The Further Adventures of Deluzy: Deer in headlights

Health and Wellness

The Google 15
An excellent weight-tracking tool that keeps track of your moving weight average over time so that no single weigh-in is a cause for ecstacy or despair.
Understanding Your Tests
A good preliminary resource for understanding your lab work (though of course it's no substitution for discussing results with your doctor)
FitDay - Free Weight Loss and Diet Journal
An essential tool for me during my first 6 post-op months -- and a good reality check for anyone keeping track of daily food intake (e.g., calories, fats, carbohydrates, etc.) and activity levels
Gmaps Pedometer
A wonderful tool that allows one to map exercise routes and calculate miles covered and calories burned

Products I Like

Spanx
A line of comfortable foundation garments (and even easy-to-pack clothing) that comes in handy post-op to corrale that wayward, formerly obese flesh and make you feel comfortable. Available online, at Lane Bryant in larger sizes, at Nordstrom in smaller sizes, and sometimes at outlets for less.
Pure Protein RTD shakes
At an average of 35 grams of protein, 3 grams of carbs, and 160 calories, these ready-to-drink shakes work for me because I can chill them, grab them, pack them, and go. Available from a variety of online sources or at GNC stores.
Perfectly Sweet
Expensive but excellent source for sugar-free and no-sugar-added bakery and candy items.
Low Carb Corner
As near as I can tell, this site sells nothing but two kinds of breakfast cereal -- but as one who's avoided cereal since my DS surgery because it contains virtually no protein and far too many carbs, Protein Crunch is a wonderful option (i.e., 27 grams protein, 2 net grams carbs). It's horrifyingly expensive but for WLS cereal lovers, it's worth the occasional splurge.

Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Deer in headlights

Okay, so yesterday's meeting with the grad student whose thesis proposal I am not giving a thumbs-up to was not quite as distressing as I'd imagined in would be -- but it wasn't pleasant. He looked like a stricken deer for about 60 seconds when I told him of my decision, and I wasn't sure if he would react with disappointment, anger, tears, explosions. I truly believe that, in that finite period of time, anything was possible because it just didn't compute for him: this possibility was not on his radar screen. However, I am shifting the burden now to my colleagues: I've okayed his giving it to them, and they can work with him for the rest of the semester. If either of them greenlights it for a defense in December, that's fine with me.

More reading of and commenting upon thesis proposals this morning; more meeting with grad students this afternoon; and teaching this evening. My students will watch a film and, as usual, during the screening I'll grade papers out in the hall.

But tomorrow is Halloween and I get to dress up in my Queen costume from Target. That thought is making me very, very happy -- perhaps happier than it should make a 46-year old woman!

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*Sigh* That's one of the suck parts of the job. At least you gave him due consideration, gave an appropriate alternative - as opposed to a breezy, "I just suggest you get on with your life" - and didn't just kick him to the curb.

Have fun tomorrow, Your Majesty, and I hope your womb cooperates with your royal commands.

*S*

Posted by:*S* | Tuesday, October 30, 2007 at 03:30 PM

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