Thirsty Thursday!!!!

Good Early Thursday morning all!  I am up almost an hour earlier than I wanted to be........and it isn't by choice this time either! It is time to change the batteries in our fire alarms!!!  At 5am this morning, that wonderful protector decided to start it's friendly reminder beep that it is time to change them!  So, first thing this morning, I get to head to the store and make my purchases of those lovely 9v batteries! LOL Nothing much else planned today except work.  At least I don't go in until 11 am this morning, so I can get a few things taken care of early.   I am so excited about the exchange! I can't wait! I have already printed off my directions, and getting the last bit of clothes together this evening.  Tomorrow night, after I get home from work, I will make my meatballs, and put them into the crock pot so they will be ready for travel Saturday morning!  Yippie!!!  I am so ready! LOL Well, it is almost time to get the girls up for school, so have a wonderful day!

GOOD MORNING ALL HAVENT POSTED MUCH LATELY WITH WORK AND ALL . NOT MUCH GOING ON TODAY FOR ME JUST WORK AND GOING TO SCHOOL WITH DAUGHTER . SHE IS GOING BACK AND WE HAVE TO GO SIGN PAPERS TONIGHT, I AM SO PROUD OF HER. ME AND BOTH GIRLS PLAN ON BEING AT THE EXCHANGE WITH BOTH MY GRANDKIDS , YES THE NEW BABY WILL BE WITH US. I CANT WAIT FOR ALL TO MEET HIM. I WILL BE BRINING THE WATER WITH LOTS OF OCE LIKE ALWAYS.  SEE YA THERE. VICKI

Good morning LaChelle and Vicki and all the others yet to come. LaChelle, it must be something in the air because I am up an hour early too. I woke up even though I went to sleep late and couldn't go back to sleep. I figured that I might as well get up and get the morning going.  I weighed myself this morning and I am down another 1.8 pounds since Monday. I know it is because I really stepped up the protein. I am so glad that the slow scale moving is coming to an end. I hated having that happen. So that is something good that happened this morning. WooHoo!! I have to go into the nurse this morning for my 6 month visit. I am going to get the orders for the blood work and so I will have to have that and I am going to get some from the urologist too and so I am going to have it all at the same time. Let the vampires get me only 1 time instead of the dreaded twice. I hate getting blood work but not as much as getting the I.V.'s for the simple reason it takes so long and so many trys to get them going. One time it took them 8 hours of trying until they finally got the I.V. in and going. I was at my wits end.  I will get my picture taken this morning at the nurses office and I am going to ask her if I can see it. I never wanted to see it but this past week end Bill took a couple of pictures of me and I couldn't believe that it was me. I don't see that when I look in the mirror. It was kind of shocking to me that I looked so different. I still see myself they way I looked almost 80 pounds ago and that isn't how I looked int he pictures that Bill took. Will I ever see the new and improved me in the mirror? Most people that I talk to say no not really. I do see the difference in my face. It is a normal face now and not a big round one anymore. That was the first thing that I saw and not anything else since. lol I am taking my insulin pump to the endocrinologists office after getting out of the WLS visit. He is going to donate it to someone who needs it and can't afford it. He said that he would like to see a child have it and I told him that I want who ever gets it to know that it is going to change their life so much. I know that the several months that I wore it changed mine so much that I could hardly believe it. I would love to have a child have it. He told me that he is going to keep until the right person comes along. I know that he is going to choose the right one with care. I am thinking of this as another WLS step toward my new life.  I better get going. I have some things to do before I start to get ready to leave for my morning of doctors and nurses. I will be glad when it is over and I can do the things I want to like go to WalMart for some of the stuff that I need to get. I like to go there because I get in a lot of walking. I walk all over just to walk now. I just travel all over the store and from one end and back and then I do it all over again several times. I get about a an hour and half to two hours of walking in and sometimes I only buy one or two things. I am not a shopper and never have been. I use to go and get what I need and then I was out and now it is used as exercise time by me. Who would of thought that I would get to that place! Not me1 Have a blessed and safe day today. Enjoy the time you have with yourself and know that I send love and hugs to all of you.

