Just before the cake is cut (That's Riley on the right with his good friend Will.)
Candles on fire
Riley and I cutting the cake (with a couple of friends looking on)
His birthday was at the Funstation. It's a great place for the kids to make noise while they work off all the excess energy. The play area goes right up the roof.. those little yellow table and chairs where we sit give you an idea of how high the kids can go. And it's fully enclosed, so there's no chance of an accident. This is only one section of the play area.
I have had a couple of NSV's this weekend too. I was dropping off two brothers from the party and saw a friend who I hadn't seen for a few weeks. She looked at me and said: have you gotten thinner since I saw you last? I hadn't but it was nice to hear. Then another friend said the same. She was going on about how great I look. Kinda nice to hear! And with both I fessed up about my weight loss secret. My first friend went: huh? What's that? so I spent some time expaining (she thought it was cool. She wants to lose weight too.) The second works with Gail (the woman who got me started on this whole lap band journey) so she knew all about it.
I have been trying to stick to the weeks do's and don'ts I set myself for the past few days. I have drunk more water, I have been moving quite a lot (though still haven't managed to get out there and walk.. ) and have been handling the food side of things really well. So it shouldn't have surprised me that I had a loss today. It did though. Usually when I bound out of bed I feel lighter and I think to myself: Okay, I'm pretty sure I will have lost this week and 99 percent of the time I'm right. This morning I felt heavy. Tired and heavy (due to a busy weekend). But I jumped on anyway and lo and behold. I'm down! Whooo.
I seem to have a funny system to dropping weight... I read Lady Lap Band's blog this morning and she metioned that she drops weight exactly the same way. I seem to stagnate for a bit, then put a little on, then have significant drop. Perhaps she's right. Perhaps it's hormones. Not sure... but whatever it is, it's happening that way a lot of the time and I think I'm starting to find a rythym. I think..... lol
I was driving back from dropping my son off at school this morning and I found my mind wandering. I started thinking about my band and how eternally grateful I am that I have it. I don't, for a single second, regret getting it in. There's been once or twice when I have watched my family put the food away and I have stopped eating (at about a quarter of what they have) and look at my plate and give a little sigh. But you know what? Within a few minutes I've completely forgotten what I was sighing about. I know now that I have to eat a little, then wait. If I'm still hungry I will go back and eat some more. But I haven't had to. That's not to say I'm not still expending huge amounts of willpower. Because I am. I know I've said this before but I don't have true restriction yet. I can still eat everything and I don't have to eat it slowly. The only way I even know I have the band is if I eat too much. Boy, do I feel it then. I was a bit of a slow learner in this department to start with, but I'm getting there. And fast. I just feel ill if I eat more than the pre-requisite amount.
We have been busy busy busy of late.. nothing new there. It's a good busy though. Getting this house ready for a sale is going to be a mammoth job. But slowly MOTH and I are making inroads. The back room is about 80 percent finished and we have completed a few other jobs that were on the list that we have just picked at. Still not finished by a long shot BUT getting there slowly. I just cant wait till the day we say: right.. we've done as much as we can.. let's get that appraisal done and get this donkey on the market. Whooo!! That's going to be a great day.
I just wanted to finish this post by saying thanks to all my wonderful blogging friends who pepped me up when I posted about my weight stall. You all mean the world to me, and your support and kind words make me go awwwwww. You're all so brilliant!! xxx
Cara, thanks for your comment - I appreciate the kindness. You're doing great too. It's weird, how we hold onto and drop weight. I'm back feeling good enough about everything that I'm excited to weigh myself in the morning, so that's gotta be progress! xox!
ReplyDeleteYour body does get into a bit of a rhythm with the weight loss :-)
ReplyDeleteWhen I get on the scales feeling really heavy that is often when I have a big loss (go figure) LOL
Cara, at least you get on the scales. You are doing very well and when you get down, you get right back up. Hang in there bloggin friend.
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ReplyDeleteYou are doing extremely well and I know from past weight loss experiences I had weeks like that to, plateau, gain, loss like I was on a merri-go-round! Maybe this will be your pattern too. Don't let it get you disheartened. You can totally tell the difference in your photos....and you look great!
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Cara- Yea!! I knew you'd break that plateau. You look great at the party - we'll soon have to start a Hot Lap Band Moms club(you can be the first member). Have a great week.
ReplyDeleteYou look amazing!
ReplyDeleteOne of the things I love reading about your blog is how comfortable you feel in your own skin. It's inspiring to see someone post band who's just getting on with life and enjoying it so much more ;-)
BTW- looks like the bday party was a big hit! Yeay!
My weight loss pattern is very similar to yours, and I'm 56 and it's too late for me for it to have anything to do with hormones... That period of time when I go up by a couple of pounds is always bad for morale - I want to kick the wall and say snot fair. I do wonder though whether the flow of liquid through our bodies is more than just an in-and-out thing over a 24 hour period, or a hormonal thing over a month. Since I don't have the latter any more, I can discount it for myself, but I notice a pattern over a two week period, and I've never understood it. Time for someone to do a PhD about it!
ReplyDeleteThe NSV's are good for morale, aren't they? I surprised myself the other day in front of friends by bursting out with "Oh my God, I can cross my legs" and the realising how it sounded. But I hadn't crossed them for years, it was brilliant...
Caroline
Cara - sometimes we lose the "look" vs. weight... I think that is better sometimes! And I'm with you on eating a quarter of what your family does, and sighing... I miss the actual verb part of eating... but then I think, no I don't, and keep on doing what is right for me! Keep up the GREAT work! Love checking in and seeing where your journey is taking you.
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