Mornin' everybody!
Cat, I was thinking of you yesterday! It was DH's birthday and they had a mardi gras dinner at church that he helped with, so I brought a cake over there. I decorated it with green and purple frosting and sprinkled gold glitter over it all. I hate that you were stuck at your computer!!!
The fluidity bar sounds incredible...it's SO great to find something you like! Let us know how the results turn out!
Good luck,
Cyndi.
Can you get a laptop so you can work from home on days like this? I don't know if you have that kind of job or not, but I know it's a lifesaver for lots of my friends.
Darling
Ruth, I'm so glad to "see" you.
You have me in stitches with your "only a few of them let me rub their tummy."
I fully believe snuggling with a puppy is good for healing, but not if they're so excited to see you that they bop your knee!
I hope you're on the mend soon so Hersh can be home with you. Though she's having fun with the HPs, I bet she misses you tons too.
You bop that doctor onna da head if he doesn't give you good pain meds. Grrr....
LC, organizing sounds like a GREAT plan, and I bet it cuts down all the time everything takes, too! Hope you're doing it from BED...I'm so sorry about your cold...why do they always have to come during TOM???
Wow,
TK, you have your hands full!!! Hope the youngest two feel much, much better soon. Have you tried a humidifier? There's always my MIL's trick...put all the kids in the bathroom, turn the shower on as hot as it will go, give the kids a big towel and instruct them to shove it under the crack in the door after you close it. Don't let them come out until they feel better.
DH says he has lots of memories of being closed in their steambath of a bathroom and yelling, "Moooo-om, can we come out yet???"
Pacer, I haven't tried yoga with my new pup, but our last one was just like yours. I used to do yoga with her in her kennel and she would give me such sad eyes!
You could always check out "
Yoga for You and Your Dog..." Glad you and your family are okay.
Tina, I think the 3 year old might be able to do that walk.
Might be worth trying it...glad you got out in the nice weather!
Love the new avatar,
Bellaluna! I've never seen a thunder snowstorm, but I've heard of them. Must be incredible!!!
Me:
It's rainy and yucky here, too, but at least it's not that cold, right?
Off to the gym after work and then a quick dash home to put on street clothes and off to mass for Ash Wednesday. I guess I'll shower when I come home? Hope I don't put off the people in the pew near me!
I making dinner tonight--DH and I do the "fasting" thing for Ash Wednesday--only one big meal and little snacks throughout the day. So I'll have just a WW bean and cheese burrito for lunch (a little frozen one) and for dinner we'll have butternut squash and pear soup (I wish it had more protein, but it sounded yummmmmmy!
) with some Irish cheddar cheese and yummy WW bread. I think soup will be delicious on a day like this one!
My nutritionist didn't tell me if I lost or gained when I was there yesterday. Not sure if that's good (he forgot) or bad (I did so badly he didn't want to tell me?). He wants me to continue to avoid the scale--he thinks that it's bringing up some of my emotions about eating and weight and he wants us to deal with them. That's been a recurrent theme for the past week. Did anyone else see the Oprah special on weightloss surgeries for teens? They talked a lot about changing how we feel about food and our psychological addiction to it. One girl came on that had WLS in 1994. She's now 21 and realizes that she became an alcoholic after her surgery. She couldn't overeat to deal with things, so she started drinking. I was thinking, "but how did she drink enough to get drunk???" but it turns out, I guess, that people with gastric bypass get drunk much more quickly with a small amount of alcohol than the rest of us do--the alcohol just goes straight into their small intestine, basically, so it enters the bloodstream at a much higher level than it would if it were processed for a while in our stomach.
I know that I can handle not eating to cope, but what do I do
instead to cope? And how do I deal with the real reasons why I'm coping in the first place? I'd love to hear about how any of you are dealing with the emotional/psychological piece of losing weight. Does anyone have any good resources they can recommend? I'm all ears!
Have a great day everyone! For those of you who celebrate, have a blessed Ash Wednesday.
Hope you have a great, not so boring day!
for your dh
I wish I did...but it seems that the feelings are too scary for me to even contemplate (which is why I want to drown them in food, I assume... 
I think drinking a "decadent" coffee drink during dessert can really help you avoid feeling deprived...so I think the cappucino was a GREAT idea!!! 
