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Would You Like Some Cheese With The Whine????

This morning I went on a rant in the forums about my Friday night. Now I'm over it, and I don't care. I finally broke down and called my mom and told her what happened. My mother, who grew up in the 1960's and was what the kids call today "straight edge" probably gave the best advice: "get over it, clubs have been doing this for years, they want a certain 'look' and if you don't fit that look either pay or go home" whoa mom! How do you even know about clubs in the first place? Actually she does my dad took my mom to a disco on their first date and proposed to her on the dance floor of a disco (picture John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever doing the hustle and saying "marry me Bonnie" lol) But I guess she was right, oh well it's their loss because I probably would have spent a lot of money there. The rest of the weekend was alright. I slept most of Saturday made dinner for the dbf, which was a test for me, since I haven't eaten pasta since my last fill and guess what I can eat??? Pasta!!! What the heck?!?!?! My lapband doctor has me fill out a questionnaire before I fill to determine if I'm in the green zone. Here are some of the questions, and if you're a newbie or an old timer (like me) then maybe it could be questions you ask yourself time to time: Are you throwing up? Nope If so how often? Can you eat meat? Yes Can you eat chicken? I hate chicken! Can you eat pasta? Yup Can you eat rice? Yup Can you eat bread? Yup Are you feeling hungry between meals? Yup Are you drinking at least 64 ounces of water a day? Yup Are you excercising? Yup Then they ask what I ate the day before. Sundays for me are usually hit or miss. Yesterday I had a couple of tablespoons of leftover dip with some baked tostitos and a frozen dinner that's it. IDK what it is about Sundays but I don't eat that much. Well that's all I'll let everyone know how it goes tomorrow with my fill

February 27, 2012

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What The Heck Happened To Me?

First of all, it's been so long that I've been on this forum, I don't even remember writing a blog so long ago....wow! It's so sad that I kind of fell off the earth after March of 2007. Well I'm back and I'm going to be blogging every day! I don't care if no one reads this or everyone reads this I need all the support I can get!!!! So today was the first day I was really HUNGRY!!! After being completely unfilled two weeks ago, and then filled last Monday with only 1.75 ccs in a 4 cc band, I was thinking to myself "oh I may be in the green zone I'm not hungry between meals" YEAH RIGHT!!! My stomach is growling so loud I could wake up the dead (I work down the hallway from a morgue in a healthcare facility so it could happen lol). Also my boyfriend took me out to dinner for our anniversary (one year) to a sushi restaurant, and I ate a LOT of sushi, so not proud of that, but it was good. I'm not eating lunch until about 2pm or so since I'll eat dinner late. And also with this blog I'm going to write (type?) down everything I put in my mouth. This may get boring since I eat the same thing almost every day, but here goes nothing: Early AM-1 cup skim milk 1 scoop pure protein powder B (9am)-1 container of peach chobani yogurt 1 T Bearnaked protein power granola 1 T yogurt covered raisins L (2pm)- 4 oz of baked shrimp (jumbo size) 1/2 cup green bean casserole (soooo tired of this if anyone has creative vegetable side dishes please comment!!!) D (7pm)- 4 oz of baked shrimp 1/2 cup green bean casserole Post Gym Snack (who knows what time?)-2 tablespoons trail mix 45 minutes on the elliptical at the gym I find it so funny about what I used to ate right after I got banded and how the rules have changed I guess. It seems like now the majority is 3-4 oz of protein, then a half cup of veggies then if you have room carbs, I'm so not interested in carbs anymore....

January 26, 2012

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What A Weekend

The luck of the Irish was definetly not on my side this weekend! Sorry I didn't blog on Friday, nothing really exciting going on lol. This weekend food wise was uneventful ate like crap like always, then regret it later, then realize that it wasn't that much food. Going on a liquid diet today until friday to amp up the weight loss. Having a protein shake for breakfast and lunch and a low-cal/high protein dinner. I'm eating/drinking 530 calories a day. Starting another week (I've lost count at what week I'm on) on c25k, spent all of last week outside doing it, the weather has been so nice. Tuesday I'm trying out a class with a friend of mine it's cardio and hand weights, I have to see if I can make it from the train station to the class by 5:50 or so (the class starts at 6). Thursday I might "drop in" on a Zumba class see if I like the instructor, so I'll be officially working out 5 days a week starting in April! But I'll enjoy it because I enjoyed being outside all week last week. I actually enjoy being active! I guess that's all, Mondays still suck even though it's my last week before vacation here at work! Have a great day!

March 19, 2012

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What A Beautiful Day Yesterday!

Yesterday it was absolutely beautiful in my neck in the woods! So, I decided to start week 3 of c25k at the local outdoor track at the middle school. I did pretty good had to stop a couple of times, but I had the worse headache towards the end. I realized it's because I was tensing up my neck and shoulders and basically grinding my teeth. You run completely different when you're on a treadmill vs when you are off (well I know I do!) but the workout went by quick and it was just a wonderful way to enjoy the weather! And of course today is rainy lol. Work today is a little crazy it seems like no one knows what they are doing (ie doctor's offices) it's like I'm holding their hands, and this isn't their first rodeo lol. Tonight after work I'm going to make my baked falafels and General Tso's tofu and then figure out what I'm going to eat next week for breakfast lunch and dinner. I'm not going to lie I'm going to be in "vacation mode" that I may just lean cuisine the week lol. Well, we'll see. I have a TON of chicken recipes but I don't eat chicken anymore. I found these Quorn brand chicken cutlets, they are completely vegetarian, so I think I'm going to try to see how my chicken recipes taste with the Quorn "chicken". Yeah, I think I'll do that for dinner. Lunch may be a lean cuisine lol. Also I have never made recipes off the top of my head and I did the other day with my crustless quiche, and it tastes interesting---a little watery?? IDK the quiche I did the week before tasted a lot better may do that one again next week. Well I guess that's all to report today. Hope everyone has a great day!

