VSG Maintenance Group
Monday, February 12, 2018
Beautiful pics as always Shel! My boys have built winter Quinzees with the scouts before. More like a snow cave. You start with a mound of compressed snow and then dig out an area just big enough to crawl into and sleep!
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!
Did they actually use them? As a parent, that would make me nervous but just out of ignorance.
The REI person also talked about good snow for igloos vs snow caves. Back in the day, she was a competitive skier and she said the skiers would make igloos (complete with furniture made from ice blocks) and then hang out in them in between runs. Much nicer than being out in the elements, etc.
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!
Weight: 188
Really starting to feel exhausted. Like I needed a nap after getting ready this morning :O
Not sure if it's pregnancy, cold, or combination.
Still feels like so much to get done in preparation for baby!! I'm really counting on her not coming early. Tonight we'll go to a breastfeeding class. I haven't decided what I will do and I really think whatever works for the individual is fine. I'm definitely more of a thank God nutritional formula supplements are available for those needing/wanting. And I think it could be tricky to nurse in my profession. However, I decided it would be best for me to get all the information first, so to class we go.
I have another shower on Saturday so after that we will assess what we have and what we still need, and start setting up everything and washing clothes, etc. I'm also wanting to prepare some freezer meals, but the way I'm feeling now...that may have to go out the window.
I can't remember when you are due.....fabulous pictures yesterday, by the way. Yesterday I realized that my ipad doesn't show the whole picture and I was amazed that Devon picked up on your lovely shoes with just a sliver of a body and 1/4 shoe showing.
Sleep needs to be super priority tho I understand that is hard to do. Add it to your plans and (try) let non-essentials go.
If you don't have time to prep food, no worries. If you must plan something perhaps a grocery list to give to family with ingredients for easy to prepare meals that DH or family could prepare instead of you.
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!
:) Devon, I think you're talking to me, right?
If so, thank you. That smile is sort of me, isn't it? TBH, my personality is nothing like Norma Jean's. Nor is my persona anything like Marilyn's. But I absolutely love that photograph of her. She really does look in that photo how I feel sometimes -- like she's about to burst with joy!
Obviously, that's not how I feel so much these days. But I do hope to feel that way again.
ANN 5'5", AGE 74, HW 235.6 (BMI 39.2), SW 216, GW 150, CW 132, BMI 22
POUNDS LOST: Pre-op -20, M1 -10, M2 -11, M3 -10, M4 -10, M5 -7, M6 -5, M7 -6, M8 -4, M9 -4,
NEXT 10 MOS. -12, TOTAL -100 LBS.
Yup, talking about you! I've seen some pics of you (particularly one with Del) with your head back just a tad, the same joyful smile... you just beam. Just made me curious if that's why you chose that photo...
Me... if I chose a movie star avi, as stereotypical as it is... I'd end up picking Judy Garland. Lots in common there... sigh...
Greetings Marvelous Ones
Well I am down to 146 today. Never thought I would be happy about that number but its better than yesterday.
Good on you Ann for a good night sleep. I stayed up too late watching ice skating. Kale chips sound good but a lazy day sounds even better. Who am I kidding, every day is a lazy day for me. However I just spent a half hour on the phone with airlines reservations in some foreign country figuring out how to use my award miles. Not even going to take my blood pressure!
Liz, sorry DH became possessive of fudge. Wishing you courage to get through these moments. And I understand better about the dog walk training. Good for them.
Igloo Shel? Really? Well I hope you learn how to build a proper igloo. My only use for igloos is as a Scrabble word. Glad you got the snow shoe trip accomplished.
Speaking of Avatars, yep I have always loved that Marilyn Monroe photo and imagine her on a tractor at Ann's farm. So if a movie was to be made about your life, who would you choose to play the role of you? This question is for everyone. I would like to think Glenn Close for myself but probably Loretta Switt is a more apt choice.
Well maybe more later. I must get back to travel logistics and taxes. Diane S
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Weight remains stable.
I was speaking with a long time client & friend yesterday. She is 20 years my senior. She is obese. At one time she looked into VSG using my surgeon and clinic, but she was never able to get motivated enough to drop quite enough weight to be scheduled. I listened to her talking yesterday and realized how angry and disappointed she is with herself. With her eyes brimming with tears she looked at me and said, "I'm going to die fat. Nothing works. I always fail." Boy, did my heart go out to her. I found myself saying to her all the things I have had to say to myself and had trouble believing.
On Friday my trainer was telling me about a new diet he was researching. (He is not an advocate of any extreme diet, but believes he should be up on the latest fads, so he can speak intelligently with his clients about the current diet rage.) He has seen me thin, thin, thin, and now at this weight - the highest I've been since VSG. Ended up good-naturedly putting myself into the category of ****** up with food to get as fat as I am.
These things, plus a horrible weekend of feeling stressed because of the client load, got me to thinking about my fears around diet and food. I have a myriad of stored excuses about why eating this or that at such and such a time is reasonable. My favorite my realization of my sugar issues is this: I've already had sugar today. There is nothing to be done now about the spiral. I must wait until I am able to sleep and reset.
I came to a question to which I have no answer and one that is worth exploring. "What would happen if I didn't eat that?" I'm serious. What would happen? What am I afraid might happen? What is so all fire dang worrisome about not eating a XX or a ZZ or...