Good morning all! I am siked about the exchange as well.  I have never met any of you personally, but I feel I have known you forever.  Now I really do get to meet you.  I will bringing a bean dip and some baked tostitos for dipping.  I will be bringing my 13 yr. old daughter.  She can play with all the little kids, she loves kids.  How does the clothing exchange work? I mean are all the clothes laid out on a table according to size like a rummage sale and people just go get the size they need or what?   Everyone have a great day!

LaChelle, Ugh, smoke detectors! At one of our houses, we had them to where they were set directly into the wiring. No batteries to buy, no low batteries. That was nice. Well,.. sorry you were up so early. But nice to see you this morning! I am up and at work at 7:30. I am the only one here yet. But I know the others will start trickling in soon. I try to come early, so I can be settled in to start at 8:00. I take my vitamins, and check my email and get all ready for the day during this time. I gave blood Tuesday, so I got a certificate for a free appetizer from a restaurant here in town. I'm going out with a friend tonight to share it. I am such a sucker for free stuff. I got that email that the blood center is starting a point system for give aways, and so I'm already signed up for a donation in June, when I can donate again. I want my freebies!!! I only have to donate 8 more times to get that restaurant gift certificate. So I can have hope for a night out next year, LOL! Today, I've got lots of work to do at VR. I've also got to work at Sears. I got a new supervisor at Sears, and guess what, she's someone that VR helped place into a job. I think that's so cool. It's good to see actual people we're helping to get to work. Especially in a relatively good job like that with benefits and all. Anyway, it still makes for a long day though. I did get off on my schedule for Wednesday next week. I'm going to try to go to the 12 months + post-op support group in Carmel. I want to see what it's like. Does anyone else from the Terre Haute area want to go, want to ride with me?  Anyway, I better get some work done now. I hope my fellow Hoosier Losers have a great day!

Good Morning all..... I am almost set for the clothing exchange....still seem to be finding clothing items to bring, but two big trash bags, and two rubber made totes, and stuffed full!!!!!  I also have a leather jacket that I am interested in selling.  $25 and someone can call it theirs....I only wore it twice.   I am bringing fruit pizza.....going to make my sugar cookie dough from scratch with Splenda.....have a few stops to make before and after the exchange in Carmel and Westfield.  So lots will be accomplished on Saturday.   I got a new daycare baby yesterday.  Two of our good friends are foster parents and they got a new baby on Tuesday night.  So I am now adapting my daily schedule to get him comy and worked in to the routine.  My Hubby and I go next week to start our process of becoming foster parents.  We have two beautiful children and are not doing this to adopt, like our friends.  I want to do respite care so the wonderful Foster parents can have a much needed break from time to time.   Speaking of smoke detectors.....we just finished installing our hard wired ones last week....smoke and heat detectors....no more beeping for us.  I wanted to get them done before we had our home inspection and visits for Foster Care.  I love them so far......one goes off they all go off......which is maddening, but will alert us on one end of the house if something happens on the other end.   My Mom has been losing weight for the past year or so....so she is sending some clothes with me.....hope everyone is ready to shop!!!!!! I cannot wait....for me I am size 14 and L or XL shirts, depending on the style.....so hope I find some much needed things. Okies....babies are waking up wanting bottles.....will see eveyone on Saturday!!!!!

Hey all, Need to get ready for work. Bella was up all night crying. I don't think she felt good. SHe threw a huge temper tantrum in Target last night. SHe screamed for about 30 min. Poor baby, I think she was really tired and sounds like she is getting a cold. Well she was up all night crying. Gotta love 3 YO's. She is coming with me Saturday and also my coworker/friend Tammi. She came with last time, also. She has lost over 20 pounds on our biggest losers diet at work. After the first 6 weeks we ost a toatl of 86 pounds. We had started again, but sadly most of them has lost focus. I still don't know what I am bringing. Need to get ready for work. Have a great Thursday. Shanna

