Cyclical Tightness

Wanna hear something weird? My band snaps closed when I ovulate. Isn't that strange? I'm not dreaming it, it really does happen.

Today was ovulation day, and I could barely get down some blended black bean soup at lunch. Tonight I'm 45 minutes into dinner and still haven't finished my artichoke. I don't think I'll make it to the protein.

I did manage to eat three double-stuf Oreos. It's a stress item - the school district has already declared a snow day for tomorrow. We're supposed to get walloped by the storm coming up the east coast. The boys are such fun ages (eight and five) to do snow days with, but the toddler is like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - you never know what you're gonna get.

So tomorrow we will organize and clean and play outside and drink hot cocoa and watch a video and do some exercising and wrap up homework and maybe cook something to kill some time. Homemade pizza, anyone?

To add insult to injury, I weighed in at 205.8 today. My fingers were swollen, so I know a lot of it is water. But still. IRRITATING.

Oh, and my surgeon appointment was canceled because he got stuck in the OR. But that was fine with me because it gave me extra time to get a manicure buy more emergency bread, eggs and milk.

EDITED TO ADD: I threw up the half an artichoke and half a glass of wine that took me two hours to eat. Disgusting, and uncomfortable. I'm heading to bed and hoping for a little more breathing room tomorrow.