Geesh! What a Day Yesterday!

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Ok, so we left the house at 9:30am yesterday and spent the ENTIRE day out of the house, I didn't get home until almost 8:30pm - that is way too long to be out of the house.  I am getting to be WAY too old for this stuff!

 

My sister had a check up appointment yesterday with her eyes and it went very well!  The pressure in her eyes, which she is always worried about (pressure means diseased eyes) is down to normal numbers, 13 in one eye, 15 in the other.  The doctor was very optomistic that her vision now will be correctable with glasses.  He said if she finds the glasses don't work for her, that she would be able to wear contacts!  She was flippin!  And then, he said, if she didn't like the contacts, that there are two more options.  Lasik (sp?) surgery or implanting another lens in the eye that is too near sighted!  HOW ABOUT THAT???  My sister will be able to see again with corrective lenses! 

 

THE FUCHS DYSTROPHY IS GONE!!!

 

Oh yeah, needless to say, the day ended on a high note for her.  We were waiting for this appointment for her.  So basically, his job is done, except for one more check up for the stitches.  He was responsible for getting rid of the disease "FUCHS" and it is gone!!!  Now it's up to the optomistrist to correct her vision.  Oh my, my visit here was worth it to see that happen.  I actually got to sit in the doctor's office with her while he was checking her out.  I saw him remove a stitch from one of her eyes, and I was like, dude, whatever possessed you to want to work on peoples eyes.  I was like, did you just wake up one day and say this was your life's calling???  HA!  He laughed!  OMG!  LOL  Yes, I am that way with everyone!

 

So we went shopping for some things for my mom.  She has a hard time getting around in Hawaii so she likes to get alot of little stuff done when one of us is with her.  For lunch?  We ate THAI FOOD!  OMG!  Best in the world, I had Citrus Chicken, Hot and Sour Soup, Thai Fried Rice, Papaya Salad, Spicy Chicken Wings and Thai Beef Salad - and to top it off, I had THAI SWEET TEA!  And guess what?  Still 170 today.  What is up with that?  I ate like a stuffed pig yesterday!

 

Oh well, time for me to go - first tho - these are my responses to yesterday's comments:

 

Becca - You know this will disappear as soon as the company does!  What is it about being around friends and family!  Oh yeah, eating is FUN!  LOL - what do you think about the happenings with my sister now!  I told my sister she is gonna have to get in touch with your friend.  Wouldn't that be a hoot!

 

Mary - what are you talking about?  You need to straighten ME out silly!  LOL - I can't wait to get home!!!

 

B - Good for you my sweet!  Stable is everything eh?

 

Liz - Your first break!  Don't do what I am doing now, do it right ok???  My first break was STELLAR and went very well!  Do it well, you will thank yourself for it!  I love the new picture!

 

Lili - Good morning my friend.  I was talking about Dulce De Leche yesterday to my sister and I thought of you!  ROFL - yes, the first week of April!  Me and JPS always like to have a weekend to 'load' and then start on a Monday - easier for us both that way, so it may be the 7th, we shall see.  Will know better when we get home.  Missing you sweetie!

 

Biz

 

Yes! It Worked!!!

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How thrilling is that? I can still stay in touch via email, no stupid Blogger issues to contend with until I get home and can figure out what happened! WOO HOO FOR ME!!! Most excellent!

Like I said yesterday, the days are getting busier and busier as my time gets shorter and shorter. I leave in one week, almost exactly as I leave at 6:30am Thursday morning (20th) - have I really been here that long? Geesh, with all the sickness and stuff it sure has seemed longer. My mother and I were chatting yesterday that we are BOTH ready to go home. HA! And my sister asked yesterday if I could stay another week. OMG! LOL

Staying pretty stable at my 170 - wow, what a set point eh? Yesterday? OMG - we went to this place called Fuji Sushi Boat and Buffet for lunch - all you can eat sushi for $11.95 - geesh, I sure ate my fill! Everything and ANYTHING you might want in sushi was available there. We ate so much we ended up NOT eating dinner! That was a splurge, and I thought for sure I would have gained 3 more pounds with all the salt but nope, pretty much stable at 170 - what is up with that???

Officially I am on Phase 4 - what a joke! Phase 4 started when I began this trip! HA! I am actually quite ready to go home and to eat right. As it stands right now JPS and I are looking to start our 5th round sometime during the first week of April, and seriously, I can't wait. I really wanted to be all done with my 'dieting' by one year from start, so right now that gives me about 11 weeks if I start my next round on the 7th of April - 11 weeks - oh boy, in just counting this numbers, I might need to go longer!

