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Peps
on 5/16/25 10:46 am
Topic: RE: Friday, May 16, 2025

Dang, you got some sleuthing skills!

Liz WantsHealthForAll
on 5/16/25 10:00 am - Cape Cod, MA
VSG on 03/28/16
Topic: RE: Friday, May 16, 2025

DH needs new comfortable shorts. His older ones are really heavy cotton and not so great in the heat.

Liz 5'3" HW: 219 SW: 185 GW: 125 LW: 113 Desired maintenance range: 120-125 CW: 119ish

Liz WantsHealthForAll
on 5/16/25 9:57 am, edited 5/16/25 2:58 am - Cape Cod, MA
VSG on 03/28/16
Topic: RE: Friday, May 16, 2025

Very interesting. I am glad you are being cautious because who knows sometimes? Have you googled him extensively to determine that he is a real person and what he has told you is true? I was able to figure out DH's full name pretty quickly that way and then to confirm via property records that he did own homes where he said he did. I also cross-checked pictures on Linked-in to his dating site picture and checked that he showed as previously employed at a couple of companies he mentioned (As CFO he had been listed on their sites at one point). And some of those white pages type sources showed him as associated with his kids. I did have at least a couple of fakers send notes on the dating site but I googled everyone once I got enough info to confirm (or not) that they were real. One guy said he was a Diamond Merchant to which I replied that I had buried treasure in the backyard. His profile disappeared a minute later.

Liz 5'3" HW: 219 SW: 185 GW: 125 LW: 113 Desired maintenance range: 120-125 CW: 119ish

Liz WantsHealthForAll
on 5/16/25 9:49 am - Cape Cod, MA
VSG on 03/28/16
Topic: RE: Friday, May 16, 2025

Wow! Such a small thing to cause much angst. Must be a valet thing?

Liz 5'3" HW: 219 SW: 185 GW: 125 LW: 113 Desired maintenance range: 120-125 CW: 119ish

Liz WantsHealthForAll
on 5/16/25 9:47 am - Cape Cod, MA
VSG on 03/28/16
Topic: RE: Friday, May 16, 2025

If your marriage can survive this remodel you are in great shape! I would be incredibly stressed out.

Liz 5'3" HW: 219 SW: 185 GW: 125 LW: 113 Desired maintenance range: 120-125 CW: 119ish

Peps
on 5/16/25 9:32 am
Topic: RE: Friday, May 16, 2025

The paint situation would infuriate me! I'm a stickler on paint brand and finish, too. I'm sad that Kelly Moore is now defunct because they had the BEST washable dog paint EVER!

Peps
on 5/16/25 9:22 am
Topic: RE: Friday, May 16, 2025

205.1 Crap-o-licious eating comes home to roost! LOL! It's all good. The uptick is expected and deserved.

I woke up super cranky. No big surprise. I need to do a little mental house cleaning. A nice long flight tomorrow will be helpful for that. I am amused that I now look forward to long flights. I find them restful. That probably speaks to my busy life.

My new J Crew shorts came yesterday. Really nice quality and at 58% off I can't complain! Also super duper nice to be able to order a "normal" size and find the fit to be fantastic!

Shot day yesterday.

Not much else going on.

Liz WantsHealthForAll
on 5/16/25 9:03 am - Cape Cod, MA
VSG on 03/28/16
Topic: RE: Friday, May 16, 2025

I am sure the day will be beautiful and joyous!

Liz 5'3" HW: 219 SW: 185 GW: 125 LW: 113 Desired maintenance range: 120-125 CW: 119ish

ocean4dlm
on 5/16/25 8:54 am - Liverpool, NY
VSG on 05/27/15
Topic: RE: Friday, May 16, 2025

Happy wedding, Paula ! Anne, glad you are still married ! I get the paint quality thing! Liz, Mike looks great (you too) on FB photo. CC, when do you leave for Michigan ? DD & Peps... hang in there ! Almost at the finish line ! Diane, no spring peas !? The horror! Like Anne, I'm trying to catch up on posts.

Interesting update in my potential relationship. After I was triggered and believed I was being set up for being catfished...I blocked all communication. I really thought I had found something wonderful. Four days after we "met" he was offered a design contract in South Africa, requiring him to be there a little less than a month. When he had an arduous customs experience and two of his six pieces of luggage were stolen, my first thought was... "Here it comes, he's going to ask for money !", and I shut down communication. We had been in contact by email and had not yet met or talked on the phone. After four days, someone called me while I was in my car, and the list of recent calls was on the screen, and there were four blocked calls from him, one each day. I thought maybe I had jumped the gun. Sent an email and told him I would unblock my phone for 24 hours and a virtual call was what I needed, in order to take care of myself. (I needed to see his eyes, verify that he looked like his pictures, and establish what his voice sounds like.) He gladly did it, and understood my motivation/request. We'll continue to communicate while he's away, before we can meet in person.

Diane

Age: 64; 5' 5"; High weight: 345; Start weight: 271 (01/05/15); Surgery weight: 218 (05/27/15); Pre-Op (-53); M 1 (-18); M 2 (-1.5); M 3 (-13.5 ); M 4 (-13); M 5 (- 8); M 6 (-12) M 7 (-5, Xmas); M 8 (- 9) Under surgeon's goal and REACHED HEALTHY BMI 12/07/15!! (Six months and one week.) AT GOAL month 8. Maintaining at goal range (139- 144) ~ four (4) years !!

VSGAnn2014
on 5/16/25 8:38 am
VSG on 08/14/14
Topic: RE: Friday, May 16, 2025

I forgot one bit of good news to share ... about a year ago the rear-door of my Lexus RX350 stopped raising automatically when I pushed the RAISE button on my dashboard. Likewise, when I walked around to the back of the car and pushed the RAISE handle, nothing happened--and I had to manually raise the door with my arm. Likewise, when I pushed the LOWER hangle on the back door, nothing happened, and I had to manually lower the door with my arm.

My Missouri car repair guy said he thought I needed a new motor, but that he couldn't handle that--I would have to take it to Lexus.

Last week, not wanting to incur Lexus dealership repair prices, I took it to a good car repair shop here in Kentucky I've used in the past, and they said they'd fix it for me. An hour after I took it in for repair, the shop called me back and said, "There is nothing wrong with your car rear door or your dashboard buttons that operate it or the motor that opens and closes the door. Somehow, the switch that activates all those functions just got turned off."

"There's a switch? Where's the switch?" I asked.

"In the glove compartment box," I learned.

So there you have it. Clearly, it was my fault when I must've tried to cram way too much stuff into my glove box and inadvertently turned the switch off.

And the cost of my "repair"? Zero bucks.

P.S. I shared this bit of trivia in case someone else ever runs into this problem.

ANN 5'5", AGE 74, HW 235.6 (BMI 39.2), SW 216, GW 150, CW 132, BMI 22

POUNDS LOST: Pre-op -20, M1 -10, M2 -11, M3 -10, M4 -10, M5 -7, M6 -5, M7 -6, M8 -4, M9 -4,
NEXT 10 MOS. -12, TOTAL -100 LBS.

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