Sandy-It’s hard to say how my mom did from her rearrangement. I was a very small child when she had it done. She’s lost so many internal organs, kidney, lung, breast (all on the right side), and a complete hysterectomy, so she’s a bit hollow on one side. I know she has had some incontinence, but she’s 85, so I don’t think that’s such a shock. In addition to all the kids she had, she had female circumcision as a child, so her plumbing was pretty messed up already. She had her right kidney out in 1939, and the incision looks like an upside down autopsy scar on her back. How she had all of us natural child birth, with all her back muscles either cut through or missing, I’ll never know. When she goes to a new doctor, they can’t figure out what she has had done. They all think she was in some kind of horrible car wreck or bombing.
Michelle-Shopping should help you stay out of a depression. Window shopping is such a relaxing experience for me. I never buy anything, but I love to look. My husband says it is on the X chromosome.
Kazz-I find, especially when I am exercising regularly, that I just have more energy than I know what to do with.
Brenda-I hate weigh-ins. I have tried to space mine a month apart at a time just to keep from going nuts. I understand about going nuts after milestones. After 100 for me, I got drunk. After 200, I decided to find a husband. After 250, I thought I was able to do it without trying anymore, wrong. Now I’m back up to just 200 down. Eternal Vigilance. I’m trying to visualize what a mini-pedicure would entail. With my size 12 hoofs, I can’t imagine anything mini about them.
Nancy-I have weeks like that where everything just clicks. This week feels that way after a horrible start. All of a sudden I just haven’t been hungry, I’ve had energy. I wish I could bottle this feeling for when things get hard.
LAnne-We got up to 15 degrees here yesterday. I went out with just one coat on. That’s probably why I have been is such a good mood.
Toofat-That’s the spirit. Don’t let the scales win. Threaten them with a sledge hammer. See if that works.
Valerie-I must say that I don’t miss worrying about having a breakdown or other car maintenance issues. I miss my old campervan, but I don’t miss the insurance or upkeep or gas bills. I have my little bus pass, and I let someone else scrape the windows and drive on the ice.
DJCJ-My TOM also gives me huge amounts of fatigue. We just got “Meaning of Life” on DVD, and the extras shows a part where the big guy is coming into the restaurant. He’s got his stomach on a little wheelbarrow. Imagine one of those walkers with the seat on it, but done kind of up in Victorian brass. The door man takes it for him. It also shows him coming outside, and bouncing up and down in the rubber suit he’s in. It just made me split a joint. I’ve also done some costuming. I did a whole bridal party for a Klingon wedding. The worst was an Elvis costume. Sequins are the worst even before I needed bifocals.
I’m off to finish a few chores, then I’m going to break in my Christmas basketball. I’m so excited I can barely sit still. It will be my first time on a court in 16 years. I even got matching black basketball shoes to match my black spalding.
I just realised something...I love coming on here and check your trackers..just to see how you're all doing lol And Im happy to see you're all doing sooooo well!!!!!!!! Keeps me motivated even if I dont talk to you often
Thanks for all the sympathy, but it is done deal our meetings are officially over. The worst part of it all is that the 2 teachers who had started this whole thing might get in trouble. I feel so bad for them because all they did was help other people!! Apparently it is against District Policy to charge the fees for the program and have the Leaders sell their products at the school. It seems that the paperwork was also not filled out properly, and now since our Principal is so disliked by our District Supervisor(a woman who should have been on the program with us!) he is playing dumb, and throwing the teachers under the bus to save his butt!!! Makes me sick on so many levels!!
So I am using my WI from this week and changing my ticker accordingly.
I am going to stay positive and keep up with this new "weigh" of life on my own. I hope you guys are ready for me to be leaning "heavily" on you!!!
As for personals...sorry kids, I just don't have it in me today...especially since this thread is flying!!!
I hope all of you have a great weekend, and thanks for being here!! Your posts are really helpful and actually quite hysterical!
