My new yummy discovery? Diet Lemonade from Chick-fil-A. Delicious. I purchased a large beverage Tuesday morning. By lunch time I had finished about half of it. My next new yummy discovery? Unsweet tea with Splenda poured into a half full cup of Diet Lemonade. It was blissful! I am not a lemon with your tea person. Looks like I am a tea with your lemonade person.
You would think I would learn my lesson quickly. After all, I am a teacher. But nooooo. I have to make the same mistake several times this week. So I guess I need to write it over and over. I will chew my food. I will chew my food. I will chew my food....
If I do not chew my food it will get stuck. I do not know where it is getting stuck. I only know that it hurts. It also causes an aversion to smells and the need to vomit. This morning was the worst. I think I will blame it on the parent that I had to meet with this morning. I had a parent conference this morning at 7:30am. It lasted until 8:30am because this parent does not understand that her son cannot read. She thinks he is just not trying. Regardless, I had a staff development meeting at 8:00am that I was late for. This created some difficulty in warming up my breakfast and eating before the meeting. So I go in late and there are Chick-fil-A Chicken Minis. Well good! I can have a few of those delicious and moist nuggets of chicken minus the bread. Did I chew? NO! Once again, I inhale and swallow. That piece of chicken stayed wedged somewhere in my upper digestive track for almost an HOUR! On top of the pain and pressure in my chest, it caused a horrible case of the hiccups, of which I have not had since surgery. Anyone who knows me, knows my hiccups presurgery where loud and painful. Yeah. Okay. I had to leave the conference room to walk around. One teacher kept offering me water, not understanding that it would not help. With the chicken wedged in, there would be nowhere for the water to go.
Fast forward to this evening. I come home and warm up some left over tilapia. This fish was moist and falling apart. It wouldn't even stay on the fork it was so tender and flaky. Did it make the trip? Well, not before getting stuck, just like the chicken. How the hell?? I can only assume the episode this morning caused some irritation and maybe some swelling. I will need to stick to soups and soft foods tomorrow just to let my insides get better.
Okay, enough griping. My endocrinologist agreed to take me off the metformin and the scale is now moving again! I am now 62 pounds down! Yay!!!
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