Good morning everyone! I ws very disappointed but couldn't go last night to meet up with Janene, Marke, and Julie with Floyd & Brenda. While I was at the dentist office, she also refilled a root canal on a 2nd tooth. Total, I was in her chair for 3 hours! I was so numb that I couldn't do anything beyond soup. Well..about 10 last night, I fixed me some long grain rice. Not alot of chewing to rice..lol. I've been popping Benadryl's to combat an allergy reaction to the numbing jel. And..I don't know if it was because of the 3 hour sit, but my stomach was hurting more yesterday than what is normal for it. This morning, my stomach is more back to normal but I can't really bite down on that side of my mouth at all. Just tapping the teeth together is enough for me to 'feel it'! The dentist said it'd probably be like that for 2-14 days! I hope it's only 2. Today, my tailbone is hurting too. That was why I got up when I did this morning. I'm still sleeping on the couch..so not alot of give to these new-found boney places! I was also awake several times during the night with this forever-lasting diarhea!! Dr. Gupta is going to have a culture done on it again to ensure that it doesn't have a bacterial issue. It'll be my 3rd one since October....getting old!  But on the other hand...I am at 144 lbs now. I remember being pre-op and someone would ask me what my goal weight was...I would just reply 'healthy', So..by healthy BMI, at my height, less than 152 lbs. But back then..in my mind...I would think '140 would be nice'. I viewed that as if you're gonna dream, dream big! LOL! But now? Not that dream goal is very much in sight. I just can't believe it!! Oh..don't go by my 'goal' on my ticker. I just put that so you could actually see the BMI associated with where I am now instead of it getting scrambled up with the goals BMI. There is NO WAY I could even 'dream' about me being 125 lbs!! I would look like a skeleton even if the lower 'healthy' BMI weight for me is 115!  Between my tummy, my mouth, and my tailbone, I'm a real mess, aren't I? LOL! At least where I had the bunion surgery or the muscle for the arches are hurting today (and they have been alot lately) or I'd be able to say I hurt from head to toe and places in-between! LOL!!  So with how my night went..my plan for the day? Take a nap!! You all have a good day! Sherri

Hey Sherri! Sorry for the awful dentistry experience! Hope you're feeling better today.

Happy Thursday! Last night was soo restless. I don't feel like I slept at all (I actually slept almost 10 hours) but I was up and down a lot, tossing and turning and what not. I keep getting these funky lil pains in my stomach right above my belly button toward my pouch and it's driving me nuts because they come and go but it's always at the weirdest times. It's goofy but it kept waking me up last night. We had a great anniversary. We ended up going to Louisville and visited with my aunt who is in the hospital for really bad pneumonia and bronchitis and complications from a surgery she had 2 weeks ago (she is very obese and keeps getting these infection build ups on the sides of her chest and arms that they have to go in and cut out because they get so bad). We got to spend some time with her and her family and then we went to Famous Dave's BBQ. It was very good. :) I didn't even have to use any sauce and it was flavored very well. We split the shrimp and brisket combo and it was loads of food. I did get sick but it was because a piece of the brisket was burnt round the edges and a lil too dry and I think a piece got stuck because of it. Awesome portions too, it's scary to think before my surgery I could have eaten that whole combo by myself and now I couldn't even eat a third. The mashed potatoes are awesome too. I just had a bite of those and a bite of corn on the cob and even a lil bite of the cornbread. :) It was all very tasty but I was hurting pretty bad after eating. I pushed past that 3 - 3.5 oz with that last bite or two and it was awful pain between that and the brisket making me sick. After that we stopped in to say Hi to my nieces and left them there. It was moreso to just get our legs all stretched out and stuff before hitting the road to drive again. We went to Meijers and I found FAGE yogurt YAAAY. We don't have that anywhere  around here and I was sooo frigging excited I finally get to try it.  I'll probally make smoothies with it or something. Well thats really bout it for me. :) Nothing new happening. The scale is moving again!! Yipee. That is super duper exciting. I had stopped losing and actually gained a few lbs between water weight and medications I was on. I quit taking it (the prescription was done) and dropped 16 lbs in the last 2 weeks and I've already lost 2 lbs this week. So I'm down 99 lbs now. Just  1 more lb to go til I'm in the century club. :) Anyways hehe I'm done rambling on for now !!