March 13, 2012

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Weirdest Day Yesterday

Can't even begin to tell you! It was like ex-boyfriend palooza crazy! Anyway, Valentine's Day came and went with nothing from my dbf. Granted we are doing something Saturday night, but it still would've been nice to have gotten something yesterday. On a good note, my torani syrups came in to add to my chobani! I ordered them right from the website (torani.com). And got three sugar free flavors: Chocolate chip cookie dough, White chocolate and coconut. I also have vanilla and hazelnut at home that I bought at Christmas Tree Shops. Weighed myself in this morning for the Valentine's Day Challenge, down 4.6 lbs, still have a way to go to reach my goal. March 1st I'm officially starting my c25k challenge. I found an app that has the timer and will tell you when to walk/job/not die, etc... I'm excited to start. I even made a playlist on my mp3 player to get me pumped up. I also saw on the forums talk about fitbit, I'm so getting one of those for my 50 lb loss goal. Screw the rings, the fitbit looks so much more fun! Have a good day, thanks for reading and commenting, it means so much to me

February 15, 2012

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Weekends.....

This weekend was horrible as always food wise for me. But someone who I cannot stand put something into perspective, I have to thank her for that (the witch lol). Friday was my usual day of egg white omlette, tuna sammy on multigrain, and then for dinner my dbf and I went out for Mexican. Hindsight is 50/50 after we went out to dinner on Friday I felt like crap but to think about it, it wasn't that bad. I had two margaritas chips and salsa, then shrimp enchiladas with no sauce it was basically shrimp wrapped up in corn tortilla (which I didn't eat) with some pico de gallo on it. I think the worse thing I ate was the chips and the margaritas lol. Saturday sucked food wise. Sucked real bad. Not going to even go into it. But I have to say that I'm not eating as much as I did before. Especially when I'm drinking (margaritas again on Saturday night lol) Sunday I was back to normal (yay!) I made my 3 meals for the next four days and I'm usually so busy with that and laundry that I forget to eat. All I had was a lean cuisine for dinner. So anyway back to someone I don't like putting things in perspective. After dinner Saturday night we were all hanging out (me, my dbf, and his roommates, including the one I don't like) and I felt so bad about how I ate for dinner and she said to me "You eat so well during the week, that one day is not going to kill you. Also, you went to the gym today and ran that burns calories for hours!" So, it made me feel better not by much, but it did a little bit. Also I learned to stay away from fried foods for now on, I think I went on a little overkill Saturday night and I felt like crap all day Sunday up until I went to bed. So, lesson learned friend pickles = the devil! This is week 2 of c25k let's see if I survive tonight! I hope everyone who reads this had a good weekend and remember one day off the wagon is not going to kill you. I think for me, if one day turned into two then into a week I would have to put things in perspective but I guess the witch was right one day isn't going to kill me.

March 5, 2012

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Weekend Roundup

Ohhhh I was such a bad bandster this weekend I'm not going to even get into it, started with margaritas (4 of them) Friday night and went sort of downhill from there. I realized that I cannot take a vacation from eating right, but I also realize on the weekends I don't eat like I normally do (three meals a day 5 hours apart) and that's where the trouble starts. New goal for this weekend: FREAKING EAT MAN! Saturday was quite busy. I went to my local day spa and got my first Brazilian, not for anything special but because it was time for Andrea to put her big girl pants on and stop cutting myself in my lady bits, and it does not hurt! Everyone told me it was the most painful thing, oh come on, getting my eyebrows waxed hurt! After that I went to Aldi's, which I used to not shop at because I only liked high quality foods (ie Trader Joe's Whole Foods) now to be honest with you I don't give a crap what I eat in regards to the quality, I'm so not into food anymore. I just make sure it's dense protein and my daily calories are around 1000/day and 60-80 grams protein/day. For two weeks worth of groceries, I only spent 57 bucks at Aldi's (which is dirt cheap in Connecticut) after that I went to Big Y and got my cat food, and whatever I couldn't find at Aldi's for another 40 bucks worth, so I have to say for grocery shopping for two weeks of food for me and my cat under 100 bucks is awesome! On the way to my dbf house, I forgot to get a V-day gift, so I stopped at Gamestop to pick up a gift card, well while walking to the store (this is what I get for parking so far away) my bra strap breaks! So I have to walk in there with one perky boob and one droopy boob and I'm just like "hurry up, I got to get a bra!" so I go next door to Dots (which is like a hoochie mama clothing store, honestly though I buy clothes from there that aren't hoochie mama, but you know) and get a bra, which the boyfriend loved, and I'm like "this is not sexy this is out of necessity lol". What a day That night dbf and I went for sushi for a belated V-day dinner, I was so worried that I was going to get sushi stuck, but alas I did not (I really don't want to eat sushi, I love it so much, that I want to be restricted enough just to eat sashimi because I could eat those darn rolls all day!). At the restaurant they had this crab salad that I devoured and I think that was the most I ate, also shrimp tempura ::hides:: I'm hoping by my next fill I will only be able to eat sashimi, fingers crossed! Sunday morning, dbf brought breakfast in bed, mmmm those eggs were salty lol. Didn't finish eating those. Went home later, and made my dinner for the week (beefy tortilla soup with an extra can of kidney beans for protein) in my crock pot. Then I was so un motivated from cooking that I had a lean cuisine for dinner ::hides again:: I also tried to figure out what a 4 mile run would be from my house to wherever (my previous post, if you didn't read, was my goal to run a 5k next year) my friend who runs them told me once I get the endurance to run 4 miles since it's a little more than a 5k, so the 5k will be easy. So I drove two miles and holy crap that's a long distance, but I'm going to do it!!!! OH OH OH! One more thing, I bought two big things of plain Chobani yogurt and a ton of mix ins, so today's Chobani flavor goes as such: 1 cup of 0% Chobani with 1 T sugar free white chocolate instant pudding mix 1 T Torani white chocolate syrup (sugar free duh) and 1 T sugar free rasberry preserves.....YUM! Tomorrow I'm going to mix in Coconut Torani and some canned pineapple for a pina colada. Sounds good, no? Well time to get to work, thanks so much for reading, everyone stay motivated, and if you had a bad weekend like me, remember today is a new day, be accountable, get moving and DON'T GIVE UP! XOXO, Andrea