I know my goal is at 150 - but we all know that this number was so arbitrary. It looks as if I will need to extend my time limit a bit in order to be able to take this thing to the end. Oh well, que sera sera right? Each round I go on is that much better weight I am at, much better health as well. So, I will just keep going till it's done, whenever that will be. Right now all I need to do is get home so that I can get a better grip on this food choices thing.

Oh well, time for me to go - first tho - these are my responses to yesterday's comments:

Becca - We go back to the Dr today so I will let you know how things go, she is hoping for a good report. She has glasses on order, but it doesn't look like they will get here until AFTER I leave, and I hate that cause I really wanted to be here when she got them. Oh well...

Monica - oh how sweet. We are all in this together ya know? You have been a source of inspiration for me as well. I wish I had more time to visit other blogs while I was here but it's so haphazard - but once I get home, watch out! LOL

Mary - Ah yes, my own bed. It aint the most comfortable in the world, but boy do I LOVE MY BED!

Karen - HA! Quiet? I thought you folks would enjoy the time without my gabbin! LOL - I have missed you all so much, and even with the DSL card it's still so hard to get everywhere. Ugh - but I will be home soon, it's almost over! LOL

Lili - LIFE??? OMG! Yes, I sure know about LIFE! I am so over the drama they call this life in CALIFORNIA and ready to be home to deal with my OWN drama! ROFL - I can HANDLE my drama, just not everyone elses! hehe

Liz - HEY GIRL! Thanks for stopping by!

Testing Blogging by eMail

Hello Peeps!

 

I have been having so much trouble with blogging that I finally had given up trying to post to my blog until I got home.  Someone was kind enough to let me know that I can blog via email so I am testing this today to see if it works.

 

It had gotten to the point that I cannot even see the box that I need to type in when I log into blogger, how weird is that?  And quite frankly people, I need my connection to you folks to feel sane anymore!  ROFL - OMG, I crack myself up!!!

 

Things are going fine at Menopause Manor - just counting down the days until I can sleep in my own bed.  Things are getting busy around here as I wrap up my trip.  My sister is doing very well.  She thinks she is all sassy now that she can see pretty good (but only like a foot in front of her!) - she is too funny!

 

Ok, this is only a test.  If I find this worked, then I will be a posting fiend again!  ROFL

 

Biz

Menopause Manor

Ok, so another day in the Cali saga. I had to take the old women out yesterday (hey, my own sister is calling her place "Menopause Manor" - the old women finally got ready around 1pm to leave, geesh, I was ready at like 10am to get the heck out of dodge. So not getting started till 1pm got us a late coming home time - around 8pm. Which everyone knows is usually my BEDTIME! ROFL

We went out to eat lunch - had some good Hawaiian Food. I had the Lau Lau and Kalua Pork, plus I had a Spam Musubi!!! I sure was in HEAVEN! I didn't eat the WHOLE plate mind you, I brought MOST of it home (oh yes, I did finish the entire Spam Musubi!) - I had plans to eat it for my supper, but we also picked up some sushi so I had a few pieces of that instead. Oh, and I had some delicious wine - ever since I got here (we all know that all of the Cali people are WINEO'S) people have told me to make sure I taste this wine. So I found some at the World Market yesterday and me and my sister polished off a bottle last night.

What kind of wine was it? Well, let me start off by saying that I am not usually a Chardonnay drinker, but they kept telling me to try it, that I would like it. I hate wine that PUCKERS ya know? If I am gonna drink wine, it's usually a dessert wine, or White Zin. So this was a stretch for me. And they also told me to disregard the name of the wine. Why? You tell me:


THIS IS THE WINE THEY TOLD ME TO TRY

And try it, I did ... and love it I did, and I am so glad I purchased another bottle while I was there! Because the wine diet is on the menu for me! ROFL

Weight? It's still hanging at 170 - 8 lbs over my LIW - so I am pretty pleased with this. Who could ask for anything more than that? I know I wanted to be a model P3 student while I was here, but things just didn't turn out that way. So Que Sera Sera - whatever will be will be. Whatever happens happens, and I will fix it when I get home. Whatever.

Ok! I have LOTS to catch up on today, and then I have to travel to go pick up my OTHER nieces children this morning, about a 45 minute drive. They are staying with us this weekend so that will be fun for my daughter!

Have a great day people!

Biz

What Is Up With Blogger?

