Today I granted myself a total rest day! My body and my mind were both feeling tired and fatigued. So today no gym, no worrying about nutritional values of food and no worrying about fluid levels. Today I enjoyed a family day with my boys before I’m back at work tomorrow.  I don’t feel guilty
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Today marks seven months since I had my sleeve which means that it’s the day for my monthly body measurements. Before I even got to totalling the measurements I had a NSV of only needing the tape measure to go around me one time without needing additional length. I have lost another 10cm in the
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Not an exciting day today. Even though I’m on holidays from work I had an action packed day full of appointments with the little guy. While we were at Flinders I used it as an opportunity to call into Lilian’s clinic to pick up some more multi-vitamins. Michelle on the desk was away at my
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Weigh in Wednesday  This week – 2.4kg Since surgery – 46.2kg Total – 65.1kg I am in complete shock and disbelief of this result after the disruptions to my regular routine. So much in disbelief I stepped on the scales 3 times to get the exact same figure. Normally I just go wit the first
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The last few weeks I have noticed that my skin and lips especially have been exceptionally dry and waking up in the morning with the CPAP mask leaving red almost burn marks on my face. So for the last 3 nights I have not worn it. I’m looking forward to my next appointment with the
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Had a stressful lack of sleep night after a middle of the night ‘adventure’ to the local emergency department with a sick little man! It’s not an easy task to entertain a sick little busy 5 year old in a small waiting room so I used it as an opportunity for incidental exercise and spent
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Woke up this morning in the hotel room feeling refreshed. One of the main reasons I picked where we stayed was because it had a gym I could use. So this morning I got up and head off to the gym. The environment was somewhat lacklustre with pretty crappy equipment but it was better than
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Tonight Jamie and I had a rare and treasured night off. We head off at about 10:30 AM towards Mildura for a mini getaway. Before we left I asked Mum to take up address that she had had at her house so I could wear it out on our date night tonight. I tried it
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Mum, Lachlan and I had a busy day today despite a very disrupted sleep for everyone involved. We head off at 9.30am to have coffee with one of Mum’s friends at the play cafe, had a lovely positive chat about my sleeve journey. We then head off to do a spot of shopping and then
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Balancing busyness with monitoring nutriton and fluid is actually a real struggle. I had a frantic and busy morning heading to work with just having a coffee. Left work at around 10.30 got home to a flurry of getting ready, packing and heading off on our road trip. I knew I would have to eat
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