February 20, 2012

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Weekend Is Over :(

Had a great weekend, including Friday. Friday I tried to not write down what I ate and just concentrated on how much I was eating, and to be honest I had a really hard time with it. It's definetly mind over matter which sucks and I'm hoping I can work on that eventually. Anyway, Friday night went to the dbf house for dinner, he ordered Chinese, I had crabmeat rangoon and a small thing of pork fried rice and that filled me up. Saturday I was cleaning like crazy all day, I had eggbeaters with cheese and some sausage in the morning, a chobani with some granola and yogurt raisins for lunch and had corned beef, cabbage and carrots for dinner (corned beef is disgusting! Never tried it before, not my favorite cut of meat, dbf loved it!). On Sunday my parents called me early in the morning and wanted to meet up in Newburgh, NY for brunch (Newburgh is halfway between the two of us, they live in NY I live in CT). So much fun I don't know why we didn't think of doing this sooner. It's an inconvenience for me to drive 3 hours back and forth, and I usually have to take a half day off on Friday, this worked out perfect. I had a mushroom and cheese omlette some hashbrowns and rye toast, and that's all I ate for the day, except for a handful of trail mix. Today I'm back at work, I'm hoping the week goes by quick, I took next Monday off, to recover from Super Bowl (go pats!). I have an appointment at my surgeon today at 4pm, I'm nervous to see how much I lose/don't lose in the past two weeks, my last appointment was on January 16th and I was down 21 pounds from my weight on my surgery date. I'm hoping they bump me up to 2 ccs in my band and see if that helps, if not it's only 4 weeks and I go back again for another fill. NOT GIVING UP THIS TIME!

January 30, 2012

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We Made It To Friday!!!

Well, Friday is here, and two weeks from now I'll be getting ready to go on vacation! Woo hoo!!! So excited about that. Oh yeah and I'll be getting my hair done too that day yay. Yesterday after my vent things were fine, went home had dinner and decided next week when I make the general tso's tofu not to add that 1/4 cup of rice to the equation. Only the tofu and the broccoli bc the rice may come up next time lol. Today I had an egg white omlette with veggies and cheese I'm going to see if that holds me over until dinner tonight. I did get some pink grapefruit for an afternoon snack. My md suggested this saying that since it's a fiberous fruit it'll take a while for your pouch and regular stomach to digest it making you feel fuller. Now if you're a noob don't try this until your dr. says it's okay I'm a little leery trying it today, I'll let you know how that goes lol. My ultimate goal is to at least skip one meal to help speed up my weight loss. I only lost a pound this week, that sucks, but I have been eating brown rice with dinner which is a no no. This weekend is going to be busy. Tonight dbf and I are going to the mall he needs "retail therapy" I need to go to bath and body works to get some shower gel etc for vacation. I'm thinking something cocunut like lol. Saturday I'm going to the gym, cleaning the house, doing laundry, going to try to get a manicure and my eyebrows waxed (if this doesn't happen I'll do it next week). Saturday night we're going out with a friend of mine and her husband to a new Mexican restaurant in town and then go play some pool and darts afterward. Sunday we are driving up to Newburgh, NY to meet my parents for brunch (this will be the first time the dbf has met my dad....yikes!) and I can give them stuff to bring to Florida since they're driving. Well I guess that's all have a good weekend everyone!

March 9, 2012

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Um, Nothing To Report Today

Yesterday was boring! Today is going to be boring!!!! But I like routine. I wake up, feed the cat, take a shower, feed the cat again, get dressed go to work, come home feed the cat again, go to the gym, eat dinner and go to bed. Well only 44 days until Key West Also I'm obsessed with portobello mini pizzas.....yum!!!!!

