Stuck on you.....

 I got a feeling down deep in my band that this food just won't go through.

I feel like Lionel Richie lately, everything I eat with any bulk to it gets stuck!  And stuck food hurts!  I know why this is happening:
 1) I eat way too fast for a band patient
2) I do not chew my food enough
3) I eat too big of bites

This morning was the worst.  I left the house at 7:30 to go get the Honda serviced, got home at 10:45 and wanted to eat quickly before Finn's bus came.  So I was on bite number two of fish and log jam.  That shit was stuck!  So I started doing what I call giraffe stretches.  That is basically where I stick my chest out as far as it will go and make my neck and torso as long as possible.  Why you ask?  Because in my simply little brain I think it will help.  Then I started taking cautious sips of water to try and push the food down.  Well folks that is when it happened.  I puked and puked and puked.  It was awful and so uncool.  It was also a let down that I let that happen.  I have got to slow myself down!  So the next time you are out with me and we stop for a bite to eat, just remind me of my Pukey Patti post please?!?!


Tonight I also joined the gym and did a full workout for the first time since I got pregnant with Sophie. I am glad I am blogging tonight because tomorrow my arms may hurt too much to do so.  It was nice to workout out in a gym again, although why do they have to smell so bad?  It was like an instant hit of sweat to the nose when I walked in.  Anyways I am looking to go in the mornings right at 9am for now.  So if anyone works out at Gold's on Broad, feel free to join me! 

Not much else going on.  I  am still losing, it just seems to go in spurts now.  I will stay the same for days, then boom lose 4lbs.  Then start all over again.  My skin is starting to show the signs of weight loss, which I do not like, but have no control over.  This is the main reason I joined the gym tonight, to try and help tone up the skin some.  Hopefully it will help, but I know I will have saggy skin.  That's OK, since in my real world I know very few, like maybe one, person that could pass for a model.  So in my crazy world, I guess I fit right in!

Fill me in........haha get it

I know, I have been slacking!  But between vacation and the entire family being sick, I have been a busy girl! So whats been up?

Well we had a sweet vaca with amazaing friends in Nags Head.  While I ate pretty much what I was supposed to I did drink entirerly too much!  I lost no weight while there but I am honestly happy with that.


Today I had my first fill!  OMG.com was I scared.  I was a wreck, which if you know me leads to trying to make the whole waiting room laugh.  I think my classic line of the day was this one, "Be gentle with my port, it's a virgin".  So this is how it went down.  I took my shirt and stuck it in my bra while standing in the floroscope/x-ray thing.  You could see my port on the screen, which was kinda neat.  Then Erin my nurse took this long needle and inserted it into my port.  This is about the time momma checked out.  Apperently I turned white as a sheet and started sweating, so we talked through this to keep me from going down.  Erin inserted 2cc of saline then left the needle hanging there, while I drank barium.  The barium passed through and the needle came out (which also coincided with my color returning).  Done deal!  I guess that I already had 4cc in my band, so now I am at 6cc total.  I am back on liquids for 2 days then 2 days of soft mushy stuff. 


Good news stuff that happened today. My blood pressure is down from 125/70 to 90/70 (I think we will probably be going off the ole heart medicine).  My weight was 271lbs.  Total weight loss in 49 days is 41lbs.  This is the craziest journey ever!