Coming out of a three day weekend and being back at work I am finding it difficult to be motivated to go to the gym in the morning. It's not impossible mind you - just finding the motivation is proving challenging.
I need to get more sleep at night as I find I am not getting enough sleep. That, and I keep being woken up each night by Adam shouting "SVEN - FIX YOUR DAMN CPAP MASK". I understand that it leaks air at times, but honestly I can't pull the mask any tighter because it causes major red marks and chafes the skin on the bridge of my nose. Adam wakes up if you drop a feather whereas I can sleep through a tornado. I think Adam needs to update his sleep schedule to reflect going to bed at a time before 3AM. He then may be able to take a sleeping pill or something before bed and not be woken up everytime I breathe a certain way causing my mask to leak air. In any event, I ordered these "CPAP Silencer" pads for the mask. It's like a thin layer that goes between my face and the mask. Hopefully it fixes a lot of the problems surrounding air leaks. They should arrive by Friday.
I've been bringing my breakfast and lunch everyday to work now. Breakfast consists of a protein bar (I've found a few different kinds I like) and a handful of almonds. For lunch I do a Lean Cuisine with a few Special K crackers or a few almonds (or if I'm not feeling a Lean Cuisine I'll do a few slices of thin roast beef with sliced cheese and crackers). Dinner varies, but usually like 4oz of roasted meat (like pork, chicken etc.) with a salad. Sometimes I'll do pasta salad or rice, but I have to keep in mind that I fill up really quick on stuff like that, negating the ability to get a lot of protein.
Tonight I have set out tilapia to bake. I am going to panko bread it with some ginger, red pepper flakes, lemon, and garlic powder. I've made it before and it turned out really good. Because the fish is so light, I am making Rice a Roni with it. I am a huge fan of Rice a Roni since it is one of the few rice dishes that fully absorbes the liquid you cook it in, thus no expanding happening in the stomach :).
I'm a little over three weeks from my 3 month follow up. I am going to start walking more each day to ensure I have lost as much as possible for my weigh in. I'm excited to see how much I am down. Maybe I have broken the 100lb threshold at this point. Either way, I'm not checking until my weigh in :).
Happy and healthy eating all!
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Monday, May 21, 2012
So Busy!!!
First of all, sorry to all on taking forever to post anything new! I've been so completely busy in my life I have had literally no time to post any updates. Let's see - where to begin!?
Well, as you all know, I did finish college and have been busy preparing for my upcoming graduation on June 24th! It's so exciting, but lots to prepare for. I am getting fitted for clothes this week because, as Adam said, I am not going to walk across the stage in pants that fall off of my ass and a shirt that is two sizes larger than what I wear now lol :)
I've lost 97 lbs so far and it's so completely insane. I'm so excited to have lost this weight, but now things get serious. Starting tomorrow I am going to be walking 30 minutes per day at the gym. I am going to do it either 30 minutes before work or 30 minutes after, 4-5 days per week. I want to start exercising with cardio and move into weights next month. My work offers a $650 per year reimbursement so I am going to hire a trainer and start working with them for a few months and see how I do.
Eating has been just fine for me. I am able to eat pretty much anything without problems. I have completely cut sugar out of my diet and steer clear of anthing greater than 10g of sugar per serving. I've had a few bites of real sugar here and there, but I am not used to it at all now. My favorite drink from Starbucks is a "tall, decaf, soy, skinny peppermint mocha frappucino, no whip" lol :P. Say that five times fast :D. Anyway, it's really good and like 95 calories :). It's a nice, sweet, satisfying treat if I am craving ice cream or anything like that. I got my mom a white chocolate mocah frappucino yesterday and tried a sip. Holy sweet OMG grossness Batman! lol. I was like zomg eww lol :P
For Mother's Day brunch we all went to this really good place called William Tell Banquets. It was really good! I was a bit nervous as to how I would do at a buffet, but I did just fine. I was able to eat pretty much everything (just a lot smaller amount) :)
Adam and I found a house! WOOHOO! Our offer was accepted, I've already put earnest money down, the home inspection is done, and our close date is July 13th, move in date July 14th :). I'm super excited and am happy to be moving! It's a bit further from work than I would have wanted, but the further away from Chicago we looked the more beautiful (and cheap) homes we found. The house is a 2 bedroom, 1 loft, 2 and a half bathroom home with a deck, and fully finished walk out basement with a patio :). It also has a 2 car garage and all appliances included. It's SO NICE :D I can't wait to move!
