O.K first I want to say that yes I did eat meat, and yes my Dr did give me the O.K that week 2 we could have soft Chicken and Tuna as part of our post diet. Was it right~ or what most people are on, no and I now know. I will not being doing meat for a couple of more weeks. I didn't even plan on eating it but it was there and I had the O.K on the list so I did. I lived I learned, I won't be doing it again anytime soon.

Any whoo, I have finally been able to turn over in bed and up out of bed with out complaining of my stomach muscels but also started yesterday with my 10,000 steps a day routine~ go on ask me how many I got in. That's right under 2000! It was my first day with the podometer and I wanted to see what my average day accumulated and boy was it a shock. I have thought about joining the rest of the January group in South Beach Diet but, I have been on and off South Beach, Diet workshop and Atkins for the past year. I don't want to be on another DIET I want to change the way my life is, and I really don't have a choice any more so why put a diet on top of it. BUT I am going to change my activity level, I plan on reaching for 10,000 steps a day or 70k a week. It's actually kind of fun to see ways to get more steps in, If by the end of the day I'm not where I want to be I turn on TiVo and start doing my walking tapes in front of the T.V or another brilliant Idea would be to actually go to the gym we pay 80$ a month for and use it for something other than a recreation center for the kids.

I am back to work today for the first time since being banded and no one there knows, I'm glad I found the strength to keep my mouth shut but at the same time it once again makes me feel alienated from another group.

Last thing that I have been throwing around inside my big head is the idea of trying to get to Vegas for the Reunion thingy~ not for a the social side of it (for Godness sake me be social :bathbaby: but for the fact that it will be exactly 6 weeks and I could get my first fill there instead of going all the way to MTY again, plus I could probably do it in one day and come home that night~ so It would be totally free. I'll see how the flights look tongiht at work.