In Search of my Body...Not The One I ate...#3 "Crowning Goddesses As We Go"

[Dizneydawn]

Back from the hair restoration center -

Here is the news - I am on a regiment of shampoo and goo for the next few months and as soon as January will hopefully buy a laser...to help stimulate hair folicles to grow thicker...I have probably not lost more than 10% they said...but all the stress etc...has caused blood to flow to other areas of the body...with all the infections my body is concentrating on the kidney...so blood flow stops going to where it is needed less...which is the hair...they said that is why gastric bypass people loose so much hair...your body is in shock and the body foccusses on what matters most and hair is not viewed as important...

They showed me healthy hair on my head...versus the sicker skinny ones...and I will let you know the result after a few months...The laser is the key to faster success...and I know a lady on the radio that I listen too all the time that went there and has had great results...one can hope...

Not trying to be vain...but the thinning hair sucks and I will fight it with what I can...in fact she likened it to ones health and diet...that fighting it is a daily battle and if you are predispositioned to this effect on your body...you need to be aware of it just like food...and that not all things work for everyone...just like WW, Jenny Craig etc...might work but not for all people...


Enough on that - plus the great news..I can add low lights to my hair...nothing to take it away - only to add...so no ore blond for awhile...but that is okay aslongas I have hair...

 

[HockeyKat]

How 'bout a nice Chocolate Mousse cake....choc cake, choc. mousse, choc. buttercream frosting....I have a killer recipe

Recipe... NEED recipe. I can always add the irish cream. I esp want to see the mousse part. No buttercream frosting... hate the stuff. I am a hodgepodge cook, and tend to wing it from reading different recipes.

Hi everyone...

Just got back from the pool... had a great workout, but man will I feel it tomorrow since I haven't been to the pool in a week...

All went well at JC - lost 3 pounds this week... yeah!!!!

Job wise, I was told that I have a job and will continue to have a job for the forseeable future. Basically, I am on a protected list where even if things totally tank with the state, my company will find a place for me. My company boss explained that the big wig from the state doesn't really say what he means so it would explain my confusion. My company boss had just left a meeting with the state big wig and had received the list of those to be protected and I was very much on it. So, life is good for now...

Now, I just need to pack for my trip, cook a holiday dinner and get my desk cleared off at work within the next seven days and I can officially go on vacation...

OK - back to our regular scheduled posts...

Talk to you all in the morning... I am off to sleep.
Paula

PAULA!! Awesome weight loss, and soooooo happy to hear the news about your job.

Erika - you are too funny...

I am awake and already dealing with problems at work... I'll check in later...

Kat - How's your friend's mom?

Paula

Thanks for asking. Unfortunately, there will be no getting better, it is just a death vigil now. The cancer has spread through every part of her body and she has moved to hospice care with a morphine drip for the pain. I haven't heard anything from my mom yet so I am assuming she is still hanging on... but from what I know of the situation, she will be in a better place and no longer in pain anymore. She is in her 70s (I think? my parents are and I think they are the same age range) and has lived a full life, but it is sad to see it taken away. And yes, she is someone that I know well, she and her husband have been friends of the family for as long as I can remember. It is especially sad to me as it makes my own parents mortality that much more real... makes me realize that a few times a year to see them is just not enough, you know?


Okay, sad stuff over. I went to the flybynight gym today to take the lunchtime kickboxing class and it was AWESOME. Only 3 of us in the class and the instructor teaches phys ed at Duke, so it was like having a personal trainer. So, I signed up. For $149 a year, the classes alone make it worth it.

Nancy, I didn't leave work until after 8 last night and had to go shopping, so I missed the BodyCombat. I may still take it tomorrow night if I get enough of my t-giving cooking done tonight. I will let you know how it goes.

Steph, I still owe you a box of 16s.

Also, does anyone need size 12 jeans? My friend Marilyn gave me a bunch but a few of them are too short for me. They are not what I would call "fashion-forward" but they are definitely servicable.

Food for yesterday:
B: Coffee
L: 1.5 cups pumpkin soup (90), ff hot dog (120)
S: 100 cal pack blueberry muffins, banana (90)
D: 1 over-easy egg (75), 1 hunk bread (100), 1 bag ff popcorn (200), 2 fosters (300)

Total, 1075. Exercise, none (unless you count 1.5 hours at the walmart shopping). Water, 64 oz.

 

[DisneyWorld Delight]

Thanks for asking. Unfortunately, there will be no getting better, it is just a death vigil now. The cancer has spread through every part of her body and she has moved to hospice care with a morphine drip for the pain. I haven't heard anything from my mom yet so I am assuming she is still hanging on... but from what I know of the situation, she will be in a better place and no longer in pain anymore. She is in her 70s (I think? my parents are and I think they are the same age range) and has lived a full life, but it is sad to see it taken away. And yes, she is someone that I know well, she and her husband have been friends of the family for as long as I can remember. It is especially sad to me as it makes my own parents mortality that much more real... makes me realize that a few times a year to see them is just not enough, you know?

