Saturday morning

Hope everyone had a great day yesterday.. and that everyone has a WONDERFUL weekend as well. Lots on tap in this household for sure. Did my workout sans DH last night as he had to work his 2nd job but I took our daughter with me. We had a blast and good old mom shocked her bigtime. I outlasted and outpaced a 20 yr. old who is not overweight or out of shape!....*g*... She was equally impressed with the cute guys at the gym too! .... But we had fun and then hit Panera breads and she had an iced Chai tea and I had my usual SF Vanilla Latte Skim Milk.... we really had a neat time together!.. Getting ready to head in to work (it is my weekend) and then off to the gym after I close up shop at 12 noon. We are going to be heading out of "Dodge" this afternoon for points unknown... don't know if we are heading east or west... haven't decided yet!.... Everyone remember and revisit the reasons that you had WLS in the first place. Think about what it is that you NEED to do to be successful. Get tough with yourself. No excuses, no mollycoddling. For each and every issue that you deal with (whether food/etc.) give yourself a mental high five and learn from it... use it to make you stronger and more resolved to do the right things... instead of thinking that tomorrow will be another day that will somehow be "better"... Have a wonderful weekend!.... Elizabeth~

Good morning Elizabeth..... I wanted to say "hello" and I hope that you have a wonderful day....Once again you are doing great..Keep up the great work.... I actually did 20 whole crunches last night and was totally amazed because it had been so long since I could do them with being pregnant...My DH was so happy....He even held my feet for me....Then my son came out of his room and saw me doing them and decided he would do some also.... I had another sleepless night last night because I was in the emergency room at Fort Wood with my dad....My mom called me at about 1030pm and said that my dad was having severe chest pains...So I told her I would be there in a few minutes...In the meantime she called the ambulance and I actually beat the ambulance to their house.....They loaded him up after giving him more nitro and took him on in to the hospital and finally at 230am they decided to ship him to Columbia to rule out a pulmonary emboli...So by time I took my mom back to her house and got home it was a little after three and Jaiden was awake wanting a bottle...I fed her and she finally decided to go back to sleep at 500am and I got to sleep until 715 am but not a good sleep because I still have my nephew...Thank goodness my son got up with him and changed his diaper and everything...I definitely will need the coffee today....Called to check on my dad already and they were going to do another test because the CT scan was inconclusive... We will all be taking a nap today.....hehe God bless and keep up the great work... Rachael

I know how you feel. I am doing more exercise now than I ever dreamed I would be able to do and I actually like exercising. As a pre op I though exercise was a dirty word and I hated it. Last year I was brave and took my annual cardiac stress test on the treadmill which was a big thing for me then. I had always had to have a chemical stress test which is horrible because I could not stay on a stupid treadmill. Last year I made it and this year I will shock my doc as I can stay on the treadmill a long time now. I can even zip up three flights of stairs at work which I never could have done before wls. My heart still is pretty lousy but the part that works got is in awfully good shape.