Cookies.....Cupcakes....Valentine's Parties.....

Ok, note to self.......making cupcakes & cookies is too hard for me. I ate a couple cookies and some dough yesterday and then another couple cookies today. At the kids valentine's day parties at school, I'm the room mom setting out all this yummy stuff. I had a lot of carrots and ranch (not bad) and a small handful of chips. I have no self control and now I have a headache. I wonder if its all the sugar that my body is not used to. I woke up with a headache and haven't been able to get rid of it. No school tomorrow, so each of my kids brought a friend home to stay over night and I brought home some cupcakes and cookies, but I'll let the kids and dad finish them off. I'm not having any more sweets.

Valentine's Day is Sat and my mom said she'd watch the kids so hubby and I can go out for a hot date!!! yeah!!!! I think we'll go out to dinner and maybe a movie. Can't wait. I'm going to try to be good.

I weighed myself this morning and I'm a fraction of a pound lighter. Yeah!!!

Exercise

Well, yesterday, I went to my kickboxing class and nothing hurt everything felt great. I didn't need to take it easy except when it came to the abs portion of the class. I didn't do the abs, not that it hurts, I just feel a slight pull and don't want to hurt anything. I had a great workout and feel great today, except extreemly sore, but I love that. When I'm sore, I know I worked hard. I must admit, I hate every second of exercising, but I feel so good afterwards, that it keeps me going back (for the most part). I go to a small gym down the street from my house and on Tues and Thurs I take a kickboxing class at 4:30 with some of the teachers and friends from my kids school. Its great because my kids love to go so they can see their friends and they play their video games (ds) together and have a great time, so it makes it easier for me to go and lug them around.

Anyway, I weighed in today and lost another pound. Yeah!!!! (but its the pound I've been going back and forth with, so I'm still saying I'm down 19 pounds). I'm going to try to get to the gym to do some light weights today and start with 20 min eliptical.

Tonight I have to make cookies and cupcakes for Valentine's Day party's tomorrow. Wish me luck and willpower not to eat them all!!! BTW, I had to buy Valentine candy for my kids to give to their friends at school and usually I buy my favorite candy (chocolate mmmm..) so that I can eat the leftover. Well, I bought Nerds and Starburst (not tempting at all), so that I wouldn't be tempted to eat the candy. I'm happy about that!!!

Bye for now.

A Rainy Monday....

Hi there!! Well, I start solids today!!!! I'm very excited, but a little afraid of gaining weight. I'm going to try to be careful about what I eat, considering I've been down the same 19 pounds for a week now. We went to Disneyland yesterday and walked and walked all day. I felt good about that. I'm going to try to exercise more this week. I feel totally ready to exercise. I'm sleeping on my stomach again and it's wonderful. I missed sleeping on my stomach. I don't feel any pain even at the port site, so all is well. When I had surgery, I ended up with 1 large incision (2.5 inches long) and 3 small ones (less than an inch). All are healing well, except one of the small ones seems to be a little reder than the others, no pain, but looking a little different. I don't think it's infected or anything, but I'm going to take extra special care of it so it doesn't become infected. I have been very good about putting Neosporin on them and keeping them clean, so last night, I cleaned it well and then put a little Peroxide on it and then Neosporin and then a bandage just to keep it extra clean.

Today is a rainy day and now my other son is home sick, his tummy hurts, he doesn't like school so much, I think he is faking it, but that is ok. He is a good student and deserves a day off here and there. We are going to stay in and enjoy the rain. I think I'll light a fire and do some housework and maybe the gym this evening. I was going to go this morning, but can't. Tomorrow I'm going to do my kickboxing class. I did it last week and I was fine, I just didn't do the sit up part.

Thanks for reading!!!

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Thursday

Well, today I lost that pound that I gained. I know weight flunctuates, but I find myself in my old mindset. In the past, I'd do really good on a diet and loose 10-20 pounds and then slowly it would just come back on and then some. I could never really stick to a diet or lifestyle change for more than a month and I still fear that is going to happen. I know I've got to change my mindset, its just hard. I did really well yesterday and tried to make only healthy choices along with 3 protein drinks and then did about 45 min on the Wii fit game. I didn't get a chance to walk, so I did the Wii instead and today that pound came off and I know weighing daily doesn't help. Thanks for your advise Mindy!!!

