What's new ? TGIF

Good morning Margo and Friends!  Nutin new here!  Gas is up to $3.79 at the cheap places, milk is over $4.00 a gal, and the temp will be in the upper 80s, high humidity and lots of sunshine!  Tomorrow former DIL is having a birthday party for Ethan.  His b'day isn't until late July, but she wanted to have something now so he could invite his friends from school and so that her sister could celebrate (she's going to be in India for Ethan's real birthday).  We're hoping to see Danny's house again, he's done a lot of painting since last week.  Sun. we'll go to church and probably clean house. OK if I vent a little?  Former DIL said there'd be a family party for Ethan in July when she'd invite the extended family.  Fine, no problem.  She mentioned this at Ethan's grad last week in front of my Mom, but invited Mom to the party for tomorrow.  Last night I called Mom to tell her we'd pick her up around 12:30.  She hemmed and hawed and said she was probably going shopping with my sister and not to the party.  Am I wrong here?  Mom always complains she doesn't get to see Ethan very often, here's an opportunity for her to see him, and she'd rather go shopping with my sister.  They shop almost every Friday evening and Sat., and sometimes on Sun.  How much shopping can a person tolerate (I'll admit, I'm not a shopper, have to be in the mood to shop or need something).  Maybe I'm pi$$ed and a bit hurt because Ethan is MY grandchild and her great grandchild and feel she should WANT to be at his party.  Part of me is thinking this is the last time I ask Mom to do anything.  Vent over, moving on! Debbie

Good morning everyone!  I am off to the Dr this morning to find out about a sleep study. Then Earl & I were going to run errands but we are expecting some very nasty weather here. So probably will postpone the errands till tomorrow.  We even have tornado warnings till 2 pm today.  My knees feel much better today but with the weather probably won't get out to walk, so I'll concentrate on the PT exercises in the house instead.  Hope everyone has a great day! BTW a good friend of mine is having his  RNY sugery this am. Keep him your thoughts please.  His wife had it done 3 yrs ago and has lost 145 lbs. She has been a great help to me with questions also and one of the reasons why I decided to have wls.  Paulette

Good morning, Margo and all my other OFF sisters.  I have some plans this afternoon. I have to go into Chesterton and get my gf and bring her back here to Portage to get her to the shuttle to O'Hare airport. She is leaving for Texas and spending a week with her daughter. Jeri it thinking of moving down there either sometime this year or next. I really think she is going to do it and I think it is going to be this year. Her mom passed a couple of months ago and now she thinks that she doesn't have anything to tie her down. She has a daughter who lives with her dad and she is working on her with the guilt. She is telling Jeri that she had grandchildren for her. Jeri (who is usually very quiet and wouldn't say s**t if she had a mouth of it~very different than me!) told her that no she didn't since she had sex with her husband and got pregnant. lol I told her that she is trying to get her with guilt and she said that she is very much her grandmother and aunt (Jeri's mom and her aunt). I was proud of her. I have worked on her for a loooong time to get to the point to do what she wants and forget other people who think of just themselves.  I am going to Barnes and Nobels to get a CD that I want. I have wanted Iron Butterfly's Inna Godda Daveda (I know that the spelling is wrong!) and my cousin callled and B&N's has it and it is only $12.99. I never gave them a thought for it. I am so glad that Bob did. While I am there I am going to get a book for the protein and fat and carb ect. counts. I have needed one of those and then forgot. Leave it to me for that!! So I am going to be there for a while mostly because it is a bookstore and I am an avid reader.  I am going to pay my cable bill while in Valpo and then that is going to be done for the month of June.  It is sunny here but at times it is overcast. It is warm and I have the windows open since it is so breezy. Nothing strong just really nice. I hope that it stays that was. I guess they have tornado warnings near us in Illinois but it stops at the state line and we all know that the storms and tornados know that and stop at the state lines too. lol I just hope that we don't get anything. I think the way I understood last night it is going out over the lake but then weather changes with the change of the wind. Who knows. We just wait and see. I better get going. I am sending love and hugs to all and prayers for the day. Special prayers are going up for the ones that need them.

