The Further Adventures of Deluzy: A minus 21

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.

Saturday, May 03, 2008

A minus 21

Three weeks until our Alaska cruise -- man, it can't come soon enough.

This weekend there's lots of behind-the-scenes departmental drama about the recent chair search (a.k.a. the Search That Wouldn't Die). Candidate #1 declined our offer; there's plenty of politicking around candidate #2, and apparently there's a meeting on Monday, called by the dean, for the search committee (of which I'm a member) to explain the selection of #2 to all faculty and staff. (Which, incidentally, we did, weeks ago.) What folks really want is a breakdown of who voted for whom.

"Are you now or have you ever been a member of XY's supporters?"

I'll go to the meeting, but if that's the way it's going to come down, then I'm not playing -- other than to observe that I'm not because I prefer not to engage in McCarthy-ite dynamics. (Yeah, I know: that'll go over well.)

A couple of my colleagues on the search committee are worried about the impact that all this drama will have on my RTP process. Oddly enough, I'm not worried. Not for that reason. Much.

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