What's happening?

It's been a busy time for me the past week or so. I had a college fair for my younger son, work, side work on a website and a yearbook, and I went to my first visit with a chiropracter yesterday. This is another step in the documentation for a TT, but I also have lower back pain alot so it's legit. I did the MS walk on 4/22 and the Walkamerica one on the 29th with my son. I will post when I get the pictures developed. My brother came up from Florida last week and he hadn't seen me since last June. He has admitted to me in the past that he's horrible about noticing weight loss, so I didn't expect much from him. My mother, however, has been telling him all along how well I've been doing and so when my son and I got my mother's place, they were waiting for us at the stairs to her floor. My brother was astounded! He said to me, I know my sister is in there, I can tell you by your eyes, but you don't look like yourself any more!! Your face is so angular! Then he took pictures and sent them to my sister in law and niece and they were shocked, too. Needless to say it was a nice feeling! I will upload those pictures later today. Today is my older son's 19th birthday and it's the first year we are not spending it with him since he's at his dorm. (He dorms in Manhattan so I actually see him several times a week!) He used to be very standoffish, went through a gothy-kind of don't touch me phase, but now when we walk, he puts his arms around my shoulders! And he's constantly telling me how tiny I am. I am fitting into size 10 pants and small/med shirts and even though it took place over the past year, it feels like I just got here and it's still new and exciting for me. I think it will always be that way. Did anyone watch Oprah this week with the lady who had WLS surgery and has a book out called, Winning After Losing? She had a really good piece of advice - she said the difference between heavy people and thin people, is that when a thin person binges, they get up the next day and continue on normally where I guess heavy people see it as a failure and continue the binge. So I am trying really hard to forgive myself when I give in to a craving and just go right back and continue my program and be successful. I ordered her book from Amazon and another book and I'll let you all know what I think of it. I hope everyone is well and stopping in to report either here or on yahoo. Enjoy the weekend! Sue

so happy for you love hearing about stories like that, my family has not saw me yet either when I move back home I know they are going to die .

It is great when we see people who haven't seen us for a long time or ever since the surgery and to seethem looking at you or staring at you is soooo funny. Rebecca..is that the reason you are moving to be near family or job related? Is it Kentucky?? Joan

Susan I didn't see the Oprah program and haven't read that book but I have been working on that very issue. When I do give in to temptation and have something I really shouldn't have I have been talking to myself about it and just trying to put that incident behind me and get back on track that very day. Not like the old me who would just throw in the towel and continue binging and never get back to my eating program. So far it's been working for the first time ever. I know that may not always be the case and will have to forever be aware of what and why I am eating and asking myself, do I really want that or need that item I crave, will it be worth splurging on it? We all need to forgive ourselves and not feel like failures when we splurge. We are all only human. All the best Sher