New Favorite

I love chocolate pudding.  I remember when I was a little girl going out to eat with my grandparents and always getting chocolate pudding for dessert.  Probably why I am in the boat I am, but whatever.  I have tried those fat free, zero calorie puddings and thought they tasted horrible.   However, Joe and I were grocery shopping and he saw these Jell-O Mousse puddings that are only 60 calories.  I was hesitant at first but thought I would try them out.  They are my new favorite pudding!!  They do not taste like they are only 60 calories and they are moussey, so you get a feeling of eating a much more decadent dessert than a pudding cup.  Just wanted to share!!

(I had to take the picture with the pudding cup on my computer keyboard)

New Scale

I finally got a new scale yesterday.  I love it!!!!  I don't have to move it around the dining room for an hour and step on it 47 times to get my weight. 

My scale loves me again.....for the moment

So you know the problems that I have with my scale....step on, it goes blank, move it a 1/2 inch, step on, it goes blank, etc, etc.  It is is in my dining room because I think the floor is more level there than in my bathroom (our house was built in like the 20's or something, so it's settled alot).  Anyway, I was on my way to the kitchen and thought what the hey, I'll step on and see what happens.  To my amazement I look down and do you know what it said?!  It said, you....Kimberly, have lost 5 lbs!!!  I am so excited!!  I have really been  making good food choices and drinking around 110 oz of water a day and exercising regularly....I am FINALLY starting to see the rewards of this surgery.

I have to admit that I was bummed when I read some other blogs and people who have had the surgery around the same time as me or after me and have lost 50 lbs already.....I am happy for them and it is great, but kept asking myself why am I not that way.  I now realize that it was me not putting 100% into it and finding out that my Dr. is super conservative with fills, so just in January I have really felt major restriction.  But you know what?  Everyone is different and everyone has their own journey.   I am happy that I am getting healthy!

Why do you torment me Scarlett?

That is what I have been asking her the past few days.  First I couldn't keep anything down, now it seems like I am able to eat more than I should.  Of course my mind immediately jumps to I have done something horrible to Scarlett and will have to have it taken out or another surgery or she has slipped.  I know that is probably not the case, but I wonder.  I think she having some mood swings.

Scarlett

That is what I have named my band.  I know it has been almost 6 months since my surgery, but I am tired of calling it "my band."  What is so significant about Scarlett you ask?  It doesn't have a huge Dr. Phil deep kind of meaning or anything.  I am from the South and Gone with the Wind is my favorite movie and I think Scarlett and I would have been great friends back in the day!   This journey is an up and down roller coaster, but I am enjoying every part of it!

As my good friend Scarlett once said...."After all... tomorrow is another day. "  

The Finger

I was sitting at my desk this morning typing and looked down and saw a bit of cuticle that needed to be trimmed, so I grab my handy dandy cuticle nippers and take care of it.  Well apparently I cut a bit to much and started bleeding.  I tell you all of this because as I am holding the tissue against my injury (yes, I am classifying this as an injury) and start putting the band-aid on it I realized that I am starting to get "skinny" fingers!!!  I am looking at them right now and they seem to have gotten longer and prettier...yay!!  I no longer have sausage fingers!  My rings are getting loose and I am loving it.  I will gladly pay whatever to have my rings re-sized.

And crazy as this sounds, I think my nails look prettier.  I guess it is helping that I am starting to take care of them better.   My theory is before the surgery I had sausage fingers (everything on me was fat) so why take care of them if no one is going to look at them.  Why would I be good enough for someone to look at my fingers and nails?  But now I know better....I am doing this for me, not for someone else to look at them.  And I am pretty dang excited for my skinnier fingers!! :)

Weekend

I had a pretty good weekend, very low key.  Joe and I had a meeting at the bank on Saturday morning, it went well.  After we got back to the house on Saturday morning, I never left the house again all weekend.  I spent a good amount of time in our closet today cleaning it out.  Not just clothes, but we have accumulated a bunch of crap, I had no idea how much! 

On Friday I was feeling a little sickly, but didn't think much of it, but over the weekend it seems as though I am developing a cold.  I think that is contributing to my food not staying down.  I have been coughing alot and have a lot of drainage.  The scale hasn't really moved in a few days, but that's ok.  I am just grateful it's not going up! 

I hope everyone had a great weekend!