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Great news about your DD! And also that you are able to find something that inspires you to work on for the kids.
Golf courses are beautiful which is why I would like to walk one vs using a cart, but they have to fix the timing to make it feasible because I would hate to feel that I was holding someone else up.
Liz 5'3" HW: 219 SW: 185 GW: 125 LW: 113 Desired maintenance range: 120-125 CW: 119ish
I kinda love it when I come across a treat I don't like. DH found the absolute worst peanut butter cookies (maybe they were also gluten free, they tasted like rotted sawdust) . How refreshing to take a bite and actually spit it out, and not spend the rest of the evening wanting to eat more. A strange kind of freedom :)
Absolutely agree with tossing food. Eating something unpalatable or not good for me doesn't benefit anyone or anything.
So I think I might like to just ride around in the golf cart and not actually try to hit any balls. Golf courses are so pretty! And I always assume any body of fresh water in Florida has gators. One time we kayaked in a river and saw several. Another time we kayaked in a mangrove area. They told us it would be very unusual to see gators there because the water is brackish (not entirely sal****er, but not fresh either).
Today I submitted the official form notifying the district of my retirement date. They will start posting jobs and interviewing in March and I wanted my team to have the best opportunity to fill my position with a good candidate. It's getting real!
It was fun to see the kids today, and I am working on a new lesson plan for teaching vocabulary I am excited about, so that was rewarding. But I am tired. I'm short of breath going up the big staircases between floors.
We had a great conversation with DD the other night. She told us her insurance now covers Zepbound, and her monthly copay is only $25 vs. what she was paying at a compound pharmacy. She also said she's lost 62 pounds since she started the end of May. She wants to lose 18 more. Best of all, it continues to reduce her endometriosis symptoms significantly. She sees herself taking this medication forever. That is really life changing. I am so happy.
on 2/24/25 2:40 pm
Other than enjoying a Samoa for the caramel and nostalgia, GS cookies are actually pretty terrible tasting as far as cookies go!
And all the while as a kid you're thinking this is totally normal: to be left on your own at such a young age. The first time it ever occurred to me that maybe this ability/need to take care of everything myself wasn't normal: my host mother in Brazil saw me struggling with something (trying to make a costume for a party) and said very kindly, why won't you let anyone help you? I was stunned. 1. I didn't know people would want to help me 2. I didn't realize I wasn't letting them help me . I then did let her and my sisters help me, and the costume turned out very cute.
You seem to be getting around easily so quickly after your eye surgery! I am with you on discarding food that doesn't taste good. Shouldn't waste calories on food not worth it.
Liz 5'3" HW: 219 SW: 185 GW: 125 LW: 113 Desired maintenance range: 120-125 CW: 119ish
When I was 22 I went to Greece and Turkey. I visited Thessaloniki and Ephesus. It felt very powerful to think about Thessalonians and Ephesians being written for the people that lived in these places.
I'll give you an example of how one of my breakthroughs happened last week in character development class. The question posed to us was in what way have you tried to find love in your life and been disappointed? My surface answer was through relationships with men (many relationships in my almost 60 years). Which got me to thinking that there has never been a time in my life that I have been single and content. If I was single I was always looking for that next relationship. I don't like being alone. Probably why I started dating so soon after Ben's death. So, the facilitators asked pointed questions to get me thinking about why don't I like to be alone. Was there something in my childhood that made me not like being alone? At first I responded by saying that I didn't have as many friends as I would have liked as a child (which is true). There were no girls around my age in my neighborhood and the one friend I did have dropped me around 10-12 years old because she was 3 years older and I was just a kid to her (understandably). Then I remembered that when I was quite young, my parents both worked and left me and brother home alone to fend for ourselves. My brother was 3 years older and spent his days with neighborhood boys, so here I was a second grader, left to myself for most of the day. I remember needing to cook lunch for myself at that young age (spaghettios or Kraft Mac N Cheese) and reading a lot. I doubt there was much for a kid to watch on t.v. during the day. I remember falling off my bike one day and needing to get stitches. Thankfully there was an adult neighbor that was home and he took me to get stitched up. I hate being alone at least partly because I was left alone for long periods of time at too young of an age. This is probably a reason that I am also fiercely independent (I had to be growing up!).
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!
