Overworkedjanet

21.5 pounds down since April 12th. I'm still playing around with my meals and notice I am missing things like mass quantities of cauliflower, broccoli, brussels sprouts, and fresh salads. I used to make a meal of chicken and broccoli or a big salad with fish. I'm ditching salads for the moment due to current news. I'm relying on my garden's beets, zucchini and eggplant. While the beets simply get roasted and eaten, I've tended to make recipes requiring chick peas or black beans and ancient grains with my veggies. I'm a Jersey girl, and there's a dish on the counter of home-grown cherry tomatoes. I eat those like grapes. My omelets are full of tomatoes. Greek yogurt and cottage cheese are regulars in my meals. Both get dressed up with fruit or veggies depending on my mood. I've switched to frozen sliced fruits as I don't go through the fresh so fast. However, if I find a fresh peach that SMELLS like a peach, it's mine. So many are picked early and...

 I've been on this journey for 18 weeks.  Perhaps about 6 weeks in on Foundao, a two or three week pause for recovery from dehydration issues after 9 on Zepbound. Four months and I've lost 19 pounds. What works:  A caring doctor. She tried two of the drugs herself and was honest about the side effects. They interfered with her life (new mom, fledgling career) so she'd stopped her own trial. As a non-working person, she felt I could handle things that came up. I didn't think sleep apnea could be something good, but it allowed my insurance to approve the drugs. Having a spouse who supports your journey and notices progress. Changing my mind about what food is for. What doesn't work:  Uh, I've got nothin'. Now for some NSVs. I am wearing a T-shirt I bought in Ireland in 2009. I've never been able to wear it. I cleaned out my closet, admittedly a lot of old work clothes and sweatpants, and donated three bags to the donation box. I can pull off my jeans and j...

 My weight is steady; neither a loss or gain, still at 18 and holding. I feel in control of my eating and have changed some of the ideas about what is right for me. Dare I say I am seeing meals as function over reward? Perhaps, and I don't think that's a bad thing. I had a discussion with my traveling partner SIL who is doing the WW points thing, and we compared notes about our meals and ideas. She and I have been "plate watching" each other for years in an invisible competition. Last night in our NJ diner dinning, I watched her do what I would have done six months ago; take DH's fruit bowl, eat two thirds of the fish tacos to take the rest home, pick at the sides.  I didn't.  My grilled Rueben was not so grilled as it was laid on the griddle to cook to dryness, without butter. It was lacking the usual mega meat-covered-dripping-cheese fullness expected on TV shows about NJ diners The Russian dressing was in a side cup and sparingly used. In another life I wou...

 I did not go forward with the higher dose drug. The lowest dose is still curbing my appetite and food noise. I am free of 18.4 pounds. It's take 14 weeks to get here, a little over a pound a week. I thinks that's an adequate pace and maybe even a bit fast. After all, it took me 30 plus years to gather as much weight as I did. I still continue to marvel that the little bits here and there, an extra spoonful of this or that could be so damaging. After all, I was not a a junk food, soda swigging, large helping eater. I'm fairly a whole food cook. I eat clean. DH is slowly recovering. His new platinum coils plugging the leaking artery have proved to work as his CT showed decrease in the hematoma and no mid-line shift. He remarked he hasn't felt "off" or dizzy in the past few days. You don't know how much something affects you until it doesn't. Now if I could just get him off the couch. We've finally had some nice weather and I was able to workout in m...

 Here I am at week 14 and I am down a solid 17 pounds and holding. It's not been easy, yet it has. For those of you who know my weight journey, this has been a win. I have one more week to finish the first dose of the pill, and I should increase the concentration next week. I am crossing my fingers and toes that I don't react like I did with the injection!  You may have read my previous blog. DH is still doing well.  I think the severity of the issue finally hit home for me and even with the medication, I overate last night, if a 3/4 cup of yogurt as a snack is overeating, and woke up a 3 with a belly that wanted to rebel. A goodly amount of water and some sitting in a chair created the noises that said food is moving, and I felt better. That's the meds slowing everything down. Lesson learned. Throughout all these medicalizing sessions, I've not looked for food which without it I would have had my head and hand in anything edible. I think I'm saying these drugs are ...

 A brief note. Monday I took DH for his repeat CT after last weeks' stint in ICU. We had breakfast waiting on the counter at home. They took him immediately to the ER. They transferred him to the major hospital in Philadelphia. He was hoping for the helicopter ride. I was hoping for a break. He settled for an ambulance with a nurse and lots of monitors. He had what only could be called "minor" brain surgery on Tuesday. They did an embolization using coils to plug up the bleeding artery by going through his wrist. Technology! I brought him home Wednesday and yesterday we went to lunch with siblings. Phew.