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A blog by dirttrackdiva in General

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A weight loss surgery blog by dirttrackdiva on BariatricPal. 38 entries on surgery, recovery and progress.

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I'm Moving

Just a heads up for everyone, I'm following BG's lead and moving to blogspot. Here's the link: www.dirttrackdiva.blogspot.com My family members and friends that know I've had surgery weren't able to see these posts since they aren't members of the site. So I thought I'd make it available for everyone to see. There are some posts on there that aren't totally related to surgery, but it's my new home. Hope you all follow me there. I'll leave the light on for you. :biggrin:

Are You and Your Band on the Same Page?

I titled my blog this today because yesterday my band and I were not on the same page. By any stretch of the imagination. I don't even know if we were both reading the same book! :smile2: Does anyone else seem to have issues with pork? I've tried it twice since I've been banded and both times had disasterous results. Last night I was eating some left over pork loin, prepared for it to be a little dry I added some extra bbq sauce to my plate for the purpose of dipping and allowing the meat to

A Day of Peac and Quiet

:wink: Aaaaahhhhh.....this is great. Hubby is working today and the neighbors aren't fighting (yet) so I thought I'd enjoy the peace and quiet today. There are so many other things I could be doing right now, but why? :smile2: Spent last evening at my mother in laws house, with her picking apart everything I did and said. :boink: I could use a peaceful day today. Still slow and steady on the weight loss. Wearing a pair of jeans today that I couldn't even get pulled up over my ass 6 week

10 Pounds from Half Way.......Six Pounds from Onederland

Wow, it's been a while since I've posted anything. I've been so busy with my new job and so much other crap it's been insane. I feel like I've been on a vacation (too long of one) from the site. Sorry to all (if any) loyal readers of my blog. Thanx heaps for your loyalty if there are any. So many things have happened since I posted last. Where do I start. Had a Birthday on the 26th of September, the big 29, had some issues with it. So I got a tattoo.....on the top of my foot. (see profile pi

Diet v. Lifesyle Choice

Just to give some of you guys a heads up about this one before you read it.......this might sound like a holier-than-thou soapbox speech, but it's not. If I come off that way I'm sorry, but realistically, this is my blog and where I put my thoughts, if you don't like it, there's the rest of the world wide web to explore, far be it for me to stop you. :rant:Ok. Now. With that being said let me express some of the things I think are different from a diet v. a lifestyle choice.   Diet /Lifestyle

On to Bigger and Better Things

QUIT MY TOTALLY SHITTY JOB YESTERDAY FOR A CAREER CHOICE!!! :party: Life is good. Man I hated that place. I was to the point that when I left at 3:30, if that place went up on flames at 3:31, I totally wouldn't care. It's hard to work for people that don't care about you. However, I do have another job lined up. Thankfully, in this ecomony no one can afford to be without employment. I'll be working at the regional office for American Family Insurance. Their regional office happens to be in the t

Taking My First Steps

I'm finally able to start working out now that the physical therapist and my back doctor have released me to be able to work out. This is a good thing. I took my "first steps" as a bander yesterday.   Hubby asked me where I went and when I told him he said it was about a mile and half. And it actually felt good. Really really good. :blushing: Please excuse me whilst I toot my own horn and pat myself on the back. :biggrin:   Moving on from that. I went to the doctor about my voice since it s

Catching Up......

It's been quite some time since I've posted.   The last time I went to the doctor to get a checkup and a fill I found out I'd gained a pound. :confused: WHAT?!? How could this have happened? Well, after I'd bemoaned all day hubby comes to me and says "When are you supposed to start your period?" I said in a couple of days and asked him why. :biggrin: Realization...........:hurray:halleuja! Never been so happy to start my period in my life.   Everything else is pretty much the same. Right n

Another Realization

Went out to dinner with hubby last night and we went to one of our favorite local places here in town. I ordered chips and salsa to start with and chicken fingers for dinner. Hubby ordered the onion rings to start. There we were munching on our chips/salsa and onion rings when they bring out our food. There were six LARGE chicken strips, fries and broccoli on my plate. I got three meals out of all that food. Before being banded I would have eaten all of that chips and salsa, half of hubby's o

30 Sticks of Butter and Onederland

Got my second fill yesterday (1.5 CC's, 4CC's for the first fill two weeks ago, in an 11CC band). So far I'm down 30 pounds from when I started my liquid diet June 1st. Doc says I'm doing great. Sticking with the 1-2 pounds a week average. I didn't think I had lost any weight. My scale kept saying the same thing every morning for a while. Still havn't started working out yet. Was going to start that today, but it's been POURING RAIN and it's hard to go out for a run when it's raining. Don't want

Heavy Jeans

Good evening bandster family. Hope you're all doing well and progressing on your journey.   Today I wore a pair of jeans that were TIGHT :eek2::yikes::eek2::yikes::eek2:(I was looking for a smilie that couldn't breathe due to wearing clothes so tight, but couldn't find one) when I bought them. The only reason I bought them when I did actually was because my boss was having a holy fit :incazzato:cuz I was wearing yoga type pants all the time. Well I'm fat, what does she expect? lol   Today

Bad Food Day

I'm frustrated today. I can't seem to shake the feeling that I'm eating too much. Which severly depresses me. I guess this is bandster hell. I've had my first fill. That was Monday and my doc asked me to come back in two weeks for another one. In hopes to get me to my sweet spot faster.   I'm still eating around my plate the right way. And usually I have solid protein for lunch. Tuna or a turkey burger something like that. The worst I do is a lunchable, but they're still good protein. I'm jus

First Fill

Got my first fill today. Wasn't near as ugly as I thought it would be. There was also someone there to hold my hand though. That always seems to help. AND I'VE LOST 28 POUNDS! Party, party, party. In a little over a month, 28 pounds down. I can't believe it. And that's without working out. Because I tried a couple of times and it hurt, so the doctor told me not to do it if it hurt. Then I just never went back to doing it. I know, bad Erika. :thumbup: Things at worki are getting much better.