It isn't enough.

 

[3DisneyKids]

Hi all--just cruising through without much to say really. J is home, which is not bad, but I have my routine, you know? And he mucks that all up so I haven't gotten around to doing a fraction of what I need to. Just means another late night tonight. Whatever.

I did, however, manage to escape for a bit and get a pedicure! Priorities and all that.

Now I am off to Cammie's parent-teacher conference, so that is good. LOVE conference time! I know, I am a freak that way, but I really get to know my kids' teachers and make them friends, etc. My girlfriends all laugh at me b/c when we are putting in requests for the next year's teachers for our kids, I always am like, "Hmmmm....who would be really cool to hang out with?" Cause I just HAVE to be friends with them.

And Kat...no, it isn't enough. It is exactly why we moved my parents from NY up here 5 years ago and also why we just bought the lake house (10 minutes from J's parents). Watching your parents age is tough.

More later.

 

[lisaviolet]

Hi everyone,

I'm way too tired to catch up. I'm really just tired. I am going to rent that BWV Bview NY week reservation. Look how I have to see it one last time in print. I'm very saddened. But it just wouldn't be responsible of me to go. I'm saddened because as I booked it day by day it was like playing the slots. And things were fine here then. And I saw it as a light at the end of a lot of emotional work ahead of me. Well I'm smiling thinking of how far I've come so that's a good thing. A lot of big decisions are necessary very soon. I"m very tired.

Anyway - Erika - I'll send the email address.

And I so smiled and laughed in a cute way when you said about looking at food with the last pesky weight. I hear ya. Especially at this age, eh? You know what - when and if that happens here that weight/place will have a name. And the name will be goal weight. I'm so laughing. But steadfast. It will be for me. I decided a long time ago that if I'm exercising in a way I like and can keep up and I'm not emotionally overeating - eating consciously - well wherever that takes me weight wise will be it. It will be it even if I perceive I should be any smaller. And I've grown to like size and even softness. Really. I'm so talking to myself here folks.

Paula - so flippin' happy to hear about your job. So happy. It brought a huge smile to my face.

The parents conversation is making me cry. (Kat - I'm sorry ) I so longed to be in Vancouver. I love Vancouver. And other things besides my family kept me from not moving. I do believe in having one's life. But now I'm glad. I have a great adult relationship with my parents - because I had to push through some emotional issues with the. And now my mom either has had mini-strokes or has Alzheimer's. Time will tell - unfortunately. Jean and I looked after her mother for years with Alzheimer's and it wiped us out. It was so sad on so many levels. And now I'm struggling with the next set of decisions I make. What do I choose. My mom is fully functional in a way - but something is very wrong. And six years ago I called it and did everything under the sun to get her early help. Everything. And crap from her - crap from others. Of course - real love comes with crap sometimes. That's just it. Too long of a story. But my Mom knows I love her deeply because of what we had to face. And she chose to be in denial. And for some professionals to be idiots. And it is her choice to do so. It's her life to live. But time has shown me right - unfortunately. But I cry for her future. And I cry for my father's future to live with it. They are social beyond what one can imagine. So flippin' social butterflies. So I know it's coming up in her 45 year Euchre group, her curling, her friends, her daily choices of what to do and say, everything. And because I lived it with Mama - Jean's mom I know the road that might be coming. And I'm sorry if this is blasphemy but sometimes I hope something will take her soon. But I'm glad she has me. Totally.

Crap.

Steph - I wanted to say this. You posted this week about how much more you want to lose? Are you sure there? When I saw the number I went "what?'. You totally don't look like you need to lost that. Really.

Dawn - it is completely normal to have many feelings about your hair. Completely. I'm so glad to hear that you're getting some answers.

Hope everyone is having a much better day than I........

 

[amykab]

Paula, great news on the job!

Kat,

Lisa, Hope you have a better day tomorrow.

Lyz, Erika, Liz, Dawn, Steph,Nancy

Food for today:
B:Cheerios and Banana
L:Tunafish (no bread), a few small pickles
D:baked chicken, salad
Snacks: A few of DD's small organic cookies, fruit snacks

Drinks, 80 oz water, 1 diet pepsi with and one without caf. Skinny coffee.

Exercise, 25 minutes of pilates/crunches.

have a good night ladies!!

 

[3DisneyKids]

Can I just say WHAT are they thinking?!?!? Why do Heba and Vicky get to stay?

Oh, I just get infuriated each week. Michelle has to win. HAS to.

