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On The Road Again

I've decided to try and blog so I can track changes and see how my body and my thoughts change over this journey. I've been on journeys (diets) before. I am 53 years old, 5 feet tall and currently weigh 240 lbs. I have not been less than 170 lbs since I had my daughter in 1988.     I started dieting when I was in Jr. High when I went on Adkins the first time it was popular (1972). Then I went on Weight Watcher's the first time when I was about 15 and lost 13 lbs. I weighted in at 114.   I really didn't have much of a weight problem back then but my mother thought I did - or at least thought that if she didn't constantly monitor what I was eating I would have a weight problem.   I've been on Weight Watcher's at least 5 or 6 times. I lost weight at first when I was younger but the last 3 or 4 times I didn't lose much weight.   I went on Nutrisystems about 5 years ago and lost down to 170 and was also riding my bike and swimming but then I moved in with a guy who was a bit eccentric and after a while we broke up and I moved out and with all the stress and I gained back up to 220. Two years ago, my right knee started hurting real bad and I I put on another 20 lbs this year when my company dropped BCBS and I had to go to Cigna and I didn't find a PCP right away and ran out of all my medicines. I think the Metformin I was taking for PCOS had kept my blood sugar down enough to never quite push me into diabetes but without it my A1C went up to 6.5 and my weight bounced up to 240. My new doctor put me back on the Metformin but maybe after I get sleeved I won't need it anymore.   Anyway, after my knee Doctor told me that I would need knee replacement surgery on one or both knees in five years about two years ago, I started thinking about WLS and decided to call Texas Laparoscopic Consultants and got an appointment with Dr. Terry Scarborough on May 29th. He sent me to a cardiologist, a psychiatrist and told me I need to be cleared for medical necessity through my PCP. I have an appointment for that with my PCP and I have to go have a stress test for the cardiologist and then all I have to do is have 2 more nutritionist consults, my colonoscopy, my endoscopy and a consult about my pre- and post diets. If I'm lucky I'll have jumped through all the hoops and be ready for surgery in September.
Pinky Green

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Time To Get Serious

Well, I went to my first nutritionist class and while I was told that I don't need to lose any amount of weight in the next two or three months, I am certainly not supposed to gain any. I didn't gain any this month even though I went a little crazy eating all the things that I know I won't be able to eat for probably about 6 months and even then I won't be able to eat near as much of it. Mexican food, Popeye's Fried Chicken, shoe-string potato chips, chicken pot pie. Now is the time for me to start eating at home and cooking most of my meals. Eating less simple carbs and more fruits, vegetables and lean meat or vegetable protein.   However, I still have a huge appetite and I have a few things left at the house that although I can eat them in moderation right now, I need to get used to doing without them for a while - pasta, popcorn, potatoes, corn tortillas, rice. Tonight will be one of the last meals I make with a starch. I'm making tuna casserole with lettuce and tomato salad. My sweet boyfriend will always want tortillas or bread, but even before now, I don't eat bread if I'm eating pasta, one starch is enough. I will probably end up having a snack after dinner of either Kroger's CarbMasters Yogurt - only 60 calories, 4 grams of carbs, 1.5 grams of fat and 8 grams of protein, and cheap too.
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Still Waiting

Well, I'm still waiting. Going to my 2nd NUT next week. Don't think I've lost weight but don't think I've gained either. I should start posting what I eat about this time.     Yesterday I had protein shakes for breakfast and lunch then had a chicken roll at Costco. I know the chicken roll is bad. Then I had some samples at Costco - most I guess were not bad, but I'd already had too many carbs from the chicken roll. Then I got home and had the roasted chicken from Costco and "Texas Caviar" and then 2 sugar free Fudgecicles (80 cal) and then blew it by having a whole 3 1/2 servings of 94% fat free popcorn. I guess that isn't too bad except for the chicken roll and the popcorn.   That sounds like good about 60% of the time. From what I hear I should aim to eat right at least 80% of the time. Will try to do better.   Today I started with the Premier Protein shake again (30 g Protein, very few carbs).   Yesterday something else happened, I was coming home and there was this guy in the parking lot of our apartment. I saw him and smiled at him but since I hadn't seen him before I wondered who he was. He approached me very timidly, he said that he came to me because I smiled at him and most of the time white women don't smile at black men. He told me he was looking for a friend of his that he thought lived there and had been waiting a while and needed help. He said he had just gotten out of the hospital and needed help getting back home from Houston to San Marcos where he has family. He had been living just a little while in Houston and didn't know Houston too well and then he got sick. When he got out the family he had been staying with had gotten evicted and he didn't know where to find them. He didn't seem like a drug addict or anything. I gave him $5 and since he said he was hungry I gave him 2 of the Premier protein shakes. Hope he gets enough money to make it back to San Marcos. Maybe I should have gotten my novio and put him on the bus. I've kind of started thinking that way about helping people since I saw the movie Play It Forward.
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