Happy Saturday!
Jane,
WHOO HOO FOR KATIE!!! I grew up in LA and always wanted to work at Disneyland, but ended up going to Northern CA as soon as I graduated. Hope she has a blast working at Disneyworld
Your new house sounds like it will be wonderful. Since you're staying in the old one until the new one is built...are you building the new one right next to it? I think you had mentioned you liked the site of the old one right where it was.
Angie, your holiday outfit sounds wonderful -- and what a bargain on that coat! I love finding hidden treasures like that. One time I was at a garage sale, and they had a whole box of books toward the end of the day...I wanted 2 of them, and offered them $5 for the whole box. Then I took out the two I wanted and took the rest to the used book store -- and got $30 in credit. Yay!!!
Connie, sorry they postponed your daughter's surgery. I'll bet she'd like to have it over and done with. Right before Christmas, too, ugh. Will it be outpatient, so she can come right home?
Michelle -- anger? Over weight issues? Who, ME?????
Umm, yeah I guess so...
Mad that my clothes didn't fit, mad I had to buy bigger clothes, mad about all the things I couldn't/can't do because of my weight, mad that Tim and I couldn't fit comfortably in the same car on the Matterhorn, mad at people for treating me differently because I'm heavy even though I'm still me inside, mad at myself that I didn't start this sooner... yeah, mad, and sad, and depressed. I'm still struggling with all of that, but at least I know I'm in this for the long haul, and slowly but surely, even if it's hard along the way, I'll get to my goal.
Cristi, moving? ACK!!! I hate moving...well, I hate the process, but love being in a brand new tidy space and pretending to myself for one brief shining moment that I am an organized person. That feeling wears off all too quickly for me, alas
You seem to like changes and new things though...always changing your avatar and signature (notice, mine has been the SAME avatar since I started posting here), painting walls, rearranging furniture, so even though it's a ton of work, I'll bet some part of you thrives on the adventure of moving
BTW, thanks for the Thanksgiving card...I didn't get any out, let's see if I do better for Christmas. Oh, and it sounds like you may not be cooking Thanksgiving dinner, but I'll still post a few recipes on the recipe thread if anyone is interested.
Marti, I saw a funny Thanksgiving card that made me think of you on the gazelle -- a turkey was on a treadmill, and it said something like "poultry in motion"
Barbara, I dunno about a day camp per se, hard to imagine since my weekdays are filled with work, but I'd love to do a long weekend spa kind of thing, that maybe had yoga classes, and healthy cooking classes, and yummy healthy food, and motivational speakers, etc.
Hi
to Katy, and Sue, and everyone else...
Had the nerve conduction test done on my arm,
never
ever want to go through one of those again, it was hideous. I evidently have radial tunnel syndrome -- like carpal tunnel (they found signs of that too), but up at the elbow. Explains why I wake up several times a night with my thumb and index finger completely numb, keep dropping things, and my arm hurts by the middle of every work day and is killing me by the end of the work week. So now, I get referred back to the hand surgeon
Not real confident in the guy the worker's comp people sent me to (he thought my left arm was the problem until he realized the xray was reversed!), but there was someone else in the same office that was recommended to me, so I'm going to see if they will reschedule me with her.
OH, almost forgot...last two weeks were really discouraging, gained 1.4 and 1.2
and I was trying so hard to be good, and feeling sooooooooo deprived and sorry for myself. But I knew I hadn't been drinking water like I should and had gotten sloppy about weighing and measuring portions...anyway, this week I was down 5.4!
whew! Still wasn't good about journaling, and still eyeballing a lot of measurements, but tried to be more portion-aware, and drink more water. Maybe I was retaining water, dunno. Anyway, lost the 2.6 I gained over the last two weeks and then some, so I'm headed back in the right direction
Now, if I can just make it through Thanksgiving week without GAINING, I'll be satisfied. I added a new mini-goal ticker, since I have such a lonnnnnnnng way to go on my total loss, trying to encourage myself a bit.
Alright, gonna post a few recipes, then gotta a big bookcase-moving project in store, oh boy...
If I don't see you before...
Hugs,
Mary Kate