Other than that, to save money (and calories) I am bringing lunch to work everyday. I bought Lean Cuisines for the entire week :). At this point I can eat about 3/4 or so of a Lean Cuisine. Yesterday I went to breakfast with Mom and ate two sunny side up eggs, a little bit of corned beef hash, and a piece of bacon :). It was pretty good. The other night I went to Buffalo Wild Wings (which I go to a lot lately since it actually has a lot of grilled healthy chicken options) and got a chicken wrap (ate mostly the filling, not the tortilla haha) and some carrot sticks. It's all about the healthy eating nowadays.
On a completely unrelated note, my mother started her driving lessons Monday. I am so proud of her! :D My brother and I got her the lessons for Mother's Day. She did really well for her first lesson and her next one is this Wednesday. She will be getting her license this time around (as she has tried a few times in the past but just never followed through with it). With my father's Alzheimers progressing along each year, she needs to have this bit of independence under her belt. I am confident she will do just fine. I look forward to seeing how things progress in the next few months.
Other than that, things are going well at work and at home. Just a bit stressful overall with the upcoming move, getting reaclimated to everything at work, and just trying to enjoy what bit of Spring we have left. Summer is almost here! Cheers to everyone, and healthy eating!
Well, as you all know, I did finish college and have been busy preparing for my upcoming graduation on June 24th! It's so exciting, but lots to prepare for. I am getting fitted for clothes this week because, as Adam said, I am not going to walk across the stage in pants that fall off of my ass and a shirt that is two sizes larger than what I wear now lol :)
I've lost 97 lbs so far and it's so completely insane. I'm so excited to have lost this weight, but now things get serious. Starting tomorrow I am going to be walking 30 minutes per day at the gym. I am going to do it either 30 minutes before work or 30 minutes after, 4-5 days per week. I want to start exercising with cardio and move into weights next month. My work offers a $650 per year reimbursement so I am going to hire a trainer and start working with them for a few months and see how I do.
Eating has been just fine for me. I am able to eat pretty much anything without problems. I have completely cut sugar out of my diet and steer clear of anthing greater than 10g of sugar per serving. I've had a few bites of real sugar here and there, but I am not used to it at all now. My favorite drink from Starbucks is a "tall, decaf, soy, skinny peppermint mocha frappucino, no whip" lol :P. Say that five times fast :D. Anyway, it's really good and like 95 calories :). It's a nice, sweet, satisfying treat if I am craving ice cream or anything like that. I got my mom a white chocolate mocah frappucino yesterday and tried a sip. Holy sweet OMG grossness Batman! lol. I was like zomg eww lol :P
For Mother's Day brunch we all went to this really good place called William Tell Banquets. It was really good! I was a bit nervous as to how I would do at a buffet, but I did just fine. I was able to eat pretty much everything (just a lot smaller amount) :)
Adam and I found a house! WOOHOO! Our offer was accepted, I've already put earnest money down, the home inspection is done, and our close date is July 13th, move in date July 14th :). I'm super excited and am happy to be moving! It's a bit further from work than I would have wanted, but the further away from Chicago we looked the more beautiful (and cheap) homes we found. The house is a 2 bedroom, 1 loft, 2 and a half bathroom home with a deck, and fully finished walk out basement with a patio :). It also has a 2 car garage and all appliances included. It's SO NICE :D I can't wait to move!
