Ok folks I am so sorry for falling down on the blogging. I had surgery (yes, again.. that makes 2 this year and that's enough), moved, started a new job and started working on my PhD. So, things have been a little crazy in my life. My youngest son is graduating from high school next week and we are all still not settled in our new community yet. Anyway, I've allowed myself to get off of my usual eating plan. That always seems to happen when I have surgery. I let myself eat those NASTY carbs. Usually it's an excuse to take my medicine... you know, "take with food" usually my definition of food is a pack of peanut butter cheese crackers and it's all down hill from there! So, the day of my April surgery I weighed in at 143 and yesterday it was 157. I'm not sure how much of that is swelling. I know that there is a lot of it as my rings will not fit now and I have visible edema. But even if I allow 5 lbs for swelling I'm still packing 10 lbs of unwanted pounds. So, they are coming off. I got back on my eating plan yesterday and we'll see how it goes or should I say when it goes???