March 8, 2008 Making The Pilgrimage

To Whole Foods, that is! Despite monsoon quality rains and gale force winds, I made the 40 minute journey to restock my kitchen. After 2 hours and nearly $200, i came home with LOTS of stuff! I will be doing some serious cooking tomorrow. I am reinventing my tuna noodle casserole as tuna RICE casserole, using a white sauce made with cornstarch and almond milk in place of the cream of celery soup that I can't eat. We'll see how it turns out. I am also going to cook up a great big pot of my meat and veggie sauce that I usually make with ground beef and pork sausage. I will be using ground turkey and turkey sausage instead, and all organic ingredients (veggies, oil, etc) Can't wait to see the difference!

I've been faithfully going to the gym. I took Thursday as my off day since I was at the dentist all day and then slept 4 hours when I got home! (that sedation dentistry is AWESOME!). And I only did 30 minutes on the treadmill yesterday because I felt like I ws going to fall asleep! But today I was back to 30 on the elliptical, and on Monday I'll be doing my 45 on the treadmill. It is definitely getting easier, but i can't ramp it up yet because of safety issues with my arm. Soon, though!

Yesterday was my first full day out of the sling. And my last for awhile too! It HURT after awhile! So today I kept it on when I was out and about, but off when at home. MUCH better. My weighin on Tuesday had me down just 0.7 pounds, but I had only started back on the "water pill" on Monday, and I was still bloated. I can really tell a difference now, and I assume I'll have a better loss this coming week. I hope so! I went and bought myself a new scale. This one is ultra fancy and does everything except my laundry! Can't wait to try it out and see what it says! It will be interesting to see how it compares with my cheapie scale that I've been using so far. I hope it doesn't tell me that I'm heavier than I thought I was!

Today at Whole Foods I decided to check out some new grains and cereals. I bought buckwheat cereal for a change at breakfast, and got millet and quinoa to try at other meals. I'm just gettng a bit weary of potatoes, rice, and oatmeal!! Hopefully I will speak to Dr. Murray next week and he'll give me the ok to have some occasional yogurt, cheese, and/or wheat. Time will tell. I took measurements on Tuesday for the first time--figured it was a good idea. My waist measured at 42", which is 2" less than at Canyon Ranch! Not too shabby. I think i'll measure once a month and see how the progress goes. The weight DOES matter, as I need to put less pressure on my joints, but there are other ways to measure my progress, and I AM making progress here.