Aloha Margo and OFF family extraordinaire!

Margo...where IS your beautiful face?? I miss it!

Annette....you are such an inspiration to so many, and I do understand how you can feel frustrated when you give a WLS person good info and they continue to sabotage themselves. It's sad, for sure, but it is the path that that person has chosen.....and it is so hard for many to break those old patterns of eating for emotional reasons, or whatever drives them. Don't let it get you down.

I think I have a tapeworm!! Since I returned from my whirlwind time in Calif. and then got sick, I have been determined to gain back some weight. Well, I have been eating every two hours for the past three days.....good food, not junk, and the scale isn't moving. Example of a day's food : LARGE protein shake with 2% milk, a banana; jello/cottage cheese/fruit salad; handful of almonds, 2 Skinny Cow ice slow churned ice cream sandwiches (OK...I don't think I can call these healthy), a whole wheat pita with huumus, cucumber, tomato, lettuce, chicken soup, 1/2 apple with big hunk 'o peanut butter on each piece.....hummmm, I think that's it. Oh, yes....a chicken leg and a few bites of green beans. I think I'm just going to keep on eating good......and just wait til I see docs to see what's up.

It is 6:30 a.m. and I've been up since 4:00. The sun is just now popping up over Haleakela, and it's going to be one of those Maui mornings that is blinding in it's glory. Aaaah, so soothing to the spirit. I can take deep breaths of this ocean air and feel renewed somehow. I didn't realize how much I missed the sound of the ocean until it wasn't there in Calif. I think here I don't even hear it, but I do in my unconscious mind, I guess, and it is healing in it's ever presence.

As usual, I have so much to talk to you all about, but have to pull myself away and get things done about which I've procrastinated for too long. I'm pretty sure you all understand what that's all about!! Ha!

Here comes a big aloha hug for you all....and a hope that you have a good day, and that something magical, happily surprising or healing happens in your life today.

Aloha nui loa,

Maui Karen

Karen, Thank you for the encouraging words. I am happy to help but need to back off when a person isn't willing or able to make the necessary changes. Your food intake looks perfect to me. Those are good choices, frequency and amounts probably all you can hold, so leave it to your doctor.  We work so hard to learn new eating habits, struggle to move the scale, then BAM, maintenence is a whole new learning process.  The balance seems to be super delicate now. Losing 5 pounds shows up more quickly than it did at 300 plus pounds too. There is nothing EASY about WLS !!! Where was that tapeworm hiding when we got stuck at 200 pounds? Annette

Hi There, Well I went to see a new PCP today. I am going to have a physical on June 30th. I got my B-12 shot!!!!! I havent had one since February!!!!! It seems I have lost 2 inches or I have been measured wrong all these years. I think that I have been measured wrong all these years. I am measuring at 5 ft 2 inches. I am still carrying around about 7 pounds of water weight. I weighed in at 142!!!!! She changed my water pills to Lasix.. We shall see if that helps. I finally found aout what the labs were in January and everything was fine.  Not much else going on. I think I am going to buy Carl a Nissan Versa today. Carla.

Today is my 53rd b'day.   and my 5th day smoke free!!!  Yeah ME!!!!  Going to dinner with a friend tomorrow night.  She is the age of my children, but we still have a great friendship.  Will sit in my swing today when I get home and watch the birds and butterflys and R-E-L-A-X for a while.

well happy day!!!!!!!!!! sorry that we didn't sing to you this morning!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DONNA!!!!  CONGRATS ON THE SMOKE FREE DAYS...WOOOHOOOOO!! Hugs, connie d

Happy Birthday Donna and many more....and a big hug for you on working toward quitting smoking.

Pat R.