I can't say as anything spectacular has happened since my last blog, but there have been things going on. Let's see let's start from the beginning...
Wednesday night I was late getting to the gym because I was chatting with a good friend online. So as I rushed to make it to the gym to meet up with Scott, I totally put dinner out of my mind. Wrong thing to do for me lately....but I digress. Well Scott and I missed each other so I went ahead and did my workout alone. Oh it felt good though. I never realized how good it feels to have sweat dripping from your bangs, nose, ears, and soaking your shirt. It's strange I know, but it feels like accomplishment for me!!! I feel like those are the pounds just dripping off of me. If only it were that easy!! LOL
Anyway, I finished my workout and called Jim to see if he wanted to go to the Silver Skillet for dinner. It's a truck stop restaurant by us. I was dying for some rib tips. When I called he said sure but that I have to come home first because my best friend Wendy had called, and wanted me to call her back. So I came home and called Wendy. She had finally found out what the sexes were on the kids!!! Woo hoo!!! It's definitely a boy and 75% a girl!!!! I couldn't believe how happy I was for her. Oh it was like they were my kids...well they will be soon!! LOL. Wendy and I talked for a good 45 minutes. Oh I miss her soooo much. Then Jim and I went to dinner. I ordered an appetizer of the rib tips and a side salad. Jim got this wonderful looking steak and I couldn't tell you what else because I was mesmerized by my rib tips!!! LOL I ate my salad first, because it comes out first. Wrong thing to do...the doctors tell you this before you have your surgery!!!! Eat your protein first!!!! It's the most important!!!!! Well usually it's not a problem for me until lately. I'm thinking it's a lot of crapola on my mind, and I'm not paying attention to how I am eating, chewing, swallowing, etc. So the salad goes down quite nicely and it was yummy too!! Then comes the rib tips!!! Oh drool!!!! I was careful, I didn't dive into them like a mad woman...however it could have been very easy to do!!!! I took one and cut a bite to eat....chew chew chew swallow....yummmmm. Oh heaven. I repeated this action for about maybe 3 rib tips the size of a silver dollar. Darn it....I was done. That was it!!!! No more food was going to be able to enter the gateway to the stomach. Sheeze...so I boxed it all up and we went home.
Now Thursday is here!!!! I was up and at the gym by 4am as usual!!! I got in a fantastic workout and was feeling really good!!! I came home made Jim some breakfast and lunch and then my day started. I decided that it was a good time to really get cleaning again. I am dying for friends to come over and to have people around again. So I'm fighting my hoarding ways and trying to get rid of stuff. The day was going great, I even had some funny happenings going on. Like when I was moving a can of paint that had been in the kitchen for 8 years, the handle had rusted through the can and paint spilled out all over the floor!!! LOL!!! I was such a dork, I couldn't quit laughing...so what do I do....I immediately go to my Facebook page and tell everyone!!! LOL. I got all the paint cleaned up and by this time I'm about ready for some lunch. I don't really want to take a whole lot of time with it, so I think, hey I have those leftover rib tips!!!! I get them from the fridge and pop them in the microwave just to get them warm. Oh my mouth starts drooling...slurp!!! I sit down at the kitchen table to eat lunch. I take a small bite of the rib, chew, chew, chew. I notice this piece seems to be a little dry...better chew a little more. It took me 10 minutes to eat 3 rib tips!!! Then all of a sudden I start feeling sick. My body is telling me...ok you have T minus 10 seconds to get to the restroom or garbage can because I'm launching!!! I make it to the restroom. Yep I lost some of it but not all. I thought I was done. Guess again. This went on for 5 minutes. How can 3 rib tips cause 5 minutes of throwing up?!?!?! I didn't think there was that much in me!!!! Whew. Well after that experience, I decided I have to let my throat settle down. I didn't wait long enough. I took just a tiny tiny spoon of ice cream to cool my throat down, and as soon as it hit oh lordy it launched too, violently!!!! Alrighty then I can see where this is headed. So thoughts of eating went by the way side. It was a good hour later that I tried some cottage cheese. Nope, I apparently wasn't ready yet!!!! Again, up it came. That's it I'm not eating!!!! So back to cleaning I went.
Thursday night rolls around. My schedule consists of heading back to the gym to workout with Scott, then over to Holly's for a walk with the ladies, then off to my support group for bariatric surgery. Normally this is not a problem. This night it was. I fixed Jim some leftover sloppy joes and just the smell of the meat was making my stomach turn. I tried a bite of cottage cheese while I was making his dinner and my body was having none of it. UGH!!!! So I finally ended up being able to eat some really crushed up ramen with broth. But even that was not making my body happy. I was just so drained!!!! I had to cancel the rest of my night and I went to bed at 5pm!!!!
Friday morning. I once again was up at 1am this time. I was able to eat about a 1/4 cup of cottage cheese so my body would have something to chew on while I pumped some iron. LOL. The workout at the gym went really good again. I have bumped up my cardio to 40 minutes and 30+ minutes on strength training! Oh I feel the burn and the burn feels good!!! LOL. I had an interesting episode happen at the gym while I was there. I always put my MP3 player in my shirt pocket when I'm working out. My arms are still to large for the arm band that holds my MP3. So I'm walking away on the treadmill, rocking out when I notice that the music is getting louder and louder. As the music is getting louder and louder, I'm finding that I'm starting to walk faster and faster. I was almost to a jog when it dawned on me that the volume dial was facing my boob in my shirt. As I was walking faster and faster, my boobs were bouncing and turning up the volume on my MP3 player!!!! My boobs could have killed me!!!! LOL So thus continues the life of a dork explained by Tristine!!!! LOL Anyway came home and was able to eat some Eggbeaters with spinach, onion, garlic, and cheese. Oh the smell of Gaaahhrlic!!!!! As I was getting ready to make Jim's breakfast, he informs me that he thinks he had a mild heart attack that night. His arms were burning like his previous heart attack so he went in and took some aspirin and it went away in about 15 minutes. Yeah. So the rest of the day is nothing but bumming around the house. I'm not letting him out of my sight for awhile.
Friday night I head back to the gym and meet up with Scott. We just did our cardio since he had to get back to work. So I came back home fixed a little something, then Jim and I headed off to bed.
I am still having problems eating, but it's getting better. Shoot, I'm losing a pound a day!!!! But I know that is not good, so I am still working on that. As for everything else, well Jim takes priority now. I am not going to loose him so young!!!! I won't have it!!!! So even though it adds a little more stress, it's stress that I am willing to take on a beat the living crapola out of!!!! I think if it's nice Saturday, we are going to take a bike ride somewhere, just enough to get him started. Then every time I go to the gym, I am dropping him off to at least sit in the pool if nothing else. Please do me a favor and not bitch at him. That does no good. Please be supportive of him through this. You all have been so supportive of me, that I think it will do Jim some good to have this positive influence as well.
So that was my week in a novel!!!!! I hope you enjoyed it, and I will be back soon!!! I love you all hugs and kisses!!!!
