Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Colonoscopy Diet?
If there is any weight loss with a colonoscopy, it's not eating for a day.....It's 5:00, and there wasn't as much action as I anticipated. So those of you who thought I was full of shit, you are officially wrong ;)
Colonoscopy Diet...hmmmm..
Three hours in and I'm a little disappointed, I think. The machine started turning, I got a little excited, but it's just kind of a letdown. I expected more.
Colonoscopy Diet
Wow. It's been TEN MONTHS since I've blogged. I must have been too busy running and working out. lol. I should have blogged about losing ten more pounds and bordering on another pant size because since the cold weather, stress with work, and my mom's punkin' roll and my sister's cookies, I have gained ten total back. But have no fear, the colonoscopy diet begins today!
Yep, that's right, it's time to get the overdue colonoscopy.
I have the best husband in the world. (Yes, the subject is changing here fellow teachers, but it's a segue.) David told me last night I should maybe google 'colonoscopy prep' to see what I was in for today. I had some misconceptions. We've all had the shits, and with my past experience, I thought it was going to be like that. But no, google 'Miralax Dulcolax prep' and you will find that not only do you have to pace yourself in drinking the Miralax and Gatorade mix, it will start coming out faster than you drank it. One poster on a message board said it was "violent" and that you should set up camp in the bathroom for the day...have reading material, changes of clothes.
This morning, as I lie in bed wondering when four Dulcolax is going to have an effect (which is weird because I have the most predictable and effiecient system and was expecting it to wreak havoc in my gut) David is rustling around with cable cords. He set up the television in the bathroom and plugged in the little heater so I would be comfortable today. I have Direct TV in my poop room.
As he was leaving for work, he suggested that I weigh myself, then keep track of the amount of liquids I take in to get a true gauge of how much I lose today. Even the way he said that was nice, as opposed to saying we'd see how full of shit I am! He figured that with the half-gallon of Miralax and Crystal Light and the cup of tea I am having that it's about four pounds in. He said to keep track of all the water, broth, jello, and other clear stuff I can have today and he'd do the math tonight to see how many pounds go in, and how many come out. We'll see where I am at tomorrow morning when the prep is all said and done. He observed that I'd be getting a good jump-start on the New Year's diet. Well, yeah, doesn't everyone schedule their colonoscopies to give them a jump-start on a diet or look good for an event? He joked that I should write a book, The Colonoscopy Diet. It would be a really short book. So here's a blog. I won't keep you in suspense. ttyl.
Yep, that's right, it's time to get the overdue colonoscopy.
I have the best husband in the world. (Yes, the subject is changing here fellow teachers, but it's a segue.) David told me last night I should maybe google 'colonoscopy prep' to see what I was in for today. I had some misconceptions. We've all had the shits, and with my past experience, I thought it was going to be like that. But no, google 'Miralax Dulcolax prep' and you will find that not only do you have to pace yourself in drinking the Miralax and Gatorade mix, it will start coming out faster than you drank it. One poster on a message board said it was "violent" and that you should set up camp in the bathroom for the day...have reading material, changes of clothes.
This morning, as I lie in bed wondering when four Dulcolax is going to have an effect (which is weird because I have the most predictable and effiecient system and was expecting it to wreak havoc in my gut) David is rustling around with cable cords. He set up the television in the bathroom and plugged in the little heater so I would be comfortable today. I have Direct TV in my poop room.
As he was leaving for work, he suggested that I weigh myself, then keep track of the amount of liquids I take in to get a true gauge of how much I lose today. Even the way he said that was nice, as opposed to saying we'd see how full of shit I am! He figured that with the half-gallon of Miralax and Crystal Light and the cup of tea I am having that it's about four pounds in. He said to keep track of all the water, broth, jello, and other clear stuff I can have today and he'd do the math tonight to see how many pounds go in, and how many come out. We'll see where I am at tomorrow morning when the prep is all said and done. He observed that I'd be getting a good jump-start on the New Year's diet. Well, yeah, doesn't everyone schedule their colonoscopies to give them a jump-start on a diet or look good for an event? He joked that I should write a book, The Colonoscopy Diet. It would be a really short book. So here's a blog. I won't keep you in suspense. ttyl.
Friday, March 12, 2010
thinking differently
Two months, ten pounds and one pant size....Wish it were more. On the up-side, I had a really bad food day yesterday, a result of a week from hell. It started last Friday with parent emails, the weekend was OK, then Monday came and more stress. The kids are off the wall; it's loud everywhere I turn all day; and dealt with more stress via parent emails and team meetings. Why was it "on the up-side"? Before I got serious about losing weight, what seemed like a bad food day was normal! Here I was yesterday feeling all bad about losing control, and then I realized that I've changed my way of thinking about food! Changing the way you think is harder than going on a diet and losing ten pounds, so I am pretty happy about that.
Monday, January 4, 2010
Hot Bod Day ?
Ok. Back to Square One. Too much fucking around with this or that. Restarting Day One today. Spent two weeks on the couch, basically. Then David made chicken dip yesterday, and it goes with tortilla chips. And I had mixed nuts instead of popcorn at the movies on Saturday when I shouldn't have had anything. Today, it's Osolean, Greek yogurt and blueberries for breakfast, protein and glycemic shake before lunch, which consisted of a salad with a few bites of leftover steak. Glycemic shake for snack, some vegetables and maybe some fish for dinner. Maybe just vegetables. If I didn't start so many diets over again I would be really skinny right now. Just sayin'. So, I am going to go now. Billy Blanks, my surgical shoe and I have a date. (You didn't hear that, Dr. Zirm...)
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
