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QueenB · 11-27-2005, 08:14 PM

I'm wearing jeans, I'm wearing jeans!!!!! I have been so cold lately that I had to try on jeans today.....pulling them out of the closet wasn't fun. I am definitely a shorts and flip-flop kind of girl. I did get the first pair I pulled out on *grin* It was at the top of the pile and I am sure that as I go down through the pile the sizes will get smaller

So I wore my jeans and Uggs out to dinner and sat comfortably, not constricted and not sweating......can this get any better?

Three nights in a row I have had dinner out with my family. Friday it was pizza.....just the toppings and cheese. Last night I had a chef salad......just ate some of the meat and eggs out of it with vinegar, salt and pepper. I can't wait until I can eat the actual salad.....I was kind of salad freak before surgery. Tonight was some kind of grilled club sandwich. I ate the turkey and ham out of about 1/4 of it, a couple of bites of pickle and picked the crust off of a mozzarella stick. I am so full though, I only had a bite of the grilled side of the bread but I think it is what made me this full. Not sick-full but I-want-to-undo-my-pants-full LOL Some day I hope I will get that 6th sence of what one more bite will make me feel like.

I feel kind of bad (but not really) because I had the waitress take my plate before my DH could eat any more of the fries off of it. I was kind of grossed out again at the amount he ate. He ordered the mozzarella sticks and ate 5 of them*with ranch*then he had steak and coconut shrimp, garlic mashed potatoes (about 2 cups), vegatbles and garlic bread. Then, after I handed off my plate, he ate all of our sons fries, the crusts form his grilled cheese and some of the kids deserts. I actually said to him...."Did you notice how much you have eaten already? You don't need to eat the kids food too." He got really pissed. Whatever, I don't know how much I enjoy going out to dinner when I have to watch people act like they aren't eating for the next month and that they have to eat as fast as possible for fear someone might steal their food away. Thank God my 3 younger children eat slow and stop when they are full but I have to work with Kaden. He eats like he is in a race and tends to eat when he is bored or for emotional reasons, I hope I can help him with that.

So back to the jeans and me being cold.....WTF is up with that? I sat in my PJ's on the couch under my 60oz down comforter and my toes would still not warm up

Am I destined to be the chilly chick. LOL

I haven't been waking up all sweaty anymore. I can actually take a shower at night and not look like a grease-ball in the moring. But that also means my hair is alot drier than it has been...maybe time to cut some length off.

I don't know what realistic goals are. You know I see people saying i'd like to loose this amount of weight by New Years or be down such and such by my 3 month mark.......how do you know what is possible and realistic and what is going to break your spirit? How about a goal weight without any date? That seems attainable but not much to actually look forward too or count down too. I am taking suggestions on what my first weight goal should be for New years. I am thinking being down to 205, which is about 10lbs in 4 weeks, is something that is doable and any less than that would be kind of dissappointing. Since I was considered a "lightweight" and I dropped 25lbs in the first 10 days (still kind of amazing to me) I am figuring that the weightloss will probably be slower for here on out. SUGGESTIONS!

I was thinking in the shower today....since I was actually in there alone (my girls usually get in and play on the floor which make it less that relaxing)....and I realise that I am having a hard time enjoying the GIFT of an uneventful surgery. I am still very nervous about getting a stricture and then reading the post about having staple line break down at 6 weeks....I was told, at my pre-op, that by 3 weeks the stomach is completely healed, the scar tissue has completely covered the staples and your stomach is just as strong, if not stronger, than before surgery. I thought that tomorrow would be a milestone, 3 weeks out, kind of letting me breathe easier knowing my little pouch was as good as new. Guess not

Then I have about 3 more weeks left to worry about a stricture.......because most happen before the 6 week mark. So here I am, blessed beyond normal blessings, not having any sickness, any pain, any food aversions, no gagging, no throwing up, no nothing and all I can think is "what if?"

Damn mind games