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So happy for Peps! I know that's a scale barrier you've battled with.

Today was 197.6 and I have a headache, so clearly I've let all the water go and am now slightly dehydrated. I think I picked well at the restaurant. A steak and blue cheese salad with cobb attributes. I mostly ate the meat which was delicious.

The landscapers have been here since 9:30 pulling out tumbleweeds from an undeveloped part of my lot. The pile looks like a mountain. It really needed to be done during the summer before they dried out as moving them when dry just drops a boatload of seeds. Sigh. So I'll have lots of baby tumbleweeds next year.

Eating still is going well. Time to plan my next set of lunches/dinners so I don't lose focus.

I made my reservations for the hotel in Cabo and booked my flight. 135 days! I came across a young woman on Instagram trying to get into a bridesmaids dress 5 sizes smaller by losing 60ish pounds in 160 something days. I feel like that's really unrealistic. I like my 20ish pound with better fitness in 135 days goal. Maybe that's the wisdom of age. I've been in her shoes and aggressive goals don't end well.

Anyway, hope you all are doing well.

Our best friends are Pain Killer aficionados and have taught WI bartenders how to make them. They got hooked on them in Jamaica (which they are visiting right now) so I had to send them the pic of yours from yesterday. I bought Hurricane glasses and will buy the ingredients to make them when they visit us this Spring. I personally like Mojitos, not so sweet!

When I started going out a fair amount I thought the incisions and remaining after affects of surgery were really obvious but nobody seemed to notice them.

Screens are on lanais and over pools because of mosquitoes and other nasty biting bugs that thrive in standing water which is an issue in Florida especially in the showery times of year (and also with the humidity). The first time I visited California (Pleasanton) I was amazed that there were no biting bugs at night (Massachusetts has them in the summer too).

Good morning!

199.6

Well, this is indeed a first in many years! I'm in onederland two days in a row. I believe the last time I was this weight was 2014 or 2015. I can't check because the online site I used to use to track is now defunct. What I do know is that post VSG goal weight (170) was reached July 2012. By July 2013 I was 188. It was basically an upward trajectory from that point forward with one back to barely under 200 drop in the early part of 2016. It is stunning to realize that it has been 14 years since my VSG and that my weight and body size has been such an overwhelming part of my thinking and daily life since July of 2011 when I first started exploring WLS. I stand by my belief that without the VSG I never would have come to understand my disordered eating and spent the years in therapy and nutritional counseling.

So now, I must work at maintaining this new weight range. However, I must also be willing to accept that the 2 pound drop is most likely water from my gut ails (which btw, continue... ugh). It is more than likely as I recover that the water weight will return. But, today it is what it is and I'm all smiles!

I am feeling "well" enough that I will go visit my dad today. It's been almost a week since my brother saw him last, so I really must go. I feel like I look good enough to appear in public without people having double takes. If someone looks intently at my face, they will see the incisions and swelling and bruising, but in passing, I think I'm okay.

Paula, you will be a 12 month resider in Florida now, correct, not a snowbird? The video of the wind at your house was really pretty. What a gorgeous view you have! Question: Why are so many of the pools in Florida closed in?

An acquaintance is selling his home in North Port, FL. It is absolutely perfect for us and at the perfect price point! Too bad Florida is not on my radar.

Cheers to all!

I just found this:

THE STORY OF THE PAINKILLER

It all started at the Soggy Dollar Bar on the island of Jost Van Dyke, British Virgin Islands. There, Daphne Henderson created the first Painkiller and served them to the mostly boating crowd that came to White Bay. These same patrons would spread the word - making the Painkiller famous across the Caribbean.

One day Charles Tobias, founder of Pusser's Rum paid a visit to the Soggy Dollar. He'd heard of the now famous Painkiller. And he was curious about its ingredients. He made fast friends with Daphne Henderson. But try as he might she wouldn't divulge the ingredients to him!

Not to be deterred, Tobias pirated a Painkiller to his boat. Back at his home on Tortola, he began the trial-and-error process to uncover the ingredients and proportions. In the end he discovered it worked out to a 4-1-1-1 ratio of Pusser's Rum, pineapple juice, orange juice and cream of coconut. Though his version is reputed to be discernibly different from the Soggy Dollar's Painkiller - these ingredients and proportions are widely accepted as "the" way to make a Painkiller drink.