February 9, 2012

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Today's A-Ha Moment

The reason I've become obsessed with my weight loss and excercise is because it's the only thing I can control in my life..... For example: I rent, instead of signing a lease for another year in February, because I was SOOOO optimistic that my dbf and I were going to be moving in together this year (more on that later) I told my landlords that I wanted to go month to month. Literally at any notice I have 60 days to move. They wouldn't do that, they love me, they always stop and visit (in a good way) and were actually upset when they found that I eventually may move lol. My job: I've been working for the same company for 5 years, it's a large hospital it is in the process of buying another hospital in the same city, so my job is stable. In this economy though you never know if today is your last day at work..... My relationship with dbf: things have been good, but he has his issues, mainly his mother and his roommate are holding him back from moving forward. Basically his mother is a financial drain to him and his excuse is "well she has cancer" not for nothing I know tons of people that have cancer, had cancer, died from cancer that worked, and had productive lives. Sure, they had bad days, and really bad days and downright s****y days, but they never asked anyone for anything. This woman just asked her son (my dbf) for 2000.00 to fix her car because she didn't pass emissions LAST YEAR! If it was me, I would've taken the car from her and told her to take the bus or ask me for a ride, but of course he didn't do that, he gave her the money. His roommate is a point blank b***h and the only reason she keeps him there is so that her dirtbag boyfriend doesn't have to pay half of the mortgage that my dbf does now. So as you can see there's no real true future with us when he has a mother to support and a troll under the bridge roommate. So basically this vacation away from him when I'm in Florida is going to be a love it or leave it decision with him and I and we shall see what happens. So as you can see, I've been a little annoyed today. But, you know what I'm going to do with this negative energy? I'm going to work the mutha effer out at the gym because for me going to the gym angry motivates me. I would like to end this on a positive note though it's beautiful and sunny out and I'm glad that I woke up alive!

March 8, 2012

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Technology And The Band

BACK WHEN I WAS YOUR AGE, WE DIDN'T HAVE APPS FOR OUR CELL PHONES!!!! LOL I'm in a funny (ha ha funny mood today) which made me think about technology has helped me as a bandster, and I have to thank my dirty little secret... fat secret that is Not only is it a FREE app for your phone, but it also is online as well, and it links your accounts. Where my office is, I have no cell reception. But, being the sometimes good bandster that I am, the food that I'm eating is already recorded on my app, but for example if I don't eat something, I can go on my computer, log into my account on fatsecret.com and update the food for that day, then when I do have cell phone service and check the app it's updated. Sooo freaking cool! I swear this is not an advertisement they are def not paying me to promote the app. Let's see I weighed myself this morning, gained 4 lbs, but down 2 lbs since Monday so I'm blaming Aunt Flo for the 4lb weight gain she is such a pain! Went to the gym last night for only a half hour, but I have to say that usually when it is my TOM I don't want to go to the gym at all. Today I'll go for 35 minutes, Thursday 40 minutes and Friday 45 minutes. Also just received my Keurig brewer for my office in the mail yesterday, I'll bring it in Friday (I take the train to work and the train is least crowded on Friday). I usually need that ONE cup of coffee around 3pm to get through the rest of the day. I already brought in my mug, a teaspoon, and non dairy creamer. Tomorrow I'll bring in some K-cups. As a bandster I thought it would be good, because after every fill, I'm on liquids for one full day, so I can bring in some cup of soups and use the Keurig to heat up the water for it! I realized last night that changing jobs has helped me be a good bandster. My old job required me to have such a sporadic schedule that sometimes I would only have a few minutes (literally 5) to eat lunch. The job I have now I'm so independent, that at 9am, I stop whatever I'm doing have my breakfast and at 2pm stop everything again and have my lunch. Sometimes a life change will change your health too. Now I'm not recommending everyone leave their jobs for something else. I did it for the independence, the stable hours (M-F 8-4:30) and the flexibility for time off. And I love every minute of it! Well enough blabbing for today. To people that read this, I'm going to start asking you questions for input....when you work out and start to do weight training, how do you find what's best for you? Do you hire a trainer? Go online? Or just wing it?

February 8, 2012

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So Confused (And Jittery!)

Went in for my fill yesterday, was down 6lbs since my last fill on February 27th. I was feeling good about that until the APRN who does the fills comes in, she decides that she wants me to lose more weight and put me on Adipex. She gives me a fill and tells me to come back in two weeks to follow up from the Adipex. I was very on the fence about this, I could've taken Adipex years ago, I didn't want to. Does this MDs office have some sort of weight quota they have to meet per year??? If I wanted to lose weight fast I would've had the bypass. Anyway, being the good patient I am, I took the Adipex at 7am this morning. By 8am, I am bouncing off the walls. I just finished 1 cup of soup, and that's all I've eaten today. Right now I'm sweating like crazy, this is not good! I'm going to keep taking it until my follow up appointment in two weeks. I promised myself if I lose 10 lbs in the two weeks I'll keep taking it, if not, then I'm going to tell them that I'm not taking it anymore and I've been losing weight at a good pace (IMHO) Ugh story of my life!

