VSG Maintenance Group
Saturday, 11/11/17
147 OTD. Down just a bit!
Was awake at 4:45, afraid of oversleeping for the GSA meeting at 7 this morning. The GSA got approved on the re-vote. So happy for my boy and his friends! He has excellent support. Wish DS#1 would have had the same from a wider friend group!
Slept good last night, just not long enough. Cold here and the first snow is on the ground! Good napping day with the puppies I think! Soup is what I have been craving for weeks. Though sushi will always do too! Lol!
I feel so blessed to have all of you in my life. Like Diane O says, you have become family of choice! Brothers and Sisters!
Have a Supah Saturday!
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!
What a wonderful accomplishment....that group will be active long after your sons are graduated. What a gift for the future.
Soup, sushi and snow. Have fun.
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!
Cecily! CONGRATULATIONS on making goal!!!!
Some day we have to talk more about hiking. I see you doing lots of steps....what kind of terrain? Is it too nosey to ask in what state you live? I just starting hiking here in western Washington this last summer and LOVED it! Now, taking mini break from the great outdoors as we transition into winter activities.
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!
on 11/11/17 9:56 am
Thank you, Shel! Not nosy at all. I live in southern CA where we don't have much of a winter. We have lots of land conservancy trails in the hills around here, so it's a lot of rocky, dusty trails up and down hillsides. Lots of it looks like this:
I also just took a hiking trip to Sedona with my friends. It was beautiful and very challenging, climbing up and down boulders:
I walk a lot at the beach too. This is Crystal Cove State Park. It's about 7 miles roundtrip from cliff to cliff, which defines the park:
So much stress going on here recently. I hope everyone can find time to take care of themselves and be kind to themselves.
Weight: 173.2 I think
Ann-I just LOVE your perspective. I think that type of perspective makes all things in life easier to endure--both happy and sad. I really need to work on practicing that, myself.
Shel-I have similar thoughts on Christmas baking. I've mentioned before how intertwined food/cooking are with family & memories to me. My grandparents, grandmother, in particular. She'd make all kind of candies homemade. The fudge was the kind that didn't even use marshmallow fluff--totally scratch. She also made "aunt bill's brown candy" that was a kind of caramel pecan fudge that first was printed in the 30s and really needed two people to make and hours of stirring. Divinity. Pralines. Not to mention the cookies on the pretty little tiered plate Christmas eve. My granddad would order everyone in our family grapefruit and it was always exciting waiting for the first week In December and wondering when the grapefruit would arrive. Then every morning we'd add it to our breakfast. Mmmmm citrus at Christmas. Now that's a tradition I can really keep. It does make me a little sad that I don't have a granddad to send grapefruit, although I'm thinking of sending myself some! Might not quite be the same though :( I've tried making the candies and it's just not quite the same as my grandmother's. I don't need it, and most people in my family don't need it. Honestly, even the people at work are so overloaded by other sweets (and it makes me sad when they'll eat something super simply over my delicacies!). So I guess all in all the approach I'm taking is to just make one or two things that really set off those memories for me. Maybe make them with my aunt. And if they don't get all eaten, that's okay. Some of the memories is just in making them and having them. It's probably pretty unpopular to make fudge after WLS!! But I'll go on the record again saying not only do I think it's okay that food be more than just for fuel, I think it's healthy.
We got our house put back together after the wood floors. And the Thanksgiving decorations are up, a pork shoulder is smoked ready for tonight and watching the OU-TCU game. BOOMER SOONER!!!!!
on 11/11/17 10:11 am
But I'll go on the record again saying not only do I think it's okay that food be more than just for fuel, I think it's healthy.
I agree with you! I've spent a lot of time with my therapist over the years working on how to allow moderation into my eating including things I love and getting rid of "good" and "bad" mental labels for foods. I know a lot of people at OH feel they do best not letting go of their strict personal rules, but I would really like to make this work being able to include small bits of things I really enjoy. Time will tell (since I can still count my maintenance time in minutes 
) if I can make that work, but that's my plan.
on 11/11/17 10:25 am, edited 11/11/17 2:26 am
Weight 169, 1295 calories
I have nothing on the calendar all weekend. Perhaps that?s a sign I need to work on my closet! I keep buying things (I won?t say transfer addiction yet, but buying things I love that make me feel good versus my old world of buying things I don?t totally hate because they happen to sort of fit my fat bod, makes it easy to get a little carried away). And my closet is disorganized with lots of stuff that needs to go.
Last night I ordered BBQ from a local place - so good! My plan is to separate it into a bunch of individual portions this morning with my FoodSaver and freeze it for easy dinners. Before surgery, I probably could have eaten all of what I ordered in a few gigantic meals. To not be a slave to food anymore is such a major blessing.
Have a wonderful weekend!
