Sunny Blue Sky and Losing Weight

Maine 2009 Me and my little buddy.
This is where I want to get back to.

New Hamshire King and Queens
As you can see I liked my cake and cookies a little too much.

What does a sunny sky have to do with losing weight you may ask yourself? It's a reminder that sunnier days are coming which means more skin showing.

I have an account with Photobucket that I have neglected for some time now just recently going back in to find some of my older pictures. They have changed it around a bit making it more user-friendly and is now put on my growing to-do list to clean up my photos and albums.

I also came across FreePhotoshop which I haven't tried yet but plan on it soon. Also, thanks to Nina Lewis at Grandma Ideas I am now the proud owner of RedKid generator which I have already played around with. I really like it.

I just got back from my facebook page redoing my Bitstrips avatar adding a few lines on the face. Smile lines I might add. I get these ideas when I laying in bed thinking I was tired and my brain telling me "oh no your not"!

Now for the hard part. When I was going back over my pictures on PhotoBucket I came across my before my gastric bypass and after my bypass surgery. Sadly I'm in the percentage of people who gained some, in my case a crapload, of their weight back and since March is fast approaching where I announced I will be getting a grip on this weight gain, hence PhotoBucket.

The biggest problem I have is not being able to exercise at all.  I can still take little walks when my heels and back are in a good mood but basically, I'm left with this weight battle I am once again going to start minus the exercise. Before you start giving me tips, if it has to do with a joint (not that kind) it will hurt...alot and not the good kind.

What I am left with is calorie intake which I have done before losing 30lbs before my surgery drinking protein shakes, smaller meals, the usual.

I have even tried googling exercising in a wheelchair in an effort to find out if there is any kind of stationary routine I can do to sweat. Believe me, I have tried it all but just maybe...

So I took a deep breath and showed the biggest I have ever been and the smallest at the top of this post. I have tried to be happy and or content with my weight as it is but the battle will begin March 1st, 2016.

Here are some of what I've been up to.

If you have any tips I could use don't be afraid to say. Maybe I will learn something new.


100 Exquisite Adjectives
By Mark Nichol

I love words and came across a list of them. I'm going to add a word a day to my posts as long as I don't forget.

Word #28 Execrable: wretched, detestable

In a sentance: I find this weight gain execrable and am going to do something about it.

Spinal Meningitis #FixThePlus *

I just got done reading that my new blogger friend, Salty Bug is in the hospital. I was instantly alert thinking to myself, I just met this woman. Oh no! Her story reminded me of my story of a long stay in the hospital and separation for the very first time with my kids. I had contracted spinal meningitis. Here is my story.

I had moved around the corner to another apartment being convinced that moving there would be this life-changing miracle by the women living there. Life changing yes, miracle, also yes, that I was alive that is. 
It must have been summer since I had both my kids and they were both little. 

Ariel was four and Tysen was eight. They were running around the apartment playing while I was laying on my couch feeling tired. Out of the blue came this stabbing pain in my spine causing me to arch my back. What the heck was that I thought to myself as the pain ebbed and stopped. 

Now I was fortunate that I had friends who would stop by to say hello or whatever and one woman I had met at the local food kitchen knocked on the door to which I hollered come in! 

The pain in my back was acting like labor pains by now so I asked her if she 

could get me some extra strength Tylenol. She said sure so I gave her some money and off she went. By now the pain was traveling up my spine. It felt like a spear was stabbing me in my back so when she got back, I quickly gulped down three pills hollering as another pain shot through my spine. 

By now I was wearing out and had no other thoughts in my head except how to stop this pain so my friend asked if I wanted  my daughter's father to stop in to check on me, to which I whispered if he wants to and headed for my bedroom to lay down telling the kids to play until mommy gets better.

As I lay down this horrible migraine starts up, I'm holding my head and my friend Mike comes in, looks at me and asks are you okay to which I replied yeah like a dummy. So he left saying he would be back later.
I lay back down, roll on my side and promptly power puke over the side of the bed. Then everything went black...

Three days later I woke up. I had been in a coma. That was the weirdest feeling I had ever had the loss of time. Not knowing exactly why I started pulling out all the tubes that were stuck into me hollering where the hell my kids were and ended up being tied down by the nurses so I wouldn't hurt myself.

Finally, I calm down and remember as I was coming to it had felt like I was in a soft glow light bulb with sparks everywhere and coming back to consciousness was like bursting up out of the water.

Ten days I was in that hospital. St. Marys Hospital in Maine saved my life. Ten days of missing my children desperately and knowing how frightened my little daughter was and every day we would talk on the phone I would hang up crying. Tysen had gone with his father so Ariel was left with a friend that I trusted, but she missed me. 

I think that was the hardest time of my life, staying in that hospital for as long as I did. But we all survived. I survived only I ended up with long and short term memory loss which I had no idea until I was sent to Dartmouth Hospital in New Hampshire.

All in all, we were all reunited and never again have I had to go so long in a hospital again.

Have you ever shared something traumatic in your life to help another?

Green Smoothies #FixThePlus *

I love to try new things and experiment. One of my newest loves is Green Smoothies. 

They are so good going down. The only problem is since I had by-pass years ago my pouch is very temperamental and basically rules my system.

 The best thing about it despite the green color which is the vegetables, it tastes like whatever fruit you put in it.

Since when you have had a bypass you don't get all the proteins your supposed to eat I'm  despite my best efforts; not a fruit and vegetable eater on a constant basis. This way I get both!

Problem #2. Drinking it so fast I get brain freeze and feel sick having to lay down until it passes. I think that is defeating the whole tasty Smoothie experience.

I have a new Yogurt I'm enjoying now. It's Greek Honey and absolutely delish but the same problem as the Smoothie...I have a point I swear!

So I came up with the bright idea of spooning spoonfuls of yogurt into a plastic ice cube try and presto.

I have little frozen "clouds" my husband calls them. I empty the tray into a plastic bag and pop them in my mouth happy as a clam.

Finally...the point. 
I made a blender full of Green Smoothie and poured it into my ice cube tray. I'm waiting for it to freeze and then I will try them out. 

I will let you know later what I find out. Then I will make a post about the recipe .

What do you eat or drink to stay healthy?