VSG Maintenance Group
06/14/2021, Flag Day Monday
Wow, did we ever have a rainstorm last evening ! We received 3.5" in forty-five minutes ! There was lots of road and creek side flooding, but none that directly impacted me. My DDs and I have joined forces on the spiritual growth / living your best life front. We are all reading Daring Greatly and did our first book talk last evening. The experience was priceless, and an hour and a half went by like nothing ! The Power of Now and The Obstacle Is the Way are contenders for the next read.
The weather looks iffy for the beginning of the week... pop up storms likely. I'm setting my sights on the end of the week for my maiden voyage on Doctor's lake ! I can't wait to paddle by all of the gorgeous houses and check out the plants and birds. No alligators invited !
Have a great day!
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 !!
A book club with your DDs: What a fantastic idea!
More of the same here in Aruba. Mike and I had a lovely dinner out last night while DD went to the casino. The remaining nights will be spent with her. Today is the usual beaching day but tonight we are taking a sort of musical bus tour of Aruba clubs. It will be a bit different from pre-Covid times with no dancing, fewer people and earlier times but that is just as well. I did it with DD once 6 years ago and it was a late night out. We should be back by 9 tonight. So hopefully we can stand doing it. Not really my cup of tea, but DD loves it.
Have a safe a d healthy day!
Liz 5'3" HW: 219 SW: 185 GW: 125 LW: 113 Desired maintenance range: 120-125 CW: 119ish
on 6/14/21 6:18 am
Weight still up
This is my new friend who is sitting right in front of my house this morning:
We finally got some rain last night too, but not nearly as much as DianeO! I love when the fronts come through though. Goes from still as the dead to raging wind and rain in a few seconds. Never seems to do that in CA.
I washed two more chair slipcovers yesterday after I saw a spider cross in my peripheral view, moved the cushion to murder him, and saw some white spots behind them I assumed were mildew - ew. Lakeside living, I suppose. When I stripped the chairs I also found more acorns shoved under the cushions. I think chipmunks get in here, but I never see any chipmunk poop to prove it! Just acorns in the furniture. Rural living...
Today I need to get leftover pulled pork and beans into foodsaver bags and the freezer and take a walk. It'll be in the mid-60s today and beautiful so it should be a nice day for it.
Daring Greatly and pretty much all of Brene Brown's books are terrific. Great idea to do a book club with your girls, Diane!
Ocean Diane's rain must have moved south. Downpour here in Miami, but the timing was right. When while we were having breakfast, a cooler wind blew in, and as we were walking back to the hotel, it started to sprinkle. Safely inside, the downpour started. The heavy rain only lasted about 15 minutes. We'll wait to see if it is the beach, or if it still looks like rain, we might just ride the free trolley around south beach. It has connections to all of Miami Beach, so it could be some nice sight seeing.
Last night we had dinner at a Turkish restaurant and had a very interesting talk with the owner. He and his children are the owners, his son the bartender, his daughter one of the servers. All 3 stopped by our table frequently and when we asked about various elements of the food, they were very proud to describe what things they had imported, because they thought it made a difference in the flavor profile.
Rain has stopped (for now), so off we go! Although I am enjoying laying on the nice bed without the sound of the club music throbbing in the background.
No weight today.... Oops!
The Pacific fog made it to our house late last night. It usually doesn't make it out quite this far. Most evenings it stops about 15 miles west of here. Some evenings it makes it to about Walnut Creek - about 7 miles west. Enjoying the break up of fog this morning.
I am having a lazy, lazy morning. Fun after a busy weekend.
Love Brene Brown! I have trouble with that vulnerability thing. I have Daring Greatly, but haven't read it yet. I like her TED Talks and videos.
One of my colleagues posted on FB that she will be removing all the Harry Potter books from her classroom because they contain transphobic, racist, and sexist messages. I am so sick of people being uber politically correct. Yes, Rowling has publicly spoken out against the trans community, is known to be homophobic, but I think it's a hell of a stretch for a child, pre teen or teen to correlate that the Goblins are code for Jews, the Elves are African and that Harry's genetics are more important than his actions. Sigh.... When I disagreed with her, my support of the LGBT+ community was questioned by, dare I say, some rather militant and stereotypical lesbian women. Kind of made me sad. It seems hard to have respectful discussions when people hold opposing view points.
I have a lot of work that needs to be done on the emotional food front that I would like to avoid. But, I am feeling more comfortable with the Ah ha I had last week, so I can at least try to deal with some of it. In a nut shell my Ah ha was triggered by a memory from Jr. High. I was having some trouble being teased about being chubby and pretty (I was 12-13, prepubescent). My parents' answer to this was to encourage me to adopt a more traditional boy appearance - cut my hair, dress more 1950's boy.... but it was the 1970s and long feathered hair was in, as were bell bottoms, and disco era dress, etc.... I would have died dressing like a nerd! LOL! But the point was that rather than feeling reassured by my parents about who I was, I was told once again to change to be accepted. The message to my 13 year old self was who you are is not good enough. I have felt like this my entire life. Simply not good enough. Well, when you believe that for long enough, there is no point in bettering yourself because essentially who you are at the core is wrong and we all know you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
I have a big chunk of work cut out for me if I'm going to make headway. It is tiring just thinking about it. Perhaps I can set some time aside each day to work on this and put it aside during the off times. I feel like my weight, size, eating has been such a hyper focus for the last 10 years in one way or another that I just want to be done with it all. Yet, I never do seem to let go of the "dream". LOL
Happy Monday to me!
Hope you are all off to a good start to the week ahead.
"I am good enough" is something I struggle with every day.
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 !!