Meta-I'm sure trying with the metric. Once I got over the shock of buying fabric by the meter, everything else has been easy. Himself says that I am not allowed to lose the Southern Belle accent though. Besides, you can't throw a proper hissy fit in Canadian.
Ammi - I have a freestyle with one level of resistance pistons. I haven't really used them yet, as the woman I bought it from said she's been working out on gazelles for the past 6 or 7 years (skinny as a twig) and she only uses them for weight training stuff. I find that if I really dig into it when I'm not using the pistions, I can get up to a jogging pace and work up a sweat. I'm currently doing 15 minutes a day, and alternating between a minute or so of high intensity, and two minutes of lower intensity. Really works up a sweat.
DJCRun - I did have a good time. They are my in-laws and opened their arms up to me as soon as I entered the picture. Initally, we weren't too sure how they would take the relationship, but there was no issue at all.
Catherine - I want to read your book! I've always assumed up here that fabric is sold by the metre,but not always. There is an outlet store in my city, that unless you specify, they cut it by the yard. There is only a 3 inch difference, but and important one.
Anyway, I must be off...there is a puppy looking at me trying to get me to go to bed so all of us can sleep curled up together. It's still a little cold here, which means both the cat and the dog and both of us are in the bed. A rare occurance indeed
I didn’t get chance to post yesterday but here I am now to catch up with you all. Yesterday Daren and I went to the gym and don’t ask me why, I did the same amount of working out as always, but when I finished I felt quite sick. I did work out with the treadmill elevated more than I have done before, so Daren reckons it could be like travel sickness, my brain thought I was going up hill when I wasn’t. Oh well, I will make sure I keep the darn thing flat next time I felt OK by the time I got home, but the fear of throwing up in public both on the bus and when we walked from the gym was horrendous. I hate being sick at the best of times, but in public
Today is another gorgeous day here, and I am just waiting for the washer to finish so I can put some washing on the line. I am loving drying things outside again, it’s so much better than having things drying indoors!
Catherine - when you publish your book and hear all the rave reviews about how much it inspires and helps people I am sure that will help negate those feelings of fear you have about putting your inner most self out there
Did you have fun on the basket ball court with your new ball and matching shoes I loved hearing how excited you were about it all
DJCJRun - It’s weird because when I was a kid I used to be OK with going to the dentist, I had no fear at all even though I had to have a tooth pulled out when I was a young teenager. It just didn’t phase me. Now when I need to go I really do get myself all worked up about it. So daft,
Love Spoons are beautifully carved wooden spoons which depending on the carvings can tell a story, be it about it being two people in love, or the birth of a baby, or buying a new house etc. Here’s a link to a site of a guy who makes them. Some of the ones on there are just gorgeous http://www.adamking.co.uk/spoons/
I loved the photo of your girls and grandson, they are beautiful children, you must be so proud of them
Xena - what a fantastic result you got on your Calc test! You are one clever chick
Did you get to watch AI yesterday? I got to see it last night, and I have to admit that I liked Sanjaya singing his song, though got to say I hated the facial hair I do think he’s a nice guy, great personality, and he does have a nice voice, I just think that some weeks the much better singer has been voted off when he should have gone. Though that said, I was very pleased with who went this week I will be OK with Sanjaya staying and for Phil and Chris to go over the next two weeks. I like them, but they aren’t faves of mine, but Melinda, Jordin, Blake and Lakisha must stay after Sanjaya has gone! Oh I sure have missed our AI talks
Lisa - Annie has had a lot of her family staying with her this month, and towards the end of last month she had been poorly with a flu bug, that’s why she hasn’t posted recently. I had an email from her today though and it seems all is well, the last of the family visitors are due to leave soon and then when Annie gets her breath back I am sure she will be back here posting.
