The picture on the left was taken during the Fourth of July holiday in 2011. The picture on the right was taken a couple of days ago, January 2012. I weigh 64 pounds less in the photo on the right.
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Jan 2012
Category: Fat Man's Daughter, Weighty Thoughts
Tags: Fat Man's Daughter, weight, weight loss surgery 2 Comments
22
Jan 2012
Today, I stepped on the scale to get my weight. It wasn’t an official weigh in because it was later in the day, and I had already had food. I normally weigh in before eating anything.
As I stepped on the scale, my husband put his foot on the back of it.
I pushed him away and jumped off the scale just as it finally decided to show me a weight.
It read (drumroll please) 184.5.
184.
But I knew it was wrong. There was no way I’d lost more than 5 pounds. It must have been because I jumped off just as it was reporting the weight.
I took it again, and the scale was back over 190. I knew the 184 was wrong, but it was a great glimpse of things to come.
In other news, I haven’t been doing very good exercising this weekend. It seems everyone in my house is battling a cold, and I am no exception. My nose is running, and I am walking around with tissues in my hands and pockets. That’s my excuse. I shouldn’t have excuses. I should at least do some weight lifting. We’ll see. Maybe when hubby watches football.
Category: Exercise, Weighty Thoughts
Tags: Exercise, Fat Man's Daughter, weight, weight loss surgery 2 Comments
15
Jan 2012
Get braces.
On Friday, I had braces installed on my lower teeth. My orthodontist told me (warned me) that I would be cursing him out later when I tried to eat something.
This is because when he first put the lower brackets on, my top teeth were hitting them. He didn’t want me to bite off my brackets and cause a lot of return trips, so he put temporary cement on my lower wisdom teeth. This is just enough cement to keep my teeth from closing completely.
That’s right. I have a small gap between my upper and lower jaw, which makes eating…impossible, interesting, difficult.
It wouldn’t be so bad with just the gap, but my teeth are also sore. Plus, I have this new metal on my lower teeth, and the new metal has sharp edges. It is cutting up the inside of my lips and cheeks.
Needless to say, my mouth is sore. I never knew braces hurt this much. I am so sorry that I am subjecting three of my children to this same torture. I now understand why my youngest refused to eat for several days after getting his. I don’t understand why they refuse to use wax.
This means that since getting braces, my diet has consisted mainly of protein shakes, yogurt and soft cheeses. I am getting my required protein in, but my calories are lower than normal. It hurts to chew.
I think all of this is why I’ve lost 3 pounds. I was surprised when I stepped on the scale this morning. I even double-checked on a different scale, but the results were the same. 191.
Category: Fat Man's Daughter, Weighty Thoughts
Tags: Fat Man's Daughter, Food, weight, weight loss surgery 3 Comments
13
Jan 2012
The other day, I purchased two “shaper” type shirts. They are designed to help you hide your belly fat. You can actually buy them for lots of trouble areas, but I find my lower belly to be the part that I like the least about me. This isn’t new. I didn’t like that area before the weight loss either.
First off, it is the belly of a woman who was pregnant four times. It has the stretch marks to prove it. This is not attractive.
Next, it is now droopy like a deflated balloon. Not attractive.
And some of my jeans take this excess skin and push it up over the top of my pants creating a muffin top. I can’t believe I am worrying about a muffin top, but I do sometimes. Just a few months ago, I would be happy to have a muffin top rather than the gigantic rolls of fat I had.
But still, I want something else. A new goal.
And I figured I’d try something different.
The first time I put on my new shaper tank top, I needed to get help. It had rolled up in the back. There was no way I was going to be able to put it on by myself. I had my husband help me, and it wasn’t easy pulling the thing down my back. Part of the problem was my back was still damp from the shower. Tip #1: don’t try to put these things on when even slightly damp.
It went on, and it worked nicely. Except.
I tried to wear it with it outside my pants, and the first time I sat down, it rolled up my belly. I pulled it down, and it rolled up again.
I figured out it wouldn’t do this if I tucked it into my pants. This worked.
And the next day, with a completely dry back, I was able to put it on without help from my husband.
I’m not sure I’ll wear it frequently, but I will wear it again.
Also, yesterday, I was talking to a high school friend. In high school, she was always a teeny tiny thing. She asked me how my weight loss was going, and I mentioned I had lost 60 pounds and was wearing size 12s. She said that was great and then shared that she wears size 12s. 
