Sunday 21st January, 2007

I have been a little peeved that in the last 2 weeks I have only lost 5lbs however, I am noticing my clothes getting a little looser, so I know that inch loss is happening. I jumped on the scales on wednesday last week and was gutted because I so wanted to get the 4 1/2 stone off by then... don't ask me why, I just did. I was 16st 2 and needed to loose another 2lbs. Anyway.. today I got on the scales ( don't shout at me for weighing myself mid week, I can't help myself) and today I registered 16 stone on the nose... that's the 4 1/2 stone !! I am excited by the prospect of being 15 stone something now, and hoping that in the next couple of weeks things pick up again and I lose more than 5lbs. I should not grumble should I ? 5lbs in 2 weeks is more than I could ever have hoped for at Weight Watchers !! 4 1/2 stone is more than I could ever ever have hoped for at Weight watchers, and I also know that I would never have lost this weight so quickly at any diet club. This RNY has given me a new outlook on what I am fueling my body with and what I put in my mouth. It's fantastic. I no longer crave food of any fashion. I don't feel hungry, and I don't have to eat much to feel full. I made dinner yesterday, with 2 guests at the table, Darren ( Al's mate) and Frances ( mother in law) and I made a chicken dish with white wine and cream homepride sauce mix. I slow cooked it so it was nice and tender and the sauce had a good opportunity to make the chicken nice and soft for me to swallow. I steamed baby potatoes and carrots, sprouts and broccoli which was nice too. I ate too much. I wish I hadn't, but I foolishly ate my veg first ( always have, probably always will) and then the spuds (daft, cos I should have had the chicken) and then realised that the protein was the chicken and I needed that more than the rest of it. I managed most of it. I then had a small ( and I really do mean tiny) portion of apple pie and ice cream but was not able to eat it. I suffered for the rest of the night and it wasn't til I really thought about it that I realised that sprouts are not my friend !!
I took a windeeze tablet when I realised that I had trapped wind, and then let it do it's thing. Those tablets, for any RNYer out there, are a great thing to keep in your medicine cabinet just in case. They really worked for me last night.
My problem this week has been constipation. It's been really rough this week. I managed to shift some but today I am having real trouble getting comfortable. I sit on the loo and nothing happens, no matter how much I wish it would. I have been taking laxatives all week too but clearly they are not helping.
Frances said something to me last night at Bingo though... we were chatting away and I was talking about my 5lb weight loss and how peeved I was, and she said that it was bound to slow down now. I said, no, not at all, I will be in a size 14 by April when we go to see my parents. She laughed and said that IF I get into a size 14 then she will go and get one of these in her too ( referring to the operation which clearly she has been squalking to her daughter about and being advised that I have had a band when I really have not !). I said that I want to be a size 14 by April, but eventually I will be a size 10-12, and then I will have my tummy tuck and boob job. I still think she was under the impression I was joking... ah well !! It just served to reiterate in my mind that her thought process was 'As long as I am not as fat as Marika then I am fine' whereas I am actually already in smaller clothes than her.
Didn't win at the Bingo either !!