Weekend edition----What's happening??

Another day of hanging around recuperating. If I feel up to it, I might ride along with Gary to Hot Springs later this morning. We'll see.

I lost 6lbs overnight. Don't you just love fluid retention after surgery?  Even knowing it will happens I still freak out. Gotta get a grip!

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend.

FYI----the Over 50 Forum had over 70 postings to their What's Happening thread yesterday.  Sure wish we could be that active here.

Love ya all

I'm not doing anything this weekend.  Last week I bought some TaoBo tapes, and one of them is for over 40, I'm not even close to 40, but the slower and easier workouts will help me get back up to doing the regular TaoBo I was doing before surgery while on the liquid diet.  Plus it is not as hard on my back.

I started going to the chiropractor again, 3 times a week.  This one did x-rays and tests on me and found that my hip is crooked slightly.  And my sacrum (its above by the ****yx) is off from the rest of my spine, and that was probably caused from when I was overweight for so many years.  So it does seem that I am paying for letting my body get so big.  But I would rather be fit and healthy even if I have to take pain pills all day then be overweight not knowing if I am going to die in my sleep from all my co-morbidities.  :)

I am trying to get off this final 50 lbs, all year long, my weight hasn't changed (but a few lbs up and down) since last year.  I am approaching my 2 year post-op mark, and it flew by quicker than the first year.  I have some regrets for this last year, I wish I would have worked out more and tried harder to get this 50lbs off.  But better late than never.  I do think though that part of this 50lbs is fat and skin and I do know that I may not be able to get it off totally with exercise and that I am looking into lipo but not skin removal yet, because I want to start a family before I pay buckos out of pocket to tighten everything and put it all back in its proper place LOL.

Evelyn, it's so nice to see you!  I can't believe that you're approaching your second anniversary. Time does fly.
I'm proud of you for wanting to keep working at getting the last of your weight off. A good thing about this tool is that it's always going to be there, you just have to use it!  It may not come off as fast or as easily, but if you keep at it, I know you can do it!

The reason I got this inguinal hernia was because I was obese for so long. It's hard to imagine exactly what damage we do to ourselves by the abuse obesity causes. Hope the chiropractor can help you with your issues.

Please stick around more. We've missed you!

OK, so it's Monday morning.  Better late than never.  We spent Friday evening and all day and night Saturday working on Eddie's room.  When I left for Dallas Sunday morning, Val stayed home to finish up putting his room together and unpacking his stuff.  The room does look great.  Eddie was really excited and he likes it so I guess we hit a home run.  We met at Pappadeaux for a late lunch.  I had some boiled shrimp.  Pat had some gumbo, my daughter Alexis had the Crawfish bisque, and Sandra had a halibut sandwich.  It was all good. (I had a bite of everyone's lunch and shared my shrimp).  When we got home, the TV was messed up.  After calling support, we are getting a new satellite receiver sometime this week.  Seems the hard drive in ours is messed up.  We missed all our shows that I thought were recording the past 3-4 days.  Oh well, I never watch too much during the summer anyway.  It's off to work this morning.  It's pretty bad when you look forward to Monday after being off the weekend to be able to get a little rest, lol.  Every bone and muscle in our bodies ache today.  Getting older sucks sometimes, lol.  At least I get the satisfaction of knowing that a year ago I was incapable of doing all of this.  About the obesity walk,  I am going to really try to come up with the extra money and sign up this year.  Maybe I'll finally get to meet you all in person.  Gotta go jump in the shower soon.  Ya'll have a good week.  We love you too, Susan.

Wow, I'm so glad Eddie liked his room!  Bet you were relieved, too.

I know just how you feel, wanting to go back to work for a rest. I so enjoy where I work, who I work with, and what I do that it's a joy to go there everyday. Not that I don't enjoy being home, I just like work too...LOL

MMMM a halibut sandwich. Man, that sounds really, really good