Other than that, to save money (and calories) I am bringing lunch to work everyday. I bought Lean Cuisines for the entire week :). At this point I can eat about 3/4 or so of a Lean Cuisine. Yesterday I went to breakfast with Mom and ate two sunny side up eggs, a little bit of corned beef hash, and a piece of bacon :). It was pretty good. The other night I went to Buffalo Wild Wings (which I go to a lot lately since it actually has a lot of grilled healthy chicken options) and got a chicken wrap (ate mostly the filling, not the tortilla haha) and some carrot sticks. It's all about the healthy eating nowadays.
On a completely unrelated note, my mother started her driving lessons Monday. I am so proud of her! :D My brother and I got her the lessons for Mother's Day. She did really well for her first lesson and her next one is this Wednesday. She will be getting her license this time around (as she has tried a few times in the past but just never followed through with it). With my father's Alzheimers progressing along each year, she needs to have this bit of independence under her belt. I am confident she will do just fine. I look forward to seeing how things progress in the next few months.
Other than that, things are going well at work and at home. Just a bit stressful overall with the upcoming move, getting reaclimated to everything at work, and just trying to enjoy what bit of Spring we have left. Summer is almost here! Cheers to everyone, and healthy eating!
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Yummy updates!!
Things have been going pretty well lately. I went back to work, and everything is good :-). I've had no issues at all with food, and have been very careful with what I've been eating. I haven't weighed myself lately but I am confident that I am on track. My clothes continue to get bigger and bigger every day. I'm not expecting anything crazy now, especially since I've lost over 80 pounds and my two month anniversary just passed from when I had surgery. At this point I believe it's going to be more like slow and steady wins the race. Probably within the next 10 months I'll lose another 50-100 pounds.
Adam and I have been looking at moving into a house. I was approved for financing, and of the houses we looked at two of them we really enjoyed. One specifically we very much enjoyed. I'm waiting to find out a little more about the property. My real estate agent is supposed to call tomorrow to give us more details.
It looks like my mom and dad are also going to be in the market to get a house as well. We had all of their financial stuff run and everything came back positive :-) I'm waiting to hear a little bit of information back regarding my dad's veteran benefits from the military, but hopefully by the summer my mom and dad will also have a brand-new home.
We had friends over for dinner tonight and had a great time. It was really nice to see our friend Cristy. She is heading back to Florida to finish her final college class. In the fall she starts at pharmacy school. That girl is bright and I am confident we will see great things from her over the years.
I did have shrimp egg foo young yesterday. It is supposed to to be good for gastric patients. I will say, if it was with the normal type of gravy it would have been fine. This one, though, came with a sweet plum/teriyaki sauce. For me it was way too sweet. Today I had one buffalo chicken drummette at work. It was a bit spicy on my stomach, but overall it was good. It's funny that before surgery I could eat Iike 10 of those wings and not even blink lol. I will say that later in the day I went to Buffalo Wild Wings and had the naked chicken tenders. I've had the naked tenders a few times there now. While I enjoy them, what I was not prepared for after surgery was some of the social issues I would be having with people. So far this has happened to me twice at B Dubs. Both times I ordered the 4 piece naked renders, once with no side and once with cold carrots. Each time I had the server come back to the table after we ordered to ask me if I was "sure" that I didn't want anything else with my meal, insisting they would be able to bring me fries or onion rings or some other greasy item with my meal.
Do I think they were just being nice? Maybe, but it is almost like I have this sign stapled to my forehead that says FAT PERSON HERE -- FEED ME SEYMORE. Ugh. I guess being overweight I never noticed before because I would order enough food for two or three people. Now that I eat child sized portions it is becoming more apparent to me that people associate the stigma of being overweight with an apparent need of the fat person to consume as much food as possible at every meal. I tried to remain classy when the servers at B Dubs asked me if I wanted something else and reminded me that I barely ordered any food. The first girl that asked me about it I politely told her I had surgery a month or so prior. Wow did she feel stupid lol. She was really nice to me after that. Today, however, the server just ended up bringing me a six piece order of the chicken tenders with fries and was like "oh, well the kitchen must have messed up". Sure dude. Whatever. Ugh. I shouldn't let shit like that bother me, but I think if I had been more prepared for it I would have been fine. In any event, one of my employees ended up getting the leftovers and got an entire lunch :-). At least that's a good thing that happened from it.