Is it just me??? What is up? I can't seem to get a posting box that works, so I will just do a quick update here and just hope things show up? Has anyone else had this happen? I can't see any posting options, like even to be able to change my fonts or anything.

Oh well, let me just give an update.

Eating yesterday was very haphazard. For some reason or another my stomach was not well, and I felt a little queasy all day. So eating was very light.

Breakfast: Coffee with Mocha Powder and Mocha Mix and a Turkey Sandwich with Cheese, Mayo and Mustard on Demon Bread.

Lunch: A can of rootbeer, I was trying to settle my stomach

Dinner: Some Meatloaf and Mashed Potatoes - and a bottle of Verdi Spumante, these bottles are NOT that much wine, but I did drink the WHOLE thing by myself over the course of the night. It's fizzy (for my stomach) and it was wine (for my stomach) - and quite actually I feel much better today.

Let me go to my commenter's from yesterday:

Mary - Thanks for the link, I stopped by last night but didn't stay long but will look it over today. Demon bread? I only call it "Demon Bread" because quite frankly it's the best bread I have had so it can't be good for you. The brand name is "Milton's" and they call it "The Original Healthy Multi Grain Bread" - Here it is:

http://www.miltonsbaking.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=100

Very good stuff this bread!

Marshall - Thanks for the visit my pal! Oh! They DID turn in my wallet, credit cards, money and ALL! I got it the same day, but not until AFTER I canceled all my credit cards and stuff!!!

Becca - HA! I don't share my picture many places, but since the forum is pretty much "private" I felt comfortable putting it there! So am I anything like you imagined? LOL - OH MY! I am so not afraid of the camera anymore. How cool it is to live life not being afraid of the camera! Motivation? Well, if you can sit tight a couple of days, I was gonna spend a post on it. I just need to gather my thoughts. But let me just tell you this. This is something that has been in the works for MONTHS and because of circumstances it just was put into play a little earlier. Lynne (you know her, from the HCG2 board?) and I have been working on things for awhile behind the scenes but each of us had family issues to take care of that took precedence so it kinda was put on the back burner, but it's been there for a while just waiting to be brought to life. And it happened this week! Thanks to another blogger JENN! And Becca, thanks for the link for another Blogger, I can never have enough blogs to read you silly woman! I am so into this whole HCG thing! Can you tell???

Ed and Jenn - Home is not until the 20th, and maybe not until the 21st, depending on if my flight is on time or what. I wont drive at night so if I get in late to Charlotte, I will just stay the night there and go home in the morning. We shall see. You??? You know I have to always test the limits. OH YEAH. Me the TESTER!

B - HA! Look at my comment to Mary, and you will find out what DEMON bread is. NO MORE FOR ME TODAY! ROFL!!!

Ok peeps, have a nice day, and please let me know if I am the only one with this bad blogger episode???

Biz

And Life in California Goes On!

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WOW! I am on a roll!!! Two days in a row! It's getting to be a habit! Actually, it's feeling like I am back into a routine, and I gotta tell you, this feels nice. I need this connection to my journal ya know?

There are several people out there I owe emails too. I am so sorry I have been LAX in getting answers to you. With the connection that I had it was just impossible to get emails, and so when I got a hold of this card, I have this PLETHORA of emails I have to go thru, and I am doing it, but it's slow, so bear with me ok? I will get to all of them, just a little at a time.

Slowly I am getting back into my daily habits. I haven't entered food into my FitDay since I got here, because quite frankly, I am lost as to all the different things I have been eating and how to record them. So when I remember what I eat, I write it down. Yesterday I was pretty good at writing down what I ate:

Morning: Coffee with Mocha Mix and Starbucks Mocha Powder (OMG, my NEW love for coffee!), a small bowl of Broccoli Cheese soup that I made the other day with Pepper Jack Cheese, two pieces of DEMON TOAST (OMG! This bread is so very VERY good it has to be a sin to eat it) with butter and Red Pepper Jelly

Noonish: Two more pieces of the Demon Bread, toasted with Mayo and Mustard with Cucumbers, Tomatoes and Alfafa Sprouts, then I had some sort of Thai thing that my sister made with Ground Turkey and Basil, Cilantro, Garlic and other stuff, and a little leftover Southwestern Chili

Dinner: More of that Thai thing, and two beers.

Dessert: A bowl of Trix - what possessed me I have no idea. I just felt like it, it is a sickness. I am over it now, it gave me a MONDO headache.