April 3, 2012

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Saturday

So last night I went bowling with my cousin and her husband. I did horrible! But my butt is killing me, so I guess I got an unintentional workout along with all the walking from yesterday! Today I did a brisk 2 mile walk. I don't know what I'm going to eat today. I think I have a general idea. I have to eat breakfast and lunch back to back since I can't eat at work, usually I have a snack in between to keep me full. Breakfast (10:30)--1 scrambled egg 1/2 slice white american cheese Lunch (1:15)--turkey roll-ups with 1 T cream cheese Sustinance (3-9:00) (for work)--Protein drink and water Dinner--(10:00) 1 oz ground turkey and 1 oz of spinach (to help with constipation) I'll see how that goes my dad said it worked when he was on Atkins.

March 3, 2007

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Pictures

In December of 2011 a bunch of my friends and I went to NYC to go to Rockefeller Center and do the whole touristy NYC thing (I've lived literally an hour away from NYC my whole life and have never done anything touristy there! So if anyone wants to visit and needs a tour guide don't ask me, I have no clue!). So anyway, we took a picture of the four of us. That was when I was at the weight that I realized I gained 30 lbs since having my gall bladder taken out (314 lbs). The picture sits in my office. Every time I think about eating crap I look at my bloated face and think "nah, I don't need it, I worked too hard at this" also in my office is another picture of me taken 1 week before my surgery when I was at my highest weight (322 lbs) and another picture next to it when I was my lowest weight post op (250 ish?) these are just reminders for me not to put food in my mouth and to keep up with the fills, the workouts, eating right etc....because if I looked decent at 250 ish or so, imagine how I'll look when I'm at my goal weight (180 lbs). I'm also a little worried because right now I have 2.75 ccs in a 4 cc band, and this is the most that has ever been in the band, and I can eat things and not feel true "restriction" granted I'm not hungry between meals but it's still scary. For example last night for dinner I had 1/2 c of general tso's tofu (homemade!!! Never made Chinese food before!) 1/2 cup of steamed broccoli and 1/4 c of brown rice. I ate everything except for a couple of bites of the brown rice. Something I'll have to bring up at my next mds appt. On a personal note I have my 90 day review for my new position at my job, I hope I don't get demoted lol. Week two of c25k is hard, I don't think I'm running fast enough. I think the next workout I'm going to try to amp up the treadmill to 5mph in the beginning until I can't stand it anymore. Going to the gym tonight to do some weights. Have a good day!

March 6, 2012

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Ouch!

Yesterday was uneventful, work ended up being crazier than ever, left a lot of stuff kind of "in the air" in regards to insurances and this morning it was nice to see all those surgeries cancelled lol. Today is a light day, still going to try to catch up so that I don't leave my co-workers with a ton of stuff to do while I'm away. Today is looking to be a great day. Might run on the track again. I think I hurt my back running without a treadmill on Monday, I was definetly tensing up. My whole left side is killing me, I thought it was something with my kidneys it hurt that bad, but then when I stretched out a bit this morning it helped and walking definetly helps. So I've decided next week I'm going to have protein drinks just for breakfast and lunch and a light dinner. I need to really amp up my weight loss before I go on vacation. Granted, I don't think I'm going to go crazy food wise in Florida, but my mom loves snack foods and dips, so do I, so I'm just going to try to be good. Also I have a fill the Monday after I get back from vacation so I don't want to hear it from the APRN if I gained weight even though she said last time "if you're going on vacation you'll probably gain weight, I won't get on you about it" lol yeah right! I'm going to go to GNC and see what they have for protein powders and try something different I usually go to WalMart but I think GNC will have a better selection. I'm craving something like cake batter tasting in the worse way! I decided to take a half day off the Friday before I leave for Florida, to get errands done before my flight leaves (we have to leave dbf house at 3:30am to get to Newark Airport OMG!). I figured out my schedule for the day and holy crap here goes: 12pm leave work 12:30 arrive home (probably earlier) 1:30-2pm Wax appointment 2:10-2:30 wrangle cat into cat carrier 2:30-3:30 drop cat off at kitty bed and breakfast go to Coach outlet next to kitty bed and breakfast 4:00-5:00 mani/pedi 5:15-6pm home to go over packing list and put luggage in car 6:30-8:30 hair appointment and stop to liquor store 8:30-9:30 dinner w/ dbf 10:15-?? Hunger Games! 12am-3am watch movies with dbf and get ready to leave for airport Yeah, so it's going to be a little crazy next Friday. I'm going to do some packing this weekend, I have to make sure the cat doesn't see that I'm packing because he gets all worked up and constipated to the point that I have to bring him to the vet for an enema. I swear to god this cat is like having a kid but worse. This weekend I'm also going to organize all my owner's manuals for everything. I'm like my mother anything that I buy that comes with an owner's manual gets saved. Unfortunately for me, it's in a drawer no organization whatsoever. My dining room table has also turned into a catch-all for everything, I'm going to orgazine that this weekend too so that dbf and I can start eating meals there instead of in front of the TV. I guess that's really all to report, I'm getting so boring! But hey, sometimes I have nuggets of advice lol.

March 14, 2012

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One Day Closer To Friday!

Nothing new to report, still on mushies, will finally be able to eat solid food tomorrow!!! YAY!!!! From what I've been eating with my mushies, I think I may have hit the green zone, or my stomach could be a little swollen, we shall see, keeping my fingers crossed!!!!

