Yeah Michelle!  Can't wait to see you and maybe Nathan too!

Hugs,
Barb

I am here to tell you as a mom who works & has a stay at home husband the guilt can be overwhelming!!!!!.    You just have to know what you are doing is for you to get healthy and stay healthy for you and your family. 

Now that being said......  Here is what I do ....   I also like to get my good walk in with out my kids.  So I work out hard for an hour with out my kids.  I either get out and go for a walk or get on my treadmill.  I then come back we all eat then I go on another walk/bike ride with my kids.  That way you are getting in your "me" time, you are also spending quality time with your kids and most importantly instilling a healthy life style.   My goal and feeling is I want to brake the cycle of  previous generations of being over weight with my boys.  I hope and prey they don't have to battle their weight like I have had to my whole life.  One way I do this is to promote a healthy lifestyle that includes regular exercise for my boys.  

I wish you well and good luck with your journey.  You sound very determined and I have no doubt you will hit your goal by Thanksgiving.  

Hey Barb & my Fellow Cali Friends -

Ohhh so know about being busy.  I forgot how busy this time of year is for us.  We had a huge Halloween birthday party for Nathan's 5th Birthday.  It went off with out a hitch & he was one very happy little boy.  

For weeks I was making cake pops, chocolate pretzels & all the goodies for his parties (yes he had two.  One for home & one at school).   I thought it was going to be hard with all of the candy & cake in the house but it was actually fine. 

Anyway hopefully things will slow down for a bit after Halloween & I hope to see everyone at the November lunch.
 

WOW!!!!, It has been sometime since I have been on the web site. I guess you need to come back every now and then, Well an update since surgery and since I last was on this site. I am now down to not quite goal. I am at 132.3, with 12lbs to go. I have choosen the Vegan lifestyle, I started body building training just the other day, I walk 8-9 miles a day, plus I zumba twice a week. and put in a full 8-12 hours at work.  I had some rough times in the last two years, I had to have 2 iron infusion so far so good, done the tummy tuck, got  tattoo happy,lol bought a motorcycle, happy my only child got into a good college of for his freshman year and he is loving it.  GOD has truly been good to me and I can say I am so Blessed.
 

 Robert Li is an excellent surgeon.  Just thought I'd throw that out there.  =]  

Hey, Fellow Californians!  Ya'll looking forward to Halloween and getting to have a little freedom with your costume choice?  I think the last time I dressed up, I wore a blow up shower costume.  It was awful.  

I don't suppose any of you are near Lake County?  I was born and raised in Petaluma, but I bought a house in Clearlake in December of last year and would love to meet other WLS people.  (I can get to Napa, Santa Rosa and Ukiah fairly easily).

Hope everyone is having a great week!!