Mirror Mirror on the Wall

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After 46 years of being morbidly obese, heck, I've been overweight from memory one.  48 now, a month ofter turning 46 I went through weight loss surgery.  I received the Lap Band.  OMG!  I love it, I love it, Love it.  I will have this Lap Band until it's time to take a dirt nap.
But now? & map; auhggg!   they took some fluid out!
I simply made an apt to get a fill, fill= to add saline solution to my band that circles around the top of my stomach.  I have a band that holds 10cc's, 5.5 cc's are in the band.  After two years of no fills, no problems, no nothing, I decide to make an apt to tag team in and to get a fill.  I had been getting hungry too soon after eating as well as eating larger portions.
Dr. Allisson is a great Dr.  Funny, personable, just a all around great guy.  He asked me if I ever had a fill under Flora.  I replied, "No Sir", he said, "let's do it".
The next morning I meet him at the hospital to do just that.
I drink the stuff, blahhh-gag,  there it was in black and blue, my esophagus, there sitting, swollen.  "I reccomend taking some of the saline out and allowing you esophagus heal."  "Well of coarse you do."  I said with a smirk.
Now, 3 weeks later, I have gained SEVEN LBS. !!     to be continued...

Yummo and Bologna?

Term created by Rachel Ray, I have always hated that phrase.  Now I can't stop referring back to it.  When I taste, when I eat, and I smell.  "Yummo"  Comes out of my mouth.  Ironic I think.

So, I am always trying to get down and dirty clever with my cooking.  I sometimes am far from successful.  The times where I think something is going to be spectacular falls short from the ole' oven mitt, (WTHeck!)

Then there are times where I even surprise myself. Luckily, the family agrees.  It's when I least expect it, when I have shoved everything into a recipe, forgetting to mention to the memory, "hey! remember this for next time."   :/

Relaxxkiller's Pot Roast

Yes, Yes Virginia, there is the best pot roast you ever had, cooked right here in sunny Central Florida.  The meat not only was seconds away from Vegetable Beef Soup, It was so tender I thought I was eating Roast flavored Butter. (I know, I know, I'm a dork, it's ok, I like it like that)

The smell filled the house within 2 hours.  The neighbors were standing outside the kitchen windows drooling like dead zombies.  (Walking Dead anyone?)

Right away I put some in a single serving Ziploc container for my husband to take for lunch the next day.  I do that with any meal made.  He works about 2 hours away so needless to say I make sure he eats other than processed meat.  B O L O G N A... though he wouldn't argue.  The man loves bologna, raw, fried, thick, thin, as long as it's bologna.

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