melting mama

Horror-scoping.

"It may be hard to stay nice when you are also trying to be real. Your passions are aroused and you feel strongly enough to share them with someone. But others may not want to hear what you are saying, for your perspective could very well be upsetting to them. For now, don't worry about the consequences as long as you continue to speak the truth."

Ah.  Wise truth-teller.  Let me tell you somethin'.

A mom and boob rant, etc.

My skin, after tanning three times, feels like pork rinds.  This is pleasant.  I'm going again today, and a couple more times through the week.  I'm developing "color" - but it's not really the even-ing out I'd hoped I'd get.  I thought it would call less attention to the stretch marks and skin, but for now, they're more obvious.  Maybe as the color settles and turns brown-er it will look better.

My daughter's dress came back from the tailor - and $130.00 later in adjustments, It Doesn't Fit.  This is why my mother is fixing my dress (for free!  :D), because she and I have the same problem in this dress!  (We're wearing the same exact dress, she's nearly ten, I'm twenty-eight, but... we have similar bodies right about now, because I have no chest.)  The hem was re-done, so it's not dragging on the floor, but the bodice wasn't done. 

I think that whomever does the sewing for Davids' Bridal - assuming this dress must be for a Very Short Adult, thought that the person MUST have boobs, and should leave it alone.  No.  They were wrong.  This is another pain in the ass thing about being an overweight kid. Nothing "normal" fits, and you have to buy your formal gowns "upsized" to fit in one area (the abdomen) and the rest is SO FREAKING HUUUUUUUGE that they have to cut three feet from the hem and ten inches from the bust.  When my sister in law went to pick up the dresses, the dress-fit person said "there were so many pins!  (I) did the best that I could."  Well, yeah.  I wouldn't want to be dealing with hacking a dress to fit a nine year old either - out of a womens' size!  If she wears it as-is, I suppose we could give her a Wonderbra and my silicone fake boob inserts?   (It would fit.)  And, we're going to have to staple the neck to the back of her skull to keep it up.  Ugh.  Whatever.

Gotta go.  I'll be back.  Bachelorette party tonight.  Work now.  Later.

Got 29 minutes? Come, sit, dump with me:

Buttah Me Up.

I, uh, ate a waffle for breakfast.  Not just any waffle, a frozen Aunt Jemima Brand Waffle.  That's not so much on "plan."  Also, you should should know, it doesn't feel good in the pouch either, frankly, it's nauseating.  I haven't had a breakfast carbohydrate in months, it was calling my name.  To be perfectly honest, waffles and their carby friends toast, grits, etc. that I'd want at breakfast time are all just Methods To Get Butter In My System.  I don't think I even LIKE any of those items without the taste of BUTTER.  So, who needs 'em?  Blah!

Yadda yadda.

Working today -  what could be called "mom's hours."   I'm headed first to go get me some artificial sunshine for the dress-wearing next week.  It pains me to spend $15.00 a whack to stand in tube for five minutes to get a "tan."  All this, to resemble normal in a dress.  My SIL wants me to bring the baby down the aisle with me as part of the wedding, since my kids are already in it.  This means, the arms will now function and move.  Nooooo!  We were avoiding moving The Flaps.  On the plus side, folks will be looking at her, not my chicken wings.

Anyhow, my lawyer was sending me papers via email, but I think my email address may have frightened him.  I don't really use any other name, nor do I ever remember to check them, so I went ahead and gave him the one I use everyday, I emailed with it.  It didn't even occur to me that it may have been considered spam.  Oops.  Back to regular forms of communication.

Right now.

I ate cottage cheese about 45 minutes ago.  I'm having a reaction starting now.  It's not dumping.  I have tinglies and disconnect.  Don't you wish you could get high on food like me?!  I'd make a vlog for the sake of the symptom, but I was heading in to take a shower and get dressed.  Maybe later, I need something to review though, I haven't been eating anything new, because I was so sick previously.

Um.  I got on the scale yesterday, and it read 197.7 lbs.  For a very short moment, I gasped.  It was like a time warp, one moment I'm all in the 150's and then, back to nearly 200 in a breath?  Why that happened, I still don't know.  (Bob got on this morning, the same scale, and he's 178 lbs.  WTF, that's normal!)  I haven't stood on that particular scale since.  It's demonic.  I'm guessing I've "regained" some of the lost water weight from the diarrhea of days and I'm probably 158 lbs?  I'll check on the regular scale, because this digital one wants me dead.  It's possessed.

The truth comes out. I really am an old man.

I submitted three photos to this celebrity lookalike generator.  The first two times, I was Daniel Radcliffe.  I added THIS BAD photo (hahahaha!) and got the best results.  Figures!

I did it again, because I can't stand the look on my face.  I used a more normal expression:

There - it means nothing, but the angle of your photo.  So, I tried me, right now, messy, bedhead, no makeup?  Again, I'm an old man, and more.

 

http://www.myheritage.com

Breastfeeding after Weight Loss Surgery.

"I was searching for information about bfing after RYGB.  I came across your blog and its entry about it, one of the few substantial discussions of the subject I have found so far.

I have skimmed some of your archives but have not had time to read
everything thoroughly.  I noticed you had a baby (wow, is she CUTE! Love
those eyes) and were bfing at first, and then later seem to be using
formula.  However, unless I missed it somewhere in the archives, you didn't
really speak about your own experience with bfing after GB.  You mentioned
that you did extended bfing with next-oldest child.  So I was curious to see
if you had any issues with milk supply or failure-to-thrive, or if there
were other reasons why you weaned.

Please don't read any judgment into this question.  I'm not criticizing; I'm
just trying to find out more about the bfing after RYGB for some online
acquaintances who have had WLS, and whether milk supply or nutritional
quality is impacted.  I would be interested to learn more about your
experience (and what you have heard from other WLS moms) if you are willing
to share it."

I'm going to take a moment to answer this, I'll be back with an answer probably tommorrow.