It's been a week since I last blogged...so here goes!

I continue to learn on my journey to good health...the good and the bad!  I've made bad food choices a couple of times in the last week and have paid for it with a not so nice bout of "dumping syndrome."  Dumping syndrome isn't just the symptom the name implies; oh no...it's much worse!  About 1/2 an hour after you eat something that disagrees with your new stomach, you start feeling kind of light headed and hot all over.  Once you realize what's happening, you know you can't fight this and have to go rest!  It sends me to bed, usually for the rest of the day (it's only happened to me in the late evenings after dinner).  As you go through the bout of DS, your stomach is very unsettled and you wish you could just be rid of whatever you ate.  Unfortunately, that relief doesn't come and you have to suffer through it.  The DS symptoms last about an hour or so where you're hot then cold, break out in a sweat, have severe stomach distress, feel very groggy & light headed.  Then, the overt symptoms lift and you are left to feel like a dish rag that's been wrung out too hard!!!  I also feel poorly the day after...almost like a DS hang over!  Thankfully, I'm quickly learning which foods my new tummy will and will not tolerate and once I find one it doesn't tolerate, I quickly remove it from my foods list!

Last week, I made it back to the gym one day for water aerobics.  Thus far this week, I have made it back 2 times; once for Water Aerobics and once for BodyVive.  Both really wore me out, but BodyVive downright whooped me!!!  I soldiered through it (mostly on the low impact level) and was quite proud of myself for making it through!  BodyVive was last night, so I'm sore today, but it hurts so good!!!

I'm down 32 pounds now.  My clothes are too big and I'm having to dig deeper into my clothing stash to find things that fit!  I had to buy 2 pair of work pants at Goodwill last week (rather than paying full price elsewhere for something I'll only wear for a short time!) because all my work pants were falling off!

Best of all, my blood sugars continue to be completely normal, I'm off all meds with the exception of allergy meds and restless leg syndrome meds, and I FEEL GREAT!!!!!!!!!!  Thank you God and Dr. Scott for this new life!!!