Last night my little boy (8 years) came into my bed in the middle of the night complaining of a stomach ache and at about 4 am he was in the bathroom throwing up and has the stomach flu. Ooohhh how I hate the flu. I'm being very carful to wash my hands constantly. It scares me to even think of getting the stomach flu as a banded person in general, not to mention 2 1/2 weeks post op. How does the band and the stomach flu work?????? It seems that when you vomit from the stomach flu (not PB) everything would have to come from the large stomach up through the tiny opening that the band is around and up through your mouth. Couldn't that cause slippage if your really sick and vomiting uncontrollably??? I'm good about getting my flu shots and will continue to be :)

Well, I will continue to make healthy choices today and hopefully get a chance to do some form of exercise today (BTW, my legs are killing me from the last 2 days, but I love it!!!). Our downtown area has an artwalk tonight where you walk around and visit the different museums and they usually have something fun for the kids, so we might do that and that will get a lot of walking in. We'll see, depends on how hubby feels after work tonight. He was a little crabby last night. A lot of changes at his job and a lot more stress on him. I feel bad for him, but he is applying for a new job that will be a lot less stress, so we'll see!!!

Nothing New

Well, nothing new here. I woke up this morning and gained a pound. I know this phase isn't about loosing weight, but I certainly don't want to gain what I have lost back. I would like to at least stay the same until my fill. I did go to the gym yesterday and did a low impact workout and my muscles are very sore today. I didn't feel any strain in my stomach area and didn't do the sit up portion of the class, so I'm going to try to do this class twice a week if I feel ok. I feel good about that, but I think I need to layoff some of the mushies. I'm going to try to be more careful. I find that my appetite is much bigger than a week ago, but I'm not stuffing myself. A small portion satisfies me for a couple hours, then I want to eat some more.

Well, I'm going to go for a walk this evening with my family and hope by the end of the week I have lost that pound and not gained more.

Today is a great day!!! ......Mushies

Well, today marks 2 weeks since my surgery and I am finally able to start Mushies!! Yeah!!! Dr. even said salads with tuna or chicken, so that opens up all kinds of new menu ideas. I went to a Superbowl party yesterday and did pretty good. Someone had brought Posole (spelling???) and I was able to take some of the broth and only ate that. Of course everyone is drinking and, like I said in an earlier post, I usually drink beer, but I decided to make me a Cape Cod and I bought some light Cranberry Juice (40 calories per serving) and mixed it with a little Vodka. It was delicious, but I must say, I used to be able to drink quite a bit and not get tipsy, well, I think those days are gone. I had 3 drinks over the course of the evening (7 hours) and boy was I feeling them. I think I should have no more than 2 from now on, still not feeling too good this morning. I took beans and rice to the party as it was a Mexican theme and the refried beans I bought at this really good Mexican Resturant near us. there was some left over, so I'm having some as we speak for breakfast and they are wonderful. I know beans aren't a normal breakfast food, but I have been anxous for them since I know I can have them today. I'm sure these beans are full of fat, so I'll be carful not to eat too many of them.

You know how I said I'm one of those people who weigh every day and sometimes twice a day??? Well, I still haven't been able to get over that and I know that when the scale doesn't move for a few days, I get discouraged and forget to look at the whole picture. Instead of seeing that I haven't lost for the last few days, I should look at how much I've lost over the whole week or month. Well, my kids have Wii and they used their Christmas money and bought the Wii fit and I love it. It keeps track of how much you've lost and has little fitness tests and keep track of how many minuites you've exercised. I've decided to weigh in on that once a week to see what my weight loss is for a week at a time and it's great. Also, a great way to kind of start getting back into exercise after not exercising at all. I feel so good, I think I will start back to the gym this week. I will do light exercise and my doctor says when I feel ready I can go ahead and start back into it. I will be careful not to over do it.

By the way, at two weeks post op, I have lost a total of 19 pounds (12 pre op and 7 post op). Yeah!!!! Hopefully I'll get to 20 pound this week.