HI EVERYONE! SOME GREAT NEWS!!!!

Hi Everyone! It has been sooooooooo long and I wanted to check in and say hello to my extended family! I hope you are all doing well! I am on a plateau with my weight loss,I am doing everything right, the scale just won't budge and I am not worried about it! my body will do what it will and as long as I know I am eating right and doing what I can as far as excercise I just have to deal with the plateau until it breaks,Dr.said not to change my diet that my diet is right on the mark and that I have to be patient,that this is completely normal to happen at this stage of the surgery.I am totally okay with it! I have some very good news to share with you all!!!! My friend that I have been helping out with her business for the past several weeks has made a great recovery and came back to work a week ago!!so life is getting back to the norm again! As many of you know I had some serious flooding issues last summer,last week with all the rain we had and snow melt the basement started flooding again,not bad though..THANK GAWD!! but it was enough to send me right over the top! DH came home from work and I was having a COMPLETE meltdown,it was one of "those" days................ so he said come on,he makes a call and said we will be there in 1/2 hour...I am like where are we going? he said to Berwick,don't ask no more questions okay?I am like geez okay!!! we pulled up in front of this home,this lady came and opened the door lol.....I am clueless by the way of what the heck was going on! and he said remember don't ask me any questions!!just take a look around and tell me what you think........ OMG! I loved it! it is a ranch home, 4 bedrooms,fireplace,central air,big deck,fenced in yard with a inground swimming pool,and attached garage.super nice,what was Not to like? I asked him what was going on? he smiled and said........... "WELCOME HOME"!! I was like WHAT????????????? he said, I knew that you would love it! he said he got a pre-approval on the mortgage and if I wanted the home it was ours,I was like YES!!!! but where is the for sale sign that should be on the front yard,he said they hid it to surprise me!! we left and went to the Century 21 office with Dawn (who I know now is a real estate agent) and put our deposit on it! so as of last evening,we started the process! if all goes well with the inspections,we should be moving in the last week of April!! What a great surprise! I am still in shock! and I am so happy!! We have been looking for a ranch home for the past few years because my back is so bad and steps are my worst enemy! This is like a dream come true!! My daughter is thrilled about the move as well!! which is a biggie since she will have to change schools,but she said she is fine with it,the school is several blocks away from the house so she will not have to take a bus!! I will be sure to keep you all updated on how things are moving along! Please keep us in your prayers that everything works out with the inspections and we have no serious issues! ((hugs)) Nancy

Nancy it is so good to hear from you!!!!!!! I have been thinking about you and hoping you are doing well. Congrats on the new home. How exciting. Will you have trouble selling the old house with the leakage problems? I hope not. I had been losing really slow since last November. But I cut out most carbs in the last couple weeks and have lost 7 lbs. So I am happy to have found my inner will-power for now. I had been sliding down that slippery slope of cookies etc. I also was eating too many tortillas, bread etc and have cut that way back. This tool is amazing. It is totally true "It works, if you work it". Glad to hear your friend is doing better. I have some work news myself so will post that in a different post. Take care, Michelle

Hi Michelle!!! We were lucky and sold the home in December,we are friends with the new owners and they are letting us rent it out until we found a home or for 6 months (June)when they will start the work on the home. They are very aware of the water problem and are going to sink a ton of money into it to fix it, I knew we were not going to stay here much longer as I said we have been looking for a ranch for a long time so I had no intention on putting money into fixing it, thank goodness that worked out with getting it sold,honestly I was worried about it!so everything has worked out well for us to this point. I am glad that you got back on track and you are SO RIGHT about this surgery being a tool,you have to know how to use it for it to work,just like a shovel unless you pick it up and do the work,it is useless. I will keep an eye out for your post about the new job!is it the sheriff position?? I hope that you have found what you are looking for and all works out for you,man you have had a tough time of it with what happened and I wish you all the best,my prayers are with you!! be sure to keep me updated! ((hugs)) Nancy

Aww, what a nice fella you have. Congrats on your new home. Lori

Thanks so much Lori!!! how the heck have you been??? Nancy

Its always nice to hear you arnt the only one experiencing something Im also not too worried about it too much... Im hoping in the next week or so the scale will start moving. I just hate that I have so much weight in my belly still!! Thats the part Ive always hated... when I got approved I couldnt WAIT for that big ole belly to be gone and its still freaking here!!! Im also very excited to see what a change 30lbs will be! I could lose 30lbs before and not even see a difference... now just a little bit makes a big change! Congrats on everything - such good things are comming to you! Keep up the good work!

Wow Nancy. Congrats on the new house! I can't imagine any scenario where I could surprise the wife like that. Cool stuff. -Dan

Thanks Dan! LOL!! it took 19 years for me to get that surprise,so never say never! Nanc

Hi Jennifer! Yeah I agree with you,it is good to know others are going throught he same issues,makes you feel a lot better knowing it is not something your doing wrong. now about that belly fat....urghhhhhhhhhhhh....that is where ALL my excess weight is now and it is driving me up a wall!! I hate it,it is like my gawd I have lost so much weight and then I look at the tummy and makes me sick to see it!!so don't feel bad your are NOT the only one! I guess now that we are at the final stretch,the hardest part of the losing,it will happen just have to hang in there! I think with summer around the corner and getting out and going more places it will make a huge differnce with more walking and excercise. Nancy

That is excellent! Robin