What's New WEDNESDAY - HUMP DAY!
I get up your way occasionally. I like the Riverview casino and Niagara-on-the-Lake. Haven't been to either in a while. The bridges are a pain. It's a beautiful ride, though.
Facebook is nice for reconnecting with friends. FarmVille is addictive. One of our sisters is so bad that she has 5 or 6 alter egos.
She KNOWS who she is....!
Candy
I get tired just reading what you do. It takes a special kind of person to do all the support and caring you do for others.
Men try to "fix" whatever is not right with us. Maybe JB is just frustrated with himself. We think you have done a wonderful job with your weight loss. Yes, there is still the extra to come off and it seems you are taking great steps to lose it. What more can be asked? AND why do we get only a second chance? Can't we have a third and fourth chance? Or continue having chances til we succeed?
Take care of yourself and your mom......... JB too. He needs some huggs too.
Have a gloriously wonderful day and smile smile smile...
MIllie
I just enjoy "doing"...it's my passion to help others, dont know why..guess God/Universe/ Higher Power made me this way.
I can hardly wait til I can get rid of all this excess skin...Id be going down several dress sizes for sure..when I SIT, I become not unlike bean bag chair..PLUMPHFF!
When I turn over in bed at night, I have to reach down and grab a handful of skin around my hips and tug it along or I end up LYING on it..sounds horrible, doest it? ugh! I get all rolled up in skin and nightfown and then cant move! *LOL* And I cant get rid of it til I lose more weight so Im determined to do this! My tool still works. It just needs special care.
Yes..my "old cooty" as I call him..he will be 66 end of October..Im almosy 5 years younger so I get away with that...lol.
*smiling all the way -that's how I get so many wrinkles!*
Good Morning Nancy & OFFr's,
Nancy, you are such a positive force that I can't say enough how much your posts mean and if you fall asleep fast, I can only imagine why, what with all you are constantly on the go with, people tell me I'm always on the go, well girl, you run circles around me for sure!
As for the feelings of failure, I totally understand that, while our start points may have been different, the goals we have yet to realize are still things that I can empathize wholeheartedly with and I applaud your efforts towards recommitting to yourself, but don't let your feelings (or someone else's negative comments) dictate your "success" or "failure" process. So long as we live and breathe, there is hope to achieve whatever we set out to and I think we must always remember that success comes incrementally through life and you my dear are a GREAT SUCCESS! I hope one day to meet you in person!
As for me, let's see I'm here at work, taking a little time out to see what's up on my favorite forum, with my favorite OH friends. Yesterday was a good day, I saw my son, his wife and my sweet grandbabies, we celebrated my son's 36th birthday and it was so cute listening to my little Avery Grace, as she sung, Happy Birthday to my Daddy, Happy Birthday to my Daddy, therein lies the joy in my life and my son and I had a very productive conversation in the morning on my way to work, so hopefully, a bridge is being built that finally puts to bed his feelings with regards to mistakes made. Anyway, I also am happy to share with you all, that my tool is working great, as I have been careful about what I choose to eat and I weigh myself every morning before I shower, and today for the first time in about 2 months the scale had me below 160, which makes me happy, as I was not happy with the direction it was in, which I attribute in part to my lack of regular exercise and some food choices that I needed to cut out. I will see my surgeon next month for my 2 year follow-up and I don't want to be at or above what I was on my 1 year check up. Your encouragement and my participation in support is what keeps me going and I know that it is a key to being successful on this journey!
Well to all in need, I send my prayers and positive thoughts your way and hugs to the rest of you,
Laureen
My Mantra is that I do not determine my success by the number hanging in my closet, nor will I let the scale determine that success either. . . It is through trial and error I will continue to grow and succeed. . . Laureen
"Success is a journey, not a destination." Ben Sweetland
Thank you, Laureen...sometimes I wondered if there's something wrong with me and that Im "losing it"...I take responsibility in not keeping up with my posting and getting support..and not doing enough GOOD exercise..my lymphodema and bad osteoarthritic knees make it almost unbearable to walk any distance and walking aound an acre yard doesnt cut it enough. Swimming was always fun for me..but I held back, afraid of being seen in a bathing suit with swollen legs and a HUGE lymphatic swelling behind my right knee..looks like a huge tumor the size of a watermelon..so embarassing for me..so self-conscious about it all. BUT Im commited now (or should be commited..waaahh!) so Im ready!
Lucky lucky you for grandbabies! *s* I love the name Grace! Mistakes? welcome to the human race! Keep on with your hard work..you ARE succeeding!
It's busy here at work but all ready went for a walk around the hospital.
Today after work, I'll be working out in the pool with Juli on weights then...on the spin class at 6pm.
Going out after spin class for drinks (water for me and dinner) with my spin instructor and Bob my BIL...match making is fun!!!
Oh yeah...we are finally getting our new furnace delivered today. Thank goodness we had warm weather and had no need to turn on the furnace (which we didn't have cuz hubby took everything out to ready the house for the new one).
Everyone had a great day and do something special just for you today! Why? Cuz your special!!!
wow..youre busy too...*s*...are you a nurse? I completely respect the job of nursing..understaffed and under paid. You sure are doing the exercise..walking, swimming AND spinning class. I admire you.
Hurry for a new furnace..that cold stuff is on it's way..I guess we cant avoid it. However, without WINTER, we wouldn't truly appreciate the beauty of the other seasons quite as much *s*
Let me add my voice to the others ... you are not a failure. Anyone who loses 150 pounds is not a failure. We who had that much to lose (I lost 180 and am still considered "overweight") sometimes don't lose all that's needed to get down to a "normal" BMI. But so what? You are still a success. I consider myself a success even though I will never get down to a so-called "normal" BMI, but I don't care. We have these annual wellness checks at work, and every year the nurse asks me my weight and height and tells me I'm overweight. And I tell her what my weight used to be (350) and tell her I'm healthier than I was before ... so shove it. So tell your husband the same thing. You are a success. You do so much and have so much more energy than I do.
Enough of the lecture. I had a six-month checkup at the allergist and he told me I could get off some of my drugs at the end of the month ... good, because I can save some money. I can stop the Zyrtec-D first, then Singulair and finally the Astelin. The molds should end sometime in October.
I'm so beat. All I can say is three more days and then 10 days off. I only got five hours of sleep last night and not very restful. My knees are better today ... I used my cane at work last night and that helped a lot. Took a lot of the pressure off my left knee ... wish I knew what was bothering that, my nerve from my back or my knee. Whatever, it's better today. I still might stop off at the chiropractor and see if he can help things.
Anyway, got off the phone with Roxane while I was writing this ... she agrees with me, Nancy, that you're not a failure ... she says men often say things like that and then regret them (her husband is like that too, and she just tells him off ... so don't take it from him!)
Well, I should go make some lunch. Have a good day.
Oh I have been mising in action for a couple of days. My computer wouldnt work in lake City Florida. So I am home now.
The support group I went to was a lot of fun. Lots of newbies sort of and Lap Banders.
Nancy you arent a failure and I am one to tell you this.
Today is Lily day and I am babysitting her for a few hours tonight while her momgoes and tutors.
So on with my day.
Oh and I have great news. I have a clean bill of health. No more Thyroid cancer. My scan was clean!!!!!.
Carla
