tapshoes

happy Monday everyone! I hope you all enjoyed a lovely weekend. My eating is completely out of control.....:wink2::scared2: Last night, for example, after dinner (which I devoured) I ate a bowl of ice cream and 2 date squares - and I don't even like sweet things!!! So, I recommited this morning to eating better....let's see how I do. Exercise - still haven't done that yet...what has happened to me??? Im seriously in a bad spot in my head!

Happy Monday everyone! I'm hoping this week that the conversations in this thread pickup - it's been very slow, and getting slower. Although I understand why some people may be disenchanted, please come back ....I miss you! :hurt::wink2::cryin::cryin:

Oh oh oh...where's the voting???? Sounds like your weekend is a little of everything; hope it is a good one! I NEED to get out and walk, but I just can NOT get my rear in gear. But now that my mother has gone back home, perhaps this week will be the week I start back into exercise..... Ah Heart, I know what the blue funks are like. I'm sorry you are going through them, and wish I could help. But alas, I cannot. Don't worry about being a drag....we're here to help (see my 'Psychiatrist is in" sign above my head??) Bookstore visits make any day brighter!! I'd forgo lots of other things for a trip to a bookstore with the money to spend on books!! Forget a manicure...books!! Sounds like a lovely day Kat. Hope you got some sleep, and enjoyed the rest of the weekend.

Noticing that the room is empty, Tapshoes takes centerstage, grabs the mic and belts out show tunes, and then dressed in a killer danceoutfit, dances up a storm the likes of which haven't been since since Gene Kelly was in his prime. Exhausted, but ecstatic, Tapshoes, wipes her brow, and leaves the stage................

I only told DH and that was only the week before because I needed someone to drive me home - he was not part of any of the discussions/consultations etc. (As a self pay, I didn't have the same appointments/consultations etc to go through). Anyway, for people who have asked (rudely in my opinion) how I'm losing the weight, or what I'm doing, etc I reply with a smile and a soft voice, "Why would you ask such a personal question?"....belive me, they back off!! However just because you have told some people, you are under no obligation to answer their questions or defend your choice. It's your body, your decision end of story. I THINK I would deflect their questions with, I have made a decision for my health and my body. I appreciate your concern, but I do not choose to discuss this with you. At 50+ years of age, my skin is alot tougher than it used to be!!!

Find a hotel; find a hostel; hire a limo; stay in the hospital (but be prepared for the extra charges)....under no circumstances drive yourself!! Even if you think you can (and I would be surprised if you did) you CANNOT...it's like someone who has been drinking who thinks they can drive - tragic consequences..

As another in her fifties, I too was just sick and tired of carrying the weight around, and enduring the endless yo-yo game of lose some, gain more, lose some, gain more.... I never told anyone anticipating their negative responses, and I only told DH about a week before (I am self-pay so no long pre-op or insurance hoops). Anyway, I prefaced telling him with"I have made this decision for me and my health. I need you to support me - whether you agree or not." Bless him, he read the material and said that although it would not be a choice for him, whatever I chose to do he would support, because he wanted me around. I hope your husband becomes like that - non-judgemental and supportive from everything to driving to fill appointments, and making Protein smoothies for those first few weeks, to celebrating my scale victories.

Neither...mine is center just below the belly-button.

Whoo- hoo - Im not alone in the PJTP world! It is getting slower and slower in here...we need a jump start. Where is everyone? heartfire? Kat? Plain? Sick? Slim? Bristle? KC? Pool? CC? and so on and so on...................come on, guys. Are you saying (thorugh your silence) that you don't enjoy our witty repartee? Don't want to know the lives and loves of your fellow bandsters? TALK TO ME!!! Love the NSV!!

You aren't homeless LilMiss - you have the VVs AND you could of course post in the PJTP - Again thread in R&R... Lecture over; Tap takes the trophy from the podium and leaves.......

Thanks Ezma, my body may have decided, but it didn't negotiate that with my doc...who is still insistent that a big-boned 5'5" gal in her 50's should weigh between 117-124... I can't ever see myself at 117 (at least, not alive and with all my legs and arms:laugh:) but maybe 124 is possible??? So, if I could just get my exercise mojo back and start watching what I eat, instead of being a blob and eating everything I see, I might do better and reach that goal............:closedeyes: You too! YAHOO!!! That's wonderful. Make sure you update your sticker!

The inventor of coffee should be given a Nobel prize (posthumously, obviously). Why do I live where there is even the remote possibility of snow - let alone the annual deluge? How much money will I REALLY need to retire and maintain (make that, improve) my lifestyle and afford lots of international travelling?? In the debate between lower cost or going 'green', which is the right choice? Why can't it be both 'green' AND less expensive?

So are you reconsidering the size? I'd love to have 'the girls' hoisted back where they belong, but that isn't going to happen - Tummytuck is a more pressing need - and that's at least 1 year away......... I know what you mean on the bra shopping...when I find one that fits and is on sale, I buy multiple.. Nails - you mean chipped, splitting, uneven, different lengths isn't the way they should be??? Did you enjoy the fundraiser? Glad to hear that work has been quiet; keep your head down and your eyes and ears open for new opportunities to get outta that toxic environment! I hear you on the PS and delaying due to $$. How do you fell about DH's comment??? OK people, it's Friday - let's just get through it, so that we can enjoy our weekends!

