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I’ll write more tonight…

I’m attempting to catch up with everyone though I’m sure I won’t be able to. I am starting to recover from my surgery and overall not doing too bad. I did gain almost 2lbs since Tuesday but I’m honestly not sure why. I did lay on the couch all week but I did do pretty good with my eating. Leg is still pretty swollen so maybe that’s some of my 2. I don’t know. Just going to keep going and see how next week is.

My surgery went okay. He decided very last minute to only do the 1 leg. So recovery wasn’t as bad as expected but I think I may have to go back for 1 more procedure. I was really hoping this was going to be my last one. He felt that the left leg was healing and should do okay on its own but it’s really not. We’ll see Thursday what he says.

Thursday is my follow up and stitches come out. Lots of stitches this time…I think about 20 incisions. Most of them are down on the calf this time which is good. Last time they were mostly around my knee, where the leg bends, and that made it very tough to get around. I am going to hit the forums now and see if I can’t catch up somewhere. Thanks for all the support everyone!!! I super appreciate it! I hope all you buddyslimmers are doing great!

I know I said I wouldn’t get on for a few days but I couldn’t resist my Tuesday morning weigh in. Imagine my surprise when the scale said 204.0!! That’s 4.2 down since Saturday. I havne’t had an actual loss in months!!!

I’m making 5lb mini goals for myself…. I am happy to say that today I reached and passed my 1st one! and I’ve set my next mini goal

Have a great day everyone! I’m off for some surgery

Not from my plan but from buddyslim. Going in tomorrow for surgery on both legs and know I just won’t feel up to sitting on the computer for a few days. So hello and goodbye to all my buddies…I will see you soon!

Oh and I am pleased to say I am actually starting to get back on track! Maybe even a loss this week!!

Can anyone recommend a good  chicken nugget?

My kids love them and I usually buy chicken breasts, cut them up and bread them, freeze them and then bake when they want to eat them. Too much work! BUT I can’t find a chicken nugget in the store that I like. Perdue makes a whole grain baked nugget but  it’s super processed and Bella & Evans makes a natural, supposedly unprocessed chicken breast nugget but it’s fried. There’s got to be something out there that I just haven’t found yet… any suggestions? Thanks!

So Monday was my bad news day from the Dr. then Tuesday I really tried to eat well and follow my points but of course pigged out around 9/10 o’clock.  Just stuff around the house but a huge bowl of cheerios and a bunch of those tiny 100 cal. cupcake things and I think a ww cake…just kept picking and picking and picking. Then Wednesday…Oh, yesterday. Well, Had an emergency trip to the mall because we found out yesterday morning that today will be picture day at the preschool.  So we ran out and searched and did find something but then it was after 5 and we weren’t home and were all starving so what did I do? Pizza hut!  Like how unhealthy is that?!! So I ate my pizza, my breadsticks and even some chicken kicker things and then I was sad. So sad. Sad for myself, sad for what I ate, sad for being fat.  So then what do I want? Icecream! But I am proud to say I did not give in to the ice cream. That I was really proud of because normally takeout/restaurant stuff always makes me want something sweet.  (I swear it’s all the salt in the food…I never use salt and these places pour it on). So I had some tea and some of those 100 cal. cupcakes and I got through it. (I know, stop buying those cupcakes! But there are some days I just really, really want a little bite of cake and I figure it’s better to have the 3 little 1 point cupcakes than a real cake…the trick is to just eat 1 pack :))

So this morning I’m feeling pretty good. I won’t know until tomorrow…when I see I can make it through a day but I have high hopes that I can do it today. I think part of it is I made a lot of changes at once. Today’s goal will be more with not overeating and sticking to my daily ww points and then we’ll add more healthy food habbits a little bit at a time, day by day.

So now I’m off to swim lessons with the girls. Today is the baby’s first day of ‘big kid’ class without mommy. So excited and so sad at the same time. My little tiny baby is becoming a big kid too quickly! Then we come home and rush like crazy to get Sky ready for her preschool picture day…our very first school pictures ever! And inbetween? Focus on me, my food choices and my portions. Good luck me…I’m going to need it!

