Month: January 2018

Normally I’m not one to talk about my political views and many of you are probably going to be like “what the hell does this have to do with having a gastric sleeve?” But it does my friends, it does.  There are so many things I would never be doing had I not had this surgery done and experiencing the march this past Saturday would have been one of them.

A year ago I would never have been able to walk the 5.31 miles tracked by my fitbit on Saturday. Excitement and adrenaline wouldn’t even have kept me going I would have been done when we all got bottle necked and had to wait for hours before we got moving again.  The first 5 minuets standing there I would have been like “ok I’ve seen and experienced enough let’s get the heck outta here.”  Not to mention I never would have been able to squeeze through the barricade to use the restroom in Central Park.

If nothing else I’m proud of myself for partaking in something I never would have considered a year ago.  I’m also proud of the group of women and men I marched with and all those who marched Saturday.  We are all affected by decisions our government makes and we our voices to be heard.

So on day 24 of new year, new me I have spent almost every day doing some kind of exercise—it’s taken me about 2 days to recover from the march, yes I felt every aching muscle! I’ve eliminated a ton of extra sugar and caffeine from my diet, and I’m pretty sure as is the doc that my “I want to die” feeling is most likely caused by my eating too quickly and food getting stuck in a now smaller opening to my stomach.  Not only that, but I definitely notice the changes from exercising every day.  I saw my back end in the mirror the other day and 🤯 is all I have to say.

That is my skinny political activist ass in action—-enjoy the post until next time happy reading!

I’m a little late on the new year post, but I have not let you or myself down on my new year new me challange!  I’m pretty proud of myself, although we’re only in the second week of January.

Today I was “Walking to the Hits” with my girl Leslie Sansone, and walking with the Boston Terrier in the room my Bella littering the place with dog toy stuffing.  So my walk also included lets pick up all the stuffing while trying to walk to the hits.

So this would be day 11 of my new year, new me challange.  The days I worked I used the stairs, because I think I was a little overly ambitious with trying to get a true workout in on the daya I work.  Getting up at 5am getting home at 9-930pm totally wasn’t happened with a workout.  But let me tell you about those damn stairs, they are killer.  Three flights does a body good!

Let’s talk about my diet lately.  I’ve been sick several times this past month, probably with dumping syndrome.  What is that you may ask???  This is the definition right from the Mayo clinic, “Dumping syndrome is a condition that can develop after surgery to remove all or part of your stomach or after surgery to bypass your stomach to help you lose weight. Also called rapid gastric emptying, dumping syndrome occurs when food, especially sugar, moves from your stomach into your small bowel too quickly.”  And did I mention you want to die when this happens.  Actually you feel like you’re dying; cold sweats, nausea, blurry vision, diarrhea the works!  I’m now trying to cut out all the foods that have large amounts of hidden sugar in them and of course cut the carbs because they turn to sugar.  For years I’ve sweetened my coffee with sugar and since I’m not a big fan of artificial sweetener I’ve gone cold turkey with the extra sugar in my coffee/tea.  I also substitute the skim milk I used to use for almond/coconut milk with no added sugar.  I’m still doing at least one protein shake sometimes two a day and a lot of times I use my protein shake like creamer in my coffee, which has mainly been decaf since I had surgery.  Every once in awhile I’ll have a cup of regular, but I can live without it.

My meals have consisted of a lean protein, I’m eating very little red meat these days.  Although I did have filet mignon on New Years Eve and I burned my damn hand on the handle of the frying pan after I took it out of the oven, but it was delicious and worth the pain.  I usually do make some kind of startch/carbs but this is mostly to benefit my significant other and it’s usually mashed or roasted potatoes or a little rice.  And there is always some kind of vegetable.  My protein size is about the size of a deck of cards sometimes a little less and basically I put like a tablespoon of veggies and slightly less carbs/startch on my plate and they don’t all get finished.  Yesterday was homemade meat sauce, and for that I did use meatloaf mix, and zoodles.  And this morning I made an egg is purgatory, which used some leftover meat sauce and a poached egg or and egg over easy goes on top.  Delicious 🤤.

Hope everyone’s new year is off to a fantastic start!  Happy reading 📖!