Luv2scuba

BG,

I hear ya! I have the prettiest spreadsheets that track my weight loss! I totally agree with you about the mindset thing. I have to find a way that i can eat for the rest of life. No more diets but lifestyle changes. And i'm not sure i totally understand that or how to do it. Some say we can't really comprehend the changes the band will make until we actually have it. I, too, hope for a normal (whatever that is!) relationship with food. I asked the Dr. that did my psych eval if i could continue to see her for body image problems and i have an appt. after the first of the year to set up a treatment plan. Maybe we should start with my relationship with food and why i overeat? Or is it really cause my "shut off" valve doesn't work? This journey certainly has been confusing so far!

Great post!

BG,

We share so many of the same traditions! Belsnickle came the other night to my children. We adopt a family also, and in the past spent part of Christmas day working at a Christmas Dinner for people who have no one to share the holiday with. We make our favorite Christmas Cookies too, can't make them any other time of the year. Christmas Eve, we read the Christmas story and the Night before Christmas. We also have a pickle on the tree and the first to find it gets a special gift that Santa leaves (usually a new board game that we play later on).We always put Baby Jesus in the manger on Christmas eve, usually after we read the Christmas story. Stockings are opened before any gifts and are fair game until everyone else is awake. We have our favorites foods for Christmas day too.

We always get to open one present on Christmas eve, and it is always new pj's, so we look decent in those pictures on Christmas morning. We also light a white candle and put it in a window to welcome the Holy Family and let it burn all night (it sits in a dish of sand for safety reasons). We have our jammie day on Christmas day. We stay home, in our jammies, watch movies, play board games. Our Christmas dinner is something easy to prepare, or prepared the day before to just heat up. We just spend the day together.

I love the holidays too!

Pat

Oh My! What a morning! And i am laughing! You have quite a way with words and my imagination is running ever so high this morning! Heck with 19 more lbs, is your BMI over 40?

Dare i say....Mission accomplished!

Hugs to you dear!