Hello Everyone ! I am back!

Hello Beautiful People! I am back from vacation and so glad to be home! Had a great time but love coming home! I find that I do not do so well with my eating and drinking when I am away from home and get out of my comfort level. That and I tend to lounge around more and my level of exercise is down from when I am at home. We got home late Monday night and I weighed in Tuesday with about a 5 pound gain for my 2 week vacation...UGH I weighed this morning and I am back down 5 ugly pounds and back on track. I do much better when I have a set routine and keep to my schedule...it must be my old age! lol I did have a great time ....lounged all day by the pool and read books....I read 5 books total so I really enjoyed that! Now that we are home...My house is a wreck...laundy out the wazoo.....and I am tired enough from the time change to fell pretty darn lazy! I am sooo ready to get our time back an hour! My beauty sleep needs it! I see we have a new profile format on here so I will try to get mine switched over and add some new pictures of me. I am old enough that I ususally resist change but I figure I had better comply now before they do away with the old profies all together. I use my profile to log my journey to keep me on track. I find it so helpful to go back over my entries and see just how far I have come. It is my form of accountability to myself I got to see several people in Vegas who haven't seen me since before surgery and they were shocked! My family all flew out there for my niece's wedding and several had not seen me so it was a real high for me! Well I am off here to try and tackle the housework that is so badly needed! You all take care and thank you for always being there as my support family! Hugs to you all! Marianne 397/284/Healthy Goddess

Hot Moma!!! Love the new picture! You are looking great, glad your back safe and in good spirits! Carmen

So glad to see you're back! Hopefully you'll be in town for the next weasel wear swap! How long til your next Vegas trip? 2-3 weeks? Hubby and i were supposed to be going for our honeymoon at the end of this month, but baby has changed our mind about that. So instead some friends from back home in kansas are coming out for a few days.

Darrah, It soundsl like you are doing great! It will be nice for you two to have your friends in to visit. Honestly, Vegas isn't all that great weatherwise ...from November till about late April as far as I am concerned. You will have plenty of time to check it out later! I hope to be at the next exchange...I really miss not getting to see everyone! Hugs! Marianne

Marianne, Welcome back my fellow Vegan at heart! I gotta disagree with you though about it's weather. The first time we went was Thanksgiving (when we got married) and the next for New Years. Both times we walked around with short sleeves. No, it wasn't hot enough to go swimming and laying out. But the temps were so comfortable to walk around. The 3rd time was in March..and it was tank tops and swimming that round. The last time...June... was too hot to lay out, pools were crowded, and to just walk around, the heat hit you like an open oven. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed that too being post-op! LOL! We had threats of rain and lightening just about the whole week so outside shows had to be cancelled. That part wasn't so good. Guess I love the weather there 12 months a year! Give me it's WORSE day and it would beat Indiana weather! Our next time out there will probably be April or May. We bought a used RV while you were gone and we're planning on taking it out there. It is really terrific to see you back! Sherri

Welcome back. Sure missed you at the clothing exchange. Love the new pic but if u keep showing more and more skin....I'll have to close my eyes for the next one...LOL HOT HOT HOT You did great if u have already lost the 5 lbs. Congrats

Thanks ! I was pleased with the pics from Vegas. I spent tooooo much time trying to reformat my logs into the new blogs...ugh! I hate technology changes that do not do the work for you! lol I was glad to shed the pounds so quickly...so that tells me they may have been only temporary ones...I tried eating good but when we vacation I usually don't eat more except I do eat differently than normal so the upset happens. You can keep your eyes open sweetie....I won't be showing too much! At least not until after plastics...hee .hee! Hugs! Marianne

Glad you had a nice time and are back with us. Maybe some day I will get a chance to go to Vegas, But I really wanto to to see the show. Lisa B

Glad you had a great time I bet it WAS a thrill when everyone saw the new improved you... a real WOW moment!!! Linda

Hope you got some of that housework taken care of! Glad you had such a great time! You look marvelous as always darling! Sam