Hi All!

I have had some of the most wonderful last few weeks. Once I got over the hump of recovery I have just felt AMAZING! I feel like a cloud has lifted and I am so much more positive. It's particularly coming through at work where I am slowly but surely getting things together and organised. And I am actually ENTHUSIASTIC again :thumbup:. I do love my work (I am a Human Resources Manager with a company full of wonderful people, even if the company and the place makes us crazy sometimes) and I just feel like the possibilities of what I can do and help everyone accomplish are endless. I got a bit disoganized last year after coming back from maternity leave and was suffering from bad post partum depression. I finally feel like I am fully out of the funk i've been in.

Anyway, I feel like I have gotten my real self back and feel so amazingly positive. Long may it last.

I guess the big part of it is taking control and getting the band. It took 9 months for approval and the whole time I felt like it would be denied and my life was over if I didn't. I was having intense chronic pain with my back and hip that I was treating with pain meds AND giant cadbury bars. I was fatter than the heigth of my pregnancy (and my kid isn't even two!) and I was despondent with my inability to just take control and get my shite together.

Now I am full of the joys of life! Everything seems to be coming together and I am so positive about the future. Next project is to work on the house a bit and also keep up with work. It's a real struggle juggling a job, marriage, and a child for sure! And hopefully this time next year I will be close enough to a happy weight to start thinking about another wee one. That scares but hopefully with hindsight and better health I will have an easier time than before.

The July gang is talking about a meet up in Vegas in 2010 - we should too! Although how cool would it be to do something that would scare the crap out of a really fat person - skiing! Can you imagine trying rent ski gear and say 'do you have that in a 24' and getting up on the lift and wondering if it will hold our fat bottoms. And getting on the plane and all the extra room in the seat and several inches of extra seatbelt.

Anyway, I hope you're all feeling as good as I am and if you're not do share and maybe the rest of the gang can turn your frowns upside down!

Off to feed my son dinner and pray this isn't a manic phase! I might have a glass of wine too

Jenni

Edited July 19, 200818 yr by greythope

I'm all for Vegas. I live near skiing and still wouldn't ski (bum knee etc.) and you can be beachy in a bathing suit at a pool in Vegas. In fact I think it's the Hard Rock hotel that even has a sand beach at it's pool. Plus it is cheaper to get to generally airfare wise, seems there's always a deal to Vegas. As for gambling, wouldn't have to gamble if you didn't want to.

I agree about being more positive. My family comments on that all the time about me. And I am doing things I never thought I would, i bought a bike! I hiked in the mountains. Who is this woman???

Vegas, Vegas, Vegas! We go at least once yearly and I am MORE than ready to go for this wonderful get together! The nice thing is that there is so much to do with our new friends that if you don't like to gamble (like me) there are plenty of other things to do.

We have to make this happen!

I'm down for Vegas!!! I don't gamble but there sure is alot of fun to be had doin other stuff.....IE riding roller coasters and fitting in the seats!!!! That'll be exciting!!! :biggrin:

So when is this, sounds like Vegas, gathering? Inquiring minds want to know and save!! Instead of gambling we could shop for new wardrobes!

How about somewhere around mid-June, 2010?

Weekends are 12th - 13th and 19th - 20th.

That would be a neat way to celebrate our 'bandiversaries'!

We could all go to a buffet together and present our restaurant cards to order from the childrens menus at the same time. Though I still don't think I could get my money's worth at a buffet! And I don't want to! I have done enough of that in the past. I was just joking about the buffet!