Happy after Christmas!

I'm not on as much mainly because this is my son's computer that I use and he has switched his shifts so that we are home at the same time. That means he's on line playing his computer games. Its been kinda nice cause I've been able to do my cooking and wrapping for the holidays! the down side is I"ve missed everyone's postings! As far as christmas- it was a great holiday. My elderly mother who has had some major health issues this past 4 weeks was able to make it from NH to CT for christmas! I wanted to go to NH this year because of her health but she was determined to come here and my sister who she lives with said mom wants to come we'll do everything we can to make it happen. We aren't sure if she'll be here next christmas. So i kept my fears to myself and we did it! It was a good holiday. My new fiance's famiily all came over to meet my mother too! This little condo was filled with family old and new. the new fiance has 7 brothers and sisters along with their significate others and all of the children. not to mention his son & daughter with their partners and kids too! AT one point my normally extremely talkative mother was at a loss for words and sat with her mouth opened watching them all pour into the front door. Instead of this being a scrapbook page its going to be volumes of books! I made tons of goodies. I love to cook. I did good no pretasteing of anything and when they were served I had 1/2 a cookie, small slice of ppumpkin pie about the size of my index finger. ate lots of turkey & squa****hink I did good. My mother has to weigh herself every morning. She has congestive heart failure and if she gains we would have had to take her to the hospital for treatment. She did good too! We hid the salt shaker! But i used her scale to weigh myself this morning and it showed a gain of 5 pounds. I wasn't upset becasue number one her scale isn't the one I normally use scales are different even though she said her's is the best scale in the whole wide world. I kept my mouth shut and just nodded. I'm not in my regular schedule. I"m not excerising, I'm not drinking my water like I should. Yes I could have gained but I don't think it is as much. And if it is 5 whole pounds that I've put on. Well, I'll lose it in the next 2 weeks. So, my plan... all the left over things that I am not able to have in this condo is in the trash or packed up to go to my local senior living center. I have 2 pies that have not been cut that are going and a tray of wonderful cookies. Plus a fruit basket that there is no way as much as how wonderful the fruit is I'd never eat it all it would go bad. I can't stand to waste anything like that. The mashed potatoes & gravy TRASHED! The left over carrots sticks are staying I love those things!!!! Opened box of my old favorite Ritz crackers TRASHED!!!! Stick of cheeze saved! Some of the things I could freeze but what would be the point? In my old days I'd eat things frozen and I just do not want to take the chance of having a bad day and wide up finding myself with my head in the freezer ever again muching on a hard stick of something that is bad for me. I do have a nice story about my sister who was a heavy as I was at one point but very very very nasty about me having the surgery she just didn't agree with it at all. In the past year she's gone to weigh****chers and this time is being successful. She's lost 40 pounds and I see a big difference in how she carrys herself. She is down a couple of sizes and feels great about it. I can admit that I sometimes have a hard time dealing with how she will make a very big point of telling everyone how she has been successful with weigh****chers and that anyone can do it if they only try but I am glad that she is losing because it will make her healthier. I chose this way of my life and I have been successful. I will continue to be successful because I am healthier and happier than I ever felt I would be. I'm also glad that my having this surgery acually has pushed my sister to be successful with what she has chosen! I hope everyones stockings were filled with protein bars!

Hi Pam; I'm glad that your Christmas went well. Mine was also quite good. I wasn't sure how it would work out this year, because I was on call all weekend. The supervisors in my department have weekend duty on a rotating basis and I happened to get Christmas weekend this year. As it turns out, the signal system behaved itsielf and the phone didn't ring once!! That's almost unheard of for a long weekend, but sometimes you get lucky! I didn't do any unreasonable eating although I tried a little of everything. Lets keep it going for the New Year! Mike

Pammie, I'm so glad you had a great Christmas with your mother. I'm also glad that your sister is doing well. I have a sister that is pretty heavy and she has just given up. She has a serious kidney disease that would qualify as a co-morbidity for this surgery, but she doesn't want the surgery, but isn't doing anything else to lose weight. I really worry for her. Hugs, Connie