Saturday, February 24, 2007







Where do I start?

Ok as Julie Andrews once said " ...the beginning,a very good place to start..."
Friday 16th attended the "Fat Banding Clinic" where the obese people congregate to be assessed for future "lap banding up of their mouths"(ok well,their stomachs then) ,"no control cut yer stomach out "(very drastic but effective) or "just stop eating yer fat wazzer" procedures.

My Great Dutch friend Elmer(as in Fudd) Knuever (usual spelling) aka Waldorf(blog link somewhere on here) has a saying :-
"All the time this hole(pointing to his mouth) is bigger than this hole (pointing to his rear end) then that person will be fat!!!"
Nuff said methinks .....Here endeth the lesson from the Great prophet Elmer!!

I digress..... was sat in the waiting room after the usual weighing and measuring paraphernalia that ensues (lost lbs again nah nah nah nah nah,some people gain..what's that all about ...how desperate must some people be to get food into their bodies when its restricted...doesn't bear thinking about?) ....there was this rather large lady sat there(ok she was the side of a house and some) . She had her two children with her ,a daughter mid teens and a son ,possibly early teens or younger.
Bearing in mind their mother struggled to get through the double door they are both sat there stuffing their faces with a tube of Pringles each with the boy , a large plastic bowl at his feet.
Anyway, he leaves to go to the loo and next minute somebody comes dashing in to say a small boy has thrown up everywhere outside..lol.
He returns shoe and sock less about 10 mins later (as he had filled his shoes with sick..lovely..textbook child sick then).
Apparently discussion follows and he was ill and sickly all day (hence the bringing of the bowl) yet his mother still gave him the tube of pringles to stuff in his face one after the other...can't think why she got to the size where she has to have roll repeatedly to gain momentum to eventually toppled out of the over-sized chair she has moulded herself into.

Moving swiftly on......... I go into the surgey and after consultation and being completely honest with them all ,I get shoved between the consultant and the dietician where they talk me into now trying more solid food ,coming back in 3 weeks and seeing if I am still losing...without adjusting my band.
Hmmmm...have to accept that they must know what they are doing but was hoping for more restiction as I am not feeling as full of late.

Came out of clinic a little dejected only to be greeted with a nice £81 flat tyre bill to complete my trip to the hospital..groan!!

To hell with it I thought. Friday out to eat Paella again after months of "no rice" .Suprisingly great Paella but also stuffed after a very small childs size portion..oh well...I love a challenge!!!!! ...this is going to be fun to eat again :-)
Saturday..time for a Chinese take-Away..that'll show 'em.
Ordered up (bearing in mind my Ellie's choice) a portion of fried rice,sweet n sour chicken balls and the obligatory prawn crackers.
2 chicken balls,3 dessert spoons of rice all mixed with sweet n sour sauce later (and no way could I touch a prawn cracker) I am absolutely stuffed!!! Couldn't eat another thing and even more suprisingly kept it all down...WOW ..this really works.

Been back this week ...re-vitalising the slow cooker to break down meats to a slide off the bone and down my throat consistancy and yummy with potatoes (mashed,jacket or boiled)...have continued to lose weight and eating normally but just a lot less..I guess this is what I have been aiming for.
Had a half a round of toasted cheese and ham sandwich Monday and I was stuffed(was advised to try bread again)to the point of no food needed til lunchtime next day. Weightloss continuing...is it really gonna be this easy from now on?

Monday I saw The Feeling supported by The Fray in Bournemouth. great gig..best one for ages...... have tkts this week for Ricky Gervais(Tuesday) and The Feeling again in Hammersmith on Saturday(although they may find themselves onto ebay now I have seen them already.)

Carling Cup Final this Sunday Arsenal v Chelsea ..... "Come On You Gunners!!!"
Oh yes and must mention the really addictive new album by "Mika" go buy it...annoy all your friends by singing it out loud track 2 "lollipop" especially..gonna be a smash hit ..mark my words!!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

heyy dad i luv this blog i have some homework 2 do it is maths ino wht 2 do but i havent had time to do my times tables sorry love you xox ellie xox