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More rain today. I am home early as I just did not feel like doing the studio today. It's in an old funky building and sometimes feels gloomy and cold. I do have a heater. Oh well. I did the gym and waddled happily to Smokey and Aretha. Then I stopped at the hippie health food store because I was out of red rice yeast. Got stuff for chili on Super bowl sunday and a few other items. I am a sucker for their deli roast beef. It really amazes me that I am no longer a sugar junky. Just carbs.
Ocean Diane So good to hear from you! We wonder what you are up to. Yep guess we all get a bit of seasonal disorder. Glad yours is lifting. Enjoy spring as it arrives. I say yes on the electric trike. My brother has one and it looks nice. He got it a couple of years ago to go to Burning Man. Worked well. I have no idea if he uses it much these days. Seems like it would be fun to go cruising with wind in the hair. Go for it.
DMV Ann = seventh circle of hell. But bless those workers. Not an easy job. Who knew they charge for SSI card. I had to get a new one 15 years ago but I don't recall a charge. Such chores are un-fun. Reward yourself.
Yes Liz you are very busy for a retired person. We are all in awe. Keep on truckin'.
So we went to the sushi place last night. It was quite good. Brought about half of my dragonfly roll home. Shrimp and avocado and a sweet/hot sauce. Place was quite busy and actually full of fairly civilized looking people. Kind of nice. Lots of people around here are sort of "feral" so it's nice to see a nice sit down place.
GL on the work out Peps. Yep you have achieved the very difficult of losing fat and not muscle. You are doing it right. Guess the right way is not the fast way. Reminder of the protein pushing surgeons. They are right.
Steak tonight. I had the rest of my sushi for lunch. Still have much paperwork to do. Made a list.
Diane S
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I'm a yankee and use every drop so I'd use the old, then the rest of the dose from the new (different syringes).
Liz 5'3" HW: 219 SW: 185 GW: 125 LW: 113 Desired maintenance range: 120-125 CW: 119ish
212.7 - ounce by ounce I keep plugging away.
Lunch lady brought me "healthy" cinnamon roll.... UGH.... so hard to resist. At least it was kindergartener sized! Then she brought me another while I was doing yard duty and put it next to my laptop. That one I put to the side and pretended it was not mine! LOL!
While the weight is coming off slowly (frustratingly so), I am feeling really good about working out and strength training. I like to believe that while I am losing fat I am building muscle. That seems plausible given I am smaller, but weigh pretty much the same. I did some reading on losing fat and building muscle. They are contra indicative of one another. To lose fat one must be in a calorie deficit. To build muscle one needs to be in a calorie surplus. To do both simultaneously is a rarity. Fingers crossed I am one of those rarities. LOL! Perhaps I'm losing fat and simply MAINTAINING muscle. I'd be completely happy with that, too.
Did back on Monday, chest on Tuesday, legs yesterday. Today I will do a push pull with some arms and abs. I hate abs!
Shot day today. The 5 month supply arrived earlier this week from a new pharmacy. I hope this compound is as good as the one I've been using the past 9 months. I do have left over from my last vial. Do I use that up first? IF it's not enough for a full dose, can I use the other pharmacy's meds to complete the dose? Input????
Another rainy, gloomy day here. We need the rain, so it's okay. It's unusually cold here for rain, though - low to mid 40s.
having a thingamajig Thursday sounds like a plan!!!
Nice to see you here! January was tough pretty much everywhere so I hope you have brightened up with a better February.
Liz 5'3" HW: 219 SW: 185 GW: 125 LW: 113 Desired maintenance range: 120-125 CW: 119ish
You used to be able to get a free copy of an SS card but after either 2 or 3 they charged. I keep mine in a plastic sleeve.
And yeah, I hate the price of getting my hair done especially here. Much more reasonable with my person on Cape Cod though I think I am going to need to get it done in early March.
