WHATS HAPPENING MONDAY

Sunday was a great day and a sad day too for several reasons…the happy part was a couple that have both had gastric bypass surgery that I have wrote to for about 2 years. They got in touch with me like a lot of people have on OH but live in Dallas Texas. They are really nice people , about two weeks ago they told me they were going to be in Branson for a few days ….so I told them when they got here to call me and Joe and I would come to Branson and meet up with them.. Well they called yesterday and they said they would be in Branson this morning so we met up at noon at the hotel they were at and we took them to Mels Hard Luck Diner. I knew they would enjoy that place. Have any of you been there? If not you need to go. It is so much fun there….all the waiters and waitresses are young hope to be singers. Really good singers that are looking to get their break, each one has certain tables like any resturant and who ever is your server has some of their cds on the table…and you can request them to sing something that is on the cds. Like I said they are great and it is so festive in there. So if you ever get to go do it is loads of fun.

After we got home this evening I got a phone call from a friend of mine, his wife that is a good friend and had surgery about a month after the time I did passed away today….She weighted 345 pounds and she lost weight like crazy , I knew something was wrong the first time I saw her after her surgery. She looked pale and waxy looking. I got to talking to her and she wasn’t eating like she should have been. She would eat and then throw it all up , she said she couldn’t help it. But I found out she was doing it on purpose. She wasn’t eating her protein , she wasn’t taking her vits. All of it made her sick she said. Everything made her sick , then she wound up in the hospital. Her throat and pouch was full of ulcers. She says now see I told you all that food and stuff were making me sick…but the doctor told her that she had made the ulcers from thowing up all the time. …she had become anorexic and bulimic. She was determined to get under 100 pounds and she did , the last time I saw her I thought she looked like the living dead. Now she is and im going to miss her. Why wouldn’t she listen. I tried to tell her so many times that she didn’t have to not eat at all. That she just needed to change the way she ate. I tried to tell her about the protein, about the vits. Abou****er. She just would not listen she was so obsessed with being tiny…she went from wearing 3xs to 1s and they were loose on her. She was so proud of the fact that she was that little. That everyone said how tiny she was. Oh my gosh why wouldn’t she listen….I don’t know what happens to some people they just get so obsessed with the fact that they can lose and they go all crazy the other way. Anyway im going to miss her. She was a great person .just say a prayer for her family and for all of us that loved her..

JO::::: that was nice of your niece to put splenda in things for you and your sister to make the cream puffs with s. f. pudding. Maybe we do make examples best by our lives you think? I sure hope so. …it isn’t always easy for us to choose right but we can and do it healthy.

I enjoy cooking new things and making them with splenda and w.w. flour or some other low cal baking mix. To me that part of cooking is fun to see if I can make it taste as good as it did before.

This year the turkey tasted as good as it always did .

Colette:::: so good to see you on here. And good to know that you are healthy and happy too. Cant ask much more when you are our ages can you lol…

My knee is doing great except it seems to swell if im up too much. And I know what you mean about damp and cold. It really doesn’t make you feel to well does it ….

Lou::::: im glad that everyone was pleasant about your Christmas photo shoot. Was a really good picture of all of you. …..

Jeanie-Rae::::::lol sounds like you have one of those kids too lol. My youngest daughter was like that . Now I have both of her kids with me lol . Now how did that happen?

Yeah I would say go ahead and keep tooting your own horn….most of the time that works well….

Lets them know that you are ready and don’t want to sit any longer..

That thing you were talking about me getting on might be a problem if it is really low to the ground , that might be hard to get down there…the knee is bending more and better every day.

Well going to get this posted and then get to bed. This day has about wiped me out…..love all of you , please take care of yourself.. And do all that you know you are suppose to do…..remember the thing about losing weight is to get healthy …