Thank you so much for all that you had to say about what I’ve been through and about the anti depressants and all. It’s weird isn’t it how I can come here and hopefully say the right things to people to help cheer them up and be supportive but when it comes to myself I find it so hard to take my own advice I think you are a wonderful person too and ditto on being glad to know you
on your weight loss, you are doing so brilliantly and I am glad your doc confirmed that. Wonderful news about your cholesterol levels too, you must be thrilled with them. As for needing to introduce more exercise into your routine now I think my only tip is to find something that you really enjoy doing. There are so many things on the market now that I am sure you will be able to find one you love. For me it’s the Gazelle, it’s the only exercise equipment I have bought that I have loved going on and hasn’t ended up just gathering dust. It’s not hard on the joints or anything, and I do work up one heck of a sweat on it. I also love going to the gym now because of the assortment of exercise machines there. 90 minutes on 10 different things is so much better than the same amount of time on one machine. If you get a bike are you going for a recumbent one or the normal type?
Chimi - so you are moving to the family home, and later in the year your mum is moving to Melbourne? Why is she moving there? I have cousins that live there. I hope you can get past the vulnerable feeling that you have since the place was robbed, I think you just might especially with your “hick farmer with shot gun” frame of mind
Did you manage to last all of lent without cheese? What was the first thing you had when you were allowed, was it Pizza after all? Don’t worry about taking a break from the diet, sometimes we all need one and as long as we realise it can only be a break not a permanent one that’s what counts. I am sure you’ll be back on track 100% as of next week as planned. I have been back on track this week, but most days I have gone a few points over what I should be. I say I am using my flex points, but next week I really want to stick within my points range rigidly. It should be a bit easier too with the kids being back in school
Michelle - I am feeling much better now, and so much happier now that I have my full smile back I had to have a tooth pulled before Christmas and although it wasn’t right up front, when I smiled you could see the gap. The last lot of work I had done was to have bridge work done so that the gap would no longer be there, and like I said, now I can smile properly again I don’t have any tooth pain anywhere now, so fingers crossed my dentist won’t have to see me for a long time, at least til my next normal check up which should be in about 6 months time. I hope when you go for your check up you won’t need anything drastic to be done especially if you have to pay for your treatment!
Phew, that’s great news about kitty and how apart from some teeth extractions he didn’t have to have anything else done. What a relief. Now more importantly we need some good news about hubby’s results. I guess one good thing about skin cancer if it’s caught quickly enough is that it is fully treatable! for both hubby and for you re-having your thyroid re-scanned
Kazz - you sound like you have the perfect attitude to losing the weight, especially being OK about your gain because you know it’s not a ‘fat’ one! I totally agree with you too about how as we lose the weight it’s wonderful to start living again.
Brenda - it’s so weird isn’t it, we hit 100 lbs lost and all of a sudden we seem to swerve off track even though we KNOW we have so much more weight to lose. I have wasted this year I really have since getting to 100 lost. I either haven’t dieted, or just had really low losses even when I have been a WW angel. I have tried so hard this week to be good, but still every day I go a little over my points. I want to lose about 30 more lbs by the summer just like you want to lose 40 so we both really need to forget about how far we’ve come, and just focus on what we need to lose and just get on with it Shame it’s easier said than done isn’t it! BUT at least you are still losing which is more than I can say for me, so a big on your last 2.5 lbs lost
That spa night sounds blissful, I hope that you get to go and that it’s as relaxing as it sounds.
Sandy - I hope hubby isn’t suffering like us ladies do with Cystitis like symptoms seeing as he has protein present in his urine. Oh yeah I can understand the law about medical people etc not being able to give out even your spouses details, it’s the same over here. It can still be frustrating though when you have to worry about results because of the waiting til hubby can ring for results himself etc.
What are you and Abby doing this weekend? Beth is still at her dad’s, and Caleigh is stuck in front of her Playstation. So I’m just catching up here, and doing chores inbetween. It’s been a busy week so it’s nice to be doing nothing much today. Maybe we’ll all go for a walk tomorrow if the weather stays as nice.
