Two randomness goodies.

This will be a quick little post, just because. First, I want to say I very much enjoy The Steve Austin Show that is available to download online for free! If you don't know who Steve Austin is, you've been living under a log for at least 15 years, haven't you? Steve Austin use to be a WWF/E wrestler turned film star. Now he's doing a podcast and just talks about anything and interviews random people from MMA to WWE stars. He's only about 12 podcast shows in or so and they are only about an hour long. What I love is that he's the same dude he was when I was watching him wrestle back in the day as he is now. Same attitude and everything. No bullshit. If you have time, go to podcastone.com and type in Steve Austin Show. All of his shows are there for free! Be forewarned, he swears quite a bit, what do you expect, he's a redneck. 

Now, my second bit of randomness is very simple. I haven't quite got the hang of seeing the new me quite yet. After dropping 175lbs, there are new things to wrap my head around. Recently, it's the fact that I can damn near stick my whole hand in under my armpit, inside my rib cage! In trying my best to describe this, so bear with me. If you were to take your arm, lift it up so that its the same height as your shoulder, flex your chest muscle and then stick your hand under your arm pit. Maybe it's not my rib cage I'm feeling and its just my pec muscle. Haha, I just realized that as I was typing that all out. Ah, I'm a jack ass. Well, still, that feeling is new to me! I've never been able to see any kind of definition what  so ever on my body. Ha! That and when I lay on my back, it's not my belly that sticks out the furthest, it's my rib cage! #FormerFatGuyProblems

Well I'm done with the randomness today. Just wanted to turn out a quick blog. Trying to stay more on top of this! Peace out homie! (In Teagan's voice)

I had chicken livers....twice...in 2 hours.

Know how I was basically bragging about being able to eat anything this morning? Having basically no problems with anything. Yeah, not so much. When I got home from work at 11am I decided to go and do some yard work. It's a beautiful day today and its supposed to rain the rest of the week so I need some out door goodness. Well I was drinking a peace tea and then another. Before that I only had 20oz of skim milk and some nestle chocolate powder. So around 60 ounces of liquid so far. (This is shinfo to you, but I want to write it down for my own records. Oh and shinfo, if you can't figure that out is shitty info. Wut up C and R?!) 

Anyways, around 1:45pm I decided I was hungry and went inside to make chicken livers. Mmmmm!!! I made about 6oz of them up and only ate only 3oz and wa going to leave the rest for tomorrow. I had a 1oz bag of cheddar multigrain chips and 1 sweet potato chip from my wife's bag of chips. I was stuffed! Like, really stuffed. So I went back out to finish up the yard work thinking it would pass. 

Well, Jodi left for town and I mowed the other part of the yard and then went inside to check if Peyton was still sleeping and it hit me. These chicken livers Didn't like my little pouch apparently because they came back up. I've been to this rodeo before, I bring a little up and I feel fine and I can drink some water and go on about my pouched self. Not this time. It was bad, Pee Wee, bad. So basically everything I ate came back up. So now I'm sucking on a peppermint hard candy and watching my daughter try to give me kisses through her jail cell (crib). 

Why did I post this you ask? Eh, because I can and sometimes I like to share randomness like this. Plus, its nice to know what really goes on while you're going through Weight Loss Surgery (WLS), at least thats what i like to know when I'm reading a persons blog about WLS. If you like more randomness, wait for tonight, I'm gonna post a Vine Video from my past. If you didn't know, I use to be a professional backyard wrestler back in the day. :D So if you don't have the Vine app, get it! 

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Almost 7 months out.

I wish I was more consistent with my blogs. I don't know why, it's just that sometimes I have the urge to write and other times that is the furthest thing from my mind. Maybe if I had more interesting things to talk about, that would make it easier. Who knows?

 Anyways, last month I had my 6 month check up. I think I mentioned that in my last blog, but I'm not sure. 6 months since they rearranged my guts and everything has been great!! I can now say that I can eat everything I once ate with no problems. Which is good, but is also kind of bad. I know I've mentioned this before, but I'm a little bummed that I can still have sweets an junk food. I was hoping that my body would totally reject those foods and make me sick. Unfortunately, that's not the case. I do however see it as a good thing because at least I don't feel like the outcast at parties for not being able to have a little bit. I'm actually glad I can have everything now because that just makes me feel normal.

 The only thing I won't go back to is pop/soda. I don't crave it and I don't want to even go back to drinking it. I know a lady who had this surgery done a little after me and is drinking Dt. Coke already. I guess, hey, to eAch their own, with provolone, baby (C and R, wut up?!) but that is one of the main things they tell you to try and not pick back up. Not only because of th extra calories, but because of the carbonation in it, it expands the stomach. I know you can drink diet, but you're only fooling yourself in to thinking that its good for you because it doesn't have any calories in it. I will occasionally pick up a Gatorade here an there or a Peace Tea every once in a while. For the most part, I stick with water and a packet of flavored powder stuff. Like crystal light or something to that effect. It's probably not that good for you, but that's all that I've been drinking since my surgery. I should buy stock in the Great value powder drink mix! Ha!

 I went in to this surgery just wanting help with portion control. I have that now! I'm basically able to have a somewhat normal portion of food now. Which is good for me. My nurse at the surgery center is extremely pleased at how far I've come. I've lost just over 140lbs since surgery at the End of October. Which is amazing to them! Since the beginning of July I've lost just over 175lbs. So to me, I think I've been doing great. I don't think my portions are totally out of whack. Right now I'm at a weight (255lbs) that I could live with for the rest of my life. Well, until next time, have a great day!

This year went to fast.

So, I'm back with another post. It's been a little bit since my last one. It's been pretty busy and haven't really ha the time to just sit down and write. A week ago today my youngest daughter, Peyton, turned a year old. It truly saddens me to think about it because this past year has just flown by. I also know that in another 6 months, it will be my oldest daughter, Teagan's, 3rd birthday and my one year anniversary for my RNY surgery. My girls are growing up so quick. It seems like yesterday my wife and I were eating pizza in the hospital room while Peyton was with the nurses getting checked up on. Now fast forward a year later and she's destroying her smash cake at her birthday party. It makes me sad to know that she is no longer a baby anymore. She's advanced so much faster than her sister did, it's unreal. I swear, she'll probably be potty trained by Teagan's 3rd birthday. Christ, she was walking at 9 and a half months! Says about a half a dozen words very clear and damn near jogs everywhere. I know they say the second child grows up quicker because they have the older sibling to watch and it's so true. It makes me sad. If you haven't figured out why I keep saying it makes me said, it's because I have to take a break from typing to wipe away the tears. Having kids has made me an emotional bitch sometimes. Tear up for no reason.

While it makes me sad to see my girls grow up quick, it makes me happy I made the right decision to (hopefully) prolong my life and get to see them grow up to be beautiful young women. If there is any doubt or any negativity that ever comes my way because I had the surgery, I just think of my girls and everything is much clearer. Although I had the surgery for me, I did it mostly for Jodi and my girls. I want to be around for them. I want to see my girls get married and have kids when they are 50. I want to be able to keep up with them and do the things they will want to do. At the rate I was going, I wouldn't have made it past 40. Hopefully I've changes that. If a freak thing happens, well then I can't change that. I can change how fat I was and try to live a healthier lifestyle. So far, so good.

So if my daughters ever read this in the future, I want them to know I tried the best that I could. Daddy loves you girls and you mean the world to me. I'm proud of you and your mommy and I love you both very much! Never stop believing in yourselves. You control your own destiny! I love you girls!