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Nancy, you got that. I think wardrobe is important. So many of us forget to take of ourselves. As we are losing weight - making sure the clothes we were fit well is important IMO.
I spent a lot of money.....relatively speaking ....in thrift stores, salvation army...etc... I had a monthly budget..
Wearing good fitting clothes makes me stand taller, smile more ...and feel better about myself. That little bit of self confidence makes it easier for me to make better food choices. Suddenly I no longer think "I can't eat that" but rather "I chose not to eat that"..
Feeling good about my apperance also makes me more social - I don't feel like I want to hide in my room when the formal activities are over and social time starts.. So that also makes me more active...
Good luck.
I am going to an herbal conference in 3 weeks and I know I need to chose my wardrobe to be both, comfortable and nice... For me. So I feel good about myself.
Hala. RNY 5/14/2008; Happy At Goal =HAG
"I can eat or do anything I want to - as long as I am willing to deal with the consequences"
"Failure is not falling down, It is not getting up once you fell... So pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again...."
Laureen,
We posted at the same time. Welcome back. I am so happy you are back. Weight gain is something I think we are all dealing with. I have found that being here has helped me because we all have this one thing in common and it is dealing with our WLS pre,post and during....I think for me it has been the difference between talking about action and action.
Please hand around and join us as we all regain the use of our tool and our board. I think sometimes we have all become complacent in our efforts to lose weight and encourage each other, so now we are working toward keeping it real, keeping it positive, and keeping the goals in total in sight.
These grandkids are something, aren't they. My number 1 baby graduated high school yesterday and I couldn't be any more prouder than I was when his mother graduated. He towers over everyone in the room and is such a sweetie. I am taking him and his girlfriend for a tattoo party as soon as he turns 18...his mom won't sign and his girlfriend's mom will sign for her. So, a tattoo party on his 18th birthday which will be marked on my right shoulder......
Ladies,
It's here. Monday. Wow. Yesterday was a good day. I ate very reasonable; I didn't cry too much as my first born grandson graduated, with a large scholarship, which surprised me. We ate trout, bass, and catfish and tons of veggies and some fruit. I made hushpuppies and by the end of the day, we were all tired. Of course, they put the volley ball net up and all the kids played volley ball....my nephew, who is 54 had to sit with the old folks because he hurt his knee and we all laughed and said, this is the transition from playing to sitting and I said, dear, soon you will be like me, watching from the kitchen window. LOL....yes we are all aging.
Well, today should be a good day for me. All the students have loaded up and summer school is two weeks off. Our intercession is a very short time and few students are here for that. We are a typical college town so when summer hits, we lose more than half of our population (the students go home). Yeah...no waiting in line at stores.
Ladies, have a good first day back....catch you all later.
So over the weekend I got a slew of messenger posts about a reunion and I thought, let me just see who all is on OFF. . . It was nice to see so many of those that posted and made me feel like family for a time in my life are posting, but there are even more not here, some of which are FB friends, which is one of the reasons I stopped posting here, because it was almost redundant to come there and be there and my life was busy. . .
so how am I?
I am busy with my family who has grown and continues to grow, I now have 6 grandchildren (this for those not privy to my FB posts), 2015 found me with two new additions, my son had his bonus child (others were almost 10 and 8 when baby brother was born), my youngest daughter, had her first child, who lights up my world with her smiles and curiosity. This year is the year of weddings, my youngest daughter got married Easter weekend and my oldest daughter will be marrying Thanksgiving weekend. All my children now have their life partners and are doing well, my oldest grandchild, Sammi, graduates from HS the end of this month. . . I turned 60 last June and I have recently begun a new journey, one that will hopefully help me deal with the loss of my brother, almost 3 years ago, a loss which I suffered in silence over, a loss in which I resorted to old bad habits and for which now finds me at a weight I never thought I'd return to, and it has caused me a great deal of shame.
