Goodbye double D's

Goodbye double Ds
Though I hardly knew you at all
Or had the strength to hold you up
When bending o-o ver

When you were there,
Oh, Dave he hounded you
You were something more than special
More than just two lumps of fat

It seems to me, you lived your lives
Like two melons on a stump
Never knowing where to turn to
When you hit a bump

Oh I would've liked to know you when I was just a kid,
But my hormones burned out long before
My weight gain ever did.....

Soooo, the downside of losing weight is losing the boobs that I had so long waited for.  For the first time in my life (even when breast feeding) I was above a B cup!  Even though I was heavy, at least I could wear tight shirts and feel a little better about myself.   Ah, well, with everything there is a price.

I have now officially lost 22 lbs since January 6th, 2011.  I am sticking closely with medifast with just a few slides - mostly for wine.  This week has been tremendously hard as our computer system has been all kinds of screwed up and we've had less than optimal patient care because of it.  We found out yesterday that do to an improper conversion from one server to the other, we have lost the entire week's worth of notes and billing.  What tremendous fun.  That being said, I only had wine on Monday night and not since, so I think that's a big step!  I'm fully intending on having some tonight, though....

We did do an awesome dinner on Tuesday night.  We made taco salad, and since I haven't had avocado in so long, we decreased the meat on the salad and added 1/2 of an avocado - still had salsa, cilantro, and lettuce plus beef, but the addition of a little avocado was amazing!!!  Tonight we're going to go to Red Robin in Washington PA and get a turkey burger on a bed of lettuce.  Doesn't sound great, but what are you going to do?  It's impossible to go to a restaurant and order a salad because restaurants don't put much in the way of veggies on salads anymore.  They have bacon, cheese, croutons, tortilla strips, wontons, whatever, but NOT veggies. 

On a lighter note, Emma won first place in the school's social studies fair!  Yay Emma!   I was very proud.  She did a great job with her presentation despite running a fever of 101 when she did it. 

I was a judge for the social studies fair, and let me tell you, that's a tough job.  I know a lot of those kids well, and it was hard to mark them down.  It's also a little unfair, really, to make that mandatory.  Lots of those kids had NO help whatsoever.  I know that's kind of the point, but the schools cannot take the time to teach these kids how to do reports and oral presentations.  The parents have to step in there somewhere.  It's so tragic to see the kids that had no help.  The spelling on the reports was atrocious as was the grammar.  The lack of organization was also scary.   On the other hand, it was very difficult to see the ones that the parents basically did for the child.  The posters were excellent, the papers well typed, and the kids couldn't pronounce half of the words on the papers.  Plus, when we asked them questions about the topic that wasn't in their report, they had no idea.  Obviously someone worked hard on the reports, but it wasn't the kids.  Maybe the parents all need a little lesson in fostering education in their kids. 

I, for one, do not expect the school to teach my kids everything they need to know.  The schools are overcrowded.   The teachers are underpaid.  And the schools have to cater to everyone - the very smart, and the kids with learning disabilities.  If my kids don't go to college, I don't think its fair to say that it's the school system's fault.  Do I wish that we had better things in the public schools here for my kids?  Hell yes, I do.  Do I wish I had a private school here?  Hell yes, I do.  But, in the end, it's up to Phil and I to take responsibility for our children's education.  We take what they are learning in school and expand on it.  You don't have to be a doctor to have the ability to do this.  Anyone can try to enrich their children's minds.  When we shop, I make the kids try to figure out what the item will cost and how much change they'll get back.  When we travel, we stop at historic and educational places (often free to the public) and discuss the things we see.  We all read voraciously - well, Lee still likes to be read to. 

Accountability, that's what it all comes down to, and it's seriously lacking in our society.  Kids need to learn to be accountable.  It's not, "Well they didn't teach me that." My response is, well, why didn't you look it up.  One kid had a term in his report that he read off.  When he was done, I asked him what the term meant and he didn't know.  I KNOW for a fact that Emma wrote her report with a dictionary by her side and if she came across anything that she didn't understand, she looked it up.  It's not that much time in the grand scheme of things, and she learned a lot. 

Just like my boobs, I can't blame my loss on genetics or anything else - it's simply a choice I made, and this is the repercussion I have to face for it.  Accountability - I accept accountability for my weight loss and my lack of boobage.

Chew on that!
Dr. Mindy