Starting Over

I now just have to eat less at each meal and stay away from anything salty or spicy. I also can't have raw veggies, red meat, alcohol, or anything else that is harder to digest. This sucks!
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no spicey? food's just not worth eating without spice.. how depressing...

with the no raw veggies, sounds like it's a bit of diverticulitis too.. my dad used to get that a bunch and it left salads and such off the dinner menu...
 
maleficent said:
no spicey? food's just not worth eating without spice.. how depressing...

with the no raw veggies, sounds like it's a bit of diverticulitis too.. my dad used to get that a bunch and it left salads and such off the dinner menu...
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I love spicy and veggies so this is torture. No diverticulitis here, colon's fine. :D I just can't eat anything that produces more acid to digest. I'd KILL for a Bloody Mary.
 
Holy damn, I missed a whole lot while away. I'm so sorry to hear about the hernia. My girlfriend has the same thing... then again, you're way much healthier than she is. (She's a smoker (a pack a freaking day), drinks coffee constantly, and is Sicilian... therefore eats tons of pickled veggies and a whole lot of tomatoes--- acid up the ass.. ) Will surgery be scheduled any time soon, because hell, Thanksgiving is right around the corner, ma ma. Well, love yas, girl... hope you start feeling better soon.

-Sheryl
 
AmyRB said:
I have trained heavily for 8 years but of course took a year off for pregnancy. Now it's a whole new ballgame and my body is completely different and doesn't want to cooperate. :( I plan to get certified again eventually.

Thanks for the birthday wishes. I have read your diary and noticed you love to run too. It's my biggest hobby. I'm addicted to it! The hernia is keeping me from doing much of any exercise right now. Tonight I will be going against doc's orders. I have GOT TO get some running in. I just signed up for a half marathon in March and need to train for it. Good luck with your 5K!!
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Oh man, I bet! That hernia is definitely holding you back in the interim. I have no doubts you'll be running again and become certified when you're able to train at your max capacity! :D Oooh but I hope your run this evening goes smoothly without issue. I need to sign up for a half marathon.....grrrrr I have too much going on, and I don't even have kids or a full time job! BAH! Have a great day!!!
 
Sooo, I have been taking a bit of a break lately to destress my life a bit. The whole hernia thing was extremely painful so I really don't want it to happen again. I am feeling much better now and am running again. I can tell I took a couple of weeks off. I ran like a friggin pussy today. Oh well, I'll be back to full capacity after a couple of weeks of running again.

I followed Steve's advice and took a week off from such strict caloric intake and just had maintenance. NO weight gain and I lost another pound last week. So now I am eating 2000 calories on the weekends and 1400-1600 during the week. I'll know in a couple of weeks if this is definitely working. I'm excited just about the 1lb. Woot!

I've got alot going on this week. I'm throwing my stepson a big birthday bash on Saturday in Ohio. He's turning 7 and is apparently into Star Wars. So I have to somehow order a SW cake sight unseen in OH. I hope it turns out okay!

I'm not changing my ticker just yet, I want to wait until the two week weigh in so. It would be awesome to actually move it down more than 1lb.
 
way to go on the one pound that's a great step in the right direction... especially after all you've been thru..

star wars - cool birthday theme :)
 
maleficent said:
way to go on the one pound that's a great step in the right direction... especially after all you've been thru..

star wars - cool birthday theme :)
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Thanks Mal. One of these days I'll be back in my size 5/6 Levi's. Some day...

I've never seen Star Wars so I am having a hard time deciding what would be cool for this party. What do you suggest?
 
Hi Amy, glad you are back--and also you must be stoked to be running! Don't worry because you'll be running much stronger in just a short while--though I don't blame you for calling yourself a pussy--I would be, too! I did my 5K Sunday and I realized how much I truly hate to race, during the race ;) After, it's all good. Have a great week, and feel much better soon! congrats on the pound!!! :D
 
Thanks Cannon, CG and Mal!!

I took my daughter and two nieces trick or treating last night. Exhausting!! We walked 4 miles around my neighborhood. The walk was nice, but chasing after an 8-year-old and an 5-year-old while pushing my little one in a stroller wore me out. They got about 10lbs of candy! GEEZ!!! That's gonna be a nice dentist bill.