February 2, 2012

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One Day Closer To Friday

Nothing new to report here from my neck of the woods. Totally unmotivated to go to the gym yesterday, but I did it, brisk walk on the treadmill for a half hour and I was sweating, sore today. Going back to the gym again tonight. This weekend is going to be tough. Tomorrow night is my friend's birthday party at the casino--so nervous about that and what/how I'm going to eat. My two best girlfriends who are going (one is the birthday girl the other is another good friend) know that I have the lapband so they don't think it's odd how I eat, but the tradition is the day after our night of festivites we go to a diner and get food. Usually I get an omlette with cheese, mushroom, and all the fixins'. I think this time it'll be an egg white omlette with veggies a little cheese and fruit. Saturday night the bf wants shrimp scampi think I can handle 4 oz of shrimp and a little pasta, but I still get so worried. Sunday my friend wants us to come to her house for birthday cake, but I think I'm going to pass since Monday I'm going for a fill and with my luck the scale won't move I totally b*$#)!d the other day that I lost only 1.5 lbs in a week, when I looked back at my blog and read about all the crap I ate, 1.5 lb loss is actually pretty darn good. Pat on the back for me! I already planned out my meals for the next couple of weeks. For breakfast I found a Mexican Breakfast Casserole on the Allergan lap-band website. For lunch I'm going to make baked falafels, and make like a half sandwich with a sandwich thin, put a little hummus on there and lettuce and falafels. Dinner I'm going to try a recipe for general tso's tofu. Browsing these forums the other day, a member asked what the deal is the obsession with food post op? For me, it's not "oh my god I can't wait to try that" it's "wow this is healthy, it's high in protein and it's going to taste way better than the crap I used to eat" if that's a bad obsession, then I'm a bad person I used to eat in the cafeteria here at work all the time, and it was always bad things. Now I bring in my breakfast and lunch I save money, calories, and in the long run my health. The only time I go to the cafeteria is on Fridays and I always get my egg white omlette for breakfast and my tuna sandwich on a multi grain bread (which I can only eat half of lol). Anyway enough rambling, work has to be done, thanks so much for reading and the support on these forums, I hope myself and everyone else we can meet our goals one small (or large) pound at a time!

February 23, 2012

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Oh Yeah, So That's How It Feels--I Forgot!

Three funny things happened last night after work: 1) I realized how tense I was when I'm running, so I just said to myself "relax stupid" and the tension from me grinding my teeth all the way down to my feet just kind of untensed and I had no headache yesterday yay! 2) I made General Tso's tofu. IDK I'm just not really interested in food anymore. Had three bites, threw the rest out even spit out what I was chewing and ate steamed broccoli instead (my crack). Also my mom gave me a subscription to Food Network magazine, I leafed through it found 0 recipes that I would make and threw out the magazine. Usually I would try to find something. Nope not this time lol. 3) I think I may have eaten a little too much broccoli bc I got that "stuck" feeling so I danced around the house listening to my iPod and it helped move the food down lol. So I got a little more excercise yesterday, my cat must think I'm crazy. Also I sing out loud while I'm running and I don't care who hears me lol. I'd like to share what is on my c25k playlist, reminder: I'm a white girl from the suburbs so just digest that as you read. Let me know what's on your playlist: Talk That Talk-Rihanna Telephone-Lady Gaga The World Is Mine-David Guetta Touchin on My-3OH!3 Til the World Ends-Britney Spears Turn Up The Music-Chris Brown Welcome To The Jungle-Guns N Roses Where Them Girls At-David Guetta Who's That Chick-David Guetta You Could Be Mine-GNR You Make Me Feel-Cobra Starship All of The Lights-Kanye @$$ Back Home-Gym Class Heroes Beautiful People-Chris Brown Becky-Plies Better With the Lights Off-New Boyz Black and Yellow-Wiz Khalifa Blackout-Breathe Carolina Bottoms Up-Trey Songz Turn It Up-Busta Rhymes Look At Me Now-Chris Brown Click, Flash-Ciara Countdown-Beyonce Break My Fall-DJ Tiesto feat BT E.T.-Katy Perry Hell On Heels-Pistol Annies Holliwood-Madonna I Don't Care-Fallout Boy International Love-Pitbull Judas-Lady Gaga Love Game-Lady Gaga Love Can Kill You-BT Marry The Night-Lady Gaga Mrs. Right-Mindless Behavior Super Thug-Nore Hot Tottie-Jay Z & Usher Paris-Kanye & Jay Z Ocean Avenue-Yellowcard Otis-Kanye & Jay Z S&M-Rihanna Somnambulist-BT Suddenly-BT Can't Get Enough-J Cole Wild One-Flo Rida Things that happened to me today: I lost 2lbs, so officially in three months I have lost 29 lbs! I wore two different sneakers to work today lol.

March 15, 2012

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Nsv (Kind Of I Guess?) Also Goals, Food, Etc....