My sister was still incredibly sick yesterday, I told her that this was the last day that she was allowed to be sick. She is really cramping my visiting style around these parts, being stuck in this retirement home! ROFL

My daughter had a special night last night with my niece - they went to see "Princesses on Ice" (Disney) in Oakland. She got all dressed up with sparkles in her hair, and about 13 girls went and when she got home she told me she had a ball! She is having more fun than me! ROFL

Ok! I got up late today, so I am not on here for long, just know that I miss you all and I am glad to be counted among the living again!

On to my commenter's - these are my responses to yesterday's comments:

Liz - I am glad I was here for you my sweet! I have to get to your blog, I had it saved in my computer faves at home, but not on my laptop, ugh! I will check on you today!

Becca - I couldn't even use my phone if I wanted. It's roaming out here, at like 25 cents a minute! I have an unlimited plan, but it's only good for the 3 states around where I live, on the OTHER side of the continent! LOL We are all getting better! Thanks for stopping by!

Ed & Jenn - hehe - what can I say?

Mary - Who is Marlene? What have I been missing???

B - Oh yeah, who is worried??? Not me, that is for sure! Thanks for stopping by! I know you are really busy!

CB - Hey girlfriend! Thanks for stoppin' by! I love checking in on my buds!

Biz

WTH??? Where Have I Been???

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Geesh! I have NEVER ever gone this long without a post. I bet I had you all worried! Let me just say some things to give you an idea of what has been going on in my life since I landed in California on the 20th of Feb...

• 2 visits to the emergency room (brother and mother)
• playing nursemaid to a plethora of sickies (including myself and my daughter - last two days it's been my sister)
• having to survive on the worst dialup internet connection known to man until this past weekend when i had full access to the dsl card!
• playing chief cook and bottle washer for two events (a baby shower and a friends gathering)
• losing my wallet on a trip into town (did I mention where my sister lives is in the BOONIES and we have to PLAN our trips into town?) - canceling ALL my credit cards - and then trying to figure out HOW I was gonna drive without a license when I go to the Police Department to file a report and what is there??? MY WALLET!!! Complete with all my credit cards, and my money! OMG!
  
• having to take my daughter to visit my OTHER niece for the weekend and her calling me to come get her early (mind you, my other niece lives 45 mins away)
• having to take brother and brother in law to the airport on the same day (airport is 30 minutes away, one had to be there at 5am the other at 1:00pm) and then driving into town for doctors appointments for my sister (OMG, this day was the pits - I was SO SICK)
• having to play school teacher for the first time in my life to my daughter (home schooling her while we are here) and not knowing the first thing about HOW to teach her things like "when you add 'ies' for a plural" - sure, I know HOW to do it, but how do I TEACH it??? OMG - schooling is NOT fun!
• one day I got to spend with my good blog buddy REGINA - and how that was the HIGHLIGHT of my week! I got to meet her, her mother and her daughter all at the same time! What a comfortable bunch of people they are! They made me feel RIGHT AT HOME the entire day. We went out for - what else? But MEXICAN! I had fish tacos for the first time and we all had margaritas!

To top things all off? I have not been the model P3 student. Nope, not even close. It's not like I could just hop in a car and run down the street to get P3 legal foods. So I ate what was around here. So during the entire first week??? I didn't weigh cause I didn't want to know.

Finally, starting the 2nd week (the day after I saw Regina) I weighed. It was 8 lbs above LIW - ok, so that is pretty bad, but really? It's not. When you consider I have not spent one day eating legal P3 foods, I think it's pretty darn good that I am maintaining this week anywhere from about 5 - 8 lbs above LIW. My body, no matter what I eat, will NOT go past the 8lb mark, and people??? Let me tell you, I have NOT cared what I have eaten. I eat when I am hungry, and I stop when I am full. I snack on things all day and I am eating breakfast, lunch and dinner.

I have been to Mexican, PF CHANGS!!!, Vietnamese, Japanese - eaten all kinds of bizzare foods that my niece likes to cook and yet my body will not go past the 8 lb mark. That is remarkable, don't you think???

Ok, I don't have a lot of time to spend here today. I didn't weigh myself this morning to give you an accurate gauge of where I am today, but I will endeavor to start at least posting stats and menu starting tomorrow. I have kept a semi running log of things that I have eaten, when I remembered! LOL

So with that I bid you adieu for the day. I tried to visit everyone Monday I think it was, and I will strive to be a bit more regular on there as well.

I miss each and everyone of you! Thanks for being there for me!!!

Biz