• Blog,  Health,  Kids

    Working for what you want

    I got a phone call yesterday from my bariatric office. I’m scheduled for surgery at the end of February. I can’t believe the time is finally here. I’ve been anticipating this so much and looking so forward to it. I’ve cut back on my coffee and come February 1st I’ll quit caffeine altogether. I guess the caffeine eats through the staples so I can’t have any caffeine before or directly after the surgery until I’m all healed up. I can do that. I need to start getting in the habit of logging my food however, I started and then blamed being too busy as a reason why I stopped. I…

  • Health

    How is dieting going?

    Let’s be honest. I only have so much self-discipline. I would probably do better if I didn’t have 3 other mouths to feed. Sometimes those mouths want food that isn’t good for me: however, it’s food that I love and I can’t resist. That’s what happened this weekend. I asked my family to help me by keeping said junk food away from me and not to offer it to me. Most of the junk is gone from the house already but I’m a sucker for the Mexican pizzas at Taco Bell and it’s a weakness. The same goes for chips and some other fast food, like Carl’s Jr’s Santa Fe…