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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