Ezma - you are DOWN in weight - that's great! Think positive, not negative! yes indeed - the best kind!! The little places - like our feet. I have a huge selection of size 8 shoes (I have a bit of an Imedla Marcos shoe love) that I have no use for - have given boxes of them to the local woman's shelter. Now I am in the process of buying their replacements in a size 7 - it will be a long time to replace them all! food and exercise wise - not good. I am rapidly gaining weight - what the heck is wrong with me!??? that's the attitude, LilMiss. You need to give your gut a chance to relax after the stress of the last few months - this is like bandster hell again. It is pure willpower that will get you through this period. How I wish I could convince myself of this!! 5 years?!?! Really?!?!? WOW, I didn't know that; my doc didn't say that at all. Jul - Hope you are feeling less blue - maybe feeling an energetic orange or bright green!!! Focus on the positive - you did your exercise, and you have lost 60 pounds!!! 60! Weren't there times at the beginning of this journey that you thought you would be so happy if you lost 25 or 50 pounds? And now you are at 60 and counting! Ditto!!! Sorry to hear that your husband did not get the position; I know you are disappointed. First time I've ever heard of morning-sickness being viewed as a positive thing - :closedeyes::w00t: Keep the snow away from me....no no no snow! Hey St Louis - you LOVE snow?!?! Are you for real??? The older I get the less I like it - and I'm getting old now!! I suppose snow would be ok if it: happened while the temperature was in the 70's/80's; it only snowed on the lawns -not the sidewalks and roads; it never happened with high winds.... Been busy and feeling in a bit of a funk. This thread and the PJTP threads are about the only ones I come to anymore. It seems we are fewer and fewer in all the threads I like, and I get saddened by that...... Tapioca pudding - YUCK!!! It is right up there with rice pudding as something I cannot stand - not the smell, the texture or the taste.........you can have my share Melissa!! Happy Friday everyone. Take care of yourselves!

Morning! Fanny - how exciting; keep us posted on the decisions and progress. As for me, it's a good thing I buy cleaners, toilet paper, and kleenex in bulk - my mother is visiting and she and DH are both sick - nausea and headaches....I'm exhausted from cleaning up, and doing laundry. I'm taking today off to tend to the sick and maybe, just maybe, catch up on my sleep....

An interesting question - I have never had it happen with me, though. I experience a lot of cold weather (snow started last week, and will last until April) and haven't had that phenomenon. But maybe because cold temps and snow are normal here, my body didn't react to it, whereas if you are usually in a more temperate climate, the temps shocked your body.

PS...roll call: sick? KC? GoneforNow? CC? Pooly? Ktork?SMSmith You are missed.

MOrning all! Plain - It is still so far down on my list of movies, I doubt it will ever bubble to the top. Ebony - Big Ideas in Science sounds like a fun course! Organizational behaviour - bleck! Kat - thanks for the G4E update...it makes my flabby skin issues seem somewhat selfish.:cursing: Sorry your work day sucked... Well, time to be working....although I don't wanna. I don't wanna!

Tap walks in, yells 'hello, hello'...hearing nothing but her echo, she leaves again (sad and dejected)....

Congratulations, Melissa. I am so happy for you; I know this is something you wanted. :cursing::w00t::scared2::w00t:

Hi Ebony!! Another great NSV for you - that's wonderful! I've heard about Spanx, but haven't invested in any - yet. But given the serious belly overhang I have, I'm thinking maybe it is time to invest. Plastic surgery is something I have thought of, but the cost is just too much. But I'm thinking it would certainly help me drop a few more pounds - honestly, the reason I haven't reached the upper limit of my doctors goal just HAS to be the excess skin!!:thumbup: Besides, several docs have mentioned waiting for 6 months to a year after your weight loss before having any PS, so that gives me time. (Of course, just as many do not make any such recommendations...). I did come to work - gets me out of the house and with my mother visiting it is important for both of us to have 'time outs'... And speaking of work......gotta get some stuff off my desk!

Restriction does NOT mean mini throwups and pain etc...Get to a doctor asap for a small de-fill. Then take it easy for a day or two and eat mushies or liquids, and give your stomach a chance to relax. The more irritated it is, the more difficult it is to function propoerly and therefore you begin a vicious cycle of pain.

Ebony - that is FABULOUS!! And you rightly should feel proud of yourself for finishing - who cares whether you are first or last, you ran a 5K - CONGRATULATIONS!

When family members explain to dinner guests that "No, she's not sick; she just doesn't eat like a real person" When having one bite of a dessert is enough sweetness to last a week or two! When close friends who haven't seen you in 3 years walk past you not recognizing you since you lost weight. (And then when you call out to them, they do a double-take, give you a hug, and then ask in a whispered tone, 'Did you lose weight intentionally or are you sick?") When your weekly groceries fit in the childs cart or basket.

Lil Miss - that's not a glass case...that's a mirror on your wall reflecting the trophy in MY cabinet...