VSG Maintenance Group
12/30/2020, Hump Day
I still think the key for me is clarifying the currently blurred line between want and NEED. Everything I want is not a NEED. Awareness of my tendency toward instant gratification and becoming more comfortable with WANTS and impacts eating, spending, allocation of time etc. I suspect a closer focus on want v. need will mean reactivating food v. fuel filter. Yes DD, showing up is more than half the battle. Ceci...hope you're taking lots of pictures. Peps, can't wait to hear what was finished by 3 PM !
Not feeling New Year's resolutions for 2021. I am so eager for 2020 to be ending !! Gratitude for 2021 and finding a healthy new normal that enables me to thrive is my 2021 intention !
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 !!
I really do think it is almost impossible to make a New Years resolution this year with so much about 2021 up in the air!
I hope Cecily's landscaping project and Devon's closet went well as the day progressed yesterday. Good for you having the energy to deal with that right now. I have no energy for anything. It is a good thing that I have a dog to make me get outside.
Diane C., the outdoor restaurant looked really neat. SILs and I had a zoom with my DSD last night and she was telling us how she and her SIL there have established a wardrobe specifically around outdoor winter dining - lots of layers, shawls and lap blankets!
I went with my SILs to a couple of new spots to get takeout for our dinner last night. We went to the Cape Cod Quahog Company to get stuffed quahogs for appetizers (for non-New England people a quahog is a clam). This company had been featured in some articles as having the best. It apparently makes them for lots of restaurants but will sell for takeout to the public. Their kitchen is in the basement of a pizza place. LOL! Our verdict: good, but not the best and a little too spicy so it was hard to taste the clam. We also went to a caterer who has opened a storefront as the result of the pandemic to sell takeout meals. We bought two lobster roll kits (filling and roll separate). There was so much lobster that we split one between 3 of us with some leftover filling and didn't touch the second one at all! This place was a real winner and has MANY other meals for purchase - usually 2 person meals.
In Florida they are already including people 65 and over (residents and non-residents) in their vaccination program as the vaccine is available. They started this week! My park is hoping to hold a clinic in our lodge which would be so handy if it could be worked out. We already had to be on the list so they would prepare to have enough doses available and would come back and do the same thing for the second dose.
In the meantime, today will be more dog walking and DS is cooking for SILs and me tonight as the non-local one is going home tomorrow.
Stay safe and healthy!
Liz 5'3" HW: 219 SW: 185 GW: 125 LW: 113 Desired maintenance range: 120-125 CW: 119ish
I have an outdoor dining tote bag, with lap robe, 2 shawls, some of those handwarmers you activate by shaking. I'm thinking about adding little pieces of stryofoam, because I read your feet stay warmer if you get them up off the cold pavement. Yesterday the place had such good heaters that I didn't need all my extra layers, just my coat and hat. I was even able to keep my gloves off the whole time.
Seems to me that this year despite it being in the midst of Covid-crazy-time, Christmas was exceptionally activity laden- different- and busy. Decorations are still up (DH likes the lights, so I will leave those till the 6th) but will slowly set the rest away.
So yesterday I had my bi yearly check up. Labs showed I?ve tanked out on vitamin D- (registered 15) and my ferrous level continues to slide in a downhill slope. What I thought was Covid-related tiredness and depressed mood is more likely vit and mineral deficiency. So, I?m taking a pill of 50,000 D units for 12 weeks in addition to daily 2,000. Sounds like a lot.
On the food front, everything you said, Diane, I also need to address (and more). DD I love the showing up thought. The doppelgänger that has been standing in for me makes poor choices. I am 24 #s heavier than last year and way beyond the upper end of my maintenance number.
My intention for this year is going to be daily telling myself (and then acting it out)
If not now, when? If not you, who?
I also need to check in here daily. Peps, your addressing self in the mirror sounds totally therapeutic to me and another thing to set as a daily activity. I haven?t been looking in a mirror, not even my face, forever....a example of not showing up. Surely face to face encouragement and approval first thing in the morning would do me good.
A test of readyness is maybe starting today instead of the first because-
If not now, when? If not you, who?
goal!!! August 20, 2013 age: 59 High weight: 345 (June, 2011) Consult weight: 293 (June, 2012) Pre-Op: 253 (Nov., 2012) Surgery weight: 235 (Dec. 12, 2012) Current weight: 145
TOTAL POUNDS LOST- 200 (110 pounds lost before surgery, 90 pounds lost Post Op.diabetes in remission-blood pressure normal-cholesterol and triglyceride levels normal! BMI from 55.6 supermorbidly obese to 23.6 normal!!!!
on 12/30/20 8:10 am
Greetings all! Weight down 0.2 today.
Yesterday was so stressful for me. The plants look skimpy to me, but the foreman said they'll fill in. I hope so. Today they work on the backyard including chopping the mammoth hedge wall in half. Then they'll come back Tuesday with mulch and rock to fini****alked to one of my friends about it and he didn't understand why I was so anxious about it all. I think it was a combination of it not being what I envisioned, having 12 strangers surrounding my safe place all day, and feeling like the people that made the plan weren't the ones here executing putting the burden on me. But in the end, it will look new and tidy and I want to move anyway. I just kept saying, it'll be fine over and over like a nut. Good grist for the therapy mill later today.
Regardless, I woke up at 4am worrying and never got back to sleep. Considering I met my "move" goal yesterday in my house with heartbeats alone, I was exhausted.
I don't have New Years Resolutions for the reason Liz stated. But given my birthday is so close to New Years, I usually have thoughts about how I want the next birthday to be different. So I guess birthday resolutions... I would like at my next birthday to have the extra weight off (an annual theme). I would like to be in better physical shape. And I would like to try to spruce myself up more day to day. A year of sweats and no makeup has turned me into a frump. Oh and take better care of my skin. I've gotten to 49 with no wrinkles on luck and genes. I'd like to ride that out as long as possible and may need to start making an effort. So a lighter, fitter, more stylish and still wrinkle free Ceci for birthday 2021.
Have a good day, all!
Like Liz, I love, "So a lighter, fitter, more stylish and still wrinkle free Ceci for birthday 2021." Great thinking.
Zoom brought about my new and improved skin care regimen. The product I am loving the most is hyaluronic acid serum. Lots of good ones available at different price points. I use it as a foundation under a daily moisturizer.
