Bulking up and booting up!!!!

 Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr .... with the loss of all this fat where did my internal thermostat go?? Right this minute I could really use a hot flash (NOT) but it is COLLLLLDDDDDDDDDDDDDD!!!!! in my neck of the woods and windshield factor is making it worse ....

How about you? How cold or how warm is it where you are right now?

I think I saw a snowflake when I went out on the deck ... but I think it is too cold for snow right now ... BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR I used to be able to handle winter without even wearing a heavy coat ... boots were out of the question because of calf issues .. I hated sweaters not wanting to add to my girth ... but now... I don't mind bulking up and booting up ... even wearing thermals and flannel PJ's too ....

This week I was in my wool/sweater/knit section of the closet ... rocking the bulk and the boots ... staying warm was the name of my game ...

These are snippets from my empowerment journal ... a picture a day keeps the pounds and the inches away ... 5 YEARS POST-OP it is working for me ... journaling food ... journaling intake/output/inches/weight and taking a picture a day ... old and dufus and just a few fun years left before I croak I am living one day at a time ...sometimes up and sometimes down on life's merry-go-round ... I am embracing joy and making it happen to me ... 

On cold winter days and without my internal furnace of the past I am bulking up and booting up...

Me today and yesterday and before....

 

Loving the sweaters ... long, short, handmade, store made, loose, fitted .. just keep my warm please .. I will accessorize and rock the rest...

Loving my Moda International long pink sweater .....  My before and now comparison collage .. it has been 5 years and I am hoping to celebrate five more and beyond...
 

My week Bulking and Booting in photos...
 

With my DH still away from home recovering from lower extremity surgery and my dearest sister ill I have been fretting and stressing and dropped a few pounds but I will get them back ... I have to press pass the throat lump and the stress to eat but I am doing it ... even the other day when I forgot my lunch at home and went digging for the next best thing I could have within the spread in the lunch room at work ....

So my plate looked like this ...A turkey frank (and I do not like doing processed foods but it was good and the sodium count was not all that high/tossed salad/and sliced cheese ... a cup of strawberries and blueberries topped with a bit of splenda ... I was good to go...  yup I journal my food in pictures too ... most of the time...

 

and I ate most of it ...
 

 I WILL CONTINUE TO ENJOY THE JOURNEY OF LIFE ... NO MATTER WHERE I AM IN IT! I HAVE TODAY ...TOMORROW IS NOT PROMISED.... and I can only take it one.day.at.a.time.....

HAVE A HAPPY SUNDAY EVERYONE!!!! THANKS FOR ALLOWING ME TO SHARE YET ANOTHER GOOFY THREAD ... WISHING ALL NOTHING BUT THE BEST OUR WEIGHT LOSS JOURNEY FROM BEGINNING TO ALWAYS ... 

I would love an hour of shopping in your closet.  You have such beautiful taste.  Because of finances I am left at the mercy of thrift stores but sometimes I get lucky.
I am into warm, too.  Love boots but lately I haven't taken off my Uggs.  Yes, they are ugly but boy are they warm.

I love love love love to share and love to make space in my closet too ... you are welcome to come over or tell me where to send some (PM)...

You are as generous as you are beautiful.  I am so touched.  I live in the Pacific Northwest so I am sure I am far from you but if you are ever cleaning out your closet and would like to send me some things that would be going to a thrift store I would love to have them and would be happy to pay for the shipping.  I'll PM you my information.

It is FREEZING here on Long Island!!! I am wearing flannel pjs and a pink snuggie right now. I just told Jim I need to stick my hands up hi shirt so I can get them warm lol.

i absolutely LOVE that pink jacket! I just recently pinned this on pinterest and it reminds me of it.

 Girl I LOVE THAT!!!! it is BEAUTIFUL!!!! I LOOKS LIKE SOMETHING I WOULD LOVE TO MAKE TOO ... I made myself a coat before when I was a size 28-30 ...

It amazes me what you can make, it requires such talent. All I have ever sewn was a pin cushion that looked like a strawberry when I went on a field trip to Old Bethpage Village in fourth grade.

 LOL ... I think I lucked out because my mom was an awesome seamstress ... we had to do all the hems and they had to be such perfect stitches that I hated it ... then we had to pick all the pins up off the floor .. I don't know which one was worse ... in the end it paid off I guess LOL...  KenKen did not do well in home ec either ... they were supposed to be making this pillow and he did not get past threading the needle and I refused to help him I will not fight his battles for him LOL ..it was wayyyyyyy funny ...

 Beautiful Coat!! OHHHHHHHH I'd so love It !  **PINK!! **   Woot !!  A fine Coat for a "GIRLIE GIRL "  :)

ENJOY  this BEAUTIFUL Coat!
 How can one Not  LOVE a  Finely tailored  garment made  of  natural fiber? I can Only imagine it is a  Super Fine Blend  of Wool and  Cashmere .... Swoon!   Not to mention attention to such Feminine  detail.  This Screams ,  ELEGANT!  :)
 This Coat could make a Dreary Winter Day  ...seem pretty cheery!  :)    
You MADE this ? WOWSERS!!!  

 Oh I did not make that coat (YET) .. Sun Salutation said that my long pink sweater reminded her of this pink coat that she posted as she had pinned it in pinterest....   I love it! and as a matter of fact I just sketched it and am most definitely going to get the fabric and make myself one just like it... it is Beautiful isn't it? I have my awesome Project Runway sewing machine and can whip up my own pattern ... going to online shop at Mood Fabrics .. I will check to see if I can find pink Cashmere or something similar ... maybe a blend like you suggest... SWOON here too ... LOVE that coat!!!