Nancy - sorry that it seems like you won’t be getting that apartment after all. I agree with you though that if you don’t, well it just wasn’t meant to be. I know you are itching to get the move all done and dusted so I hope something perfect comes up for you soon.
I am so happy for you that you have ‘clicked’ back into place with your diet and that you are already being rewarded with that 1 lb loss I wish I could click back into place, I’m trying hard, so hopefully I’ll get there before I gain any more weight
LAnne - it’s so weird hearing you and some of the other ladies talk about the snow or bad weather they are having. You are so right, the memo about SPRING mustn’t have gotten there yet Over here we are actually having unseasonably warm weather, it was the same last year though. We seemed to have summer in April - June, and then the summer months were more like Fall ones. Weird
another 6 lbs down, that’s fantastic news. You’ll be needing to buy a whole new wardrobe of clothes before much longer!
Patti - boy that sucks about your scales especially as I know you were determined to be so good this week. Just think of it as last weeks treats catching up with you. I know mine will have caught up with me despite me being good this week, so I am staying away from the scales coz I really do not want to know I am glad you aren’t letting your small gain bring you down, besides I bet you’ll take a sneaky peak again today or tomorrow and see that gain gone
Lavandel - glad you popped in to say hi
Donna - that’s awful about the classes getting cancelled, and that the teachers who set it up are possibly going to get into trouble. Surely they didn’t know they were doing anything wrong and that being the case hopefully they won’t get into too much trouble. Like you said they were just helping people, how can they get punished for that!
I am sure you will be able to stay on track especially as you sound so determined to do so. Lean away here, you know we are all here for you. I went to a WW group in 1997, got all the info I needed, couldn’t afford to keep going and stopped. But I now use that info to diet, and come here for all the support I could ever want/need and it’s all the wonderful people here that I know have helped me lose the weight that I have
Sharvanne - that’s cool that you have the pistons on your Gazelle, if and when you need to use them they are there. As for me, I get such a great work out on mine without any pistons that even if I had some I can’t see me ever using them When I come off after half an hour I am a bath of sweat and my feet sometimes are killing me. So definitely no pistons needed for this lady
Ok well I need to catch up with some emails now so I better make a move. I am sure I’ll be back later though. I hope everybody is having a lovely weekend, take care and bye for now.
Morning girls
I only have a minute as I have to go and get groceries. New meal plan today finally so I need to go and get the stuff to make...meatloaf! Yeah! I never thought I could be so happy over old meatloaf but it is on my plan and its BEEF and its almost normal!
I did get to the spa. It was an amazing night. For 4 hours there was someone doing something to me First one of the girls put colors in my hair, then I went for my massage. After that, they washed and cut my hair. From there I went tanning, pedicure, eyebrows, manicure then they styled my hair. I got about 6 inches cut off my hair. I really like the style but OH SO DIFFERENT since I havent had it this short in probably 3-5 years. I will get someone to take a pic and post it over the weekend I drank a lot of wine and went for chinese (almost healthy) afterwards. I have to work out today for like 2.5hrs to burn it off!
Anyhow, I'm done of breakfast and going to go and shop for a bit. Have a great morning.
Brenda - wow that spa night sounded heavenly, oh to be pampered for that long, bliss. Maybe I'll look into finding somewhere that does that as my reward for getting to my ultimate goal Glad you had such a wonderful time and I look forward to seeing the photo of you with your new shorter hair style.
Ammi i have quite convinced my self my small gain is due to turning into muscle and i will soon see the scales again.. thats my story and i am sticking ito it! i too sometimes feel quite ill when i get off the treadmill... its a little worrisome but i keep on keeping on!
Valerie. Glad Gabe and your trainer are both well. I think horses are one of the most magestic animals ever. I always hate to hear of one being scared or hurt. Sounds like Gabe will be making great progress this year. Please, keep us posted.
