VSG Maintenance Group
Wednesday, March 27, 2019
on 3/27/19 9:50 am
Weight: I've weighed, I just don't like it.
I didn't realize I missed yesterday here until I saw pics of Shel mentioned that I didn't see! I did my 8 mile hike yesterday (with more flowers coming out and several I haven't seen before), had coffee with my hiking friend after, came home and walked Ferg, then dove into assembling my tax crap to send to the tax guy.
More than 4 hours later, I had found and cleared many piles of tax and non-tax things, cursed my organizational ineptitude, found my car renewal that I forgot to pay, paid that with a penalty, filled out the tax organizer, and scanned it along with all the supporting stuff to send to the tax guy. Whew. Now I'm left to clean the mess I created. Plus I have the trainer, Pilates, and book club.
And I'm hungry and there is no good food in the house. Happy Wednesday all!
Liz, sorry about the sleepless night, but I bet thise houses will be beautiful! Enjoy!
Happy Hump Day from your friendly neighborhood sugar junkie!
Next week is spring break for me. My book should arrive by tonight. If I read diligently the next few days I should be able to get this project off the ground by Monday. I am considering this a project rather than a "diet" or "detox". Something about a self improvement project sounds so much more positive to my inner self than a DIET! I am trying to focus myself and my thinking on how much detoxing will improve certain things in my daily life. By thinking of it as a project, it becomes an ongoing work and process rather than a THING I'm doing. I'm not sure if that makes sense to the outside of myself world, but it does make sense to me, so I'm going with it.
I am still not looking forward to the process because it means facing head on the reality of my disordered behavior. But I also know that I can only THINK so much about it before I HAVE TO TAKE ACTION. I am grateful that my trainer mentioned last week about how she had to let go of her own thinking and trust someone else who had gone down the path before her on her weight loss journey. (I think I've mentioned before that she lost about 130 pounds without WLS and has kept it off for almost 15 years.) As she put it, she wasn't losing weight her way no matter how hard she tried, so she had to put her faith in someone else and trust him. Very much like when I decided to stop drinking alcohol and stop smoking, I had to trust the process. I really have to believe those experts in sugar elimination are taking me down the right path. Still, I find the prospect unsettling, unnerving, and inwardly scary as ****!
It was my old girl Keira's 10th b'day yesterday. I swear she knew it was "her" day. She milked it for all it was worth. I totally fed into her, too. She's such a love bug! She really made me so happy yesterday (as she does everyday, but yesterday even more so!).
Greetings all
A nice low 153 today. Being sick is one way to lose weight. Though I am on the mend.
Shel will come by today to see my purple house and meet the dogs. I have given up being embarrassed by the clutter.
It was raining pretty heavily this morning but the sun is out now. So I hope Shel got some good redwood experience. Its true the air is different in the redwoods. Calm and noise doesn't amplify; its dampened. The redwoods of course absorb water in their leaves if they are super tall. Thats why they need fog. So love redwood lore. I want to learn more about what creatures inhabit the upper parts.
Hoping I can get a picture of us together when Shel arrives. In front of my purple house.
Hey, I found a box of White Castle Vegab black bean sliders at the discount grocery! Should be interesting. DH loves White Castle. Diane S
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Hello all - nearly afternoon oops. The morning has just gotten away from me. Been down checking the cows n bubbas - its so gorgeous to watch them play. The girl Mikaela is a real character - full of energy n mischief. The boy has been till now content to sleep in a milk coma almost all day. Least his mumma is coming up for hay twice a day. I let them into the house yard last night as green pick of grass but that was short lived. Miss Mikaela decided the tape electric fence simply didnt apply to her and stepped straight thru it. It must have looked comical as I was trying to get her back thru just on dark. Little minx but we got there - even kept the other 7 cows contained. The joys of farm life he he he
Quieter day today - I need to pop into town once I finish work and find a gift for my SIL. Her birthday tommorrow. Im taking a few hours off to take her to collect her new car and we will have a cuppa somewhere. Shes hoping to head down to the city to see her family after that - so I will be looking after her farm again till next week.DH is coming up tommorrow night and our weekend will consist of fencing n more fencing. The race is on to get it finished so the mumma cows have lots of feed.
I need to leave the farm next Thursday night to head back to our city home so Im crossing fingers the last cow has calved. Else my SIL's will take over for us. I need time to prepare everything for upcoming surgery. The specialist has said I need 4-6 weeks off work - I nearly choked. I only took 2 weeks for my VSG. Im seeing her on 9th April for pre op apt and will discuss with her then. Hmmmmmm
Liz - sorry to hear you had a sleepless night but Im glad you have a nice day planned with your SIL's
Shel - HELLO :) Lovely to see a picture of you - you look gorgeous and Im so glad you got to meet Diane and spend some time with her
Peps - Beautiful picture and good luck with the sugar de-tox/change - Sending you strength
Diane - Im so pleased you are looking at a possible rental as it seemed to be your "place" and goodness knows we all need one of those - somewhere to totally unwind and be at peace
Diane S - I look forward to the pics with you and Shel and the purple house - how exciting. Hope you are feeling better - Loved the pic Shel took of your work - you are very talented
Cec - Well done on getting the tax all done. Its a yuk job that I tend to put off - thankful we only have to do it once a year but I too need to be more organised with my filing so its lessens the stress when it comes time to collate
Miss - Are you over the East side? Anywhere near San Fran? Im there in Sept and hoping to meet face to face with any of the group that can make it
BB - You are doing so well. I was a hard mumma - I did cook them different meals in the start - my eldest was very very fussy due to being on the spectrum but I soon learnt that it was not going to work in the long run - one tired mumma with 2 little babies (Their dad worked 14 hour days) so they just had to learn to eat what we did. To this day they are great eaters (huge ones at that) and skinny tall healthy guys. Trust your instincts and do what you feel is right for both you and your family x
Ann & Dave - miss seeing you guys on here - hope all is well
Hoping I havent missed anyone - I best get back to work.
Have a wonderful evening all
S