This morning after I got out of the shower, I wrapped the towel around me, usually it comes undone the minute I move, oh, anywhere, but it stayed around me until I had to get ready, I guess this is some sort of a nsv (if it is than yay!!!) Which got me thinking about goals. Also it got me thinking about how oblivious men are. Before Christmas, my co-worker was telling me about these rings that she gave her son's girlfriend for Christmas, they're called stackable expressions (google it!) so I tell my boyfriend about them (and not for nothing they are not that expensive!) for a Christmas idea and sure enough, guess what I don't get?? But he did give me a nice necklace. Okay back to goals, so I've decided that with every ten pounds I lose I'm going to get one ring. Of course I'm not going to buy them every time I lose ten pounds, but for example, when I lose 50 I'll go to the jewelers and pick out five, cannot wait! If I look at another shrimp again I'm going to be sick. I'm all shrimped out and that is one of my favorite foods, oh well they always have it at the grocery store. Next week I'm getting a fill and the mds requirements are two days of liquids two days of mushies and then solids by Friday, I totally forgot about this, so I guess I'm going to have to freeze the meatballs I made last night and also the corned beef and cabbage I'm making this weekend, but hey it's always good to have meals on hand! Last night I went to the gym for 45 minutes on the elliptical. I like love to listen to music while working out, I have the iheartradio app on my phone, and I put it on to the spin cycle station, which is great club music and NO COMMERCIALS it keeps me motivated enough that I don't even realize that my time is almost up. By the time I got home I was too tired to pack a breakfast and lunch for work tomorrow, so I had to resort to the cafeteria here, which is okay. I had a veggie egg white omlette with a little cheese it definetly filled me up. I've realized I cannot be so obsessed about how many calories/protein I consume a day. If I eat something and I'm full, then I'm full. I'm going to try that for the next couple of weeks and see how that goes. Can't give up on my chobani though! Have a good day!

January 27, 2012

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My New Goal For Next Year

http://www.bradleyroadrace.org/ I'm going to say for now I'm going to do the 5k race, but let's see what happens next year, maybe I'll do the 10k . Maybe I'll just try to do the 5k under a certain amount of time, who knows lol. Can't wait to start c25k! On a crappy note, I totally went overboard yesterday food wise (maybe I did, IDK). I did fine until I got home from work, I had my usual portobello mushroom pizza minus the mushroom and sauce (ran out!), and I usually have some hot antipasto salad with it (about 1/2 cup) well I definetly had more than 1/2 cup of hot antipasto, Probably over a cup maybe a cup and a half. I could've kicked myself! Instead I went to wake, went to Walmart after and re-stocked all my vitamins lol. Today is a new day (even though I can't track food) had an egg white omlette with steamed veggies and cheese yum! Tonight I'm going out to dinner with my friend. I'm just going to have a margarita and some sort of appetizer, not because of the band, but because I'm broke! I have to save money for next week, my friend is having her birthday at the MGM Grand at Foxwoods, and it is not cheap there! Anyway I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend, stay motivated! XOXO, Andrea

February 17, 2012

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Mushies.....

Today I'm back on mushies yuck tomorrow mushies too lol. Yesterday went to the gym did some weight training nothing crazy just 5lb free weights see if I notice a difference in weight loss. Nothing else really to report, suppossed to snow this afternoon into tomorrow a whole inch ohhhh so scary What really annoys me lately is recipes with no nutritional info lol. But I just have to figure it out myself got to make a grocery list for next week. No more Chobani I'm sick of it! Maybe something with eggs like a crustless quiche IDK food is not that interesting to me any more. Have a good day!

February 29, 2012

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Mondays

What a day, and it isn't even noon yet. I have to work on a take-home midterm exam that is just going along SOOOO slow. Then for the same class I have to revise a paper that the professor tore apart :help: but I only got a C- on the paper which isn't THAT bad considering a first draft. Oh and on top of that, I woke up early to take the train, and it was delayed 30 min, so I had to drive to school. I don't usually mind, but I'm trying to save miles on my car since I'll be driving an additional 80 miles a week for training for my volunteer program (can you tell I'm excited about it????:clap2: :clap2: ) Tonight when I get home I'll walk 2 miles briskly. This is what I packed for my meals today: Breakfast--1 Scrambled Egg Lunch--2 oz Ground Turkey w/ mustard Dinner--1/4C high protein cereal. I also packed 1/4 C applesauce and 1/4C of pudding but I'm not hungry yet for snacks, I think I'll wait for lunch. Have a good day everyone, wish me luck on this midterm it's killing me!!!!!!!!!!:faint:

