147.8 Hospital Food YUCK.

My yesterday meal choice was a double cheese burger with the bread gone and the tomato in between the patty's. The only other healthy thing to pick form was a bag of raw cashews, cheese sticks and some salad. Not much in the healthy category except a salad and I wasn't in the mood for that. I survived sleeping on a big hospital bed with little guy who had a rough night but we made it through and finally got to leave. That Jer would tell them to get the blood pressure cuff off because it was done and he knew it. The nurses sure got a laugh out of that we had to bribe him to keep his hands off the IV and the o2 sat monitored that where attached to his little feet and hidden inside his socks except for the tubing which he was always trying to pull. Bribery paymentL: A diesel truck that looks real is what he wanted and got when we left the hospital because he left the stuff alone pretty much.

My Hubby just realized that for me to return to a set point then I have to eat a steak. He is thrilled with the idea so of course that's what lunch turned into with a really nice salad at Sizzlers. I did cheat with a tiny ice cream cone ( I haven't had one in forever). It was a long ride home and all kids were thrilled to see the little guy. I will post a pic when it's all healed and looking sweet because right now lets face it Steri strips are just not that pretty.

The surgery.

LONGEST DAY ON EARTH!!!!!!!! So all went well even if we had to keep Jer from eating or drinking which the eating wasn't hard but drinking on the other hand not so easy. It started when we woke him to get in the car which wasn't early. Last meal was at 1:00 am pediasure in a bottle. So we left him to sleep and sleep until 10:00 am. Which amazingly he did. But this morning he wants food so we are driving in car listening to begging for a drink or alternating for food for at least an hour. Finally he fell asleep. We arrive, water fountains the decorative kind are outside the hospital, he wants to drink the water out of them. Drinking faucet passed in hall he trys to crawl out of arms to get. Registering, he says he has to go potty, no go, but he tries to get to tap to get drink. He pouts while playing with toys.

He sees backpack and knows that I always carry water or pediasure. I have to put it up high and try again to divert his attention playing. Finally we get into the change room and dang there is another sink and Daddy (who thanks goodness got to come with me) does diverting while I sign more papers.

Anther toy waiting room, potty guise again. Fight that he needs water out of tap. This is getting so so so hard to keep him from crying and fighting to get the water. On any other day he could go forever without water but of course not today. I never thought I would be in the mode to say thank goodness he got into the surgery because he was so set on getting any possible water that he could. After two hours they call and they need me to hold the screaming baby who came up out of the anaesthesia wanting you guessed it WATER.

I do not think I have ever seen him drink it that fast. Everyone was scared he would puke after guzzling it that fast, but no he begged for more. And can you believe this the non eating guy downed a bowl of soft rice and butter. A cup worth it, was so fast we had to slow him on his intake followed by vanilla yogurt the whole entire cup, add 4 little hospital size apple juices and at 12 midnight he was like a pack rat holding on to the other yogurt cup insisting that he was going to eat it even though he was so so asleep. Maybe the trick is to starve him more often hmmm lets see how the morning pans out in the eating category, breakfast is not ever a favorite meal on his part.

It was a good thing that they revised his trach hole because they found that scar tissue was holding to the inside of his vocal cords and that got released so now maybe we will have stopped the possible throwing up that has plagued him at times. Only time will tell if that becomes the needed fix.

He has the cutest little white teeth now and the one that was curved because the ventilator tubing rested on the bud area and molded it's growth roots area and made the tooth formed in a upwards curve at the bottom of the tooth is all straight now. All the brown yucky spots are gone. Supposedly, which is not confirmed the Echo reviled no pulmonary hypertension but that is very unofficial as of right now.

Did he eat all that food that he is so nicely buttering NOPE not a thing. He did drink the apple juice and late that night a vanilla pediasure. Hey the nurse said "do I sense a white theme going on with the food category". White rice, white yogurt, he likes white pancakes usually, white bananas once in a while, white pediasure, white milk, white cheese sticks, chicken nuggets that have white insides, white insides on apples, I think I am going to have to pay attention to all this colorless foods he will try.

149.00 NO HORIZON FOR SETPOINT YET.

Running Miles 2.35
Eating hospital Cafeteria foods danger going to try for a simple steak so I keep from a total wipe out on the diet. I really need to make sure that the scale comes back down and that I reach the maintenance set weight somewhere close to the LIW of 144. (HaHa that should really be LDW meaning Last Drops Weight in my case.)
Now leaving for long road trip and surgery this afternoon wish us luck and keep him in your prayers, but I know he will be just fine I can feel this time things are going to be smooth.

146.6 Dare I say maybe a set weight on the horizon????

Well this might be a score if I keep staying at this number for more then one day at a time. After a good family dinner I am not bouncing high again so this is a very good plus today.

I had to take pretty girl J to leave for 4 year level hike. She has been to girls camp 4 times and once to the 4 year level hike last year. Several of her friends think she is nuts to want to go again on this hike that is not easy and is very long also. She thinks this kind of stuff is the greatest and I admit I am glad it shows that she will be an active girl. She gets to be a camp leader this year which they label a Junior Leader, she will be gone the whole week and she didn't even get to take her texter machine as I have started to call it. So no walk yet maybe tonight when it cools down. It decided to have a wind blowing torrent of rain so I gave up for the day besides mornings are cooler these days.

Breakfast: a cheesy fried eggs with a bit of tomatoes sliced and almond butter with nutella.

