Next Christmas

Hey guys Just thinking about next christmas (I know, I know, this one isn't over yet ). Anyway, for me, I am really looking forward to it - imagining what I am going to look like in a years time, with my slim slender body (forget about all the loose saggy skin!!!!). Just those thoughts make me want to get on with loosing and exercising again - woohoo, what a journey we are on. Before I had WLS I could not imagine what I would look like as I always had the fear that it wouldn't work for me, like every other diet I've been on my whole life. Now I KNOW it is working for me, and it has opened my mind to so many possibilities in my life - I finally feel free to live (even though I'm not at goal yet). Free from the control food had over me, free from the constrainst of my body suffocating the me inside, free from the fear that I would just keep getting bigger and bigger. 2007 for me is the year of breaking free and living in freedom.

Well said Ruth! I couldnt have said it better! IT is freeing to be rid of sooo much excess weight - sometimes I even forget how damaging it was to my ankles and my psyche. Our surgiversary's are coming up in 5 months and there is soo much still to look forward to and goals to work toward. You are right, 2007 is really all of our year to shine! Kathryn

You are so right!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! its very exciting, and hard to imagine just how much weight we were walking around with every day. and how much easier it is just to get around and move, not even to consider how cute we are all getting...LOL

((((((Ruthie Girl))))))) don't you DARE wait until you are at goal to start living. We never know how long we have on this earth and we have to make the most of each and every day. Now you give me three pma's and we'll call it even! Here are my pma's for the day: 1) i have cleaned my house and it looks great 2) Tonight friends are coming over to see the New Year's Fireworks 3) a friend from my past called and although he's not dating my friend anymore he asked to keep in touch with my husband and I because he loves us, so sweet. hugs, ANDI

Andi I have no idea what pma stands for, but here is my list 1) Instead of sitting around being upset because they never come over, I invited my 3 sisters & their children (2 sisters who haven't been talking this past year) to our house for a christmas get together. To my amazment they all came and we had a fun time. 2) I wore a skirt and tight fitting top at the other christmas get together we had last night with friends and actually sat on the floor ( I never used to be able to get up!!) 3) Went for a walk with hubbie & daughter and as she was worn out on the way home carried her on my back up the hill. She weighs less than I have lost and it really brought home to me what I have achieved. Before I would never had made it up the hill again let alone carried 50lb as well!! Life is GOOD

PMA stands for positive mental attitude it's making sure you see life as a half full glass and not a half empty one. Each day i write my (3) pma's in my journal, it's the good things that happened to me that day, it really makes you look at your life in a more positive way. Hugs, ANDI

Thanks Andi I am going to add pma's to my daily journal too.

my fear is that by Christmas I might be inching back up, I know that there are so many unknowns, what a body does is still uncharted territory. I 'hope' that I will be exactly the same as I am today. I just do not know. right now I am happy. I am confident that I am healthy and will remain so. I do not want to get smaller or bigger. I just wish that I had a crystal ball that could predict the future.

Yup, unfortunately the crystal ball got left out of the instruction manual of life hee hee. Mindyou, it makes life less predictable and exciting - it would be too boring otherwise Life is a roller coaster - we can choose to cling on for all we are worth, enjoy the ride and scream our little 'ol hearts out in delight or live in fear that things may not work out ok! Now remind me of this when I am at / close to goal when the excitment of loosing has worn off and I am shaking in fear at the thougth of putting all my weight back on!!! (don't worry - it's my 2nd day back at work - starting at 7.30am so my mind isn't quite what it should be til I get back into the schedule of no sleep. I'll become sane again in a few days)

I like extended warranties, I like guarantees, I do not like roller coasters, ever! btw, my body is freaking with me again. I got home. got on the scales and it SAYS that I have not changed in 14 days, same weight. so that is a good thing, I THINK> but then again, even my hubby noticed that my clothes do not fit the same way at all. much much baggier. stupid clothes. stupid scale. heehee