Losing Libby

If you know me, I’m so anti-baking its sad.  Usually everything I bake turns into a huge epic fail.  Boxed mixes = fail.  From scratch = fail.  You get the point.  So while reading the latest Everyday Food (from the queen of domestication herself Martha), I saw a recipe for “Healthy Morning Muffins” that was sent in from a reader.  They looked interesting, with the base of the dough being shredded carrots.  (If you want the recipe – send me a comment – I’ll email ya!) I had a huge bag of carrots, along with all the rest of the ingredients, so I thought, what the hell!?     Lined and ready to roll….       The recipe is super simple, and doesn’t have 10842803 ingredients.  A total plus in my playbook!  I made a few substitutions to the recipe, including using half whole wheat flour (the non baking has multiple flours in her kitchen…go figure) and I used 1/2 golden raisins and 1/2 dried blueberries....

Well I am feeling a whole lot better since having my gallbladder out.  My surgery was Monday, and it took a bit longer then expected from what I was told.  I was still able to have it done laparoscopic, but apparently they had to go in twice, once in to remove the gallbladder, then back in to get the residual stones that had passed (?)  I seriously have no idea, but that is what my dear fiancé tells me.  I go see the doc for a follow up next week so I’m sure I’ll get more of the dirty details then. I have been eating pretty normal…obviously not going out for greasy burgers or anything (not that I’ve had one of those since…oh my preop liquid diet (yes, I confess, I cheated once).  I have really been trying to up my protein, especially with breakfast.  This morning I had a 1/2 cup of 1% cottage cheese, two strawberries cut up into it, and about eight blueberries.  Just for good measure I topped it with a sprinkle of Truvia.  If you haven’t tri...

I really don’t give a crappola about the superbowl – other than the commercials…so I gave a try to one of Eggface's protein cakes.  I basically used her recipe – and added a few things of my own.  I added unsweetened coconut and SF blueberry syrup to mine.  Here’s the end result – sliced and ready for sampling! cute eh?

This post is dedicated to one of the most fabulous WLS bloggers I've ever gotten to know over the interweb....the one...the only... EGGFACE!!!!!! Shelly – aka Eggface – has helped guide me on this journey since way before I even had the surgery.  She is the Martha Stewart of WLS eating.  I tell you, if she makes it, it’s good.  Even my non WLS fiance loves her stuff.  Her recipes truly can be enjoyed by all.   I post this as first, a thank you, for helping me realize that you really can eat well after surgery.  Two:  She’s giving away free stuff again and since I have previous reaped the benefits of her giveaways , I’d like to jump back on that bandwagon! Cheers – to Eggface!

I have been having some crazy pain in my upper abdomen.  I was in the ER on Sunday morning, had a CT Scan, left there with some drugs and a diagnosis of stomach flu (?).   Called the surgeons office, no one said a word.  Monday went by just fine, was feeling a lot better!  Tuesday rolls in and I start feeling pretty crappy.  I go to work , and then it gets bad.  Real real bad.  I go back to the ER, but not before I call the surgeons office again.  The gal on the phone says, oh Dr. P says that you might have a small hernia going on, and that if it gets worse to go back to the ER.  I go back, the ER doc runs a few more tests (he was great!) and orders an ultra sound of my gallbladder, kidney, liver, spleen, etc…Guess who has A LOT of gallstones and sludge working?  Oh that’d be me.  Why they didn’t do that scan on Sunday is beyond me.  So first I go from having a hernia repair to about to have emergency gallbladder removal! ...