Lunch: Steak and tomatoes, avocado, cottage cheese, sunflower seeds and raspberries vinaigrette form Waldon's Farms. Oooh what a salad. Practically forced myself to eat the whole steak.

Dinner:A small smoothy the one I keep making all week with the berries, ya that one.

Someone was whining to me about the cost of using Stevia in their water every day. Here is a math count down of the price of a soda drink that's 64 oz. by the time you bought one everyday for a 1.25 that's including the tax you will have spent 37.50$ over a whole 30 days. One 10.00$ or 14.50$ liquid stevia will fill 3 liters everyday for 30 days and sometimes more at 3 squirts a bottle and guess what you are more healthy in the end. So STOP WHINING AND GET A HEALTHY DRINK EVERYONE.

146.6 Picky baby eats probars.

PROBAR

One day while watching a show called Good Things Utah I hear about a guy and his bar. Now the way I watch TV is sporadic and usually I am only half with what is being said half way. The only thing I caught was it was good, runners liked it and the creators name was strange with an"Egger something?" I watched to see what the clip was about but the commercials were so long that I got doing something else. Then right when it comes on one of my boys decides it's time to yell and have a fit so I can only catch something about organic. I felt irritated because I knew it was created in my state of Utah.

About a month later standing in the health food store I realize that this is that same guys bar so I get the Coco Pistachio for a fast breakfast since I left really early and hadn't gotten to eat. Talk about yummy that was the best, but the ultimate to me is the fact that after talking my very non eating child who has oral and texture aversion in to not just tasting, he liked it, and kept eating it. SCORE now that's a great bar because he is the kind of kid that will pass up candy when other kids would drowned in the candy.

So now I better let him try some more to see if I can get something that's good into his little body.

Miles 3. 57 run well maybe I better say jog slooooooow, someday I might get faster.

Crazy run for the morning, then church and then family barbecue. I got to hold the most yummy set of 1 month old twins ever and they are my niece and nephew. I ate my own homemade hummus again and salsa with corn chips, a hamburger because hubby didn't bring the steaks. A bit of bean chicken stew, olives, eggs deviled, watermelon, grapes and the most yummy avocado corn salsa ever. I got full fast oh and a bit of choco cake but I really didn't like it that much. If I am off the scale tomorrow I guess there may be no hope for getting a set weight this round for me. And most important on a steaming hot day Lemon Stevia 3 liters of water. I actually drank more it was so hot today.

148.4 WHAT THE HECK GIVES!!!!!!!!!!

20 crunches

20 leg lifts

4-H competition today took my run time away.

So I ate hummus and butternut squash yesterday and what do I get an increase again. The only two things that could have bumped me that high were the hummus and squash which really means danger for me later or maybe the Aunt is coming to visit???? All I know is this up and down is so so crazy. I can handle 2 pounds but more ugggh. So you know all day hungry and the steak and apple for dinner. Really the strange thing is that I was never hungry the whole day. I am doing a steak day again tomorrow not to lose but because the family is having a get together with barbecue for the day.

Maybe my body swells like crazy after I go 5 miles in a run and that's why this happens? Well all I can say is I sure am looking forward to another losing round in the late fall.

My biggest struggle with this whole idea of this diet at the beginning was how much water I had to drink and the run to the throne, but I have noticed now that if I do not take in my 3 liters I feel so dry and I start tanking up in the late evening. This has happened 3 times to me when I forgot my water to bring so now it's like caring my purse it's just part of the travel bag.

How much water are you drinking daily?

145.4 Gearing for surgery.

I awoke to hubby coming home at the time he should be leaving. When he is on call we never know if he is coming or going. He mumbled something about sleeping and thank goodness Surgeons left for vacation cause he can't handle one more week like this week. I drag out of bed and try to see the scale through my hazy eyes. Back to bed for one more hour and then 6:00 am alarm starts blaring.

50 crunches

50 leg lifts both sides.

I ran a 5.18 miles rather dragged out the first part and energized finally towards the end. Nice soaking hot bath after yelling at C boy that he had better stoke our fire really big since the whole week has been luke warm showers from lazy boys who do not put enough coal and wood in to make the boiler unit heat all the way up.

Foods eaten yesterday and smoothy today. A yummy breakfast smoothy with half an 8oz cream cheese block, almonds, yogurt, berries, sweetened with Stevia and a bit of flax seeds ground . Hubby is neurotic about making sure its preground, he has had to unplug to many throats from quickly swelling and not passing the whole seed.

Homemade dinner last night was, curry with salmon and sauted onions and coconut milk. It was a bit hot and no one wanted to try it so the more for me later on down the road. Into the freezer the extra goes.

Dinner was turkey burger with Havarti cheese, butternut squash, a tiny bit of cream cheese eggs some almonds and hummus on celery.

Maybe now my body is going to settle and make it's set point after all. Dr. Simeon talks about it taking 3 weeks and I am almost to that cut off date.

Jer has a surgery that is being scheduled yet again. Lets see if I get in the car and arrive there this time before they cancel it. I have said it before it's pretty simple an echo cardiogram, clean teeth and then fix two little teeth and make a smile line where his tracheotomy hole is on his neck (it looks like a belly button now) but they usually wig over his history and if they will be able to get him back off a ventilator should it all go haywire in the process. I am feeling braver this time around. But I will be missing my bloggy world come Tue morn. I love reading all about what you all are doing in your worlds.