I had real sugar today for one of the first times since I had surgery. I had a mini kid sized ice cream cone from McDonald's. Keep in mind this thing was tiny. I only ate about three bites of the ice cream and threw the rest away. I didn't feel terrible afterwards, but definitely didn't feel great. It was a good learning experience for me.
In any event, that's what has been going on lately. Hope you all have been well! Happy eating!
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Adam and I have been looking at moving into a house. I was approved for financing, and of the houses we looked at two of them we really enjoyed. One specifically we very much enjoyed. I'm waiting to find out a little more about the property. My real estate agent is supposed to call tomorrow to give us more details.
It looks like my mom and dad are also going to be in the market to get a house as well. We had all of their financial stuff run and everything came back positive :-) I'm waiting to hear a little bit of information back regarding my dad's veteran benefits from the military, but hopefully by the summer my mom and dad will also have a brand-new home.
We had friends over for dinner tonight and had a great time. It was really nice to see our friend Cristy. She is heading back to Florida to finish her final college class. In the fall she starts at pharmacy school. That girl is bright and I am confident we will see great things from her over the years.
I did have shrimp egg foo young yesterday. It is supposed to to be good for gastric patients. I will say, if it was with the normal type of gravy it would have been fine. This one, though, came with a sweet plum/teriyaki sauce. For me it was way too sweet. Today I had one buffalo chicken drummette at work. It was a bit spicy on my stomach, but overall it was good. It's funny that before surgery I could eat Iike 10 of those wings and not even blink lol. I will say that later in the day I went to Buffalo Wild Wings and had the naked chicken tenders. I've had the naked tenders a few times there now. While I enjoy them, what I was not prepared for after surgery was some of the social issues I would be having with people. So far this has happened to me twice at B Dubs. Both times I ordered the 4 piece naked renders, once with no side and once with cold carrots. Each time I had the server come back to the table after we ordered to ask me if I was "sure" that I didn't want anything else with my meal, insisting they would be able to bring me fries or onion rings or some other greasy item with my meal.
Do I think they were just being nice? Maybe, but it is almost like I have this sign stapled to my forehead that says FAT PERSON HERE -- FEED ME SEYMORE. Ugh. I guess being overweight I never noticed before because I would order enough food for two or three people. Now that I eat child sized portions it is becoming more apparent to me that people associate the stigma of being overweight with an apparent need of the fat person to consume as much food as possible at every meal. I tried to remain classy when the servers at B Dubs asked me if I wanted something else and reminded me that I barely ordered any food. The first girl that asked me about it I politely told her I had surgery a month or so prior. Wow did she feel stupid lol. She was really nice to me after that. Today, however, the server just ended up bringing me a six piece order of the chicken tenders with fries and was like "oh, well the kitchen must have messed up". Sure dude. Whatever. Ugh. I shouldn't let shit like that bother me, but I think if I had been more prepared for it I would have been fine. In any event, one of my employees ended up getting the leftovers and got an entire lunch :-). At least that's a good thing that happened from it.
I had real sugar today for one of the first times since I had surgery. I had a mini kid sized ice cream cone from McDonald's. Keep in mind this thing was tiny. I only ate about three bites of the ice cream and threw the rest away. I didn't feel terrible afterwards, but definitely didn't feel great. It was a good learning experience for me.
In any event, that's what has been going on lately. Hope you all have been well! Happy eating!
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Thursday, May 3, 2012
Churrascaria - SUCCESS :D
Been a few days since I've posted, but it's been a crazy week. I went back to work last Thursday and it's been a whirlwind of getting caught up on everything. For the most part, I'm caught up now. LOTS of changes at work (staffing, plans for the future, team alignments, etc.). All great changes though. I am so glad to see my company thriving and doing well. It means I made a great choice when I joined the organization five years ago :-). So much growth still happening after all this time!
