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Yahoo! Officially under goal!
Liz 5'3" HW: 219 SW: 185 GW: 125 LW: 113 Desired maintenance range: 120-125 CW: 119ish
Much energy in this group today between you and CC.
Memories about DD still do make me sad but I have certainly learned to live with that. When it is your child you always miss them and what their future would have been like. Much more profound than losing a parent or a sibling (since I have had those losses as well).
Liz 5'3" HW: 219 SW: 185 GW: 125 LW: 113 Desired maintenance range: 120-125 CW: 119ish
Wow! You were energized for sure!
Liz 5'3" HW: 219 SW: 185 GW: 125 LW: 113 Desired maintenance range: 120-125 CW: 119ish
Calories as in -necessary burn able energy nuggets - I guess sometimes for me, calories are just that- calories- no matter the source. Thanks.
Greetings all
dull day at the gallery. Not one person has come in. I was listening ro some mediocre music decided to listen to all of Les mis instead. Crossword puzzle done and local shrimpy paper reviewed. Did some walking and will do more.
grateful that you all have lots to report. Liz your dd is indeed being proactive on health issue. Hope that continues. Information is your friend. Hours on a beach sounds grand. Unlike hours at home which are taken by tv or snacking, beach is healthy relaxation.
y'all are on a clean out binge cc, peps and all. Yay y'all. Good reminder to us all that it can be done. Getting started is 90%.
bonnie sorry your bil took a fall. Good for you all for helping. Will he need to consider moving.? Not a thing to look forward to.
dd glad the parent visit was good and that your dh defused the ranting. Blesses relief.
i mixed the chicken with some veggies and orzo last night. Dh was happy. Me too.
well sorry for crappy typing. One finger with less than ideal vision is recipe for errors.
looking forward to Oscar's tonight and to getting out of here in 3 hours. Feels like detention.
diane s
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Wow, all you skinny people! I love it! And you organizing people. I may join you in your quest someday.
We left our house at 11:30 am and returned at 8:30 pm, so my dreams of accomplishing anything Saturday were dashed. When we got in the car, DH said, that wasn't too bad. And it wasn't, thanks to him. When the nonsense and airing of the grievances started, and I could feel my flight or freeze response starting, he deftly turned the conversation. It was nice to see my brother and SIL too. My nephew was able to stop by to hand off his 2 boys to my brother for the weekend and then he was off to home to meet up with his wife. They are so well suited for each other. Their night away from the kids is spent sleeping and ice fishing in their fish house.
I am getting little accomplished today either. I decided not to make a list of that which must be done and settled on the most necessary task, which is laundry. Almost done with it, along with reading the NYT Sunday paper. We leave at 6pm to go to Minneapolis to see a Midsummer Night's Dream. Then the weekend is done, and the new work week begins. Each day closer to Spring Break.
Liz thinking of you and your family as your DD navigates all of this.
128.4! Liz was right, when my body decides to give up some weight, it usually is a good amount before it get stingy and holds on to it again. Almost another pound down!
Church and my class were good today. No tears today but lots of good opening up!
Sunny and cool today. Not much else planned except that I?ve decided on shrimp quesadillas for dinner. Easy and relatively healthy!
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!
209.4 Look at that - a zero in the tens place! Now to go for a 1 in the hundreds.... Getting close.
Winter came back yesterday. Even brought rain. It's cool and cloudy today.
Liz, you memory is magnificent, but a lot of those memories of Elise are bittersweet. I hope they don't bring up too much sadness. I can remember things about my mom now without a flux of feelings. Just memories - some nice, some not.
CC, I had a bit of an organization day, too! I got six large 40 gallon bags of clothes packed and taken to Goodwill. I also tackled all the dog towels that Ron washed an never folded or put away, dog beds washed, etc... So I made a very small, but decent impact on the HOARDER GARAGE yesterday. That felt good.
Bonnie, I know I stress that protein and the quality of calories are very important, but I remind you that you have inventive plumbing that has saved your life. You do you, lady! Get those life sustaining calories in anyway you can. And yes, Swann should go as therapy dog... Nothing like a feisty little terrier to brighten spirits!
New dog client today. I'm always a little leery of new dogs... Not sure how they will behave or the condition I will find them in.
Must get on with it!
on 3/2/25 9:19 am, edited 3/2/25 1:35 am
Busy getting ready for my friend coming to town tomorrow for the week. I rarely get bursts of organizational mojo, and it never happens when I?m not by myself, but last night I got some and tackled the rest of my office. Files with labels made, drawers vacuumed, every piece of paper sorted, many shredded, all tax documents present, printed, and accounted for (have to do my tax organizer still), lots of stuff trashed, some things scanned and sent to my treasurer replacement, and some things set aside to make calls Monday. It feels good!
I also cleaned both fountains and their filters. Blech. One had a melting toad in the filter bag and tiny little bones in the fountain pond. Ick. Then I made up the guest bed, and installed a new piece of racking in the dishwasher that had broken.
I also ordered hand weights that came yesterday inspired by Peps! I have work to do, I struggled to get them out of the box. I ended up with the adjustable Bowflex weights. You turn a dial and it grabs just the number of weight plates you want from 5 to 52 pounds. I could hardly lift one with both hands in its complete, 52 pound state. Pathetic...
Today is cleaning day. I best go get started. Hope everyone has a great day!
140.4
Nice day and feeling very quiet here in the house. DH and DS#1 on road trip to Wichita to visit with DH's older brother who took a nasty fall and was in hospital-now moved to rehab. All fine and progressing well. He is by himself out there - When it gets close to time to go home, I'll go out and clean clean his very nice, but very messy house, stock up, and tend to him for a bit. He used to be a dog person ( Labradors- each and every one of them named Snowball #s 1,2,3...as they came along). I might take Swann out with me as a "therapy dog".
Funny being alone with my time...plenty of projects to do, and probably won't get many of them done. Funny how that works...
Am glad DD's being proactive health wise...I am sure she will weigh in accounting for drs professional advice, balance that with the knowing she has of her situation and then, trusting her innermost promptings, make the right decision.
