Hi Ladies,

I'm still at my brother's.  It's cold and dreary out. The weatherman got the weather wrong for the weekend. At least my SIL had some warmer clothes and jacket for me to wear.

I have to take two friends to Dr's appt tomorrow so I will have a lot of running to do.

Just waiting on supper and some good dessert.

Everyone have a good evening.

Love and hugs,

Yvonne

Kathy,

my friend had the sleeve and loves it and has actually lost all the weight she set out to lose. I've known people who have had the gastric bypass who could eat anything and some like me who cannot eat sweets or pasta and others who can eat sweets and all kinds of pasta and bread. The key is sticking to your plan and what has worked for you. There have been previous folks post right after surgery that they cannot eat sweets but they continued trying until one day, they were able to eat them...I can eat chips like there's not tomorrow but I know that eating chips can pile the pounds on me so I don't every buy them and if I do, I get pretzels because they have less fats. From time-to-time, I do take a bite of a cookie or something but just a little bite.  I think it helps me that I am lactose intolerant and have been my entire life but since WLS it is much worse. I can eat cottage cheese and a few bites of cheese but milk not ever a good idea. 

You are doing so great and you are just going to do better and better. You'll see. 

I'm back.

Well, I was up late, working on Lincoln's bedspread.  I'm not at the halfway point, and really need to get serious about finishing it.

I am so disappointed about something I ordered for Frankie's birthday.  I had hoped it would be delivered in time for his big day, like by Tuesday, but it won't be.  Well, he and I are going to spend the day together tomorrow, and I'll take him out for lunch, and we'll go shopping for a gift.

In the meantime, I have to blitz my living room and kitchen, so we can hang out here a little too.  Colleen has a ton of stuff to do tomorrow.

Izzy has a soccer game this afternoon, and it looks like rain.  Yuck.

Colleen called me upset last night.  She was apologizing because there is no way she can celebrate Mothers Day with me next weekend.  It's the end of the semester, she has paperwork to grade for both her classes, portfolios to evaluate for her student teachers, a class she's taking, to finish for her teaching certification in Pennsylvania and Michigan, and resumes to send out, all this week.  She was afraid I'd be upset not celebrating ON Mothers Day. I assured her that I don't mind celebrating later, that Mothers Day is just a date on the calendar, AND, Chris and I celebrated it one year in June.  I remember what the end of Spring semester was like.  I also remember how Mom would purposely try to make me feel bad if I didn't do it exactly the way she wanted me to do it, on that day.  Same for Mom's birthday, with is in the first week in September.  I never want to hurt my kids that way.  She was so relieved.

Kathy, sound like you got a good walk in yesterday.  See, you are doing it.

Hugs,

Trish

Good Evening Ladies!

Here I am bringing up the rear at 9pm EST. It has been a long day, but not a bad one. Lazed out this morning then dealt with a situation Jazzs mom had that resulted in her coming to stay for the wkend...

Then jazz & I drove down to my youngest daughter's home 30 minutes away for a hike in the State Park near her home. I was able to walk for 75 consecutive minutes...a NSV for me. I have been doing 40 around our area, but it is very flat here whereas the park was up & down with rougher terrain. A good workout, but then I ate a small piece of cake after dinner...grrrr.

Jeannie, I love reading your posts about your day to day life as well as your life experiences. It makes me hurt to hear stories about the loss of your mom so early, the doll you had as a child, the polio, etc. Half of what you went through would traumatize & immobilize alot of kids, but you have an inner strength that enabled you to not only survive, but succeed in so many areas.

You are quite the role model!

Sounds like alot of traveling plans on the horizon! My daughter went to Thailand this past January & said it was her favorite trip so far, but it was also her first out of the country!

Linda, I envy you your plans to consider different locations for future living arrangements... I am absolutely jealous that you might have multiple homes in such beautiful parts of the country. That would be the ultimate dream for me, but not meant to be...???

Julia, glad you are finding a solution to your dog situation. I am sure that was very unsettling. Hope things work out with that! I enjoy hanging out in my nightclothes... to a point. However, I know from years of allowing myself to indulge I have a tendency to get lazy if I do it too often. I really need to get up,showered, dressed & moving or I will waste the day away. And that reminds me too much of my last 6 months of being huge...where I could barely get off the sofa & went to bed after coming home from work, doing the dinner routine & getting Jazz in order.

I know it's very early on for me, but I hope to never go back to very morbid obesity. It made me so emotionally, mentally & spiritually sick...not to mention the medical problems. I really worked hard last year to change my eating habits, get & keep moving, etc before I even had the surgery! 

However, I succumb to sweets a few times a week even if I justify it by thinking I am still staying around my calorie & carb limits. Sometimes I think the gastric bypass instead of the sleeve would have been a better choice so I dumped if I ate sugary stuff. But what is done is done...sorry you had that experience, Jeannie!

Well I need to move...start getting ready for closing down for the night.

Trish, I almost forgot you had posted...hugs...glad you had a decent day. And I don't see yoga in my future so don't feel bad...lol!

Mt. View would be so much fun, wouldn't it.