Catching up..

Hi all, I've been away from the boards for a while... we went to Florida last week, this time for a family vacation/visit my mom combo. I did something I would have never thought of doing ever before in my life.. DH and I joined a gym for a week. It was so much fun. I took part in "Body Flow" classes which are a combo of Tai Chi, Yoga and Pilates. How fun! I never took any of those things so it was very new and exciting. It was great to be at a gym... wi**** was feasible to join here, but between my commute to work DH's schedule and 2 toddlers, I have no time left in my day to go to the gym which is why I have the equipment at home and that works best for now. I did see a notice in the town paper that there is a yoga class starting in 2 weeks and struck up a deal w/DH to make sure he is home for the kids so I can go once a week. YAY!! I can't believe I am so excited for this. I find that I am really enjoying and looking forward to exercise which is quite a new thing for me. I did quite a bit of shopping in FL... lots of great summer clothes there! I ended up with a lot of size 16's and XL tops!! WAHOOO!!! Out of the plus sized department forever! Between shopping an the gym I ended up losing 3 pounds on vacation. Trying to catch up on CT news, I see that the Harkness party is happening soon. Kathy, I can't make the meeting but I will be glad to help in anyway that I can. Lisa C, loved your pictures of Las Vegas. Looks like you had a great time. I really enjoyed seeing all of the new pictures and congrats to all the new post ops and to those who have surgery dates. Looking forward to a great summer!!! Terri

Welcome back to CT. Glad to hear you had a great time. And look at you --shrinking and rocking(at the gym)! I had never heard of body flow but it does sound like a great class. Look how far you have come. I will talk to you soon.----Oh, we missed the support group in NL. I did not get the message until last nite and I was at the hospital and walked right past the room and even looked in thinking it was an AA class.(They had made an announcement over the PA about AA and I just assumed-and you know what they say about Assuming.) But congrats on the loss and keep up the hard work. Linnie

LOL!!! I can't believe we missed the meeting again! Darn. We will have to get more notice for the next one. I haven't been to a meeting in a long time. We will have to catch up soon

Hi Terri I am glad to hear from you from this board and missed ya! I am glad you had a blast time in Fla and spend alot of money for summer clothes !!! You retired from Plus sized dept. and enjoy to pick any clothes from other side of dept!!!!! I am so proud of you to find your time to do your excericse under your balance time for work, Girls and things around at home. I know what it like because I always keep busy with this and some of my friends were complaning that I spend my time for excercise, involved WLS support group , spend my time with my kids etc... They do not understand that I CHANGED my life sytle after I had my surgery. I will see all of you at Harkness Party this July. I will go to Mohegan Sun Group Support on May 26th at 530 pm. Hope to see you there if you can make it or not! Hugs Kathy K

Thanks Kathy, I meant to tell you too that my friend at work saved the article for me in the Waterford Times about you. Great article! I loved the picture of you and your trainer holding up your pants! Boy you have come such a long way, Kathy. Congratulations. Thanks also for all your inspiration for exercise. I love seeing the results from it with smaller clothes and less jiggling I will try to make the Mohegan sun meeting. Where do they hold them? terri