Liz 5'3" HW: 219 SW: 185 GW: 125 LW: 113 Desired maintenance range: 120-125 CW: 119ish
So very happy to hear your voice here! I think about you often and have wondered how you and your puppy are doing. I'm glad your seasonal affect disorder is winding down after this weather'ish January we've all had. Even Kentucky (where I'm now living full time) wa**** hard the week of January 7 with lots of snow and ice, but it's finally all gone now.
We love you!
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.
Good morning friends ! I've been checking in but haven't been successful responding. I had some unexpected contact with my ex and have had to process to work through some panic attacks. Our cold, cloudy and snowy January amplified my seasonal affect disorder. I am just about bounced back. The good thing is that I am stable in the 136-141 weight range and eating my feelings seems to be off my "playbook".
I just called my baby to wish her a happy 36th birthday. How does this happen so fast ? My DSs are coming to visit from Charleston today, and I'll go down there for a few days next week. One DS has a son and daughter-in-law who live there, and they are staying in Charleston the month of February. I am thinking of getting an electric tricycle. It is not optimal kayaking weather here November - February/March, and being active outside in the sun is essential for me. Will try to check in more regularly.
Diane
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 !!
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'Sup?
Missed posting or reading here yesterday. It was one of those crazy days involving a lot of wasted time. My windshield replacement appointment didn't happen, because I discovered my very long-term expensive auto insurance policy (purchased in Missouri) doesn't have a free windshield replacement clause because that's not something Missouri law insists on (unlike Kentucky, where replacement of cracked windshields don't trigger an automatic $500 deductible). So that was about 3 hours wasted figuring all that out.
Then I went to the DMV to see what was involved in getting a Kentucky driver's license and learned that one thing I MUST have to make that happen is an actual social security card. Yes, that tattered old thing that disappeared sometime in the last 30-40 years with my maiden name on it. After some frustration with Social Security's 800 number ("Your wait time to speak with an agent will be 120 minutes!"), I found a link that lets one order a new card online. But then I learned a new replacement card costs $76. That's right. $76 for a new paper social security card that will just get tattered. And it turns out you DON'T want to laminate a social security card, which might make it impossible for some official to properly evaluate whether the paper it's printed on is legitimate or just a fake. Geez, more time wasted (although I guess I did advance my cause).
BTW, those poor people who work at the DMV surely do earn their pay. Walking into that overcrowded room felt like what it might be like if I wandered into a surgery where all the flat surfaces were covered with people being operated on. Contrary to popular opinion, I thought the workers there were astonishingly polite and patient with the frustrated citizens who couldn't believe they needed so much documentation just to get D.L. replaced.
Then the day got better. I had an early evening ****tail date with a book club friend who needed a night out--she's now caring for a husband who has terminal cancer. We had an attentive bartender who knew his stuff. For the first time ever I had something called a "black Manhattan" (rye whiskey, Amaro, Angostura bitters, orange bitters). I liked it quite a bit, although apparently not everyone is a fan.
Today I have a hair appointment. Sure wish a cut and color didn't cost so much these days. Yowzah!
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.
Howdy, M150. :)
I read recently that one of the most beneficial things folks can do is to take some kind of art class or join an active artist community of any kind: visual, writing, anything. I wondered if that were actually true, but have no idea that it is or isn't.
Seems like lately the media of all ilks are intent on grabbing our attention with "Did you know that...?" opinion pieces, often (to my eyes) with very little actual evidence that their opinions are true for anyone other than the writer. I'm in one of those moods lately to take in and consider seriously only those things that seem to have some basis in fact. I also realize that it's true (for me) that I now have access to so very much more "information" (by which I just mean somebody's or AI's keystrokes) than I used to have.
I swear--if there were a guaranteed-to-be-true news and science source I'd pay serious money for it.
P.S. And to be clear, I'm not feeling this way because of politics, just about everything. I do hope this means that the clickbait internet era is coming to an end. (A girl can wish.)
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.
