Good morning my long lost blogger babies! I have returned!

Well...I returned on Monday night or early Tuesday morning. 12:45 am to be exact! Blahhhh. Since returning I have been on the go, go, go! I haven't even up loaded my pictures yet!

But our trip was fantastic. Every moment of it was fun! We had such a great hotel right in the middle of Time Square. We saw 3 shows on Broadway and of course Porcupine Tree at Radio City Music Hall. We ate some fabulous food. Did a little shopping and walked like crazy everywhere!

I seriously thought I might not return to blog land...no, not because I was bored with reading, or over whelmed by all I missed, but our return flight was so incredibly bad. I don't think one person on the plane wasn't thinking of their mortality. I am not over exaggerating either! For one hour and 45 minutes we were bounced around and rammed grasping the seats in front of us. The flight attendants were screaming at the STUPID people who kept standing up. They were throwing sick bags at passengers and practically crawling back to their stations! It was very very scary! I had cold sweats when we finally got off the plane! But as you can see we are home safe and sound!

Yesterday was my second visit with the doctor (I have to have 4 before I meet with the surgeon) and the first visit with the dietitian (I also have to have 4 of those too!). I lost a total of 3.5 lbs in one month. Even with eating pizza in NYC. Several times. I know in band land that doesn't seem like so so much but honestly I was so ready with my excuses of why I didn't lose..that when I saw the scale my heart rate elevated. So yay me! I had a glass of wine..okay two..to celebrate last night.

The Doc:
Fairly standard appointment I guess. Waste of time I feel. They ask you how you are..how you felt about your weight loss, and what you changed to lose it.

Then he ordered some lab work. Cholesterol Panel, Thyroid check, and a fasting glucose check. Pretty normal. He was concerned with my glucose level. When I had my second miscarriage in May and then was in the emergency room and hospital in early June for the infection that resulted from said miscarriage my first blood work showed an extremely elevated sugar level. After leaving the hospital and having a check up later on my level dropped a whole lot but was still about 2-3 points above normal. We told me not worry and that this in fact could help us with insurance covering the surgery fully. But that I might have to take some meds for a couple of months. So I am sad and happy all at once. But this is why I want the surgery...other then being a skinny bitch...but I want to prevent diabetes and other nasty things. So okay.

But I still lost 3.5 lbs. So we will end on that note!

The Dietitian
I was totally un-inspired to go and see this lady. Point Blank. My best friend is one, I know what to eat and about portions, I eat pretty healthy for the most part (just to much) AND I know from reading blogs and lapbandtalk.com what to expect on a broad spectrum. Ya know..chewing..soft foods...blah blah.
I know I'm a fricken know it all.

Anyway, I loved her. LOVED her. Kindred spirits except I am fat and she is thin! Oh and I am 31 and she is 61! We talked about recipes and she gave me ideas for cook books. (I am totally going to share some of these recipes) By all of the pre-paperwork questionnaire's she knew a lot about my eating patterns and so she prompted questions to just make sure I wrote is what I really do feel. Fortunately for me I was pretty spot on with what I wrote and what I said. I am not an emotional eater, I don't graze, I don't gorge on sweets. What I do is OVER EAT. I like food. It tastes good so I eat it. I also have no trigger for fullness.  I noticed especially with her asking me..... is that I only notice I am full after I have gone way too far. I mean I have known that. But now, all of the sudden, I really know it.

She said she thought I was a prefect candidate for Lapband. She followed by saying she doesn't say that for everyone. She has plenty of people who she doesn't suggest it at all. But she really felt that I would have such a positive out come.

I left feeling like a million bucks. I knew this would be the tool for me. I knew this was the "right" thing for me. But now I really really know. Thank you, Susan Dietian lady! Thank You.

One last thing she validated me on: I was way over educated (in food information)to get anything out of the nutrition class that I HAVE to take in 3 weeks. She said I would be bored. But that I have to go.

Amen sister. I know portions, I know what is good and bad, I just don't always (most of the time) follow what I know.

An Even Longer Post

So, This month is going to be insane for me. Yesterday was 2 appointments (an hour away), Monday is the appointment with the Sleep Study people (one hour away) which the appointment is going to be 30 minutes long! INSANE...2 hours of driving for 30 very expensive minutes of dr, The following Monday is my Psych evaluation which I hear will take hours but she accommodated me by doing it all in one day! She is an hour and forty minutes away.

My grandparents come on the 7th and they want to be invited for dinner so she can see our new (first house) and all of her antiques that she has given. I am thrilled to do it but sad because I don't think they will be able to do the journey from D.C again. As it is my mom is driving them down and back.  The very next weekend is my husbands birthday. I promised him he could take me camping where ever he wanted to go. But I have to recant on it. My Uncles (whom I see once a year at best) and a couple of cousins are coming for the Clemson /Maryland game. I am the good luck charm for Maryland they say. Every game I go we win if I am there. Which is few and far between. It is fun but I am so not a football fan! My grandfather played basketball and baseball for Maryland and is in the hall of fame there...but my mom did her undergrad at Clemson. So we pretend to be bitter rivals. So it looks like perhaps we will go camping the next weekend or even Halloween weekend.

Bring on November.

How are all you guys!??

(pictures to follow maybe this weekend)