March 5, 2007

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Monday Is Back

Well we made it to Monday. This was a tough Monday because of Daylight Savings Time. Totally forgot to replace the batteries in my smoke detector. It's on my grocery shopping list now! This weekend was pretty hectic. After I got out of work, I walked with a group of women that I take the train with from my job to the train station, which is probably about 1/2 mile walk it's just in a dangerous neighborhood--safety in numbers. I wasn't out of breath and walking a lot faster than the other two lol. I got home, showered, changed went to the dbf house. We went to the mall I had to pick up some body wash and other things at Bath and Body Works (my favorite store in the mall!) for my vacation later this month. After that dbf wanted to cook for me, but we were both too tired, I treated him to sushi down the street. Now we go to this sushi restaurant ALL THE TIME this is always my test to see if I have real restriction, alas this time, I could eat sushi, but I was full quick. But, wait let me get to the best part of this story.... The last time I was there I ordered Ketel One and cranberry juice, the woman who made them poured the drinks perfectly. One and I was good. We get seated and asked what we want to drink dbf asks for coke I ask for "ketel one and cranberry". The waiter comes back with a drink menu for frozen drinks and asks "do you want one of these instead?" uh, no I'm good. I go "all you have to do is pour Ketel one into a short glass with some ice and a splash of cranberry juice" I said this in a NICE way. Then I asked for water too because I had a feeling there was a large language barrier here. Five minutes later the waiter comes up and says "we don't have any vodka" I say "what kind of vodka do we have?" he goes "no vodka at all" seriously????? So I ask for a water again. Needless to say it took 5 times to get water for me, and by then I didn't want it bc I don't drink when I eat. I ordered edamame and this crab salad I'm obsessed with, one thing of shrimp tempura and some sushi. I didn't get stuck, but the band is still there. LOL. So I'm hoping next fill will get me into the "green zone". I paid for our dinner, left a horrible tip (the service sucked!) and as we are leaving the restaurant, there is the bar and guess what is there? KETEL ONE! I hate being lied to! My poor dbf I thought he was going to die laughing. I was pissed. Oh well, maybe next time. Saturday morning I went to the gym to complete week 2 of c25k (week 3 starts today oh boy) did some laundry, then got ready to go out to dinner with my dbf my friend and her husband. We went to this Mexican restaurant in town, which is way too expensive for what they serve. I felt so bad for my dbf he asked for a taco plate and they bring out these three mini tacos. There really wasn't a lot of food. We had shots of tequila, there killed my appetite. I had shrimp and scallop cerviche wasn't that great.....def won't be going back. Went out to play pool after had more drinks, after that the night was fuzzy......ugh. Sunday we woke up to a crying cat who was HUNGRY! So we got up, I fed the cat, and we headed up the Newburgh, NY to meet my parents for brunch. My dbf, a smoker, was dying for a cigarette. We went to the truck stop near my house. I got a ton of Powerade Zero and a coke (I was hoping the bubbles would help induce some sort of vomiting----I know it's not good, but I had to throw up!). Ugh they had Easter candy out. I got two reese peanut butter eggs and a cadbury creme egg gosh darn Easter I hate it! But on a good note, I drank the coke, didn't puke and realized how gross coke is. I used to drink it all the time, now I stay away from sodas. We got to the diner, had brunch, well actually we all had lunch lol. I ordered a tuna melt and only ate 1 1/2 of the sandwich, didn't touch the fries I was surprised with myself. Maybe this is going to work out! Got home from that, tried to make breakfast, lunch and dinner for the week. Got as far as breakfast. I'll work on lunch today after the gym (baked falafels) and just have a lean cuisine for dinner (I know they're horrible you don't have to tell me twice!) Hope everyone had a good weekend!

March 12, 2012

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Mds Appt Yesterday, C25K Start And Skinny Bucket List!

Yesterday I went to my lapband doctor for a fill. Now, I'm an old timer with a 4 cc band, so when I see you guys getting a whole cc in a fill I'm thinking to myself "lucky" before my fill yesterday I had 2.5 ccs in a 4 cc band. Today I now have 2.75 ccs in a 4 cc band. I asked why such small fills, and was told that it will make me keep coming back gotta love doctors lol. But on a good note, since my last doctor's visit I lost 7 pounds and am at 288 lbs. 8 lbs to where I was when I had my gall bladder taken out in September. I feel so good about that. The APRN asked what I did to lose the weight I told her "not put food in my mouth, excercise, and will power because I'm hungry". So for the rest of the day yesterday I was on liquids, had a protein shake and some soup. Today I'm on liquids (so far just coffee--hey it's a liquid!). Tomorrow and Thursday mushies and Friday back to my normal eating. After the mds appointment I got home, got dressed for the gym and started the c25k program. I'm not going to lie I was out of breath, but from what I hear from other people on this forum that do c25k the next time it gets easier I sure hope so. I told my friend that I wanted to run a 5k next Easter, she told me an inspiring story about how her mom's friend was in a plane crash two years ago; had her legs and one arm amputated; now is being fitted for prosthetics and they want her to do a 5k next year as well. That right there is an inspiring story, mine is so insignificant to that. I will be rooting for her every step of the way. Today I'm going to the gym to do some weight training on the upper body, nothing crazy. Just want to build some muscle and see if that revs up my metabolism. I mean 7 lbs a month is not bad, but I would like to lose about 10 lbs a month. Also when we go to Key West my dad and I are doing some serious fishing so I want to have some upper body strength to reel in a big one! Oh yeah, just checked my calender 25 days until vacation! I saw on the forums this morning about a skinny bucket list. I think I have a few I want to jot down, and maybe one day look back and say "yup did them all". Here goes: 1) Go to Kleinfeld's in NYC to get my wedding dress and not shop from the plus size bridal line 2) Look proportionate to my friends 3) Be one of those people who love to run! 4) When I am a mother, be an active one. 5) Wear a two piece bikini 6) Get some sexy lingere, panties, bras etc (I like my stuff to match Lane Bryant does not lol) 7) Live a long, healthy life 8) Shop in any store in the mall 9) Borrow clothes from my friends Well I guess that's all I can think of today. Hope everyone has a good day and stay positive!

February 28, 2012

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