Who Says You Can't Go Back To High School

I've lost 45 pounds in the last six months...... No gimmicks, no games, no diets........ Aside from Gall Stones that is!! Last summer I started feeling sick almost every single day. I was getting stomach aches, I was ahem..... irregular most days. It wasn't like the pain I had several years ago when I had gall stones....... You remember, when I drank a six pack of Sam Adam's and ate an entire pack of Oreos!!!?? It wasn't like that...... I started getting scared...... But in my omnipotent fashion I chose to ignore it....... I suddenly became use to it!

I continued to eat the same....... suffering stomach aches, irregular ahem...... movements. Until......
One day....... As I sprawled across the bed, buck naked with my ass in the air, crying in to my pillow...... Matt walked in and the poor bastard froze...... "What do I do!!??" "Tell me what to do!?"

Leave me alone..... no wait..... call 911..... wait..... I know every firefighter in this state..... don't call..... drive me to the ER!! No wait...... I know every doctor there!!! Leave me alone!!!!

I mixed myself a cocktail of Advil, Valium, and Zantac and BING..... within twenty minutes, my pain was gone!! But I couldn't ignore it anymore!! I called the Doc in the AM and made an immediate appointment........ Off to the Ultra Sound tech I was sent! Guess what...... You have Gall Stones!!!!! I was told to make an appointment with a Surgeon...... So I did..... Only problem was, she couldn't fit me in for more than a month....... Well, I've been sick for six months, what's one more!!?? She told me to stay off FAT and eat very low residue light foods...... Okay!!! As long as I don't feel that pain anymore!!!!!

After more than a month, I visited the surgeon....Yup...... you have gall stones, BUT you don't have an infection and your duct is in great shape...... no blockage! So why should I cut open a healthy 30 something woman!!!?? You've lost 11 pounds since your last doctors visit!!

I'M SORRY!!!! WHAT!!!??? 11 POUNDS!!!!! WHAT YOU SAY!!??

Who would have thunk it!!?? I lost weight without thinking about it...... I just tried to avoid that horrifying pain!!! Trust me, it was worse than labor!!!! 11 Pounds just to avoid pain! No surgery for me......... I'll just eat what I've been eating and hopefully it won't happen again...... My doctors continue to monitor me to assure I don't get a stone blocked!

Over the next few months, I was motivated to lose more weight...... I figured I'd try the treadmill again...... A little walking is good....... Well after just one week, I worked myself up to two TWO two non-stop RUNNING miles!!! I was a RUNNER!!!! Yahoo...... before I knew it I was down 20 more pounds!! That lasted a couple of months before I ditched the treadmill...... Besides, I looked good at 150 pounds, I mean I was down from 172! So I stopped running! But continued my good eating. I'm now down to 129-133 ....... I fluctuate...... still!

Here's what I've been eating!! I'm very lazy..... so the key for me is pre-chopped or made foods!!

BREAKFAST:

EVERY morning I have a huge bowl of Multi-Grain Cheerios with skim milk.
One Dunkin Donuts Medium Coffee with skim milk and three Splenda

A little later a bag of Mott's Sliced green apple or
One Chobani Greek Yogurt ~ Plain ~ with two Splenda ~ Mix Well!
Del Monte sliced Red Grapefruit in the cups ~ Don't drink liquid...... too many calories

LUNCH:

Something light...... Turkey slice wrapped around lettuce tomato and mustard ~ even turkey bacon
NO CHEESE
A salad ~ NO CHEESE ~ Balsamic Vinegar ~ Loaded with vegis
SOUP SOUP AND MORE SOUP ~ WATCH SODIUM
TBLT ~ Turkey bacon, lettuce and tomato ~ Fat Free Mayo ~ Calorie reduced wheat bread!
Sometimes more cereal

A little later ~ One of these
Del Monte red grapefruit (so good)
Organic Salsa ~ Trust me on this...... found in Stop and Shop by the prepared salads!!!! It's so good!!!!! Eat right out of the container!
Baby Carrots
Chobani Plain Yogurt ~ Two Splenda
Sliced tomatoes with sprinkled red pepper (Robyn's idea) Mmmm...
Turkey slice with sprinkled red pepper


DINNER:

Very lean small amount of ANY meat, I craved steak or turkey burgers......
I would buy a rotisserie chicken from stop and shop and eat right off the carcass!
any vegetable ~ TONS ~ sprinkle with balsamic vinegar for flavor or butter spray........
No rice or anything because I love BREAD and chose that
Bread with I can't believe it's not butter
Pasta with marinara and turkey meat balls
Sometimes just cereal again
Turkey bacon (I ate tons of this stuff) egg on an english muffin ~ fat free mayo NO CHEESE
I made pancakes a lot ~ I Can't Believe it's Not Butter Spray and Lite Syrup, again with tons
of turkey bacon!!

Watch WHAT you're cooking with..... use olive oils or no oil..... butter spray, pam, vinegar, mustard...... no ketchup.


NOTHING LATER!!! Lots of sugar free gum and Jolly Ranchers if you're going crazy for something!

I drink water all day long...... no juice..... I get my milk in the morning with my cereal...... JUST WATER!!!! No alcohol....... I know this may be hard for some Woburn people, but think of your ass after six months.......... Beer betrays you....... It's like that North Woburn ass you let walk all over you your entire high school years...... It betrays you!!!!!!

Good luck...... Before and after pics to follow soon..........