Yesterday I went with a WLS friend to a Plantation that they turned into a Tea Room here in Tennessee…Let me tell you, it was wonderful…From the moment you walked in the front door you are taking back to the Civil War era…I thought great they are going to through this Yankee out the front door…LOL…But they were just lovely…We decided that we would do the all the tea you can have and 4 finger sandwiches a piece with dessert…Well I could only try one of the 100’s they have to offer and it was Vanilla Decaf..There are no words to describe how the taste just melted in my mouth…So when that was done they brought out your finger food…It was so delicious, but they only thing that I was surprised about was when they brought out the sweet tray I thought I’m going to have a bite of a Petit Four and of course expect dumping to happen at that very moment and of course I always know where the bathrooms are…But that wasn’t or didn’t happen, it was the fact that my taste buds no longer like sweets…And now the thought of putting something in my mouth like Chocolate, pies etc. is physically making me ill…

I’m just in shock how my body doesn’t want any of that type of food…Every once in a while my body would get a craving and I would have a bite…Which is fine, cause I can control my intake…But never once have I actually thought sweets are disgusting and I never anything to do with them again…I believe that I’m going to mourn this since this is a new experience for me…

I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend…For the next 2 days I will be gone most of the day, but I will be back and writing my post from when I was in the hospital…

Take care,
Berrigirl

Yesterday was a rough ride with the weather…Now mind you I have never lived in a 2 story home before in my entire life and I thought the roof was going to blow away…I was actually alittle nervous and when the wind was blowing and the wind got up to 50 mph, I thought ok it’s going to blow the windows out as well…I know it sounds so melodramatic, but when you look at it from my point of view then you can understand how I felt…:)

But I got a couple beautiful pics of Rainbows after the storm…It takes your breathe away…

Post more later, just had to share this with everyone…
Berrigirl

Yes, I said it…It wasn’t a typo, I meant to say just that…I know we live in a world that being overweight is a crime but I do miss some things that I no longer have…

1. MY WEIGHT- Yes some would say 300 lbs is way more then my 5 feet 4 inches needed, but I always thought of my weight as a safe harbor…What am I crazy, maybe but I always knew if someone would try to attack me I could lay on the ground dead weight and they would not be able to move me…How often do we in our society hear about a attack on a heavier person? And I’m not trying to be mean at all…So it was to my advantage but now I don’t have that security that I always thought I had…Now if I’m going to be attack what do I do…I learn to box and defend myself and pray that it will never happen to me or anybody else…

2. WARMTH- Yes, how many of us miss being warm and now we are just icicles all the time…I have my little space heater turned on all the time because if I don’t then my hands and feet look like little black rocks…Gross imagine and dangerous since I have severe low blood sugar…

3. RESTAURANTS- Yes, I said it…So how many of us truthfully miss that??? I know I do when I go out with friends or family and order something small and have to make it last and eat it very slow so I don’t finish before everyone else does…I didn’t realize what a pain in the ass that it can cause…By the time I finish my food it’s cold and they had a perfectly nice hot meal…

4. SICKNESS- I was perfectly healthy at 300 lbs…I wasn’t sick but maybe once every other year, that is no joke…Yes I had a couple very bad illnesses but things happen in life…But now I’m sick maybe 3 or 4 days out of the week…That is no exaggeration ask my husband he will tell you how many days I just don’t feel good at all…Sometimes I can’t even get out of bed because I’m lacking nutrition…

So I would have to say that these are my biggest complaints about having this surgery… You may agree or disagree on some of these that I listed and I would love to hear your feedback on this…

Berrigirl

Well I won’t be around for a couple of days…Tomorrow is the big day where I get to go in the hospital and start my IV vitamin treatment and to see if they get a vein on the first try or not…LOL…Granted I’m a little nervous and I shouldn’t be but it’s the anticipation of what I know is coming and it’s that big ole needle…UGH! I get so scared that I start trembling and want to vomit, it’s so bad that my husband stays until the get the needle in me…I mean they have to drug me a little to hold me down, how pathetic that I turn into a child…We all know that this is going to make me feel 80% better then what I do now, so I should just shut the hell up…LOL…

Hope to get some pictures and post after my mini vacation…LOL..Wish me luck! Hope everyone is doing well…

Berrigirl

Sorry for the lack of post lately, but I have been under the weather pretty badly…And I’m just exhausted from it all…Next Monday and Tuesday I go in for my Vitamin Treatments, hopefully after all this is done I will be back in the saddle again…

Hope everyone has a great weekend and post more soon…

Berrigirl