Ok, enough of that.

Lisa--sorry you are feeling blue.

 

[SeptemberGirl]

I know. I hate Heba and Vicky. Oh, Vicky! EVIL.

Ok, I weigh in tomorrow and there are currently no books for me to read, so I will try to be on like a good girl.

Night!

 

[goofyfan-12]

Spent the night cooking and cleaning for my sister's birthday and am way tired...

Just wanted to send hugs and best wishes to Lisa My heart goes out to you for what you are going through... I amsending good thoughts and prayers your way...

Paula

 

[AKASnowWhite]

Can I just say WHAT are they thinking?!?!? Why do Heba and Vicky get to stay?

Oh, I just get infuriated each week. Michelle has to win. HAS to.

Ok, enough of that.

Lisa--sorry you are feeling blue.

OH CRAP! I was at work (just got home moments ago) and MISSED IT. It's recorded, so I will watch ???? Tomorrow maybe ? But now I know that STUPID VICKY WHOM I DESPISE is still there.

Kat - is it too late to email you the choc mousse cake?


to everyone. Sorry no personal "hellos", etc...but I'm exhausted. I had 120+ pies of various kinds on my work list today - about the same tomorrow. I need sleep...

 

[DISNEY4XMAS]

Hi everyone,


Steph - I wanted to say this. You posted this week about how much more you want to lose? Are you sure there? When I saw the number I went "what?'. You totally don't look like you need to lost that. Really.

Lisa let me just say thanks and for that comment but if you ever notice that my pictures are mostly from the shoulders up that is because I EXPOLD from the ****s down! Last year at this time I was a 42 DDD. I am now down to a 40 D. I still have a huge behind well a spare tire it runs right around my lower middle. I swear if it could just be cut off I would be in a 12! And Be happy with that! That weight is the Healthy recommended (my ****) weight! But really that is where I would like to get that is where I was before I had KIDS! I know I will never be that person again.. Not after having three kids and one being over TEN pound! The hips are moved and skin is stretched! There is NO going back to that look but to the weight it is possible and I will do it... someday! Not today not this week but someday I will get back there and everyday is a day I take one step closer to making that DAY a reality!

SO I also found another source of my extra calories Umm that bottle well BOX o Wine is almost empty! I just bought it two weeks ago! It's 5 liters! And It's all mine!

I can't wait for my brother to come up! This as I said will be his first time seeing the house! Of course he is a contractor and will find every flaw but Oh well I am just excited for him to be here!

I have spent two days WHINING at work I just got the December schedule and I knew I would have to work Christmas but my ogre boss lady has me working Monday wednesday thursday friday Sat and Sunday of that week. I swear if I could quit I would and then I stop and think I took ten days off last year and screwed someone out of having the time off to but HEY I WENT TO DISNEY! When I worked on the floors my boss there if you worked on Christmas day than you got christmas eve off which was FAIR! This Boss lady is by the books! Union doesn't stipulate that if you work a major holiday then you should get a day off before or after it to compensate! The joys of working in the medical field!

As for thanksgiving dinner today with Tyler! I dreaded the food because it reminds me of cat food the moist can type. Slivers of meat in a gravy. THis year they moved to chunks of meat in the gravy poured over mashed potatoes, corn, a biscuit and cranberry sauce. It actually was pretty good! mmmm I can't wait for thanksgiving dinner now! We are frying the turkey... Yes not the best for calories but boy does it taste good!

Oh Kat sorry to hear about your parents friend! It isn't fun when people age! and yes a few times a year isn't enough .. I know this because I live away from most of my family and its hard for me to get down there to see them. Really my Step mother is getting up there in age and I think I would be truly devastated if anything happened to her. I have been down there only a few times this year and two of them were only for a few hours as I stopped by!

Paula great Job on the loss! I think I found it though!

Oh got a call from the orthopedics' assistant tonight, he feels that if it isn't bothering her than she should be fine .. I felt like saying UMMM wouldn't be there if it was bothering her! So I need to call tomorrow and schedule her surgery! THey said that she would be on crutches for about two weeks and I said Great I can see broken bones! The child is less than graceful and to take a leg/ foot away from her is just plain dangerous! She is have to remain off the leg for about a week so he said to plan on it for a week that there is no school! ( hhhmmmmm solves my christmas work week!) I will have to wait and see if there is any openings for surgery that week! she and Every other kid will be trying to get in that week!
Have a good night everyone!

 

[DISNEY4XMAS]

Kat - is it too late to email you the choc mousse cake?


:

NOPE you can email it to me too! Because that sounds mmmmmm goood

 

[HockeyKat]

Nancy, please do. I haven't made it yet, that is on tap for tomorrow night.

