Happy New Year

Gave my apartment a clean today to welcome in the New Year.

We will not be going out for New Years Eve (actually we never do)  - just a small family gathering, husband, me, daughter and grand daughter and grand son - I plan on having steak, baked potatoes, and some form of  veggie.  I found this great marinating recipe on line called "Best Steak Marinate Ever" so I thought I would try it and marinate them for 8 hours in the fridge.  I don't know if I'll be able to eat the steak but maybe if it is tender enough, Nakita will be ok with it.  Worse comes to worse, I can always melt some cheese on the potato and eat that !

Also bought some Blue Bunny Ice cream called "Banana Split" and my daughter made some peanut butter shortbread cookies to go with the ice cream (looking forward to that)!

I am excited about 2011 and all it entails!

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE      -   See you next year !

Weigh in !

Had  my official weekly weigh in this morning -  lost 2.6 pounds - Yippee - I  now weigh 197.2 !!!! :) :)

Thank you "Nakita" for keeping me on the straight and narrow during this last week - I am amazed to say that I lost weight during the Christmas week - normally I would gain anywhere from 7 to 10 pounds.  this lap band is truly a "friend".

Not to say that I didn't have a few treats - like a pce of cheese cake, a handful of chocolate raisins and a mini  Blizzard - I enjoyed every bite, did not feel guilty at all !

 Now I'm off to read how everyone else did !

Christmas Celebrations

We had a wonderful time this Christmas

Went to Midnight Mass - it was packed with people - we got there are 10:10pm (Christmas carols from 10 to 10:30 and then Mass starts at 10:30 and gets over at midnight) and already there were only a few seats left - they ended up bringing in extra seating and some people still had to go thru the service standing up.  Anyway, it was a lovely Mass and the time went by so quickly - after Mass, there was a Christmas feast in the Church Hall but we didn't stay for that because we all wanted to get home to bed!  and besides eating that late at night tends to upset all our stomachs!

Faith (my granddaughter) called me at 8:00am on Christmas morning to come over and watch her open her presents (my grandson who is 15 was still asleep in bed) which is something that my husband and I do every Christmas - I love to watch the children opening their gifts and seeing the joy on their faces!

My table looked lovely - I decorated with reds and greens - the picture didn't come out too good but I had fun decorating .

We had my mother and father in law, my husbands Aunt and his two sisters plus us which was a total of 10 people to Christmas lunch.

We had  Ham, Turkey, peas and rice, potato salad, mac and cheese, cauliflower casserole, cranberry sauce, wine, and sodas.

For dessert my daughter made this fantastic cheese cake and gourmet shortbread cookies and with that we had coffee and tea.

The food was soooo good - I took a little bit of every thing but only managed to eat half of it - took me about an hour but I enjoyed it very much.

I saved my cheese cake for supper and took a very small piece but enjoyed every mouth full.

It was a novel experience eating with "Nakita" in control - she did me proud and I was proud of myself too  - we got along very well :)

Just 3 days before Christmas Day !

Finished doing my Christmas cleaning - did it over 3 days - rather than kill myself trying to get every thing done in one day - that was a good plan!

Thawing out my Christmas Ham in the fridge - will probably cook that on Friday and then just warm it up on the morning of the 25th.

I am suppose to be getting a gift of a "Dressed, deboned whole turkey" - I hope that I do get it on Christmas Eve cause I didn't bother to start defrosting the one I have in the freezer - my husband says, well if we don't get it, then he'll go get some chicken from KFC , lol ! Please keep your fingers crossed for me !

I would like to thank all my new friends for your kind words, and encouragement and advise since I started this blog - I can't begin to describe how great it feels  to have other ladies that understand what I am going though !

I wish you all a Blessed and Joyful Christmas !

Onederland

Just had to share this - even though I already posted for the day.

Just got back from my official weigh in and I now weight - 199.8   I am so happy and thrilled!

Eating out

My husband and I went out to eat at one of our favourite restaurants last night and it was a great experience.

I ordered the grilled salmon, mashed potatoes and green beans - I also asked them to bring me a small bottled water (I do not trust the glass of water) and I managed to drink about 6 ozs before the meal came.

As soon as I got my meal, I divided my plate up - I portioned 2 oz of fish, about 1/4 cup of the potato and about 1/4 of the green beans - and moved the remainder over on the plate to bring home with me (I asked the waitress to bring me a take out container at the end of the meal so that I could pack the food up to bring home - but next time I am going to bring a tupperware container (Like Jessica) and pack up the food right away).

Anyway I enjoyed every bite, chewed, chewed, chewed and when I had eaten my portion, I pushed the plate away and talked with hubby while he finished up his meal,

I was satisfied and happy with how I handled my first solid meal since having my band filled on Friday.  It was a good experience and "Nakita" was happy with me and I didn't have rumblings from her :)

Almost forgot to list some of my NSV's  -

Inches gone since I started the journey on September 29th/10

Bust  :       2 inches
Waist:       2 inches      (I actually have a waist now !!!!!)
Hips:        4 1/4 inches
Stomach:  5 inches

Total:        13 1/4"  gone forever  


Slack size:      20      Now    16      YEAH!!!!!

Able to cross my legs and be comfortable !!!!!

Life after your first fill

I still haven't been able to eat anything (since Thursday 12 noon) but at least I got down 20 oz water, 8 oz skim milk, 2 cups of coffee (my new favorite drink - couldn't stand it before - but it was comforting to drink it) also 3 pop cycles and a cup of chicken broth.  Just thinking of eating food was making me cringe (that has never happened before the lap band !!)

I am going to try to have 1/2 cup of cottage cheese this morning for breakfast but first I am going to drink 20 oz of water - I do not want to dry up, lol -  I am going to try to get at least 60 oz's in my end of the day -

Hope you all have a nice lazy Sunday!