The good, bad and the ugly...

May 26, 2009

Well, this last week was definitely a crazy one! Since we were having company over the holiday weekend, I decided it was high-time that the cluttered mess in the living room was gone through and cleaned up. Plus, there is a rummage sale at our church this coming weekend and they are taking donations for it, so I had even more reason to get it done. Trying to get anyone else at my house to help out was a different story, though! But in any case, by Saturday morning, the place was looking pretty ship-shape but I was exhausted! To top it all off, I threw my sister and my new niece a baby shower on Saturday. And, I went all out for it....did tissue-paper flowers, flower arrangement, table settings, a butterfly tree, decorated cupcakes, made fruit kabobs, pink deviled eggs, punch, etc. It was fun and well-worth it but I was so exhausted before the end of the day! I seriously felt like if I were to sit down and stop all the running around, I'd pass out! LOL Sunday was a busy day, as well. We went to church and then drove to our hometown about an hour away to put flowers on our grandparents' graves. We also stopped at our grandparents' old house and talked to one of the neighbors for a short while. And then, drove out on this treacherously nasty dirt road out in the country to see our great aunt that we affectionately call "Gramma Ettie". She couldn't make it to the baby shower and so we decided to go visit her for awhile. She's the last living sibling of my grandma's, out of 7 kids total. We were wanting to take a drive around the lake, too, but it just got too late and the weather wasn't the best, so we drove back home. My sister and her family left yesterday but then my best friend stopped by for a little while on her way back to Wyoming from a weekend with her brother. So I enjoyed seeing her very much and it was a great way to end the longer weekend! :) 

But anyhow- as far as weight goes... I really haven't lost any more weight...I made it down to 217 one morning but then have gone back up to 219 and been there for several days now. And I know that I didn't make the best choices over the weekend as far as food goes. Not super bad but I could have lived without the cupcake I had and all the punch I drank. That was probably what did it....the punch. Lemonade with sherbert. It was delicious and I know that I should have drank water instead of that stuff, especially with all the running around I did. Bad girl. I know....And I learned a very valuable lesson last night about the "Last Bite Syndrome". Not a fun lesson to learn. I threw up. Yep.....I ate a hamburger that I made on the Foreman grill and probably should have had it without the bun, but I didn't. And I had like two bites left and felt full and knew I shouldn't eat the rest of the burger (which was mostly just bread and juicy tomato)....but I did. Bad, bad idea! About 15 minutes later, I was still feeling discomfort from it and then my mouth start salivating really bad and that was what did it. It wasn't like I threw up like I would from being sick, it was more like I burped and it came up....no acid or bad taste or anything that would go along with normal throwing up. But in any case, it still wasn't pleasant. And I was SO disappointed in myself. I swore to myself that I wouldn't ever do that and I didn't stay true to that promise. My husband wasn't really happy with me about it either and my kids were a bit worried about it. So today, I am taking it slow and not pushing myself and going to make sure that I don't push myself to that limit again. It's not fun at all. I don't go in to see my surgeon until June 11th, which is over 2 weeks away. I am hoping that I can lose like another 6 lbs. by then. And as much restriction as I have right now, I am not really planning on getting any kind of fill. But then again, if I lose quite a bit of weight between now and then, that could also change. But I don't think I'll lose enough to really justify it. I think that I'd probably be closer to my goal for this week had I not sabotaged it this last weekend.

On the plus side- I added up all the miles that I have walked/ran since the Amazing Race started and I have a total of 58.25 miles so far. But I can only turn in 50.5 miles for this last week as Sunday and Monday will be added to this week's totals. That's a lot farther than I expected it to be!!!

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