Last night I went with my brother and my (future) sister-in-law to this restaurant called Texas de Brazil. It's a Brazilian Churrascaria. I was worried I wouldn't be able to eat a lot of the food there, but I was happy to find I did just fine! I ate nowhere near as much as I normally would there, but I still did well. I had a 2oz or so filet mignon, 3 thin slices of this house special sirloin (OMG so good - made with cayenne pepper <3). I also had a small serving of sauteed mushrooms, a few small pieces of parmesan cheese, a bite of au gratin potatoes, about 1/2 piece of bread, and some blue cheese dressing. All in all it was super delicious. I am not sure that it is worth the 60 or so dollar price tag at this point in my "pouch" life, but it was still nice to go. In the future I think I'll reserve my visits to this place for work functions/outings when my wallet isn't impacted ;-) I ate maybe 15 bucks worth of food, not 60 lol :)
I am at the point now where I am able to eat a regular meal (which is normal for someone 2 months post op). For breakfast today I had a protein shake, for lunch I had 6 saltine crackers with about 3-4 oz of chicken salad (was sooo good). For a snack I had a low calorie, low fat protein bar, and for dinner I had about 3/4 tbsp of potato salad, 1/2 of a pickle, a hot dog (1/2 the bun) with a slice of american cheese, and a handful of baked chips (like 5). For a snack later on I had about 20 goldfish crackers. All in all, it was a yummy day. I haven't had a hot dog since forever, so it was nice having something like that.
Not sure what I am going to make tomorrow. I really would like to make something to cook in the crock pot all day. I was thinking of making those honey garlic chicken thighs for tomorrow (just putting it all together before I leave for work in the morning). I might actually do that :-) We'll see!
Anyway, hugs to all and cheers to good eating! I'm down somewhere around 85 lbs at this point. I am going to start walking more this coming week (maybe start on Sunday). I'm thinking about 30 minutes every other day to start. Take care all!
Last night I went with my brother and my (future) sister-in-law to this restaurant called Texas de Brazil. It's a Brazilian Churrascaria. I was worried I wouldn't be able to eat a lot of the food there, but I was happy to find I did just fine! I ate nowhere near as much as I normally would there, but I still did well. I had a 2oz or so filet mignon, 3 thin slices of this house special sirloin (OMG so good - made with cayenne pepper <3). I also had a small serving of sauteed mushrooms, a few small pieces of parmesan cheese, a bite of au gratin potatoes, about 1/2 piece of bread, and some blue cheese dressing. All in all it was super delicious. I am not sure that it is worth the 60 or so dollar price tag at this point in my "pouch" life, but it was still nice to go. In the future I think I'll reserve my visits to this place for work functions/outings when my wallet isn't impacted ;-) I ate maybe 15 bucks worth of food, not 60 lol :)
I am at the point now where I am able to eat a regular meal (which is normal for someone 2 months post op). For breakfast today I had a protein shake, for lunch I had 6 saltine crackers with about 3-4 oz of chicken salad (was sooo good). For a snack I had a low calorie, low fat protein bar, and for dinner I had about 3/4 tbsp of potato salad, 1/2 of a pickle, a hot dog (1/2 the bun) with a slice of american cheese, and a handful of baked chips (like 5). For a snack later on I had about 20 goldfish crackers. All in all, it was a yummy day. I haven't had a hot dog since forever, so it was nice having something like that.
Not sure what I am going to make tomorrow. I really would like to make something to cook in the crock pot all day. I was thinking of making those honey garlic chicken thighs for tomorrow (just putting it all together before I leave for work in the morning). I might actually do that :-) We'll see!
Anyway, hugs to all and cheers to good eating! I'm down somewhere around 85 lbs at this point. I am going to start walking more this coming week (maybe start on Sunday). I'm thinking about 30 minutes every other day to start. Take care all!
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