Good Morning Barb....and fellow MARCHers, I'm not sure where I'm supposed to post my walking tallies each day....but for 10/2, I walked 1.5 miles on the treadmill and then 2 miles during the day with my pedometer....for a total of 3.5 miles. I took some things down to Goodwill yesterday and thought I'd look in the store to see if there was anything "I couldn't live without". I found a real leather skirt....that fit me!!!...for $3.50. And yes, I bought it... because I just couldn't live without it!!! hahaha Part of the 2 miles on the pedometer was walking up and down every isle through that Goodwill store.....I had to look at EVERYTHING!! OK, I'm off to chemotherapy....have a great day everyone.

hey everyone I want to thank ALL of you for your well wishes, prayers, thoughts for Wyatt, mysel and the rest of the family. Wyatt is doing MUCH better. He has a follow up Thursday just to make sure before he goes back to school on Monday. Zachary is doing good...the flushing of the intestines is not going like we planned...it is suppose to make him go to the bathroom and he's only gone 3 times...not a good sign...or it could be a great one...won't know until we do x-rays...which i think is thursday as well. The swelling in my legs is getting better.. I found a GREAT support thing it is ugly and hot but helps and of course the increased fluid and excersize is helping as well. I finally got the last paperwork the army as asked for. I have to fax it to Ft Bliss today, they will review it THURSDAY (Thursday is a big day for us) Then they will send it to japan. Japan reviews eerything on Friday...but thursday here is Friday there so we'll have to wait until NEXT friday. If they deny us this time we are just going to ask for compassionate reassignment....we are going to ask for FT Bragg...if we can't get that then we want FT Sill. So keep my familyin your thoughts Thursday! Thanks for all you guys do...wouldn't have made it through the last 2 years with out you....

well I don't know about the poch test by i did start barbs no carb diet yesterday I didn't get as many fluids in as I like but way more then I normally do and lots of protien...and got my walking/running in too ...I am not worried about loosing anymore weight...it's the carbs i HAVE to get out of my diet...if i don't in another month I'll be back on the fat track! Thankfully my sister is trying to get skinnier then me....can't let that happen LOL....so I have some healthy competition going on

The 5 day pouch test I posted about a while back. Kaye Bailey developed it for WLS people who want to test the pouch and know it is still working. I think it is a good idea and I keep meaning to try it! I hope you keep up with your walking miles and check in with us and let us know. You have probably read the posts about our MARCHers and the October Walk-a-thon in a quest to collectively walk across America! If you haven't seen the posts just read back a few and catch up. We need and want you walking across America (on paper) with us! You are one of our most successful MARCHers and we hope you will join it! Good luck...Barb

You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands - your own.....Mark Victor Hansen We do control our future, our destiny. Some of that control and future started when we made the conscious decision to have weight loss surgery. What we thought about came about - we thought long and hard before we made that final decision to have this surgery. We set in motion the process of becoming the person we most wanted to be. HOWEVER....since beginning this process we have been successful, BUT we have a little way to go to get to the final goal. We must put our future in our own good hands and we must reach our goal. Now whether recording your dreams and goals on paper will be the answer - I don't know for sure. I am not a "writing it down on paper person", but I know many of you are. I personallly have never kept a diary - well I did once when I was 10 until my younger sister found it...and the key that opened it...and read to my mother those things you think about your mother when you are mad, but wouldn't dare say outloud! At that point in my young life I concluded the only diary I needed was between my ears!!!! So I don't write down goals and dreams - I keep them in my head. Perhaps you are a person who writes down these things. Just for today - let's try an exercise. Get a piece of paper and on it write "I will follow the rules today in order to get to my goal"....post it in front of you. No one who happens to see it will have any idea that the goal is to get to goal weight!!!! Whenever you decide to make a wrong choice - look at that paper and see if you are following the rules.....you know them by now! Vitamins, water, exercise and protein!!! I will be MIA the next few days. We are leaving tomorrow for 4 fun filled days with my son and his family in Nashville. We are taking our 4 year old granddaughter to the zoo on Friday - which will result in a great opportunity for walking!!!! Rick has graciously agreed to post my motivational messages Thursday, Friday and Monday. I will be back with you on Tuesday! Put your future starting today in YOUR GOOD HANDS!!!! You can do it MARCHers - you can make the right decisions. Will you meet your goal today? Hugs to all...Barbara