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Topic: RE: REALLY funny WLS moment
Loved all your stories. Kids are the greatest. Ok, missionaries are too. 
Topic: Questions of The Day- Tuesday
1. What's your/a favorite scripture?
2. Do you have a favorite quote? What is it?
3. What is one goal that you've reached or is within sight?
4. What is your 'happy thought?'
Answers:
1. Alma 32:27-28
27- But behold, if ye will awake and arouse your faculties, even to an experiment upon my words, and exercise a particle of faith, yea, even if ye can no more than desire to believe, let this desire work in you, even until ye believe in a manner that ye can give place for a portion of my words. 28- Now, we will compare the word unto a seed. Now, if ye give place, that a seed may be planted in your heart, behold, if it be a true seed, or a good seed, if ye do not cast it out by your unbelief, that ye will resist the Spirit of the Lord, behold, it will begin to swell within your breasts; and when you feel these swelling motions, ye will begin to say within yourselves--It must needs be that this is a good seed, or that the word is good, for it beginneth to enlarge my soul; yea, it beginneth to enlighten my understanding, yea, it beginneth to be delicious to me.
2. "Only if you sacrifice for a cause will you love it." --Victor L. Brown
3. I've reached a lot of them. I can sit in seats without being touching the sides. In resturants I can sit in a booth WITH a kid in my lap. Before my surgery I could hardly sit in them at all. Biggest goal (140 lbs.) is within sight. I'm shooting for 1 1/2 month.
4. Playing in my Grandma and Grandpa's yard when I was young.
Topic: RE: Group Slump?
Mmmm . . . silly of me to think I could ask without having to answer. 
I'm doing great physically. I guess I shouldn't say great. Exercise and weight loss wise I'm doing fantastic but I can tell something's off. The other night I was saying our prayers (out loud) and I fell asleep in the middle of them. It was a first. My husband woke me up and said, 'are you going to finish the prayer?' I've been passing out whenever I lay down. I think I might be anemic. I've been bruising really easy and my blood pressure was 95/58 with a pulse rate of 66 last time I checked. I'm going in to get blood work done this week and have appointments with my surgeon and my doctor. Other then that small problem I'm doing yoga, tia chi, walking, and I'm down 114 lbs. I've passed my dr.'s goal weight for me and am only 19 or so lbs. from my goal.
I'm being a little lazy spiritually. I was really good about reading the scriptures for a while and I've just slipped out of my routine. I can feel it in my daily chores and stuff. My laundry was always kept up and in drawers, my kids were generally happy, my dishes always done, floor always vacuumed, bedrooms always cleaned, etc. Now we're grabbing clothes out of baskets, pulling one kid off the other, using plastic spoons . . . time to get back in the saddle.
Mentally . . . that's always been a questionable subject with me. Please refer to above paragraphs for answers. 
Melody, sorry to hear about your pains. Your weight loss is great when you take that into account! Good work! I hope the magnesium helps improve things.
Alfreda, don't get frustrated. It's a one man/woman race. Just do the best you can and allow yourself to make mistakes once in a while. Plateau's happen.
Sherrie, I think you're right on! DO IT! One nice long walk might be enough to break the plateau and it will give you time to think and breathe. It might help to say a little prayer before you exersice.
I hope we can all kick ourselves in the behinds and get out of our slumps. Let's not forget who promotes these types of feelings. We make his job that much easier when we succumb to them! I'm growing to love and know most of you and I want us all to be successful! Good luck!
I'm doing great physically. I guess I shouldn't say great. Exercise and weight loss wise I'm doing fantastic but I can tell something's off. The other night I was saying our prayers (out loud) and I fell asleep in the middle of them. It was a first. My husband woke me up and said, 'are you going to finish the prayer?' I've been passing out whenever I lay down. I think I might be anemic. I've been bruising really easy and my blood pressure was 95/58 with a pulse rate of 66 last time I checked. I'm going in to get blood work done this week and have appointments with my surgeon and my doctor. Other then that small problem I'm doing yoga, tia chi, walking, and I'm down 114 lbs. I've passed my dr.'s goal weight for me and am only 19 or so lbs. from my goal.
I'm being a little lazy spiritually. I was really good about reading the scriptures for a while and I've just slipped out of my routine. I can feel it in my daily chores and stuff. My laundry was always kept up and in drawers, my kids were generally happy, my dishes always done, floor always vacuumed, bedrooms always cleaned, etc. Now we're grabbing clothes out of baskets, pulling one kid off the other, using plastic spoons . . . time to get back in the saddle.
Mentally . . . that's always been a questionable subject with me. Please refer to above paragraphs for answers.
Melody, sorry to hear about your pains. Your weight loss is great when you take that into account! Good work! I hope the magnesium helps improve things.
Alfreda, don't get frustrated. It's a one man/woman race. Just do the best you can and allow yourself to make mistakes once in a while. Plateau's happen.
Sherrie, I think you're right on! DO IT! One nice long walk might be enough to break the plateau and it will give you time to think and breathe. It might help to say a little prayer before you exersice.