Lisa, Alzheimers is a hard road. We have had some of that in our family and like you said, sometimes you do just wish for something to take them before it gets to the point that they are just a shell.

God, I am sore.

Finished the pumpkin cheesecake (in the oven) and fried the sausage and chopped the onions and celery for the stuffing. So tomorrow night is baking the layers for the mousse cake and making the mousse, and making the MIL stuffing to put in the bird at like a$$-thirty AM on Thurs. Mashed potatoes, oysters, and rest-of-family stuffing will be made on Thurs AM as well as the cake assembly. Whee!

Food for today:
B: Half english muffin (55), coffee
L: salad (100), 2 cups pumpkin soup (120), 1 bitesized Baby Ruth (35)
D: 2 pita pizzas (280), one quesadilla (310)

Total, 900 (will likely have 1/2 cup ice cream to bring it to 1030). Exercise, 1 hour kickboxing class. Water, 64 oz.

 

[BrcsDisneyPrncs]

Morning everyone, i haven't had a chance to ready yesterday's posts, but i wanted to hop on on my way out the door, to say happy thanksgiving to anyone who might be headed out (or won't be online) for the holiday

Travel safely!

 

[3DisneyKids]

Wow, I didn't have a chance in HELL of waking up the thread this morning! You did get up early, Stacey!

I am up earlier than usual as well. Why? Well, remember yesterday I stated that when J is home he mucks up the routine? So this morning he wakes me up so that I can get the kids ready for school (he is always the first one up in the house). So I start my drill seargent routine getting the kids up and dressed and ready for school (yes, they have had school all week...half day today)...only to find out that he woke me up 45 minutes early.

Why? "I thought you would like more time in the morning so you weren't so rushed..." No, I would like more SLEEP in the morning. As would the kids. So now we are sitting around for half an hour waiting until it is time to go out and get the bus. MEN!

I'm in the kitchen all day today, so I will pop in and out.

 

[amykab]

Morning everyone! just waking up here...DD is still sleeping. which means I should be getting out of bed and doing one of the 5 million things I need to do before MIL gets here tonight, but instead I am sitting here online.

I've got a bit of cooking/baking to do today, organizing DD's clothes so that her room looks good, laundry, a wog to the post office and about 4 million other things.

Steph, That's alot of days in a row for working I always got stuck working holidays when I was in the lab. Of course I was single, no kids and no family nearby, so I didn't mind too much. I worked 3rd shift and they counted the wednesday before thanksgiving the holiday, so I worked that a couple times and flew home to vermont on thanksgiving itself. Same with christmas. I'd volunteer to work xmas eve and fly home xmas day. Working a holiday on 3rd shift was very profitable though. $$$$. Time and a half plus shift diff, plus if you had tons of PTO you could add another 8 hours to your total.

Kat, all your cooking sounds so yummy!

Safe travel to anyone going anywhere!

Amy

 

[DisneyWorld Delight]

only to find out that he woke me up 45 minutes early.

Why? "I thought you would like more time in the morning so you weren't so rushed..." No, I would like more SLEEP in the morning. As would the kids. So now we are sitting around for half an hour waiting until it is time to go out and get the bus. MEN!

Goodness. In my house this is grounds for, well something big. I need, N.E.E.D., my morning sleep.

So I think I have finally caught up with my life. Yaay. I made my meeting last night with my ducks in a row. My Thanksgiving grocery shopping is done and I even got a batch of Chex Mix made last night.

This afternoon, couple errands and Mol is getting a haircut. Then I will catch up here. It's hard when you get behind here. The thread keeps on a movin'.

Speaking of men...the girls got out of school yesterday early. I picked them up and brought them to the office. We hold the H&G Show meetings in my office. So I told hubs to take the girls home and get them dinner on the way.

That way after my meeting I could go to Walmart and not rush home with dinner.

I find out later them to the Cozy. A local BAR!!! for dinner.

Now he did this because he wanted to "shock" me.

Here's the funny part. I am just glad they were fed and I didn't have to take care of it.

Course I acted "shocked" so we are all happy. MEN!

 

[DisneyWorld Delight]

YouTube - 12 Days - Straight No Chaser

I so enjoyed this.

 

[3DisneyKids]

Now it is your turn to shock HIM. And you know what I am talking about! (And, no, I will never pass up an opportunity! HA!)

4.5 miles...2.5 of it with Liz.

Off to Karen's to finish the desserts for tomorrow (she is the professional baker). She also made me a cake for my birthday, which I am sure will be too gorgeous to eat, which is a good thing.

 

[3DisneyKids]

YouTube - 12 Days - Straight No Chaser

I so enjoyed this.

I LOVE these guys...I saw it last year for the first time and showed it to everyone! Thanks for bringing it here!