Thursday Roll Call

Well I hope that it was a two way street!  my friends are amazing people with a ton of information that they so readily share and I am fortunate to be loved by them!  As well as been given the opportunity to love them right back! :)

DEFINATELY a two way street

I am SO glad to hear you sounding so positive and upbeat!

Enjoy your 8th grade trip - should be HOT today but fun, hopefully!  I'll be keeping my fingers crossed that the storms  hold off until you guys are back safely docked and on the busses on your way home ;-).

Please give Molly my congratulations on a major accomplishment!  That's such a mature and unselfish thing for her to have done and she is a role model for so many in having done it.  GOOD for her!  Mazel tov.

Karen

Thanks Karen - I had a GREAT time with my kids on the boat - danced, laughed and generally enjoyed their company.  Pictures will be forth coming I hope.  And Thanks for the kudos on Molly - we are very proud of her and she is using this experience as her Mitzvah project for her Bat Mitzvah in February.  I am hopeful that she will do it again next year even though it will JUST be for doing the right thing! :)

Good Morning Nicole & PA:

Today I'm working till 3:30ish.  I have a vet appointment for Hider at 5:30 so I have to make sure I get home in time.  With all the construction on 95 lately it's been taking me 2-3 hours to get home from work.  Hopefully I'll be home in time.  Gene sees clients again tonight.  The last two nights he's been getting home a little earlier - many clients not showing up for their appointment.  I like him getting home early but then I stay up late and get up late in the morning.

I have to get my butt more in gear for working out.  Unlike many on this board who love working out after WLS, I hate working out.  I do not like the gym, do not like working out, do not want to work out, have absolutely no desire to work out.  I know I have to work out for this tool to continue to be a success but I just don't want to.  I do like walking it's the only thing I like however I know to pull in and tighten this excess skin I need to work out as well.  Hopefully this kick start will help me be more accountable to working out regularly.

Doc appt went well yesterday.  My B-12 is around 400, my doc seems satisfied with that.  I know my surgeon wanted it at 500 but I can't get the PCP to budge on giving me the B-12 shots monthly, he wants me to get them quartely.  I do have an appointment with my surgeon at the end of the month and will discuss the B-12 with him and see if he can talk to my PCP.  Until then I'll take it upon myself to start supplimenting with the sublingual to get the levels up to 500 +.  My iron is improving, the iron level is good the stored level is still low normal.  He wants me to stay on 1 iron suppliment a day for now then in 6 months when I see him again is the stored is still low he said I might need two a day.  He'd like to avoid that because of constipation with taking more iron. 

Hope everyone has a great day...

Ida

Hope the kick start helps us all out. Did you get the invite? 
I am like you I dont like working out. No fun for me, and i avoid it like the plague is always a chore.
I need to make that a priority almost even more than the food

OK - so for the two of you (and more) that hate working out, I have a couple of questions/challenges...

1.  In what way(s) do you LIKE to move?  What have you tried?  For example - dancing, gardening, roller skating, biking, swimming, ballet, jazz, martial arts...  ANYTHING that moves you, moves you, if you know what I mean.

2.  What is is about working out that you don't like?  I think for many of us, there are a lot of negative associations with "gym class" or with "standing out in the crowd" or feeling "clumsy" that are holdovers from our old selves.  In our new lives, we need to work hard to shed those negative associations with our bodies so that we can free them to move and enjoy movement.  If it's a "head game" that keeps you from working out, work on that part of it.  If it's that you don't like the physical feeling of working out, see #1 above.

Just a couple of thoughts that might help.

Hugs

Karen

I don't like to move. That IS my problem. I have never found an activity that I like.

But as Nicole would say (in her best Beck group voice)... WHY don't you like to move?  :-)

I think the key, personally, is to find reassurance and strength in the smallest things - walking the dog, taking out the trash, pulling the weeds. For each of those things, there's an "easy" way and a "challenging" way... if you choose the more challenging path, you're putting your body to more of a test and reinforcing the renewal of it that you're doing through your weight loss.  It's a mind game.  And the key is not to think of it as "I'm going to exercise now" and to think of it more like "Oh - I'm going to go make the garden beautiful" or "I'm going to spend some quality time with Sparky outside"

If you are determined to not like movement, and determined to reinforce that mindset, then nothing anyone can say or do will ever change that.  But if you're open to changing your thinking about movement, then thought experiments like this can help, in my experience.

K.

I am a lost cause, Karen.

Someday, you will meet me a realize it! LOL