VSG Maintenance Group
12/10/18, Monday
- Within Range: Yes
- General Wellbeing: 9 on SS
- 10,000+ Steps: 11,452
- Fitness: walking two dogs individually
- Self-Care: yoga w/ legs up the wall
- Play/Leisure: knitting; reading
- Intention: Continue to embrace our new normal
Liz, LOVE the holiday lights ! I always smile at how snow birds go all out to remind themselves that it IS the holiday season ! Peps ...the trailer and the tattoo are out of this world !! Good for you !!! The dogs will adjust well ! Do you have a spot to park it on your property ? BB, gel polish cures in ultra violet (UV) light. It is much more durable, and I'd like to use it for home pedicures too. Is hubby home for good ? Hope you are feeling better ! Ann, welcome home ! It sounds like lots of feels and new memories too ! Dale would be so proud of you !!! DD, I so remember being tied to school breaks for vacations, and the resulting high prices !! As the kids got older and more involved in sports teams, they couldn't miss practices during vacations. Retirement is grand !! Shel, I thought of you when I labored with the laundry basket on the basement stairs. How many flights did you do with 25 extra pounds ? Thanks for posting more shots of Stink Eye. Maybe he'd wear a Santa cap for you ! Lesa, we're thinking of you as you get your bionic hip !! Healing energy coming your way ! Miss 150, thanks for the reminder about broth ! I can't believe the nutritional value of bone broth ! Such a great base for soups and stews ! Paula... I feel your hot flash pain !! Glad to hear that the boys are doing so well, especially Zander ! He seems to have pulled things together ! Dave, hope the babes stay healthy for Christmas, and eager to hear about your continued recovery.
All of the talk about plastics, along with my excess skin lighting up the screen during TSA screenings make me envy those of you who have done it. The lymphedema really precludes it for me. However, my eye lids are beginning to droop and I need to have my PCP and ophthalmologist begin to document it over time as I could eventually interfere with my vision, thus qualifying for insurance coverage. Loving taking the dogs for individual walks, as DC can't take Atlas. I've been taking Atlas out first as he doesn't do well waiting. If he is tired, he is much more generous abou****ching Sadie leave. I was finding that Sadie was being short changed, as I get tired by the end of the second walk, so I'll alternate the order and he will just have to suck it up.
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 !!
DianeO -- that's some great energy you're tapping into these days. :)
My post is a quickie ... weight this morning was a surprising 139.2. That's a 6.2 pound gain after Birthday Week! No guilt, just surprise that it was as much as that.
Today' I'm pushing water, walking, and back on track.
Today's theme: Begin anew ... the daily gift we are given. :)
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.
I loved all of your birthday from afar (and, I think, even participated in the food palooza.)
What a great celebration with people you love. I know your husband loved every moment of it, too.
Glad to have you back 
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!
Thank you, Shel! Good to be back. It was a true blow-out! Which makes being home all that more pleasurable. :)
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.
DianeO, I know money isn't necessarily your issue with PS, but personally I think that Home Security should pay for PS for all, just as a matter of national security. What are they missing while they are trying to figuring out the formerly obese?
I think I just had my own birthday week.....terrible grazing, chocolate, peanuts, weight is up. I really feel crummy because of it. Physically uncomfortable. May I stay that way as I go back to normal. (At least there is a normal to return to.)
Have a great day all,
Peace and Grace,
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!
Weight: 169.2
Another busy weekend. Didn't get to bed Saturday night until 1am and boy did I pay for it! Becca is unforgiving with her wake up times!
Today is DH's first day at new job!! I'm really hoping it all goes well!!
Trying to plan for a low-key evening so as to keep it low stress for him. Will do beef stroganoff in instant pot and roasted broccoli. Yummy and easy! Hopefully some gift wrapping and Christmas movie-watching once Becca is in bed.
Babysitter just told me she will not be able to babysit both kids. I kind of figured this would be her response and I cannot blame her. I'm nervous myself! Plus she is hoping to expand her own family. But it does mean now more tough decisions for me to make. Two in daycare is expensive. Two under two is hard no matter how you slice it. Where does that leave my future career? I also worry will I even be able to give my kids enough if I had them at home. Maybe it would be selfish of me? Or maybe it's selfish of me to work. So many thoughts, not sure where to start untangling the web. I guess I should begin with this: I'm very thankful that it is my choice ultimately. That we are financially able to do either, that my husband would encourage either. But in some ways it would be so much easier if someone would just dictate to me lol!
OK ... here's your "dictation" from someone who doesn't have kids: Stay home with them until the youngest is at least two. By then you'll have figured so much out. And by then you'll have access to more childcare options than with newborns and under-one-year-olds.
This doesn't mean that after the second bebe appears you can't come up with short-term babysitting options that will give YOU time for some actual self-care. Remember self-care? ;)
I am the oldest of seven children, with fourteen nieces and nephews -- most of whom already have children ranging from newbies to teens, and almost all of them say: These are the years you can NOT get back.
Child psychologists also have a lot of positive things to say about the benefits of mother-child bonding and child-learning when they're connected with a mother who pays attention to their emotional and intellectual needs.
So now that I've thrown down my non-parental perspective, others who've actually raised children might have different opinions and I have no doubt will offer them. :)
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.
I fully intended to be a working Mom with kids in daycare but as I started having my kids, my wants changed. I reduced hours with each kid...4 days per week after #1 (and Ben stayed home one day too, so only 3 days with a sitter), 1/2 time after #2 and then after #3 I only work as a relief employee until he was in about 2nd grade. I don't regret not working those years. I was able to stay home, help out with school activities, go on field trips. All good stuff!
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!
Teacher weigh in: when I first started teaching I learned how to quickly pick out the kids who went to day care. They were the minority. Now I easily pick out the kids who have a stay at home or highly involved parent because they are the minority.
As a long time teacher my input would be this: If you can stay home financially, do it. There are so many reasons I can cite that are positive. The biggest reason is that I truly believe that no one will care for a child as well as a loving, caring, emotionally stable parent. There is nothing IMO stronger than the bond between mother and child. It is a bond I know only as a son, but damn, it is strong. I can only imagine what that bond is for a mother.
However, the one thing I never thought of until my teaching partner pointed this out is that infants and toddlers can't tell you what's going on. To me that is super duper scary. My teaching partner worked part time for her first two kiddos (only 2 days per week) and her sister took care of the kids on those two days. With her third little she only got to stay home the first year with him and then had to make a choice to go back to work full time or surrender 50% of her position. She chose to come back full time because her older two were in regular school and her third little is a rugged sort. She felt comfortable putting him in a daycare for which he had been on the wait list since he was in utero. He's doing well, but today my partner mentioned that the teacher took away his blankie because he wasn't sleeping at nap time. He wasn't playing with it, but the teacher was irked that he wasn't sleeping so she took away his comfort. It's stuff like that that really bugs me. Not horrible, but not nice either. See if you like it if I take away your damn phone, lady! Harumph!
