Don't Eat That

I’m sure it comes as no surprise that I like to eat.  And, having found some relief for my jaws in the last week or so, I’ve managed to find some pretty good food that’s still easy to chew but not just pure liquids. 

Last night’s meal was a baked potato and a bowl of chili, honestly, that doesn’t seem too much like solid food to most people but trust me, it’s a far cry over the stuff I’ve had lately.  And, even still, it required some doctoring up. 

Here’ what you get when you take a baked potato, add chili and ranch dressing and top it off with bbq sauce…I am so not kidding on this….

I know it doesn’t look like much but compared to yogurt and soups (of every variety known to mankind), this wasn’t half bad. 

On the other side of the table though, my husband started with this….

and honestly, if you think that looks like a pile of food……just look what transpired in a matter of minutes with my dear husband in control of the fork…

And, before I turned around good, this was what I was looking at…..

and then…this….

We are talking about 20 minutes here……in the meantime, I was busily gathering myself a plate of this……

Any questions as to why I can’t seem to lose any weight consistently?     

My mom’s house burned several years ago and when she started to rebuild, she spent a ton of time discussing doors and doorways.  What she ended up with was nothing like the nice drawings we had painstakingly managed to put together.

And, when the final stroke of paint was spread, the last nail hammered and the last appliance plugged in, she had this awesome pocket door system on her pantry.

I love that door and if I ever get to build a house, I’m using these kinds of doors in as many places as possible.  That’s some of the best room saving steps ever.

We just came from an impromptu shopping trip….no one actually made an official grocery store trip this past weekend so…..here’s what Wayne retrieved from the dollar store yesterday on the way home from work:

Toilet Paper

Capri Suns

4 – 6 packs of Coca-Cola

Chocolate Covered Peanuts

So, today, we made another short trip to the dollar store, we bought:

2 boxes of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese

2 boxes of Generic Shells and Cheese

1 box of Generic Cheez-its

1 Gallon of milk

1 Box of Apple Jack’s Cold Cereal

1 – 6 pack of Coca-Cola

1 package of Molasses Cookies

1 package of peanut butter cookies

2 bags of chocolate covered donuts

And now you see why it is that weight loss around here is a mute point……….

I haven’t gained any weight since I checked in with you last Monday.  I haven’t eaten anything to matter either.  On Sunday of last week I had a rather large mushy meal from a Japanese restaurant (I still can’t chew) but since then, I’ve survived on Coca-Cola and 3 or 4 milkshakes.  The idea of foods that I can have, chicken noodle soup, jello, macaroni and cheese, have kind of lost their appeal right now. 

So, as I say with pride, I haven’t gained any weight….I tell you that I’m starving the freakin’ frakin’ to death.  I am so not kidding.  I”m hungry…all the time….but nothing seems to be doing the trick.

Let’s just get that out there ok?  You are so not what you eat.  I didn’t even write a post last week because I was so disgusted.  I was at a conference on Monday, Tuesday required me to devote a lot of attention to my kids so by Wednesday I figured there was no reason to write and give you the crappy news. 

As you know, I had TMJ surgery on November 12th.  I was on liquids until right before Christmas when I was told that I could add noodles and the like.  Apparently I was a bit anxious to consume some real food because on Christmas Day I tried a small piece of very tender ham.  And I paid for it.  The pain was horrible and of course, the good doc put me back to liquids.

As you may (or may not) remember, when I had the surgery, I weighed in at 208.  And since that time, I’ve had liquids.  Yes, soda’s, but yogurt and fruit, non-fat yogurt at that.  Yes, I’ve had ice cream and milkshakes but people, real food?  I finally ate some rice yesterday but please, this is really getting old.

And the worst yogurt?  My weight is climbing.  Since I had surgery it has steadily started to rise.  I’m back to 216.  That’s a total of 8 pounds gained on liquids.  And, as I said, it hasn’t been all low-fat foods here and I haven’t actually “counted” calories as I am just not really a believer in that as much as I am in changing eating habits.  (I just can’t actually change any eating habits right now other than to continue to consume liquids). 

The word diet shouldn’t refer to the process of going without food, it should be about the food you do consume.  Meaning that, as if you didn’t know, your diet is what you eat, not what you do without.

With that, I am on a list to receive Jenny McCarthy’s game for the Wii.  Your Shape is the name of it.  I will be receiving the game from Collective Bias and along with a group of people, we will be offering up our weight loss as a counter or “Up the Ante” with a group of people who are the official weight-loss and Your Shape group for CB. 

I will try to post here more often about the game and as always, I’ll continue to use the EASports game too when I can pry the remotes out of my kids hands.  In the meantime…………….just remember……

You

Are

Not

What

You

Eat!

I hate to start my posts like that, but the fact is, my weight is on the rise.  I”m not happy about but I hurt my mouth chewing over the holidays and had to go back to mostly liquids.  And, while returning to liquids, my anxiety level rose and my sense of sanity apparently flew right out the window.

Instead of yogurt and fresh fruit?  I’ve chosen pineapple milkshakes or maybe strawberry milkshakes….oh heck, I didn’t have dinner last night and it’s already 2 in the afternoon today…might as well give me a large.

And I do a bit of shopping or someone says those magic words “I am going into town, do you want something?”…..and bam, next thing you know I have another one of those great big shakes in my hands.

Something has to give….and I’m serious.

As you all know I was given an opportunity back in the spring to join the EASports –30 Day Challenge but I was also wearing a cast for a broken bone through July.  My doctor has cleared me to do static exercises, strengthening physical therapy and has suggested that each time I see him that maybe in 2 weeks I can be released. 

In the meantime, I want to share the greatness that is my son’s school when it comes to physical education.  Ask me how I know?  I’ve been there, done that.  There are tons of p.e. classes all over that have been completely done away with but luckily that’s not happening here.  Many people here are upset because the children do not get a “free play” recess time but the fact is, their structured physical education classes incorporates freedom so the children can learn to socialize. 

So, for now, I sit back and do my physical therapy which I am using my EASports to do by the way and hopefully soon the whole broken leg thing will be completely healed.  In the meantime, let’s see how you work it!

So, we’ve rounded the curve into July.  The year is half over and I’ve been the cast all but just a few days of it, 24 to be exact.  My plans to start the EASports on June 1st were spoiled by the recuperating from the surgery on my leg.  I had hoped that by June 15th I would be ready, but again, the doctor said no, not yet.

Here we are, again, rounding into July and guess what?  I am still in the cast and on orders to be non-weight bearing for another week.  My ankle hurts where the bone graft was done more than the other place.  As a matter of  fact, it hurts worse than the other injury ever has. 

I put a little weight on it today when I got out of the shower and I have to say that the good doc is a smart one because I am paying the price for it now.  It hurts, a lot.  And, I am sad.

I won’t be starting my round on July 1st either.  And, the 15th may be possible but I will be leaving on the 22nd for Blogher and then returning just in time to get my son ready to go back to school. 

So, I am not setting a start date before August 1st, but as soon as I am given the all clear from the doctor, I will begin and I will log my workouts but I’m not calling it official until August 1st.