Sunday, June 9, 2024

Another good day yesterday. I snorkeled yesterday (from the beach) and did well though I got tired quicker than usual. Lots of good fish swimming around. I skipped my PT exercises in the afternoon because the muscles in the top of my back were screaming a bit. But it was a good time and we will probably go again before we go home. Dinner out with DS and family friends at DS' favorite place was great too. So surprised still that I can eat so little. I will have leftover grouper for a few days.

This is the last day here for DS. It has been nice having him here but we are ready to have our little studio unit back to ourselves again. When eldest DD comes on Friday she will have her own room.

Time to get ready for Sunday breakfast (at which I will have 2 eggs and nothing more).

Have a susurrous Sunday!

My vocabulary is sure to expand if I continue coming here daily!

Glad you were able to snorkel yesterday Liz. I love snorkeling and have not done it for years. Your dinners sound divine. I could eat seafood everyday and was close to do so when we spent January in Florida!

I'm officially signed up with Emerge for tirzepitide. Sent in my video today. The process was easy. Actually too easy. Working in health care for 30+ years, I was expecting at least an interview with a MD/PA/NP. I answered I think 3 questions, paid them (which I feel is the most important part for them) and sent in a video stating my name, date of birth, height and weight. That's it. I was going to go with Orderly but they won't prescribe if you have had surgery with general anesthesia in the prior 6 months and I did have pelvic floor repair in March (dang kids wrecked me!). Emerge is actually the cheapest one anyway. I'm a little nervous of what happens once the compounding companies are no longer able to supply. Hopefully that won't be for quite awhile.

Church on the docket for this morning. Perhaps a walk with Dh later. I'm going to pick up my Mom tomorrow and she will spend 11 days with us. She is almost 88 years old. I know my time with her is limited.

Im think grilled fish for dinner. Need to make a Costco and regular grocery store run today too!

The past surgery exclusion is weird. I had my shoulder replaced in March and started on Tirzepatide in April through HenryMeds. I have had 2 online video meetings with Nurse Practitioners with them.

Congratulations on getting started!

Your dinner sounds great Liz. Glad you got to snorkel. It's been awhile for me too. The last time we were in Cozumel, we brought our own equipment, and snorkeled off the beaches. I saw amazing things, including a barracuda!

Paula, I hope your experience with tirzepatide goes well. I think post WLS patients have an advantage from all the experience we've had with feeling restriction when we eat.

Last night I blended a fair life shake with ice and half a banana. Although it increased the volume, it was easier to drink. I sipped while we watched a movie on Netflix called I Care A Lot. Very, very dark comedy, some violence that I closed my eyes for. Not everyone's cup of tea, but it was smart, and suspenseful.

The scale moved again, and I am now 40 pounds lighter than when I began this new weight loss phase in May 2023. Yeah! In my journey, I had 30 pounds of regain that I was willing to live with, because it was relatively easy to maintain that weight. Then tamoxifen gifted me another 30 which wouldn't budge. Those 30 are gone, plus 10 of the original weight regain. I don't anticipate trying to get back to my lowest weight. It was definitely a healthy weight, and not too low at all, but it was a struggle to maintain. I'm not sure my broader health is well served by the low calories I'm eating now (although I am eating more than I did fall/winter and I feel better for it). I will work this summer on upping the nutrition of my diet to see if I can find a better balance than I have right now, where I frequently miss my protein goals.

Beautiful day here, although a bit windy. Tomorrow looks to be lovely. We're hoping to celebrate the last day of school for the year with our first kayak outing.

I now understand what you mean about being a bit worried about the nutrition. Though I know how to prioritize the right foods and am not filling up with other stuff, a lot of the time I just can't eat what seems like enough to get all the nutrients. Though I know that was also the case for a while after VSG, I also don't think it is healthy for the long run.

Back in the day when the Sleeve board was going strong, I read a post that came to mind when you mentioned the difficulty of maintaining a still healthy, but lower weight.

Basically the ideal weight to stabilize at is the one that gives the most satisfaction (physically healthy being a given) and can be maintained without sucking the joy out of your life trying to stay there. In other words, how much of your life are you willing to pay for the effort it takes to get and maintain there.

Sounded to me like poster was suggesting we make a cost-benefit analysis to calculate where to settle.

Yes, I like that. And I think the costs benefit analysis has to be recalculated from time to time. I had my surgery 12 years ago (anniversary is June 12, 2012). I'm over a decade older. I'm a cancer survivor. I (mostly) gratefully take a medication that messes with my metabolism, but can prevent a cancer from coming back. I feel pretty joyful where I am now. We'll see where I end up in September, but if it's basically this weight, I'm good.

Argh, lost my post through my own fault.

Scale the same. Had a nice catch up with my friend in the UK yesterday. Another friend from CA wants to catch up today, but I am dreading it. She's the one who talks nonstop for literally hours. You know those natural lulls in conversation where you can say "it was so nice catching up with you. I should let you go..."?There are none of those in her conversation! Every comment is a new thought where breaking in to try to end the conversation would come across like cutting her off. It's frustrating. It's even hard when you have a legitimate excuse to quickly get off the phone to break in to her nonstop chatter to say you have to go.

Today is my dad's birthday. He's 83, though he likes to phrase it as he's in his 84th year. Hope he has a nice day!

I'm just going to do some cleaning today around the house keeping up on the momentum from yesterday's tidy. Oh, I also got the rocks into the pots of my agave sculptures. Here are a pic of one:

That's all for me this fine Sunday. Hope you all have a nice one!

Very nice! Happy Birthday to your Dad!

Love the sculpture! And happy birthday to your Dad!