2 Pounds........OF FOOD

OK, so I'm sure you all are wondering what this is about. Well, mine and my husbands wedding anniversary was the first of this month and my father in law wanted to take us to dinner. So the boys picked IHOP, which is fine. I can eat eggs and actually called the doc and they said I could eat pancakes since I'm three weeks out as long I didn't put syrup on them or used sugar free. Well, I haven't eaten pancakes since I've been banded so I didn't think that would be a good idea. Don't want to eat

Having a Really Bad Day

OK everyone, I'm needing some input here. Throw everything at me you've got. Are we allowed to eat more than half a cup of food before we get our first fill? I ask this because my hubby says that I'm doing this wrong. Because he FINALLY read the book of nutrition guidlines I was given in nutrition class almost a freaking month ago. I was banded on the 16th of this month and I've lost 25 pounds, so he says to me "think of how much more you would have lost if you were doing this righ

Back to Work

So I went back to work a couple days ago and my job still sucks. As you can all probably tell from my last post. The fourth of July was AWESOME! As it is every year. I have the pics, but they aren't ready to be posted yet. I can't wait for you all to see them. We usually have a really good fireworks display. This year it was a little small due to the economy and spending two weeks off work recently. Everyone spent about 100.00 and we still had plenty of stuff. Being as there were about 6 of us

Recipe: Salmon Burgers

I just had this for dinner and thought it warranted another post. They were awesome. And, I cooked them myself. Salmon Burgers 1 14.5 oz can of chicken of the sea salmon 1 tablespoon dehydrated onion 1 tablespoon parsley 2 teaspoons lemon juice 3 tablespoons mayonaise 1/4 teaspoon garlic salt 2 eggs, beaten 1/2 cup bread crumbs (optional) spoon salmon mixture into patties on a sprayed cookie sheet. Bake for 20 minutes at 375. You can also fry them, I didn't, I liked baked fis

Back to Work

Warning: :thumbup: Well, yesterday was my first day back at work. Not much fun.......today wasn't either. It seems I'm at fault for everything that got screwed up beyond recognition while I was gone. Still haven't quite figured that out. :thumbup: And to put the icing on the cake, they screwed up my vacation pay, even though I requested it three weeks ago, so I won't be getting paid tomorrow. :blushing: They're going to take it on to my next check IN TWO WEEKS! So now I have to call the l

Lazy Day

Today was certainly nothing major to write about. I did figure out however that I can't eat boiled eggs anymore. I made egg salad in my magic bullet for dinner and there were a couple hard boiled eggs left over. I gave one to hubby and was going to eat one myself. Figured it would give me a good shot of protein. I took a bite out of it and that's the closest I've come to throwing up food since I've been banded. Needless to say hubby ate that one too. Thankfully I haven't experience any

Family Reunion Today

Today was my annual family reunion. Daddy's side of the family. We all get together the last Sunday of June every year and just talk about the past. Eat lots of food (except me this year) and watch the kids play at the park and swim. It's always a good chance to see people that I don't usually see and talk to them about how my life is going. This years crowd was very very small. I can remember when I was kid it was HUGE! So many people. We've sadly lost a few of course, but it was still really s

You can't hide when you're four wide!

Anyone who understands racing and the World of Outlaws will know what that means. For those of you that aren't race fans, or don't get it (which is ok. racing isn't everyones cup of tea). The World of Outlaws is a dirt track phenomenon. Here's how they work.....you take a car that has 800 horsepower, weighing 1800 pounds (with the diver in it and full of fuel), turn it loose on a 1/2 - 1 mile dirt oval and watch them go about 130 mph and turn left! WAY COOL! :rolleyes2: So that's where

20 Pounds Down

Went in for my two week check up yesterday and I'm down 20 pounds from when I started. Part of it the was from the pre op diet, but 20 pounds is 20 pounds. I was so excited. My mom has lost 16 pounds. So we're neck and neck. A little healthy competition never hurt anyone. Lots and lots of driving yesterday. The docs office is three hours away from my house, so I drove to KC to pick up my mom, then drove to the docs office. Then back to drop my mom off and home. While I was at the docs offi

One Week Out Today

One week ago today I was banded. As a matter of fact, I was getting up to my room about right now. Went to the grocery store today and got all of my stuff for my week two diet. The only thing I forgot was the baby food. Oh well. Stocked up on apple sauce, cottage cheese, and I got some stuff to make a few pureed things. Ventured out on my own today. Grocery store and got my nails done. Now I have to decide what to eat tonight since this is the first night of my second week. CHOICES CHOICES!

Odd Pains

I know this is my second post today, but I just feel like posting again I guess. Hope you all don't mind. Experiencing some odd pains today. When I take a deep breath it hurts on my left side right under my rib cage (where I'm pretty sure my band is). I called the doc and spoke to the nurse, she said it's totally normal. Especially since I'm still less than a week out. Tomorrow will be one week. She said that it could be anything from gas to the body wondering what the heck this foreign object

Egg Drop Soup Recipe

By popular demand here is my hubby's home made egg drop soup recipe. Egg Drop Soup 8 cups of water 7 chicken boullion cubes 6 jumbo size eggs pepper to taste We like a lot of eggs in our soup so if you don't like as many, just don't put as many in. It's really good though. You can also use white pepper, but we had the regular laying around so we used it. There you go everyone. Glad it got such a good response, I'll have to tell hubby his soup was a hit when he's done mowing

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