Monday, June 3, 2024

Kirby and I just had a nice walk with my neighbor friend before the heat sets in. With no sidewalks and only black asphalt to walk on, I set 78 degrees as the highest I'll walk Kirby. With Ferg, we had concrete sidewalks which bought us several degrees. A friend of mine let her kids play with their lab on the cul-de-sac on a warm dat and he ended up with 4 burnt, bloody, bandaged paws... I wore shorts that didn't fit last summer to get some sun on these plucked chicken legs. I bought some self-tanner, but am afraid of doing it wrong and looking like I'm wearing streaky self-tanner.

I have a call this afternoon about my dad's trust, but that's all that's on the docket. I bought some landscape ties to tie up some vines, so I might do that too.

Ugh, yesterday I had a bird strike on a window that was so violent, his head broke open. I had to clean up with a hose. And I haven't had the windows washed in hopes it made the glass more visible to the poor things! No such luck.

Scale is not doing anything...

Hope you all have fun today!

OMG, that poor bird.

I think everybody has given such great advice Liz, about how to approach your daughter. I think the medication change is a great place to start. If she does want advice, you can come from a place of compassion because you've had your own struggles. She doesn't love you more now because you are thin, and you would never love her less because she struggles with this. Does your daughter like surfing the Internet? Maybe we could all share the different Facebook groups etc we read for information. I read a Wegovy site, (Ozempic/Wegovy Weight Loss Support Group). There are some specific to Tirzepatide if she switches to that. Getting advice from "not your Mom" could be helpful.

Glorious day after a rainy start. Good for my bedding plants!

How do you all do on your supplements? I am not as consistent as I should be. I started taking gummy calcium chews because I just can't stand the regular calcium tablets, even the petites. And vitamins, sigh. I sometimes gag on them. I finally bought some chewable ones that are supposedly bariatric vitamins. They are kind of yuck, but I don't gag, so I'm actually taking them. (Mostly). And I get so distracted by not taking the calcium too close to the vitamin etc. 12 years post surgery and I still don't have this figured out.

Ditto those darn calcium tablets; they are the size of footballs! And I take 5 of them- hardest part of my regimen. I intend to switch over to chewables, but am waiting to finish the bottle (and, woefully another one I got at the same time) before switching.

I am really good about my daily multivitamin because I have to take so many others daily (anti-thyroid, blood thinner, PPI, hive meds...) so I have one of those pill boxes (I actually fill 3 at a time so it's not so much work). And I add every other day B12, extra vitamin D, and extra magnesium. I don't take calcium, mostly because I could never find a good time to take that separate from iron which I take every other night, so it's not in the pill box. And I throw the entire handful into my mouth and slug it down at once! Like a pelican swallowing a whole fish...

I take vitamins and calcium religiously. I use a bariatric capsule because I HATE the smell and taste of vitamins. I have soft chewable bariatric calcium. My bariatric vitamins have iron in them so I have to space them out by 2 hours from my calcium. With calcium one's body can supposedly only absorb 500 mg at a time. So I take my vitamins/calcium 4 times a day with a timer set every 2 hours. It's a habit for me after 8 years of the routine.

i used to also take extra B12, but I stopped it after my most recent lab tests because it was too high.

Greetings all

Today started out with serious fog. Must be really hot inland. Nice here. Suns out now.

DH went to jury duty in the afternoon and I went to the studio. His case should finish up presentation today. I know he is dying to blab about it but is restraining himself. Meanwhile, at the studio made more stuff and got kiln results. I need to get it to the gallery but forgot it and left it in my studio. Oh well. Tomorrow.

I just finished off the steak bites left over from last night. Great high protein snack. Need to do that more often.

Liz interesting about your DD drinking calories. Perhaps you could say something like " a thing we learned with the VSG is to avoid consuming liquid calories" or something like that. Not sure what things she is drinking and maybe its a vacation thing but it matters. Iced tea instead of soda sure makes a difference. My now deceased SIL was a major soda drinker and considered a meal incomplete without soda or lemonade. She always had cases of soda in the trunk of her car. A tough habit to change. Everyone has good suggestions. And I am with you on rum punch. No thanks.

Thanks for the details on the T drug Peps. Sounds good. Useful. Congrats on receiving a too big shirt. And dropping below drivers license weight. Whoo Hoo!

Cheers all

Diane S

Yep, soda, fruit juice, lemonade are not good!