that there most likely be regain, but there are also medical interventions, such as pharmaceuticals that are successful. I feel like I need to go back to my clinic to explore this some more. Something holds me back though. Shame maybe. Although apparently regain is commonn, and I'm still at over 70% of my excess weight gone. I guess I don't want to meet with the dieticians, I never found them very helpful. Put fat free cream of mushroom soup on chicken breasts? Blech. I'll mull this over more ...

Terrific that you can open the hot tub yourself. They are so nice especially on a cool day when your muscles and bones are aching. I thought about having one on the Cape but I'm not there enough when it is cool to make it worthwhile and I won't climb into one on a hot day.

Greetings all

DD yay for the new hot tub cover! And yay for hot tubs for that matter. Reminds me there is one waiting for me at the swimming pool. Need to pay a visit.

Old dog Chip is at the groomers today. I hope he does ok. He can barely see or hear and I don't think he has a lot of time left but he is messy and grubby. I wouldn't take him if he hated it but I think he likes being fussed over. Poppy was wild with jealousy when I took him on a leash. Of course, she has never had a bath in her life and has no clue.

Made meatloaf last night. It was not very good. As DK says, it needs a lot of ketchup. But the dogs will eat it. Speaking of beef, I saw some wagyu beef imported from Japan at the butcher counter. It was $120 a pound!!! So that cow was worth $96,000!! It did look different with many many little veins of vat. Well, not today thanks.

Spent a little time at the studio today. For some reason all the talking in the next door studio was really annoying. Guess I am really getting old as I used to enjoy eavesdropping on their gossip.

Not much else. Time to go get the old dog.

Diane S

Perhaps the caliber of gossip just wasn't worth it today. Sometimes eavesdropping brings entertainment, sometimes people are so tedious.

Yep, no interesting gossip plus this one woman has this annoyingly chirpy voice. That and running the noisy tile saw for what seemed like hours.

Thanks for the thoughts on regain and additional protein. Useful info. I have been tired a lot also and need to improve on the protein front. Fairlife is totally drinkable. DH does atkins shakes. Good insight.

ds

Chip probably felt better after a groom. Justice and my former dogs were always nervous about getting a bath but once in warm water and having the soap massaged in they really enjoyed it. Of course they all had short hair so didn't have to deal with being brushed/cut but I'm sure they are gentle with Chip.

Today was the San Diego Zoo! Couldn't have been a nicer day with nicer weather. The perfect temperature and it is such a beautiful place. And I am feeling so much better finally with the exception of a cough. No dirty looks at the zoo thankfully.

They have a really amazing new aviary you go inside full of Madagascar forest birds and they are swooping and whooping all around your head, building cool hanging nests in branches at eye level, burrowing nests into specially built fake cliffs made for them to be able to burrow up to 6 ft deep, splashing in waterfalls, with birds of all colors of the rainbow. Spectacular. We saw a lion roaring, grizzly bears tearing apart hunks of meat, tigers, polar bears, elephants... While it makes me sad these beautiful creatures are confined, they do their best to given them enrichment, going so far as to pump fog into snow leopards' enclosures, chilling the polar bear pools and providing snow for them and pumping in smells and sounds of their homelands. And the conservation work they are involved with to bring back near extinct species is admirable.

That's all I have, other than a squirrel chewed my drip irrigation so I need to fix that. That animal i do not admire. And I'm a little sunburnt.

Hope everyone is having fun!

Ohh, I would like to go just for the aviary itself. I love bird watching. Today 2 mallards landed in our yard and paddled around in our little pond/fountain. And then a juvenile woodpecker showed up, I had to use my bird book to figure out what it was :) I think I would love this zoo.

I am no fan of squirrels either. So destructive!!!

I'll put some pictures on TT!