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So sorry you didn't get any sleep last night Liz! Hope that doesn't negatively influence your first day on the ship! Our good friends go to Jamaica every year for vacation to different Sandals resorts and were telling us about their painkiller ****tails that were very good! Any straight up liquor would be a no for me!
128.5 today. Interesting that my 2 boys that don't live local both told me that I was too thin. I agree that I shouldn't lose more, but BMI is 22.something.
This morning I did a trial run of the French toast casserole that I will make for DSDs bridal shower at the end of the month. I made one with added blueberries and one without. Both were very tasty but not what I would choose for breakfast these days (too sweet for me to make it a meal). The boys and DH enjoyed it though and gave me 2 thumbs up!
Plan to hit the treadmill today and then tonight we will do the early birthday celebration sushi dinner with cake afterwards. It is nice to have all my kids here at the same time!
Hope you are all enjoying your weekend!
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!
No weight and no sleep. I kept thinking I would fall asleep before dawn but other than a little dozing in the early night I was up all night. I finished my book, then started Huckleberry Finn for my book club. Not liking it much more than I did as a kid.
DD has an appointment with her PCP and the new gyno in 2 weeks. No sense of real urgency in any of these people. Apparently 2.5 months of bleeding heavily isn't a big deal to them. DD is going to call the gyno's office Monday to at least be on a cancellation list.
Tortola is beautiful but extremely hilly. We took a walk yesterday morning but couldn't go too far with all the hills, a narrow road, and no sidewalks. Really hairy when cars come by. We took cabs everywhere yesterday. We ate a good lunch at Pussars, poked around in shops, then went for a tour of a rum distillery. Pretty much the same process has been followed for 400 years. No fancy machinery here! I had lots of drinks I usually never have: A painkiller which is dangerously tasty at lunch and tasted rum at the distillery. Too raw for me. Last night we ate at a restaurant down the road and I had a phenomenal piece of tuna. I couldn't fini**** but wanted to. So, so good.
Today we leave at 11:15 to take a cab to the boat, boarding sometime just after noon. I will post some Tortola pictures on FB and boat pictures later.
Have a satisfying Saturday! DD enjoy your visit with DS and his fantastic girl!
Liz 5'3" HW: 219 SW: 185 GW: 125 LW: 113 Desired maintenance range: 120-125 CW: 119ish
What a pain to have to chase for dues. The deadbeats should be ratted out.
Dexter is definitely all of that.
Liz 5'3" HW: 219 SW: 185 GW: 125 LW: 113 Desired maintenance range: 120-125 CW: 119ish
Greetings all
It has been a mixed day of rain and sun but big rain will come tonight. DH went out to lunch and then to Costco. Not sure what all he brought home. Meanwhile I did my walking and am doing some gluing of art projects. More stuff needs to be done but I am staying home for the rest of the day.
Liz glad you arrived safely. That spot looks wonderful. Sorry your DD is having such a bad medical experience. Can these doctors not agree that something is wrong and try to address it? Beware of scooters.
Happy anniversary Ann. You have really made your sleeve work. Yay. Enjoy getting dressed up. Cool that the town has so many nice places. And yay you and Paula for being scale twins.
This morning I got caught up on gallery banking. Each member pays some membership dues and my job is to collect and account, among other things. Half the people are being in payments so I have to get after them. For most it is being inattentive but one or two are sort of deadbeats. I will rat them out to our board. At the gym I continued to listen to Les Miz. It really is the best musical ever and makes you think about the underlying story of greed, crime, punishment, redemption and honor. I think I read that book a zillion years ago.
We are still watching Dexter which DH regards as a guilty little pleasure. So sick and so entertaining.
There is about a foot of snow on the eagle nest. One of the eaglets may be missing.
Diane S
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Was it really 40 years since Good Morning Vietnam?!?
Absolutely great to dress up and feel good! We are so much healthier and look it now!
Liz 5'3" HW: 219 SW: 185 GW: 125 LW: 113 Desired maintenance range: 120-125 CW: 119ish
Birthdays for both of us!!! Enjoy your celebrations with your family!
Liz 5'3" HW: 219 SW: 185 GW: 125 LW: 113 Desired maintenance range: 120-125 CW: 119ish
I like getting dressed up too when I feel better about myself! You have every reason to celebrate yourself my friend! Have a grand dinner celebrating the day you found your Love!
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!
I'm currently addicted to the "Superfood Salad" offering at my local Kroger deli. It's got edamame, pine nuts, kale, blueberries, etc., and it's delicious. (We're pretty much living off of deli-ready foods these days.)
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.
129.0 lbs. this morning.
Good morning, Vietnam! (I love saying that, at least inside my head. I guess it shows my age and that movie's age, which is nearly 40 years old!)
A gorgeous day here--77 degrees and sunny. But this weekend it'll be raining a lot with tornado warnings. Just another springtime in the lower Midwest.
Today's our "anniversary," by which I mean the day we met. We're having dinner at a lovely restaurant which we both like a lot. (Have I mentioned before that Louisville is a huge foodie town?) A happy coincidence is that today I'm getting my hair cut/colored, so that bit is taken care of. I'm still figuring out what to wear tonight, i.e., how glamorous I want to go.
BTW, I don't know if everyone here feel this way, but I really do like getting dressed up. It feels like a celebration of all the hard work I've done these last 11 years to get healthier and become a better version of myself than when I weighed 236 pounds. I've come a long way from the comparative physical and emotional mess I was then. I don't thank myself enough for how I changed my life so dramatically and necessarily back then and, despite some ups and downs, have continued to do so. So today I celebrate myself and everyone here.
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 started a thread since I didn't see one but now Liz's is showing up so I will delete!
129.6. Like Ann, I would like to see these numbers closer to 125 than 130, though I?m not sure why really. More wiggle room I guess! My calories are still quite low. The highest I?ve gone is 1100 and I?ve added exercise about 4 times per week. I?m a little perplexed that this seems to be my maintenance level. Like I said the other day, thankfully I can do it without too much hunger due to the Tirzepatide but man, that is a low caloric intake!
Plan for today is to do treadmill exercise, do some on-line training on increasing Etsy sales and finish setting up the new laptop that was delivered last night. I?ve never used a laptop much, I have my phone and a desktop PC, but DH?s Mac died so we ordered a new laptop for both of us to share. It comes in handy if you need to do Zoom meetings, my desktop doesn?t even have a camera!
DS2 and 3 coming home tonight and I?m sure DC1 will come over too. DH planned an early birthday celebration for me for tomorrow night with all the kids. We will go to my favorite sushi place and then have my favorite cake from the local grocery store (white cake with vanilla buttercream). Several years back I ordered a fancy cake from a specialty bakery (Italian lemon topped with lemon macarons) which was super expensive and truth is I like my grocery store cake better!
Have a Fantastic Friday peeps!
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!
