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I've got to find a source in the local area.  Stuff is great.

I'm drinking a Pomegranate Nectarine bottle of juice.  62 carbs though.  But other than that, it's great.  Great taste. 

I've got another bottle in the fridge, not sure what it is.

I will say I need to find the sugar free teas.  That was really good!

At school (see http://www.kweaver.org/cs ) I am still just surviving each day.

So I'm gaining and losing the same 4 pounds (but it's lower 4 pounds).  This fill is working but I've been making some bad choices.

I've already made one switch that should help — doing McCafe Cappiocino instead of a Mocha in the morning.  That says about 25 carbs and 110 calories.  I've found that eating during the day at school doesn't work.  Neither does eating something in the car.  Both tend to come right up.

I'm still eating all evening, just not as much.

Not training and showing Maggie has reduced some stress level, especially the not trialing part.  Macy improves steadily each week.  She's now running the course with me and we're finishing before the whistle blows, just not taking every obstacle I tell her too.  One thing I am doing is not sweating out anything she misses but I just keep going.

We've got another trial next weekend.

Almost afraid to post, but by my scales, I've lost 5 pounds since Tuesday when I finished my liquid/mushies after my fill.

I certainly can't eat as much.

Of course, the others did too. 

Had my fourth fill on Friday.  I'm slimed and brought up food now, three different meals.  This is why I don't eat at school anymore.

However, I have to change that a bit. 

So far, since I have had lap band surgery, I've lost 25 pounds.  I haven't lost any significant weight since I have recovered from the surgery.

I have however, lost and gained 5 pounds in addition to the 25 pounds.

I am also wearing clothing that is at least three dress sizes smaller than I did pre surgery.  In fact, I'm wearing clothing that was uncomfortable when I weighted 20 pounds less than I do now.  And wearing them comfortable.

Weird, anyone have an answer to that?

So my energy level still isn't great, because I'm only carrying 25 pounds less than I did.

I've identified my major eating problem — stress.  Yesterday I got tired and stressed and I started wanting to eat the house.  A Slim Fast drink did not solve that problem, so I'm going to pick up Slim Fast bars or something similar.

By the way, the taquiro <sp> down the road helped.  For $7.99 you can get fajita beef (no vegetables).  I really had to work hard to eat that, but it did help the "so hungry could eat the house".

Let me start out by saying I’ve been exhausted lately and I’m not entirely sure why. This morning I was hoping it wasn’t my blood sugar, but it’s probably just the work stress.

So it was really hot by the time Macy’s runs were up.  She’s got a thick coat, and she was definately hot when we started.  She tried really hard though, staying with me most of the time.  She did try to get a ring steward to save her from the dog walk — I’m pretty sure she thought it was the teeter.

Her JWW’s run were the best, moving pretty well and putting together some good obstacles.

I think her biggest problems is the state of my health and weight, plus she’s not entirely sure she’s going to get paid for her efforts.  That takes repetition.

So today was pretty typical.

I arrive at school pretty close to 7:30 — today a little less close as I stopped at McD's for a Mocha — that's one of the only ways I can get fluids in me that early.  I need to find a way to have hot water in my room easily and a low fat way to drink chocolate flavored caffeine.

Sometime before 8:15 I get hit with a major crisis — today, it was letting Dell know that they didn't put decals on the new 54 computers, and how to get the Decals.  So far, I've convinced everyone in the district that Dell didn't put the decals on, and have identified which computers, but not their exact location (don't worry, they have "lo-jack" installed if they get stolen).  It took getting a phone call from them (but I didn't talk to them), and two emails to them. 

2nd period was going really well when suddenly two of my students were facing off in the middle of the room (near my projector), and a third student was trying to get them to stop.  I know I needed to

a) get help

b) stop them before something or someone got broken

Managed it, and at one point had just about every adult with a radio in the room. 

They are out until Tuesday.

So I finally ate lunch during the last half of my lunch period, at my desk, reading emails.

Didn't eat again until after my planning period, sometime after 3:30.

Notice no water got drank, okay, maybe two sips during study hall.

Ate dinner when I got home — but since I was going to support group dinner, only ate the protein and tossed the rest.  Also drank a protein drink before I left.

Went to support group, ate the inside of a Muffeleta (and it wasn't as good as Jason's usually is), and some Jason's softserve ice cream.

Now I'm sucking on raspberry tea.

My problems — not enough calories during the day, not enough water, and too much in the evening, but I same to be at least maintaining my weight and I was gaining about 5 pounds a week this time last year.

Also didn't get to the treadmill, but do most of the time.

My prescription plan has a weird exception when it cmes to GERD drugs.  I think they want it on over the counter Prilosic but not sure.  I also don't think there is enough Prilosic available to solve my GERD, I break through Protonix, and Nexium does nothing for me.  I don't think Prilosic does anything either….

Just found out that the prescription was automatically "skipped" without telling me.  Well, found out two weeks ago.  Sent email to Medco about it, and it looked like we had it solved without using the phone.  WRONG.

That just got one of the precerts done.  I need two.

So I had to do the second precert over the phone.

Here's the real stressor.  I got an phone message saying the meds were approved, their phone system said I was approved but when I tried to order the meds yesterday, the guy on the phone said it wasn't and that the doctor said I didn't need that much.  I was so mad, I was spitting tacks, seriously.  But decided to wait until I saw Dr. next week to find the answer.

I actually didn't hear the phone message until I got home and it said I was approved so I called Medco back.  This time I got a person who actually looked at their computer and read their screen, and sure enough it was approved.

Hopefully the pharmacists actually put the order in — it's not showing up on the Medco website, and it's on its way.

Good news: my plan restarts on September 1st, including my flexible spending.

Having the right contact in, really helps — and is a bit of a pun, since it is the right that is giving me such problems.

Now I need to either get my brain to reset — which is why we're waiting until Wednesday to try any changes, or get a different contact for the left.

I've got a bit of fuzz on that side.

As I predicted, this was a bad week.

We reported on Monday, and everyone proceeded to abuse me because they all got new computers.  Most just could not cope with this at all.

Plus the people who wired our portables, almost finished the job and the wireless network was a bit flaky.

When I left Friday, people were calmer but not by much.

I also left without having my things done, but I am getting most of them done here at the dog show in Fort Worth.  I got a good start in this morning, spent the afternoon cleaning up my email, and will finish tomorrow. 

I did get to see Paul McCartney and I think I even got a blog post in about it.

Tuesday was the worst day, I had not brought my own food and drink and the hotel was just hideous.  Now I understand that I'm not easy, I don't like water, tea, or coffee and can't drink carbonated beverages.  I should have at least brought my Crystal Light Powder.  Lunch was even worse, soup, icebert lettace salad and dry sandwiches.  If there were any kind of condiments, I never found them.

Principal didn't want me using my netbook and we had a bit of a fit over that.  Excuse me, but I do take notes.

I'm learning though — take my own food and drink.  Free food isn't free!