New Beginnings!!

HAPPY NEW YEARS!!!  2015 has finally arrived!! For our family that means our new Grandson will be arriving soon and DH might be retiring.  There might even be a new car in our future if I can give up my Grandma Van.

Are you making lifestyle changes this year?  Are you starting the year out where you want your weight to be or are you a Newbie and experiencing all kinds of WOW's?

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Praying you ALL have a Wonderful Successful Year!!  May ALL of Your Dreams Come True!!

Happy New Year.

We may be moving this year...when we moved last time, it was to be near my daddy. He passed away in May so now we will go where WE want. And since NEITHER of us want to live where the kids/grand kids live (Alabama is just TOO hot and in the path of tornadoes). We are looking toward the north. Once we have a firm idea of plans, I will let people know...just keeping it on the quiet for now.

That's great you and DH are on the same page. We love our girls and grandkids dearly and I can't imagine ever moving away from them but I think being a snow bird would be nice.  Florida sure sounds like a good idea when it gets cold in PA.  

I'm just keeping on keeping on.  A few more years to retirement.  Playing with my ponies when I can, staying fit, staying healthy.

Happy New Year Everyone

I can't imagine you retiring Price unless it's to travel more with your ponies.  I think you would be totally bored without that to keep you busy.

As I get older I seem to dislike change more.  I have no plans to change where I live, where I work or who I go out with.

My kids are all doing great and my grandbabies keep getting bigger.  I had 3 of them the other night and it was tough.  My littlest tends to be clumsy and broke my IPad screen as well as breaking some glass thing at Walmart when we were shopping.  She broke her mom's new IPad air not too long ago.

The poor thing has very poor vision and pretty bad peripheral vision so she can't help it.  Just need to keep an eye on her all the time.

Still waiting on my son and his wife's adoption.  I was so sure they would be parents by now.  In fact, last year at our Christmas eve gathering I commented on their Facebook posting about how next year there would be presents for 7 kids under their tree.  I can only imagine how disappointed they are.

The good news is things are starting to move and there are at least 2 mothers considering them for their babies so I am hoping that it really will be 7 kids to get presents for next year.

My weight has been good.  I am up a few pounds from last year, maybe 5 or so, and it is welcome.  I am now around 115 and feel better at this weight.  Just like I expected, as time goes on my capacity has increased a bit and the gain is slow and gradual so it's more comfortable.

I think my upper limit will be 125-130 before I look at making changes to my eating.  Clothes still fit me though not as loose as they were.  I am comfortable in my own skin and that is what matters.

That's sad about your Son and his Wife.  A girl that I work with hasn't been able to get pregnant and they have done so much testing to find out why.  They've tried a few procedures with no luck.  She mentioned looking into Adopting soon.  Our nieighbors just adopted their Foster children but that was such a long process and the parents can get them back any time so it's never a sure thing that adoption will ever even happen.

I'm glad you are feeling better than last year Tazz!!!

As you all know I have really slacked through my journey. Since about 8 months out I just stopped caring. I have recently discovered that my restriction is still basically the same except for a few slider foods. ( the sliders are weird ) So I'm starting over. Tomorrow I go grocery shopping and am going to get all good stuff. I've been sick so haven't really been eating at all except maybe once a day. I'm going to eat more veggies and salads with meat and eggs in them. I've gotten sick of eggs for breakfast so have to come up with something to replace them that isn't bad. I can eat them if it's in a sandwhich type thing but I'm trying to cut carbs again so I can start loosing weight since I've gained twenty pounds since I got hurt at work in the end of September. I was emotionally eating again. NOT good. Tomorrow I'm going to start walking with my sister, you can read more about that in my other post. But hey it's a start and we all have to start somewhere. We have been lucky here in PA and haven't had any snow yet and honestly I would be very happy if the trend continued through the rest of winter. it will make it easier to exercise. I hate exercising at home. i get embarrassed because I can feel the floor moving and I can see the tv bouncing when I do. I also want to start doing yoga again but right now my belly and boobs get in the way. So that is a future goal. i want to get my husband on the exercise program too.. he is morbidly obese and if I have as many health problems not being nearly as over weight as him I can only imagine him at my age. He is seven years younger and has been this heavy since he was a teenager. he had a heart attack two years ago. That didnt' even scare him into change. I have begged, pleaded and cried for him to change his ways and it doesn't help. Finally i made a deal with him... which was bs on my side... Told him if he didn't loose weight I was having a second weight loss surgery (which I really want to do but don't think my insurance will pay for it) he agreed but as of yet has done nothing to change. I'm doing the grocery shopping so I'm hoping he doesn't sneak and get junk. It makes it very difficult for me when he eats nothing healthy. I have no will power when it's in front o fmy face all of the time. it's getting to the point that our sex life is being affected big time. I'm scared to be with him for fear he will have a heart attack. Any way I'm starting over as if it's day one... or actually like its week 4 when I could start eating normal foods LOL. Since I've just had about two weeks of not eating at all. There are so many changes in store for me this year and I can not wait. I want i tto all happen at a happier healthier me. Happy New year everyone. 

I'm so glad you have made a plan!! (((HUGS)))!!!!!!

My DH's sugar is up so he's going on a "diet" too. 

Happy New Years Roz!!  Now I have to remember to write 2015 instead of 2014.  I know you are so excited for another grandbaby. As far as I know we are finished with 3.

I will be retiring June 30, 2014.  It is a scary thought sometimes and other times it can't come fast enough!!  I have so many other things I want to spend my days doing - if I will do them..

I need to make some lifestyle changes.  I have gained a little over 10 pounds this year.  Most of it within the last 4-5 months.  I know I need to get back to exercising because that helps so much with my stress eating.  The skin on my legs actually looks better with this weight on but I don't feel better with it on.  Allowing carbs & sugar into my diet was a horrible mistake on my part. But I am still so much better off than I was before WLS and am so thankful for the changes I made.

Linda