I’m healing from the oral surgery, finally.

and.. I learned at the Oral Surgeon’s that I have really, really high blood pressure. It didn’t go down much when I was asleep during the surgery, either.

I’m upset because obviously it’s weight-related. Although high blood pressure runs in my family.

And, that’s all I’m going to say right now because I’m in a bad mood. I’ll post again later this week to let you all know more details!

I made it through my oral surgery OK. And, I’m in so much pain that I cannot eat much of anything but broth, yogurt and gatorade. And I don’t foresee being able to eat much of anything for the next several days, so I should lose a few pounds. Hey, I gotta look on the bright side of this since I’m feeling so horrible!

The procedure that is causing me the most pain is called an apicoectomy. It’s treatment of a root canal that has gone bad over the years. They have to cut into your gum and do something to the root. I got it done on one of my front teeth (where I have a capped tooth from like 14 years ago), and let me tell you, it ain’t fun.

I’ll post more in a couple days when I’m feeling better and have lost a couple pounds!

My cell-phone picture quality is terrible. But that is a bowl of cut-up fruit and a bowl of veggies and rice. Healthy, huh?

The fruit salad I made myself yesterday. It includes: bananas, raspberries, blueberries, blackberries, strawberries, cantaloupe, and pineapple chunks. Yum! I haven’t eaten a banana in ages and forgot how much I like them sometimes. Fruit is on sale right now out here so I stocked up.

In other news, I completely blew my diet yesterday. So I’m trying to make up for it today. Grrrr.

OK, I’ve decided to set a new short-term weight goal in order to motivate myself a bit. Currently, I weigh roughly 162 pounds - I weighed myself Saturday morning and the scale said 162.2. (I weighed myself this morning but am not counting what I saw, since I’m bloating from PMS).

So… by next Friday, May 11th, I’m going to try and get down to 157 pounds. That’s five pounds in a week and a half.

I’m confident that I can do it. Normally I wouldn’t try to lose so much in such a short time, but since I won’t be eating much anyway for a few days in the next week or so, I don’t think it’ll be too hard. Doing these little goals always help motivate me for the long run, anyway. Losing 5 pounds at a time is SO much better than thinking of how much I have to lose overall, you know?

Remind me to never again weigh myself during PMS week… it’s so depressing!

Anyway, this Friday is my oral surgery. I am so not looking forward to it. It’s going to suck because I’m getting work done in the front of my mouth and the right side. Both of my right wisdom teeth are impacted which means an even longer recovery time and more bleeding.. argh. I’m in for a fun weekend!

The good news is that I won’t be able to eat solids for a couple days at least. I’m headed to the store in just a little while actually to stock up on low-fat ice cream and non-dairy iced products. I’ll also have a prescription of percocet to take, which is always fun.

Oh well. I need to get this stuff done so that I can be free for the summer to do what I want without having to worry about root canal infections or wisdom teeth problems. So I’ll do it!

In other news, I’ve been doing OK with my diet. I won’t be weighing myself anymore this week because of PMS, but next Friday I will. Maybe by then I’ll be officially out of the 160’s…