Here's a pic of the H and me with our little girl. Annabelle was a cute little witch this year. She was gonna be a chicken but I ran out of time to make it and couldn't find the stuff. I look very tired in this pic. :(
 
Okay, so I am a very proud mother. Here's another pic of my little angel. She is now walking so I take a pic every chance I get when she's upright. My little baby is growing up too damn quick! As you can see, she has very curly hair just like me, although she looks just like her father.
 
Well she is just absolutely preciosa! Now I see why you like my baby's hair, seeing as it looks almost exactly like Bella's ha ha. I agree that its scary how quickly our little babies grow up, you turn your head and they're huge and doing new things and you get wistful like "wait a minute, dont grow THIS FAST", you want to grasp on to them but they keep changing and the changes are so exciting but you miss the old them too. That's when you start thinking of having another. Anyway, everytime H and I fight we get into that same argument about what you're now fighting about. Just the THOUGHT of not having my baby with me every single day scares me.
 
Blancita said:
Well she is just absolutely preciosa! Now I see why you like my baby's hair, seeing as it looks almost exactly like Bella's ha ha. I agree that its scary how quickly our little babies grow up, you turn your head and they're huge and doing new things and you get wistful like "wait a minute, dont grow THIS FAST", you want to grasp on to them but they keep changing and the changes are so exciting but you miss the old them too. That's when you start thinking of having another. Anyway, everytime H and I fight we get into that same argument about what you're now fighting about. Just the THOUGHT of not having my baby with me every single day scares me.
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Thanks C! I too get sad when I think of how fast she's growing. I love it and hate it at the same time. :( ANd yes, they do have the same hair. I love it!

The custody issue is not fun at all. Rest assured though that the women usually gets it. This woman was a drunken one-night-stand for my husband eight years ago. STUPID!! She is white trash of the Jerry Springer variety. She hasn't had a job with ANY consistent income for the entire eight years. We pay almost $900/month in child support and my stepson wears acid washed denim and shoes from goodwill. She's a lazy piece of shit. PLUS she's also a convicted criminal for theft and her deadbeat boyfriend who has lived with them for the past 5 years has been convicted 27 times and is currently in jail. We are obviously the better parents but the state of OH says we have to pretty much catch her shooting him up with heroin before they'll give us custody. My husband is a fucking decorated officer in the USAF and have an OUTSTANDING record but the courts apparently don't give a shit there. Our first lawyer screwed us over so now we are trying to find another one. How risky is it to go pro se? One told us we'd have to pay $30,000-50,000 in order to get him. She did tell us we have a VERY GOOD chance of it. We just don't have that much money to throw around at the moment.

Anyways, sorry to rant but I get pretty heated up about this. I adore this little boy with all my heart and I just want to give him everything his little sister has. A good life with parents that love him.
 
See that's why I worry. What if some looney judge like that made a decision against me? That sounds horrible for your poor step-son. I sure hope you guys win out soon. As for going pro se, it would be very difficult but the reality is this: YOU DONT HAVE MUCH TO LOSE DO YOU? If you lost your pro se case, would things get any worse? Doubtful that the judge would take away Sean's current visitation rights, so it could only get better and worst comes to worse you keep the status quo. I think what you have to fight is that there is now a CHANGE in where he's living so you have to demonstrate why the current situation is not workable when you're making a drastic change of daily environment and daily caretaker (for the better though obviously). But the BOTTOM LINE in any custody case is always the best interests of the child. So you might get lucky. I say go for it.
 
Blancita said:
See that's why I worry. What if some looney judge like that made a decision against me? That sounds horrible for your poor step-son. I sure hope you guys win out soon. As for going pro se, it would be very difficult but the reality is this: YOU DONT HAVE MUCH TO LOSE DO YOU? If you lost your pro se case, would things get any worse? Doubtful that the judge would take away Sean's current visitation rights, so it could only get better and worst comes to worse you keep the status quo. I think what you have to fight is that there is now a CHANGE in where he's living so you have to demonstrate why the current situation is not workable when you're making a drastic change of daily environment and daily caretaker (for the better though obviously). But the BOTTOM LINE in any custody case is always the best interests of the child. So you might get lucky. I say go for it.
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Thanks C! We pay the child support, plus we are having to buy all his clothes ans shoes beacause she won't. He is also on our insurance and dental. She does nothing! We did win a smaller case a year ago. We almost have joint, but not quite. We have him during most of the summer starting next year, part of the holidays and once a month since we live 13 hours away. We just need to keep pushing the issue.

Well, better get going! Talk to you all on Monday!
 
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