DJCJ, Not to worry. I'm didn't cnsider it a lecture at all, and if I did, then I'd deserve it. Everything you said is correct. I just get tired of the same fight. And, this has gone on since my sd was tinly, like 3-4 years old. When she was 7, she pushed Abby who was 18 months old, off a kitchen chair and broke her arm. Abby was just up there sitting on the chair waiting for a snack. Then, a couple months after that, Abby was running back and forth between the living room, through the dining room to the kitchen entry way. SD kept grabbing at her feet, I warned her several times to stop or Abby would get hurt, she kept doing it and Abby hit her face on the edge of a tool box making a huge bruise on her cheek, (We'd finished a chore & hadn't had the chance to take the tool box to the basement yet.) There are many more horror stories about her. So, there is some history here. Yes, I carry a grudge, I work hard not to keep me from being fair. While I was mouthy as a teen ager, I wasn't a liar or a thief, nor did I sleep around. He dad feels like he's beating his head against the wall cuz she just won't ever be honest etc. When I say ever, I mean ever. It gets so stupid in trying to have a conversation with her. Life could be so much fun with her if she wasn't so mean. She is the 7th child out of 8. So, we've been through teen agers, both biological and step children. This one is by far the most difficult to deal with. So, any advice is definitely welcome.
Catherine, Your poor mama. She sounds amazingly strong. I love what you said about not being able to throw a hissy fit in a Canadian accent. My mother is from Alabama and my sis lives in London, Ontario. So, I can just visualize both scenerios. LOL
Ammi, You're so lucky to have beautiful weather. It's suppose to snow here today. Abby and I are just messing around. I got the laundry done already, but will do one more load later when Andy gets home from work. He should be home early today cuz today is really his day off. Because Andy is diabetic and has been having low back pain, I worry about his kidney function. Probably cuz my mother is a diabetic too and has dialysis 3 times a week and so did my dad when he was sick last spring. Just have to wait and see I guess. It's out of my control anyway, right.
Brenda, Sounds like you had a wonderful time at the spa. I'm a bit jealous. I want a pedicure so badly. I've never had one and think it could be so relaxing.
Patti, You hang in there girl, that naughty scale will move soon.
So far so good here. At least food wise. The weather though is dreadful. COLD!! Rainy, and snowy later on. I think some body forgot to tell the sun it's spring and our high should be 60, not 38. Well, I need to tidy up the kitchen, get a cup of coffee and get on the gazelle while Abby and I watch the "Sound of Music." Til later,
I second the pedicure idea! I just had my very first one last month and LOVED it! Actually, it was a mani/pedi combo. I have decided to make this or some kind of spa treatment my reward for making it through a term of teaching!!
Hi everybody! Thanks for all the welcomes "back." Wow it is hard to get back into things, I admit. I went walking this morning... it is still kind of hard, i.e. painful, but I can do it though not as far or as fast as before. But I am going to go over and set myself a "small" exercise goal for the rest of the month... not up to my usual goals but just to make the commitment and report in as I do feel it helps so much.
our meetings are officially over. The worst part of it all is that the 2 teachers who had started this whole thing might get in trouble. I feel so bad for them because all they did was help other people!! Apparently it is against District Policy to charge the fees for the program and have the Leaders sell their products at the school. It seems that the paperwork was also not filled out properly, and now since our Principal is so disliked by our District Supervisor(a woman who should have been on the program with us!) he is playing dumb, and throwing the teachers under the bus to save his butt!!! Makes me sick on so many levels!!
I hope you guys are ready for me to be leaning "heavily" on you!!!
Your posts are really helpful and actually quite hysterical!
I loved hearing how excited you were about it all 
what a fantastic result you got on your Calc test! You are one clever chick 
I think you are a wonderful person too and ditto on being glad to know you 
for both hubby and for you re-having your thyroid re-scanned 
another 6 lbs down, that’s fantastic news. You’ll be needing to buy a whole new wardrobe of clothes before much longer!
