The Further Adventures of Deluzy: A minus 17

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

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.
Perfectly Sweet
Expensive but excellent source for sugar-free and no-sugar-added bakery and candy items.
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.
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.

Wednesday, May 07, 2008

A minus 17

That's the reading on today's "Countdown to Alaskan Cruise" ticker, and instead of feeling happy, I felt a clutch of panic -- at all that I have to do in the next 17 days.

To wit:

Finish teaching
Finish evaluating student oral presentations
Read and provide feedback on 7 graduate thesis proposals
Go to the proposal and thesis defenses of 10 grad students
Grade a veritable Mount Everest of student term projects
Format Excel grade sheets to calculate semester grades for 110 students
Do lots of scary data entry and formula creation
File grades
Go to the department graduation on May 23

I feel kind of sick as the reality of the workload over the next two weeks hits me.

Oh, and one more task:

Keep my head down as the dean and department work toward some manner of conclusion regarding this year's search for an external chair -- a situation that is, as yet, unresolved.

Let's see, can I list something positive here? Okay, yes. My weight's down again, finally. I'd be a little happier if it were "down-er" but it's wiithin the range of my happy zone, so I'll take it.

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