Category: Fat Man's Daughter
Tags: clothing, Fat Friday, Fat Man's Daughter, weight loss surgery Comments off
12
Jan 2012
I am almost completely past the roller coaster!
I do not have an overriding theme to go with this post.
But first, I want to tell you that you MUST go out and buy Joshilyn Jackson’s new novel, a grown up kind of pretty. I just inhaled the book. It arrived yesterday. I tried to stay up all night reading it because I did not want to put it down, but my eyes refused to cooperate. They kept closing. So at 1 a.m. I gave up and went to bed. And then this morning, at 6 a.m., I was awake again and “working” from home. I waited until most of my family was gone to their various obligations, and I buried myself once more in the novel. I was done by 9 a.m. and ready to dive back in from the beginning. Loved. it. Absolutely.
It is so quotable. I must confess that I absolutely love the way Joshilyn’s brain works. She puts words together in ways that make me want to stare and admire them as if I was standing in an art gallery and actually knew something about the art I was staring at. Example #1: “…and Liza would know; when it came to mapping all the bad ways adolescent girls could go, Liza had been Magellan.” That quote was on page 2. By page 2, I had already read at least 3 or 4 quotes out to my family. Such as example #2 from page 1, “I like black cats about as much as I like any other color cat, and I’ll go straight under any number of ladders if you put the right kind of pie on the other side.”
You must read. The book is yummy. And I fluffy heart it.
OK, but this post isn’t all about my newfound love for Joshilyn’s latest. I also had other things to talk about.
For instance, right now, right this very minute? I have nothing to grade. Nothing. I am all caught up on grading. This is the last time I will be able to say this for the next 15 or so weeks. Enjoy. I am. I love the way it sounds — nothing to grade. Nevermind that it is because nothing is actually DUE yet. I’m taking it.
I am down another pound. I have now lost 61 pounds. And the weight continues to come off especially when I exercise. Who knew? LOL
Do you know who I love more than Betty White? Dolly Parton. I cannot wait to see her new movie, Joyful Noise.
Why did I mention Betty White? Everyone was declaring their love for her on the People’s Choice awards show. I caught White’s line about how turning 90 wasn’t an achievement. It just happens. Great line.
I have had coffee this morning. That’s it. I should probably eat something and take my vitamins. Plus, I should actually work. I need to also get dressed. And before that, I should exercise.
I have an orthodontist appointment tomorrow. I will be getting braces on my bottom teeth. I am not looking forward to it. Well, I am looking forward to the final results of my braces but not the in-between stuff. Braces hurt.
My oldest child still has her braces. She had hoped to have them off months ago. Now it looks like she will still be wearing them for months.
Her canine tooth was sideways behind her front teeth and ABOVE the roof of her mouth. Almost two years ago, she had oral surgery to expose that tooth. The process to pull it down where it belongs began almost immediately. The tooth is moving into place, but it moving slower than molasses. Once it gets to where it needs to go, it will have to be twisted into place as well. This will take a while. And her braces are paid for, and her orthodontist schedules to see her every 8 weeks. Why not sooner?
She has also managed to damage her eyeball. It is a temporary damage (hopefully) because she tended to wear her contacts too often. Her contacts were not made for that. She had an appointment to get her eyes checked earlier this month, but the appointment had to be postponed because her eyes were damaged. She has to wear her glasses until the 23rd in order to give her eyes time to heal. Silly girl.
The 12-year-old boy is playing basketball. He refuses to wear an actual winter coat, so I am kind of glad that it has been a mild winter. Still, I keep warning him that one day he will be out and about without a coat and the vehicle he is in will break down, and he will be cold without a coat. I am sort of hoping it happens, so he will learn to wear a coat!
The man child has also lost his basketball shorts and basketball shoes. He does not know how. He claims they were in his locker but admits they may have fallen onto the floor without him noticing as he carried them somewhere. How he drops something without noticing? I do not know except I do know because I know him, and he could do it.
Yesterday, I drove home with a heated massaging seat and listened to Michelle (my GPS) tell me how to get home while listening to my Kindle Fire play “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.” It was very relaxing. It makes me want to commute to work more often. 
And that’s it for today. Thanks for playing.
Category: Choppy Thoughts
Tags: Books, Fat Man's Daughter, teenagers, weight loss surgery, Writing Comments off
