Daily Food Diary – Day 173 of 365

by annemariedemyen, posted in 2025, Health and Fitness

It is 173 Days since I started posting my Daily Food Diary. 

It is also 4 months since I was placed on the Waiting List for repair of my epigastric hernia.    I was told by my surgeon’s receptionist that it would probably be about  eight weeks to get a surgery date confirmed.  šŸ˜

The wait doesn’t bother me.  In the meantime, I have been working to improve my respiratory health so things will go as well as possible when I am dealing with the anesthesia.  

My hernia is generally painless.  When it does get pushed out, I can usually deal with it.  There was one painful situation that sent me to the hospital emergency room for assistance, but I have been careful since that experience so have avoided a return visit.

The only issue I do have, is that I decided to put a pause on exercising using weights until after I have my surgery.   Lifting, and holding, even seven to ten pound weights, was one thing that was almost guaranteed to bother my hernia…and it was only for a few weeks.

Obviously, the wait could be indefinite at this point and in the meantime I am losing upper body strength. šŸ™„

So, I have decided to (cautiously) step back to my five pound weights and restart my afternoon strength building workouts.  Wish me luck! šŸ¤ž

Daily Food Diary – Day 173

Breakfast:

(1) c coffee (2)

(3) sl bacon (130)

(2) eggs (160)

(2) potato patties (240)

(1/2) tomato (11) (1 SVG)

Snacks:

(1) peach (58) (1 SVG)

(1/6) c dry roast peanuts (162)

(1/6) c mixed nuts (108)

(1) c licorice tea

(36) oz water

Supper:

(4) vegetable spring rolls (500) (2 SVG)

(4) shrimp nests (210) (1 SVG)

(3) riblets (49)

(2) pc’s buttermilk chicken (84)

(5) Gyoza (225)

(1) tbsp Gyoza dipping sauce (15)

(1) tbsp plum sauce (35)

(1) tbsp shrimp sauce (20)

(1) tbsp Dilly Dip (80)

(1) PC Butterscotch Pudding Cake (153)

Total net calories: 2243

Net calories goal: 1238 – 2243 = 1005 over šŸ‘Ž

Fruits & vegetables: 5 servings

Fruits & vegetables goal: 7 servings šŸ‘Ž

That’s it for today.  Take care and have a great day! šŸ˜ŠšŸ’–

17 thoughts on “Daily Food Diary – Day 173 of 365”

  1. Wishing you all the best on the lifting of weights, Anne. I hope too that you don’t have to wait very much longer for the surgery. Thank you for sharing a photo of your beautiful purple flowers, my favorite color. Hugs

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  7. Wow, be careful with that hernia, Anne! I had a hernia several years ago, a plastic mesh was put in there and it’s been stable but if I lean against it, it let’s me know its still there! Ouch!

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  8. Cautiously is 100% the right approach, Anne. Start slow and donā€™t be too anxious to hurry back to the ten lb weights. Youā€™ve got this!! šŸ‘

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  9. I had this one repaired a few years ago but the repair failed. The plastic mesh ‘migrated’. No one knows where it migrated to, it’s just gone. šŸ˜‚

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  10. Thank you, Terry. I will definitely be cautious. The time I went to emergency, we sat in a waiting room for three or four hours before I bent over to try to tie my boot and the hernia popped back in by itself.

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  14. My nurse practitioner said it gets absorbed into a muscle. Not sure what that means. If they keep putting that stuff in me and it keeps migrating, I might become Grandma Barbie some day. šŸ™‚

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