Gotta start today! Dr. basically says I’m very unhealthy. For the first time ever I went for a regular checkup and he sent me for full blood work. Results came in and I have elevated cholesterol,  pre-diabetic sugar levels, low vitamin D, slightly anemic & B12 deficient. I’m now getting a B12 shot once a week for 4 weeks then once a month for “a very long time”. I am a huge needle phob so that’s not good news plus the dr. is 30 mins. away and I have to drag my 2 little kids with me each time I go so that’s a pain (30 mins. in the complete opposite direction of everywhere I ever go). He also said I’m overweight but I knew that one already. He did say my thyroid (the one thing I was secretly hoping he’d find a problem with) was perfectly fine…as were liver and kidneys which is good. Basically he gave me a huge kick in the pants and said make some major changes now before it’s too late. Now I really debated the whole ‘last meal’ thing and I did give in. We went as a family to Olive Garden partly for the last meal but partly because we were given a gift card to go a while ago and just never found the time. The kids were a hot mess but that’s a whole different story. I ate! Salad, breadsticks, Chicken Marsala and I even made them sub my potatoes for fettuccini alfredo…now how unhealthy was that?!! But it was tasty and now I’m over it. Even this morning I ran to Acme for some OJ and as I was passing the large display of ice cream sales that usually sucks me in I quickly walked passed and thought how I don’t need that stuff.3 

So I don’t have a definite plan yet but I did get some D3 supplements, fish oil and iron pills like I was told. I’ll start taking that yummy combination this morning and just generally watch that I’m making healthy food choices. I’m still going to do Weight Watchers but I’ll def. focus more on eating healthy meals than fitting in enough snacks. And that’s pretty much all I can handle. I do need an overhaul but I need to take some baby steps or it’ll never work. But that’s me in a nutshell today. It is sunny and heading up to 81 today so we’re off for 1 last trip to the beach before fall sets in. The tourists are gone and it should be a nice quiet time. The girls are even bringing friends so who knows…I may even get some rest (yeah right!)  Happy Tuesday everyone. Thanks for all the support lately! I’m trying to get better at reading blogs. I still really just write for myself to help clear my head but reading everyone else’s usually helps keeps me focus on the goal.  Have a great day!

Huge wakeup call at my dr. appointment today. Too tired to go into detail but I seem to be on the verge of everything. Summary…need to lose weight and make MUCH healthier food choices. Feeling a bit overwhelmed by everything but I know I can do it if I really try.Good night buddies! Hope you’re all doing well

I love Sundays and dread them at the same time. For some reason Sunday nights are always my downfall. As much as I try to plan ahead and be prepared for my inevitable pigout nothing seems to help.

Yesterday was my best food day in a while so I’m feeling somewhat pleased. I did really great all day until hubby came home around 10pm with McDonalds for me. Now, I don’t even like McDonalds so that just made me extra mad but you know I ate it.  I hoped to go food shopping yesterday but of course he came home too late so I’m about to jump in the shower now and go. I’m just happy when I get to go without the kids and can really focus on what I’m buying and how many ww points the stuff is. Our house is empty right now so anything is an improvement but I’m hoping to stock it up with some good choices for the week.

That’s about it. Focusing on food. Leg is feeling pretty good these days and I’m wishing I could exercise  but still can’t. It’s ironic I guess becuase I can’t exercise and really want to but when I’m able to I never want to. I got a surprise $6k bill in the mail yesterday from my doctor. I went to my insurance website and it said if you ever get a bill to call them 24 hours a day 7 days a week and gave the number. So I called and of course it’s their ‘maintenance weekend’ and the systems are down so please call back Monday. I’m hoping to get that figured out fast or that would just be devastating to us right now. But I won’t stress today about it…nothing I can do until tomorrow. I’ll go focus on my food shopping! Happy Sunday everyone! and Thanks! for all the support yesterday!

This BMI puts you under the body classification of “Severely Obese” according to the CDC (US Center for Disease Control & Prevention).

• Hypertension
• Dyslipidemia
• Type 2 diabetes
• Coronary heart disease
• Stroke
• Gallbladder disease
• Osteoarthritis
• Sleep apnea
• Endometrial, breast, and colon cancer

Wow…now isn’t that fun news??!

So here we go again….again. Today’s weigh in was a whopping 210.0 pounds! I’ve been there before but vowed I’d never see it again. I never wanted to see 200 again but that came and went rather quickly. Back to reality. Out of excuses…time to just do it. Of course I have motivation…I could list for pages all the reasons I’m motivated to lose weight but what I’ve recently discovered is I have no determination. I start and stop and start and stop it’s like I’m really not at all determined to reach my goals and that saddens me.

So really truly, I am out of excusese. My next and last leg surgery is in about a week and very shortly after that I will be able to workout again and since it is hopefully my last one I should be able to keep working out (not like this past year where I can exercise for a week and then can’t for 2 months). Monday afternoon the results are in…I went for a full blood workup about a week or so ago to see where I stand with everything. I’m hoping for the best but fearing the worst. Either way it’ll be good to know where I stand with my health overall. The weight loss has been SO hard and I am extremely tired all the time so I’m hoping he has a reason for at least one of those…feeling maybe I’m anemic and some iron pills may be a simple solution but we’ll see. That’s why we have drs

So another rainy Saturday but one filled with hope. That’s a word I haven’t used in a long time. HOPEfully it stays with me…