Good News.....

We are in the New Year so camping is coming back soon! LOL

With the stress that is happening here at the office I have to admit that I am not a stress eater.  I am a stress drinker (of water LOL)  Things get loud and over whelming I am finding that I will put my ear bud in and grab a drink of water from my water bottle.  Next thing I know I have downed a full litre of water!  Time is flying by during the day and I feel an honest hungry rather than a bored hungry.  I am also finding that I am not wanting all my food that I bring so I just take it back home.  All of this has made it good news in my book!

I have been carpooling with a girl I will call Monty since we are on the same team and I end up going right past her place to get to the office.  We have been able to chat about the office and how things are/are not shaping up with this implementation.  I am not sure if it is going to fly but Edge, the NavyWife and I are just going to sit back and see. At least until June.  Those 2 ladies have the chance to be on the same team and with Ohio but I am across the office in the corner with Nikki.  The square footage rocks for her and I but I don't have the same view as before.  No biggy since they are on Skype and have a chance to chat that way.

I have been hanging with DoxyLover recently too.  We have been able to keep up on all the gossip that is flying around with everyone that is or has been at the office.  Pretty soon we will run out of office talk LOL.

So  here is that we can all cope before we go postal!

Last one for 2013

Don’t worry I won’t get to soppy with the “Year in Review” but I do admit it was an interesting with the trip to Texas, the DH finishing his command as CS, getting Mel to the first of 2 stages of her training and a huge turnover at the day job.

The DH has some more free time in 2014 so I am hoping that we will be able to do more spontaneous stuff.  My new work schedule has me with Fridays off so I am hoping that I can use these to my advantage to do stuff with the DH like hitting Wonderland or even hitting the campsite a bit earlier.

On Christmas Eve I stopped in at the out-laws to drop off the presents and I guess there was some crossed wires from someone that reads my blog.  The SOL asked me if I was having heart issues since someone has told her I was having bypass surgery……That kind of made me giggle when I got to the car and thought that my heart is the only thing Dr. Sarah says I have on me that is textbook LOL  I corrected her and that started with a friend that is has been approved.

We have started packing for the move and I am finding that I am getting rid of some stuff. If I can’t remember who gave it to me and I haven’t used it, out it goes. We will definitely need a storage unit for a few month to make the house look “minimal” for people coming in.

So that is it for now, enjoy the last few hours of 2013 and have a healthy 2014

Bullet Points for a Post

·         I know it has been a while

·         I have been accepted for RNY surgery much to Dr Sarah’s surprise she didn't think I had enough check to qualify.  I have a 2-3 hours orientation meeting about it all in TO on Feb 12^th. I can’t reschedule since they are like the golden ticket to see Willy Wonka.

·         Been keeping in touch with some of the gals that are no longer at work and I am glad that I am making the effort.

·         Feeling the love at work with the NavyWife and we are just going to ride it all out.

·         Nik & I were at the Santa Claus Parade with SJTD and we had a blast.  Mind you Nik was getting tired near the end was getting grumpy at the other dogs.  I don’t blame a 12 y/o puppy.

·         Went to the Hadfield Christmas Party on the weekend and didn’t really eat that much.  It was mentioned that I was eating like a bird which was good enough for me.  To me it was a validation that I was overeating/bingeing.

·         We had the work party and I had to leave early with NavyWife since my disassociation was really bad.  Nik wouldn’t settle and there were a few times she was in my lap.  After looking back I should have sat with my back to the window so that the blinking Christmas lights wouldn’t have been in my view all night.

·         Headed to the mall on the weekend too.  I am glad that I had the DH there to get me out because after an hour in the food court I couldn’t figure out how to get out of the mall.  I told him that next year we should just buy everything online.

·         The holidays are going to have mixed feelings.  I am going to enjoy going to Mom’s and the BIL’s in Ottawa, but since we need to start renovating the house I feel like I don’t have a proper place for the wrapped gifts since I decided that we weren’t putting up the tree.  I honestly haven’t even started decorating my desk for the contest that is this Thursday.  I guess the 3 nights at week at the other job are finally taking a toll.

·         In a few weeks we go to 4 – 10hr days in a week with a Friday off.  I know I will save on gas, but I am losing 2 of my 3 shifts.  I guess we will see how that all goes.

There will be more posts in the future and definitely before the New Year ;)

Gotta love my co-workers

Well today is my fasting blood work so I wanted to get it done as soon as I could to get the ball rolling on all of this.

I ate some foods last night at the other job but not all that much since I wasn't really hungry.  Until today..........

