VSG Maintenance Group
Monday December 20 (5 days to Christmas - yikes!)
Hello !
Still hanging in "my zone". So excited !!! My first retirement gift to myself was to sign up for M, W, F 5:45-6:45 AM Boot Camp at my YMCA !! Starts 01/02/17 !!! Can't wait. Had a REAL Brooklyn bagel this weekend : 1/2 almond butter, 1/4 butter, 1/4 cream cheese. Totally worth every calorie, and I spread it out over several hours. Lots of walking !!! Had a great weekend with my girls !!
We can do this ! Just a few more days of insane pressure and temptations !!
Diane
Age: 64; 5' 5"; High weight: 345; Start weight: 271 (01/05/15); Surgery weight: 218 (05/27/15); Pre-Op (-53); M 1 (-18); M 2 (-1.5); M 3 (-13.5 ); M 4 (-13); M 5 (- 8); M 6 (-12) M 7 (-5, Xmas); M 8 (- 9) Under surgeon's goal and REACHED HEALTHY BMI 12/07/15!! (Six months and one week.) AT GOAL month 8. Maintaining at goal range (139- 144) ~ four (4) years !!
Greetings Holiday Gladiators
Well thats about what it feels like with all the food flying at us from every direction. I am luckier than most with fewer food pushers around. 131.5 OTHD which pleases me.
Well lots of people I know are stressed with too much to do. We double up staffing the gallery this week and I am on for three days. Lack of personal time = stress. So try to take a moment or two for yourself. Easier said than done.
Yep, good coffee is one of the great joys of life, especially post vsg when other "joys" are limited. I live in fear of running out of coffee and half and half and always keep well supplied. Got a couple of phone calls this morning before I had my coffee and I am sure I made no sense at all. And yeah, no flavors in coffee. Just good fairly strong coffee with liberal half and half.
Colonoscopy right before Christmas? Lucky you Liz. Necessary for health so get it done. I think I am coming up on 10 years pretty soon.
New comforter plus memory foam bed is like sleeping in a cloud. I never want to get up. Dogs don't either.
Well off to the gallery. Hope we sell a lot so its busy. Get coffee and chill out everyone. Diane S
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Today was a terrible, horrible, awful, very bad day. Weight up a few lbs. (no real reason) and then I talked with my Mom on the phone and it spiraled out of control from there.
Mom and Dad are planning on selling their condo in FL and moving back to WI (by my brother's, not by me). We sold our frickin' house and have been busily looking for new employment so that we could live by them and spend the last years of their lives by them! Are you kidding me???? I get why they want to sell where they are at (they live in a complex on a golf course and pay very high fees for something that they can no longer physically do). Their fees will be going up too as the golf course needs 4 + million dollars worth of renovations which they pass the cost on to condo owners and the windows in my parent's building need to be replaced and that cost is absorbed by the condo owners. I'm not sure why they just don't sell and rent or buy somewhere else in FL that meets their needs better. They think they might still winter in FL and said if we still move down there, they would winter wherever we chose to live. Grrrrrrr, This messes things up for us. I am disappointed that whatever decision we make, I won't be able to spend as much time with them as I had hoped for. My brother lives about 3 hours away and we just don't get over to that side of the state much.
Paula
5' 4" tall, HW: 242, SW:215.4 Weight Loss - pre-op: - 26.6, M1: -15.4, M2: -16, M3: -11.4, M4: -11.2, M5: -12.2, M6: -7.4, M7: -7.8, M8: -2.0 Goal of 130 lbs. reached at 8 months, 2 days post-op!
You must have wanted to melt to your knees during the call. Hugs, friend.
Peace and hope,
Shel
HW:361 SW:304 (VSG 12/04/2014)Mo 1:-32 Mo 2:-13.5 Mo 3: -13.5 Mo 4 -9.5 Mo 5: -15 Mo 6: -15 Mo 7: -13.5 Mo 8: -17 Mo 9: -13 Mo 10: -12.5 11/3/2015 Healthy BMI Reached! Mo 11: -9 Mo 12: -8 12/27/2015 Goal Weight Reached!
I had all I could handle trying to stifle my tears. Wasn't very successful...long periods of silence as I tried to stop crying. Not much makes me cry and I have had at least 2 good ones in the last several weeks. Probably had not cried for over a half a year (unless it was watching a movie or sappy story). Man, I hope this all works out!
5' 4" tall, HW: 242, SW:215.4 Weight Loss - pre-op: - 26.6, M1: -15.4, M2: -16, M3: -11.4, M4: -11.2, M5: -12.2, M6: -7.4, M7: -7.8, M8: -2.0 Goal of 130 lbs. reached at 8 months, 2 days post-op!
See, that's the thing, it WILL work out, I have no doubt of that. But, go ahead and feel the pain for now -- better to let the tears flow than keep it in.
HW:361 SW:304 (VSG 12/04/2014)Mo 1:-32 Mo 2:-13.5 Mo 3: -13.5 Mo 4 -9.5 Mo 5: -15 Mo 6: -15 Mo 7: -13.5 Mo 8: -17 Mo 9: -13 Mo 10: -12.5 11/3/2015 Healthy BMI Reached! Mo 11: -9 Mo 12: -8 12/27/2015 Goal Weight Reached!
Kids and parents... you can't do a thing with them. I had my mom move closer about 5 years ago after my dad passed. Got new doctors set up. Had heart surgery. Assisted living set up. Everything perfect and then she up and moves in with my brother ( ended up for just over a month) You never know why choices are made sometimes. She ended up moving back. After I made the choice to move to my son's farm. I would have never decided to move if she had not moved. I am 30 min out now and will be a little over an hour. So what I asked myself is what did I want?
HW=362(6/14) SW=314(9/14) GW=195 CW=270 (1-26-2020)
