-170 and getting my priorities straight

Wow. It has been over two weeks since my last blog post and it is taking all my energy to stick to it and finish this one. I don't know what's going on but I am just not interested in being on the computer at home lately. It seems like I have just been so wrapped up in LIFE that I keep forgetting to blog about it!

Well of course my biggest and most exciting news is my new weight. -170 which puts me at 296lbs. I am now ready to celebrate being under 300lbs. It blows me away how much my body has changed and in just a few weeks, I will be celebrating the first anniversary of my surgery. I want to have a celebration with friends and family (besides, who needs an excuse to celebrate life?) so I have been thinking of doing a picnic style BBQ at one of the city parks. Something with hot dogs and Frisbees etc.. I think it would be a great family/dog friendly way to celebrate and then perhaps all my friends with kids would be able to make it to one of my parties!

I've become somewhat addicted to pickles and olives! I have been buying those large jars of pickles and eating them all by myself in about a week! I have a hunch that my body needs the vinegar or something else in the pickle brine. Its good because I know that eating vinegar is supposed to be good for you but its bad because I know I am not getting nearly enough protein in my diet. I think I am going to have to go back to my protein powder. UGH! If anyone reading this has any good non-dairy smoothie recipes I can add protein powder to, I would be very grateful.

I am going to blog about my Vancouver trip on a separate blog since it will probably be long.. so I will skip over that and talk about the fact that I decided to not do the Opera Workshop...

After coming back from Vancouver something in me changed... My short term goals or priorities. Something hit me and made me realize that I have been neglecting some really important components of my life. I've spent the last year focusing on my body and my health, and I have let some really important things slip. I have also let some bad habits creep into my life and I need to put a stop to that right quick.

As part of the re-prioritization of my life, I had to sacrifice the Opera Workshop I was going to do. I had to make the decision that spending a week and a half at SAIT residence completely abandoning my home and kitties and my business. I just couldn't justify that. I had to break the news to my choir director and I had to cancel my SAIT reservation but luckily the only money I won't recover is the $100 I paid for the workshop.

Even though a week and a half goes by like a snap of the fingers these days, recovering from it would take me so much longer. So instead, I took a week off of work this week to get some things done at home. I need to do some business paper work and I have to get settled back into home life. Even though it has been a year since I left for Brazil, it seems like I am just now getting back into the groove. So much has happened in the past 11 months since I got back from Brazil and I am just now picking up the pieces I left behind. I don't know if i really understood how much I let slack leading up to my surgery. Not intentionally but just because of circumstances. I wasn't healthy at all. So I have spent the past 2 days getting organized at home and I have the next 5 days to get my business paper work done. Fun fun fun.

On a side note, I am also having some not fun food aversions... I am repulsed by cooked egg whites, I can't stomach the idea of eating steak right now and I am still really sensitive to dairy with lactose intolerance so I am just not enjoying the eating thing at all. My cravings (or as my subconscious just called them, crazings) are things like rice, lasagna, Chinese food, strong curries etc.. all things that my body is unhappy with :/

So that's it for now. I will recap the Vancouver trip in my next blog but for now I should get to sleep!

Oh! I will save the details for the Vancouver blog but I got my nose pierced!