I hope we can all kick ourselves in the behinds and get out of our slumps. Let's not forget who promotes these types of feelings. We make his job that much easier when we succumb to them! I'm growing to love and know most of you and I want us all to be successful! Good luck! 
Topic: RE: Group Slump?
Ive just been depressed and plateaued on top of the depression. I know satan is working on me since I am trying to get my temple ordinances. I feel blah and I just want to sit around and cry and do nothing which is the worst thing I can do when I am plateaued. I havent lost weight in over a month which is making me feel like a failure, but I know a lot is because I havent been eating what I should and I am not exercising. Its a vicious cycle - if I exercised I would feel better, if I felt better I would have the energy to exercise. I will vow right here and now that today I will exercise - I will DO IT - as SWK would say.
-Sherrie
Topic: RE: Group Slump?
Slump...perfect description. I think I am going through a plato slump. I'm at 5 months out on 9/23 and I've lost 61 pounds and though I am sooooo very greatful for the -61 I thought I would be further along by now. Greedy I know but its so hard not to compare yourself to others. I have to admit my excercising has gone down the tubes some how lately. I am trying to get back in the swing of things this week. Spiritually I've been in a slump lately too. I love the Gospel and believe with all my heart but..sometimes going to Church is hard for me. I think what happens is I am going 90 to nothing all week long..Saturdays are the big day to get any large projects done and shopping and then on Sunday sometimes it's so easy to just go AWWWWWWW I can breathe for a minute curl up on the couch and just relax. I'm working on that one too.
Well I'll stop whinning now.
Have a wonderful day everyone. 
Alfie
Alfie 
Topic: RE: Group Slump?
I agree Hydi. I think we are in a group slump.
Now to answer your questions. I'm six months out and have lost 79 pounds. I had my six month check up with my surgeon last Thursday. They did blood work for the first time since my surgery. My surgeon was going to call me with the results of the blood work. I waited and waited by the phone until I had to go potty so bad I couldn't wait anymore. I just got to the bathroom and sat down when the phone rang and wouldn't you know it, it was the surgeon with the results from the blood work. Thankfully he left a message on my answering machine. I tried calling him back but he was busy. Anyway, the message he left said my blood work looked really good but my magnesium was low and my protein was low. He said to increase my protein.
The magnesium being low might answer some questions for me. I have no idea what magnesium does in the body but I am in constant pain in my muscles and they spasms something fierce. I have MS and I've blamed it all on that, now I'm wondering if the low magnesium is to blame for making the problem worse. I'm going to pick up a magnesium supplement and see if that makes any difference.
How am I doing spiritually? I think really good right now. I've made a conscious effort to read the Book of Mormon every day this past 9 months or so. I've always read but lately I've made an effort to be more diligent and thoughtful in my reading.
Now Hydi - How are YOU doing?
Melody
Melody Topic: Group Slump?
We seem to be in a group slump. How's everybody feeling? How's the weightloss going? How are you feeling spiritually? Mentally? Just thought we could all use a check-up.
Love,
Hydi
Topic: RE: Sunday's question
It looks like you've thought it through. I doesn't make it easier, does it? What a blessing it will be when it's done.
We had stake conference, too but only stayed for an hour. Bless my children. I learned that one of our buildings will get a steeple. Nothing profound though.
Topic: RE: Sunday's question
Yes Tracey it is Satan working on you. I have a couple friends who went through the temple after being married for many, many years. All of them have experienced the same things as you are describing. Their marriage was wonderful before they talked about going to the temple and once they started the preparations they argued, fought and saw the worst in each other. They had many, many doubts not only about being sealed but also about just being married. Keep in mind that this really is Satan doing everything he can to get you doubt and not become an eternal family.
Congratulations on doing what is necessary to go to the temple. My husband is a non-member and I'm waiting for the day we can experience the same conflicts (ha ha).
Today was our High Council Sunday. The theme for Sacrament meeting was supporting your leaders. It was good. High Council Sunday's are one of my favorite meetings of the week. I teach Primary and our lesson today was when Jesus appeared to the Nephites after his resurrection. He taught the people and the people were a bit overwhelmed trying to comprehend everything they were told. Jesus admonished them to go home and "ponder" the things in their hearts. The lesson also pointed out that when we hear messages from the church leaders we should "ponder" them in our hearts, just like Jesus taught the Nephites.
Good day today, good meetings.
Melody
Melody Topic: Sunday's question
What did you learn in church today??
My answer: Nothing. We didn't go. My husbnd is really sick, and we have been fighting for two days. It's a lovely sabbeth day.....and Stake conference, but we stayed home.
So I would love anything the rest of you learned or picked up on in church today. I'm in a sour mood, and need some enlightening.
We are currently getting the approval for being sealed this Fall, and ever since we've been working on it, (my husband's sealing clearance from the First Presidency) I have noticed all his faults, and am really wondering if I want to be sealed to him for ETERNITY.....
isn't that awful? He's a good guy, but sometimes very thoughtless...but many men are that way, so I doubt I'd find better elsewhere. I just keep telling myself that it's Satan working to keep us from proceeding in what we should do to progress. But sometimes that seems like such a pat answer to problems. I can't blame Satan on all my problems, usually they begin with me.
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