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After VSG I bottomed out at 113, then maintained around 117-120 for quite a while. I prefer being in the middle of a 120-125 range.
Liz 5'3" HW: 219 SW: 185 GW: 125 LW: 113 Desired maintenance range: 120-125 CW: 119ish
That recipe looks delicious! I love acorn squash. BTW does it annoy anyone else that you have to read so much blah blah and/or scroll past a bunch of videos to get to the actual recipe these days?
Liz 5'3" HW: 219 SW: 185 GW: 125 LW: 113 Desired maintenance range: 120-125 CW: 119ish
A wonderful feature in a partner!
Liz 5'3" HW: 219 SW: 185 GW: 125 LW: 113 Desired maintenance range: 120-125 CW: 119ish
Enjoy your last bit of time at your home Liz! Must be bittersweet! At least you have a wedding that will be keeping you and your mind occupied! I think it is wise to cut the med dose again. What was your low post VSG? I think mine was 121 and that was too thin for me with my German build!
164.2 today! Just a few pounds from 30 lost and half way to my goal! Still getting close to 1,000 calories without having to force feed myself! I still need to add exercise and finally feel like I have some energy to do so. Will have to develop a program once I take Mom home this Thursday. Getting started is the hardest part. I know I feel so much better with regular activity and I enjoy it once I get into a routine!
Two different meetings today for my Stephen's Ministry. The first one is being part of a podcast to promote the Ministry - feeling very Gen Z about that! The second one is a meeting of all of the caregivers where we share any difficulties/successes we are having and do continuing education! Tomorrow I am supposed to get together with my care receiver for the second time. I'm really enjoying this Ministry in retirement, gives me purpose like my job in healthcare did! I hope to be able to continue it when we move.
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!
That squash recipe looks awesome. I usually make mine and add lots of butter and brown sugar, I bet this more savory recipe will be more palatable to my "everything is too sweet " taste buds right now. I would be interested in seeing a snap of the barn painting if you have the time and it isn't already wrapped up tightly for transport. The leaves have already started turning color here. Hope they don't all fall off soon'
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!
Oh my, that dinner does sound delicious! Sounds like your DF and I would enjoy a kitchen cook off! I like you approach to mopping!
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!
on 9/16/24 6:37 am
We had the first acorn squash of the season from a local farm last night. It was good and did you know you can eat the skin?? I didn't and I've been eating acorn squash my whole life. Here's the recipe. Plus this cooks in 25 minutes versus cooking them in halves.
Today I need go mail my estimated taxes and put the cardboard down in my garden if I'm going to do it. I feel so defeated when I look out there knowing how cool it was when I put it in. Now it's a grassfest with broken cattle panels where a deer got caught inside and was spooked when he couldn't make his way out. Sigh. My thought is to lay down the cardboard and if it doesn't seem plantable next year, I will have it torn down. @#$&ing pandemic! I didn't get here in 2020 and the whole thing went to seed and never recovered.
More good weather. Though the grass anywhere it's not irrigated is brown now. The gallery owner yesterday told me it'll make for a bummer leaf peeper season. The leaves will just fall off and that will be it. Seems a bad storm will do that toon just blow them off. Changing leaves are finicky is seems.
I think that's all for me today. Hope everyone has a good one!
Liz, I've got no serious advice about how to get the trash folks to take away extra trash--unless you have an absent neighbor whose trash barrels you could co-opt for a week or two. It's easy out here in the country where I have a dumpster they'll empty every week if I fill it up.
We still have a little post-Francine moisture happening that'll continue dripping most of the day. Thus far, we've gotten about 2.5 inches out of this gentle post-hurricane visit. We're always grateful for rain.
Today is hair color/cut day, then a chiropractor visit with the guy my doctor calls "the best anatomist in town."
Mopping continues. I have a very "Diane S" approach to mopping: just do 15 minutes a day. It's getting done. :)
Yesterday we happily mostly did nothing. But dinner last night was surf and turf (shrimp and prime steak) with a whiskey peppercorn sauce, corn on the cob with a chili/cilantro sauce, and skillet-blackened garlic green beans. It's so wonderful to have a partner who's such a good chef!
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.
"Dopamine dressing" is a new term for me, so I just went down that rabbit hole.
I like the concept, although I'm not into lots of bright colors in one outfit. In its broader application, I gather it means wearing the colors that make one happy and satisfied. For me, maybe oddly, those colors are navy, black, blue, white, cream, with a splash of anything colorful, which could be a purse, a scarf, jewelry, or even shoes.
In search of pants that fit me, during the last few months I've bought a long black skirt, a long very dark navy skirt, cream trousers, grey trousers, a cream cardigan with dark navy stripes, another pair of (blue, of course) Levis, a blue blouse, a cream blouse, black satin sweatpants (that dress up beautifully with black high heels), and a very dark navy pinstripe pantsuit with an extra long jacket that makes me feel grown up. I haven't bought that many new clothes in a very long time. Some were consignment pieces, and the others were all on sale.
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 guess if you're The Queen you can get anyone else to do pretty much anything for you.
Re locker room dressing, as the oldest of seven children, i.e., nine people with one bathroom, I don't have many privacy issues. 
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.
