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Jeannie
I take my first yoga class on Friday. I also found a meditation class that I might try. It is one evening a week.
I remember the traveling clothes. I had forgotten. I remember buying at thrift stores and if I wanted something new, it came from Wal-mart. As newbies we dropped sizes so quickly that it was a waste to buy anything that cost much. I have given away so many clothes. Even though I have regained some I still have 2 or 3 suites I bought when I was at my lowest. They were expensive suits that I got on sale and I will get back into them.
I also credit this forum with keeping me sane. I did not know how important vitamin B-12 was and that low levels could cause irreversible cognitive issues. I learned that here. I had never heard of ferritin and had never gotten it checked until I learn that here. When I checked it I was dangerously low even though my red blood cell count was normal. That was followed by 3 X a week iron infusions for 3 weeks to get me back to normal. I am grateful to all who were oldies when I was a newbie and helped to keep me safe and healthy.
Laureen
I so understand your emotional eating. I know I am not an addict. I attended a group for food addicts and I really did not belong. As they shared stories of their childhoods and some really horrible experiences I could empathize but I could not relate. I asked the phycologist if abuse, neglect, and or abandonment was a symptom and was told that most food addicts has this in their backgrounds. I do not and I am thankful that I had a "normal" childhood whatever that means. My parents like all including myself were not perfect but I knew I was wanted and I was treated well. I use food to soothe. If I am sad, moody, or even happy (gotta celebrate ya know) I eat. I also eat out of boredom. So like you I am fighting regain. I am doing better and I would like to think it is because I am beating the demon but my life is going rather smoothly at the moment and that is probably a huge factor. I have worked hard to keep the stress out of my life. The only stress I can control is the stress caused by toxic people. I no longer deal with such individuals. Since I am retired I have more leeway than some. If the toxic people in one's life is co-workers that's tough.
I also agree that the accountability factor on this board and wherever else we find it is a huge factor in keeping us on tract.
Glad everything is going well with you and who knows maybe a get together could be in our futures.
Carla your Florida Floozies sounds like a fun group. I always liked to camp but most folks in my life didn't share my enthusiasm. Now I am too old to tent camp. I guess I could if I had a cot and only camped in cool places. Getting up and down off the ground would be difficult. However, if you need a fund raiser, charging to watch me try could make a lot of money.
Do you know if you are having a grandson or grand daughter? Those young years are so precious. My grand daughter is going to be 5 in a couple of weeks and I will miss those toddler years. My boys have already passed all that by. My eldest is headed to middle school and the last time I saw him he was combing his hair and using hair products. I guess girls won't be to far behind. My middle grand is 2 years younger than his brother and already claims to have girl friends. Gonna have to watch that one!!
Enjoy your camping and enjoy your trip to Chicago. Spoil Vinnie and the new one. That's what Nanas do.
Hi, just popping in to say Hello. Am a regular reader, not so regular contributor, but you all know from tagline that had my RnY in Feb 2008.
Never made it to goal before started regain as weightloss stopped at 8 months. Wasn't eating sweets or drinking pop or doing too many carbs, but still I was overweight from repeat dieting since age 13 under doctor's supervision off and on. Finally surgery. Did help lose about 100 lbs but regained 20-40 before trying again to lose. Breast cancer intervened 3 years ago. Not in remission for another 2 years, this OFF Board, including recently maligned people no longer posting were a wonderful help to me, so I will not speak badly of them ...they were extremely supportive and I feel very uncomfortable when the returnees here speak badly of them. Enough said.
i miss those that no longer post for whatever reason. Life is such that we move on and some things and people no longer fit in our lives. I will always be grateful to all OFF members here who supported me at different times, found everyone very helpful since my surgery in 2008 as a senior : I was 62 at time of surgery and am on record saying it is never too late for WLS. So glad I did it, am not skinny but am so much improved in every way, just slowing down with age...
My story's the same as many here, still having to lose weight even after surgery, but so much better for having had it.
Fond wishes and hugs to all!
jennifer
No, that would be Joe Bailey from Starbucks in Euless. The Dallas gals saw him twice.
So sorry to hear about George, Debbie. I remember you so well from our Dallas get-together. Hope all will be OK. Swinging chickens for you. 
Hi my OFF family:
I still come on here on a regular basis, but sometimes I don't post. Sometimes I get a little busy and don't feel like getting on the laptop to post. I'm on the computer at work all the time so I don't always want to be on the computer when I'm not working.
I can empathize with Laureen and regaining weight; I too have regained and am working to get it off. I joined the Y last year and get into the pool for water aerobics. I love it, but the hardest part is getting me there. The classes are in the morning and some mornings I just don't have the energy.
Many of you know some of what has happened to me in the past year. I invited my former boss to move in with me because he was unemployed and seeking disability. He was using drugs, it turns out, and one night he attacked me in my bedroom. I immediately tossed him out, but he came back and broke into my apartment when I was at work. Fortunately, a couple of coworkers helped me get rid of him again and also helped to repair the broken window. I found out a lot of things about him after that, how many lies he had told me. It's been tough getting over it, but therapy has helped me.
Also, my brother Gary has moved in with me. He retired last summer at 62 and we sold mom's house when she moved into assisted living, so he needed to find a place to live. He decided it was easier to move in with me in Evansville. He also has a part-time job driving cars for Enterprise ... he takes their rental cars to various car lots for sale. He loves driving and he goes all over Indiana and Kentucky. So far we've gotten along OK.
I still work at the Evansville Courier & Press for now, but the paper joined Gannett USA Today Network, so I don't know what the future holds. I used to work for Gannett in Louisiana, and saw that the future wasn't good there. I turn 62 next April so I may be retiring myself.
And maybe that's not so bad since I'm in pain all the time. I was supposed to get a neurostimulator implanted this month, but that was put on hold when I fainted and wound up spending three days in the hospital (so far, I'm OK, heart monitor report showed no abnormal rhythms).
I love keeping up with y'all.
My gosh, I loved that trip! Pageant of the Masters was absolutely incredible! I will remember your story about lung spots...do they wait because the biopsy is very difficult? Or because it is expensive? Or maybe both.
oops I swear I'm not drinking! Hi Janet! I hare the regain too, but it is not long for this world! I absolutely love Judge Judy...I rarely turn the tv on but I have Judge Judy taped. I'm drinking a Latte with Splenda right now. Now Joe...is that the Joe from Lombard Street?
Julia