I've been trying to do something about it, but to be honest this past winter my back did not cooperate and lots of tests later, I wound up going to a chiropractor who has helped and I am walking at least 6000 steps daily, mostly over 10000, but committed to the 6000 so as not to set myself up for a case of the "eff it's" What I can say is my pouch still works, but my weight does not want to be shed and it's really sad to me. Also, the end of 2014 found me with emergency surgery due to a twisted bowel related to my RNY and the hiatal hernia that my surgeon had fixed in 2007 when I had my RNY, did you know that they come back (hiatal hernias)? Anyway, it was scary and the worst part of the scary was that the place I choose to have my surgery abandoned me at my time of need, which was very disconcerting, since I choose them because they said they would always be there for me, well seems the great surgeon, whose name I will not speak of, not my surgeon as she moved to Kentucky years ago, said my situation was too complicated for him to want to handle. The surgeon who took on my case, told me this after the fact and was unbelieving that such a thing could take place, as he said, even if I leave this practice, you shall always have someone within this practice to step up and take over and that is and should be the way of things. . . obviously, I survived and am glad that I went to the hospital when I did because it could have been a whole different outcome, so please if you ever experience a sensation of severe pain in the stomach area, do not ignore it, as it can very well mean the difference of life or death in our circles. In spite of my regain and aches and pains, I am healthy, still make healthy choices most of the time, just seem to be lost with how to eat and be losing weight, I currently eat about 1000 to 1400 calories and have gained over 40 lbs., it is no joke when it is said that fat cells are hungry to regain their plumpness, there has now been proof in the medical fields that is the case. My friends who have had the gastric sleeve seem to do very well, RNY is what it is and works well if you adhere to what you are supposed to at least 90% of the time. I got lost due to my grief, but I have not given up on reclaiming the numbers that make me feel good, and no, this is not a numbers game, but I do know how it felt to be at a better scale number and I am determined to at the very least, give it my best to get back to that place.
I have to go now and want to give a shout out to my old friends here and say, glad you're still doing what you need to!
With kind regards, 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
Good afternoon, everyone:
I am on target today. I completed another custom colouring book, called "LETTING GO", for a client and there is a huge pot of home made "Stuffed Green Pepper" Soup simmering on the stove. I had darkly browned prime rib bones and made a good bone broth then added 1 1/2 pounds of lean ground beef, a cup of cooked rice, 3 chopped green peppers, 3 cups of diced fresh mushrooms, fresh garlic & diced onions plus one of my last quarts of home canned tomatoes.
I had my Hot Chocolate Protein drink for brekkie, later a yogurt, lunch was 2 hard-cooked eggs mixed with a bit of mayo and lots of chopped green onions, just eaten with a spoon. Snack was a banana w/peanut butter . Tonight will be soup for me PLUS a grilled ham & cheese for JB. I have an orange for before bed and all day I have been drinking my water. My weight is standing still, but I know, through many years of experience, that my body is wavering and will eventually let go of more weight.
I was out the first half of the week in short sleeves but it went down to almost freezing yesterday and the high winds are darned cold! JB is at Dan's house, they are working on Dan's truck. Derek is prepping for his night shift and I am all alone here...man,m is it ever quiet!
Now I need to get a new ink roll for my laser printer to get this last book finished (printed and bound). Poor Derek will have to help me with that. Naturally I run out of ink just when I have so much to be printed. I have designed a Vertical Banner for my COLOUR ME HAPPY books as I will be presenting workshops at the two conferences that I am attending, May 27-29 in Toronto and the following week, June 3-5 in Niagara Falls. Now I am designing handouts for each lady participating..so I do need my printer.
Mentally, I am planning what to pack...yes, all the usual conference stuff, props for our club's presentations, 3 bankers boxes of archives to be given to the Archivist in Toronto to store...Oh! I can hardly wait to see my car trunk empty again!
But, most of all, I am planning my wardrobe. No one has seen me at the BPW Conference for a year and I am down 48 pounds...excited. Then I am wondering WHY? Do I need others' approval of my appearance? WHY do we worry about how OTHERS think of us?
For me, it is because of a lifetime of "feeling fat and ugly" and I would love to experience how it feels to FEEL pretty. BODY IMAGE is a very delicate balance of reality and self-honesty. I think that the bottom line is really to FEEL COMFORTABLE IN MY OWN SKIN. I need to word hard on that.
We are just coming here on that day and posting back and forth all day. Lots of the oldies are invited and they are already saying yes. So just make sure you pits that day and check the posts throughout the day.
Linda,
I had to have a scope to see if my ulcer had heeled up in the stoma and it did! But the kicker is I still have to stay on the medicine for four months. But that's a ok with me!
Carla
Is there a link to the information? I am most unlikely able to attend but I will live vicariously through all of you!
We have been talking on the Over 50 Forum and would like (love) to invite you to join us on May 31 for "Reunion Day"... I've included all of the members from then and now and if you know more please include them too. Just come on either on that day or that week and say hello. We want to know how you are all doing. If you need help to get on the site just ask. We talk about our old members frequently and remember you vividly. Please invite anyone else that you may know also. It would be great to see a bunch of the old group together again!