Navy wife and Corrie K have been really nice about eating foods in the lunchroom or not eating at all.  Corrie K went for lunch and picked up a salad and when she came back she happily informed me that it tasted horrible and had red cabbage and red onions in it LOL

So far I have been a gopher popping my head up every once in a while sniffing the air.  I have been playing "name that smell" and both of them have been chuckling at me.

So I have made it through the majority of the lunch hour without running through the office stark raving mad so I am hoping the shortened afternoon will go by quickly.

Sooper Bizzy…….

Well I had the appointment with Dr. Sarah as most of you saw and I ended up with more yeses than noes on her little test for GBS. So I figured that I had the go ahead from Dr. Sarah and I was already to defend myself to her in regards to GBS and I didn’t get a single back lash or any type of trouble!  She told me that my blood that she has in my file is almost a year old so I have to get new blood work and we are going to have 2 sets of blood work done on Tuesday.  Dr. Sarah was nice about it all she even asked me what hospital I wanted to go to.  So I guess the ball is starting to roll so we will see how my journey goes.

Susanne has mentioned to me that I should get into the mind set of eating as if I was post op and so I have been doing that this week.  I am surprised how I am able to maintain myself on a smaller amount of food.  I also have been told to drink a litre of water a day which isn’t that big of a deal since I can do that in the morning.

This weekend was the R7 Conference that was just outside of Baltimore and the DH and were heading down since this is his last “appearance” as a CS so I decided to tag along too.  I knew there was going to be lots of food, since there were 2 meals out and room parties as well so I really wasn’t that stressed about eating.

On the way down I ordered a happy meal at McD’s and I ate the kid’s size fries and a simple cheese burger and I saved my yogurt.  I was pretty happy with myself since I didn’t give it a second thought when I ordered the happy meal.

We stopped in at the hotel restaurant for lunch and we both ordered Caesar salad and chicken parmesan.  I didn’t eat all of my salad and was happy to leave some behind and when the main came I was surprised at the big size.  So at this point I prioritised what was in the bowl and I enjoyed the chicken and the cheese and the few mouthfuls of pasta. DANG!!!!  I my leftovers are still in the hotel fridge!!!!  Shows you that I wasn’t obsessing about it LOL

Friday supper was a buffet that you pay what your container weighs.  We had the options of a large container (used for larger salads) or a smaller container that I would say rivals a hamburger box. Well my dinner was a smaller box of a bit of mac n cheese, a few ribs and 2 pieces of General Tao’s chicken.  I did have a 2^nd smaller container of fruit and yogurt since I have dreadfully missed yogurt over the past 2 years.

Breakfasts on the weekend were a little tougher since it had been so long since I was able to have pork bacon that I might have indulged on that.  I am not saying I ate all of Bessie and left none for anyone else but I did have 2 helpings.

So now I am back and I am not feeling too bad about my eating on the weekend and I had a blast since we have been asked to come back down for next year LOL

I can just see Susanne telling me to give myself a pat on the back for my efforts this weekend.

Nervous

Well I am here early at the doctor's office waiting to talk to Dr. Sarah.

I am not sure if my nerves are for the the talk about GPS or the fact she hasn't seen Nik but noticed her in the car before.

Either way I am next.

Untitled

I could use a lot of puns like “last night had a lot of information to digest” or “Hills and Mr. Hills had quite a mouthful to say” or “they gave me food for thought” etc. so I am going to leave it untitled.

Both of them were at different stages of the surgery and both of them said that there were over 400 pounds when they started the journey.  Hills is just shy of 2 years and her she is enjoying eating food as much as ever and her stomach still is 8 fluid ounces big.  I mentioned to them that on the forum I lurk through that there is one gal that keeps a container in her purse and when she eats she pulls it out, fills it up and whatever doesn’t fit goes in a box. I personally think it is a great idea since you don’t over eat.

They both enjoyed who they are before the surgery but Hills didn’t want to progress any further and end up like her mom so she is turning back the clock on her life.  She finds that she doesn’t like when she gets the “oh my gosh look at you” since she did for other reasons than looking good. Mr. Hills did his surgery since he didn’t want to lose his feet to diabetes.  To him this is the ultimate worst thing he could think of when he thought about his health. 

Pretty much everyone I have talked to would do it again in heart beat or wondered why they didn’t do it earlier.

I do realise that these folks have had a long and rough journey but apparently the rewards in the end are well worth it. I will see what Dr. Sarah suggests and I will let you all know too!