Weight 293.5 lbs, which reflects another 1.5 lb drop for a total of 13 lbs since the new beginning four weeks ago. It also happens to be the weight I was when I first started this journey to health and this blog back on May 1, 2006 (see Weighin Summary for complete weekly updates).   Once again proving that my eating plan works – keeping my calories very low (between 800 to 1000).

I have my meeting with the director of the weight loss surgery center on Monday and will be interested to see what their scale says. I am a bit nervous about it because of my luncheon today with our China group. 

In 1996 we travelled to China with 9 other families to adopt our daughters and every year since we get together at a very nice Chinese restaurant in Philadelphia.  It’s a lot of fun and I’m looking forward to it.  However, I’m a little concerned about the office weighin Monday because today I will have a regular meal of steamed chicken and broccoli at our get together.  I will ONLY eat half of it and bring the rest home for hubby to eat later.   But still it is a regular meal that I have NO way of counting the calories exactly.  Prior to the lunch I will be having ONLY a bowl of sugar free jello (32 calories) for breakfast and a large cucumber for dinner (about 50 calories) to hold me over for the evening if I get hungry.  So I should be able to keep the calorie intake to about 800 or at least under 1000 for today (I hope!).   But I have no control over the salt content and who knows what will happen.  I only have past experience to go on when I eat any kind of meal that is out of my control – I can gain 2 to 7 lbs over night, and some times more.   I don’t think I will gain the whole 13 lbs back with just this meal so hopefully I’ll show a bit of a loss at least on Monday no matter what happens. 

After gaining 4 lbs last month from the Valentine’s day meal my hubby cooked for me, I really really really don’t want to have to face any kind of weight gain this month at the office.   They didn’t believe me about the cause of the weight gain and kept at me until I gave up and lied to them and said yes I ate calorie dense food and then got scolded.   I don’t think I could take another scolding over something I did NOT do.   I have everything I have put in my mouth down on paper so at least I know I truth, but it is still frsutrating to endure.

I’ve started some of changes this week in my plan to deal with the diagnosis for gastritis and barrett’s esophagus and to lose as much weight as I can prior to weight loss surgery.   So far:

No aspirin since 3/8/09 (1 week prior to the scopes as required and none after since the diagnosis) – the arthritis pain is steady but so far sheer will and determination are keeping me going.

No diet soda since Monday 3/23/09 – having  lemon water instead (plain water makes be gag and extremely nausea).  I’m not enjoying it, and I truly miss the soda but I’m determined to stick with it.  I’m hoping the ill feeling I get from drinking so much water eventually goes away.  It is definitely killing off my taste buds so that is a plus – with so much ickiness being sipped all day it turns off any cravings.  I’ve warned everyone I know that I’m definitely a bit cranky and grumpy this week because my inner emotional self is truly feeling like it is being punished and deprived – but what must be will be and hopefully I have suffiently chained up my inner rebellious self.  I just wish I could put a gag on it too so it would stop screaming for a diet soda all day and night.   I’m hoping it will eventually tire itself out and leave me alone to endure the daily water torture in peace.

Aloe Vera Juice with 2 oz cocunut milk (reduced fat) – since Tuesday 3/24, daily, to soothe and heal the digestive system.

Also since Monday 3/23/09 a container of Activa low-fat yogurt (for the good bacteria - probiotic cultures).  For my liver, daily 2 Livatone Plus capsules and to support the thyroid a daily Kelpcapsule.  I can already feel an improvement in my liver – the swelling and pressure is greatly reduced and there is much less tenderness.  For months now I have felt like a swollen football is laying under my ribs and the area has been tender to the touch and I knew it was my liver acting up again (any one who is obese has a fatty liver and mine is also filled with cysts).  The liver has to filter out everything that goes into our bodies, and add to it extra waste when losing weight and the liver can get even more clogged and overloaded.  Livatone is the best supplment I’ve found for really helping to heal the liver.  I’ve taken it before for months at a time so I know it helps, but I didn’t stick with it long term.  This time I hope to stick with it for the next 3 or 4 years or forever if need be until I lose all the weight I can and so that my liver can recover as much as possible.  I have a dream of one day not having a fatty cystic liver – that may not be realistic but an improvement would be nice too.

Next week I will start the Prilosec OTC- Delayed-Release Acid Reducer to reduce stomach acides and Enzymatic Therapy Acidophilus Pearls for a healthy digestive system.

“They” will have to pry my morning cup of coffee out of my cold dead hands.  Well maybe not that extreme, but for now I have no plans of giving it up.  It is my one comfort in an otherwise bleak, very bland daily menu.  I don’t drink alcohol, I don’t do drugs, I don’t smoke, and I have no other physical pleasures or vices.  I know that is a poor excuse for needing and enjoying a simple cup of cofee in the morning but at this point it is what I am relying on to keep up my sanity and determination going.

I am hoping for some input from the doctor and weight loss director at my appointment Monday on how to cope with the gastritis and barrett’s esophagus.  I will incorporate their advice, if any, into what I’m doing already.

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