our new baby...

Texas, here I come...

I am super excited!!!  We are getting a new car!  It's in Houston and we will be flying there on Saturday to pick it up and drive it back to ATL.

I also will get to see my oldest friend from the 1st grade who lives just north of Dallas. The last time I saw her was in 1984!

a few of my favorite things...

Global Vegetable/All-purpose knife

DCS Gas Cooktop

Levi's 525 Perfect Waist Bootcut Jeans

NOW Unflavored Eggwhite Protein Powder

Lunaire bras--pretty bras for fuller figures

Aquasana 18oz. glass water bottles

Boobs, ho!

Bought my plane tickets to Chicago!

If anyone else is flying out of ATL, Delta fares have dropped to $178 (down from $327 two weeks ago).

Cheers!

unfill success!--i feel so much better...

I called the doctor's office this morning around 9am--they had me in a room with the doctor by 9:30 (I only live about 20 away).  He took out .4cc and then gave me a 16oz glass of water to drink.  Ten minutes later, the water was IN MY BELLY!  It went down slowly, but it went down and it didn't hurt.  YIPPEE!  

I had a dentist appt. right after so I'm just now getting home and am eating some chicken & vegetable soup.  And it seems to be going down just fine.  I'm going to baby this band for at least another 24 hours...just in case.

By the way, I lost 8 lbs in the last week. I know this is all about losing weight, but neither the doctor nor I was happy with me losing that much so quickly.   I'm pretty sure I was somewhat dehydrated and will get some of it back.

In other non-band news, we had a new driveway poured last week and we love it!  We had to have some trees cut down and widened it just a smidgen.  Bonus...now I have enough sunlight for a vegetable garden!

Cheers!

i'm finally losing again, but...

I need some advice here.  A little background review for those of you who might be new to my blog:

My last 2 fills have been really tight.  So, tight that I've had to go back in for un-fills because I got to the point where I couldn't even drink water.  And...I wasn't losing.  The un-fills were always just .5cc (less than the original fill) and the subsequent fills were always more than .5cc which means that the total amount in my band keeps going up--just in a very see-saw-y way.  

The doctor explained to me that my stomach is just probably more sensitive to the fills and that I'm experiencing more swelling than is customary.  With my last fill (last Friday) he asked me to baby the band for a while and try to "work through" the swelling to see if it would go down.  Well, I've been doing that, but it just seems to be getting worse.  Last night, I wound up PB'ing my prescriptions (small pills...Lexapro & Lunesta).  This morning, I'm having trouble drinking my coffee.

But...I'm finally losing (unlike the other two times I was too tight when I didn't lose an ounce).  I'm almost 10 months out from surgery and as of last week had only lost 32 pounds.  Since September, I'm averaging a loss of 1 lb per month!  Since this fill, I've lost 3 lbs in one week!  

I'm not hungry, so that's not a problem.  But, I would like to drink more water & take my medicine, which is a problem.  So, do I call today for an un-fill (the doc usually gets me in same day) or do I wait it out over the weekend and see what happens on monday?

Help!

Tight fills and Dr. Oz...

If that girl on Dr. Oz keeps her band as tight as mine is right now, I can totally understand why she only eats a few Tbsp of pudding & soup every day.  LOL!

I'm not going to worry just yet.  My Dr. told me that some people are more sensitive to fills and tend to swell just a bit right after.  So, I'm just going to baby it for a couple of weeks and see what happens.

After all, I'm not really hungry...I just miss chewing.

Cheers!