Two more days!

At this time on Thursday morning, Steve will be driving me to the airport!  I am really excited about our weekend!  I just wish I was meeting up with Steph at the airport though, like last year :(  Oh well, I will have to wait a few more hours and I will be meeting up with Read and Linda at the airport on the other side!

I haven't started to pack yet but I think I have it figured out.  Suitcase is coming out today!  My dress is going to wrinkle and I am assuming that the hotel has some sort of dry cleaning service so I can have them iron it for me.  I'd do it myself but there are pleats involved!   I also have to remember to pack a separate bag for when I get home on Monday because we are heading straight to Disney for two nights with friends.

I am also excited that the weather is going to be on the cool/cold side.  We have not seen anything close to cold, or even cool, here in Florida.  I'm listening to the news now and its going to be 90 again today!  I am so over summer!

On the work front, I wrote a contract yesterday so lets hope that one, the bank accepts it and two, everything else can wait until next week when I get home!  I'd rather not have to worry about being on the phone all day on Friday negotiating or setting up inspections!  I know I probably just jinxed myself too.  The good thing is that Steve will be home and he is also a licensed agent so he can  handle most things that come up in my absence...he just would rather not have to!

On the weight front, I am still holding steady at 147-148...I am so happy that maintaining these last two months has really been easy.  I pray that will be the story for a very long time to come! I am still exercising 4-5 times on a good week and 3 on a bad one.  I know that for me, this is the key to losing the weight and now in maintaining it.  I plan on packing my exercise clothes and getting to the gym 2 times in Chicago and that will give me 4 visits this week.

I have to say that shopping for clothes has really become a pleasurable experience! I used to dread going clothes shopping and would get so discouraged about how I looked, assuming that I even found something that fit!  Now, the only frustrating part is not finding something that I absolutely love!  I am firmly into size 8's for jeans/pants (except for Levi's...size 10 there.  Damn Levi's!) and small/med shirts. My shoe size has even gone from a 7.5 to a 7 which baffles me because I've always had small feet but whatever.  I did buy a pair of boots in a 7.5 because I would be wearing heavier socks.

I was planning on going to the gym today but I'm fighting some thing in my throat/head and just don't feel up to it this morning.  I'm praying whatever it is, is gone or better by tomorrow.  I don't want to deal with flying with any congestion.  I will make sure I have plenty of decongestant meds though.  I ruptured my two ear drums on a plane once when I was sick....pain was worse than labor.

See you all soon!

Picture test

Brutus and his girlfriend Zena


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I'm still here!

I've just not been HERE!  We spent Monday and Tuesday of this week with Steve's Dad in Boynton Beach and I got to meet up with Stephanie Martin for  about an hour on Monday night!  

Here is Brutus wearing his baseball hat at Grandpa's.  Actually, he looks more like Little Bo Peep!

Monday started out with a visit to my doctor who is in Sebastian FL which is 100 miles south of my house and from there we continue for another 100+ miles to my FIL's house.  My doctor is so proud of my progress and I felt so good walking out of his office.  Its funny though, walking in I wasn't feeling too good because my scale went up a lb to 148!  Ridiculous, I know but I wanted so much to keep going down, not up!  The good news is, I am back to 147 today so I guess I am truly holding on in maintenance!

Of course with the upcoming trip to Chicago, my real estate business is getting very active.....want to be busy?  just plan a trip!  It happens every time!  I am not complaining, I am not complaining, I am not complaining.  Next Thursday, I will be seeing you all and I cannot wait!  I am so excited about it!

I am staying in Chicago until Monday and from Orlando airport, Steve and I are heading over to Disney for 2 nights with our friends who will be down from New York.  I will be getting home on Wednesday and than I have another trip on November 2-6 which will be in New York for my nieces Sweet 16.  It will definitely be a busy couple of months for us as we will also be going to NY for a week at Christmas AND Steve is trying to fit in a 3 night visit to Vegas between now and than!  Yikes!

Anyway, this weekend I will start to think about what to pack for Chicago.  Its so hard going into new seasons because I don't have anything that fits with the exception of a few sweaters from last year.  I have to buy a pair of black jeans (sorry Mallory, they are a staple in my closet!) and possibly another pair of black trousers.  Off to Macys I will go!  I got the sale flyers for Macy's and even Kohls has a pair of boots that have caught my eye....I will be going to both tomorrow in between showing some properties!

Have a great day!

Weigh Day

Goal = 150
today = 147

So far, so good!

Happy Friday everyone!

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Workout Wednesday! Let's get physical!

Even Brutus is

"getting physical!"

I know, I am a very sick girl dressing up my boy.  But hey, he let's me.  I was watching Real Housewives of Beverly Hills last night (I know, another sickness of mine) and the husband of one of the wives made a comment to another wife that "getting therapy was a sign of weakness"  to which she said "coming from a grown man who dresses his dog in Beverly Hills!"  I guess I'd fit right in with those Housewives, huh?  NOT!  I guess if therapy is a sign of weakness, I am very weak BUT I have a very stylish pupster!  Wait to you see him for Halloween!

Chicago is coming and I am getting so excited to see everyone!  It doesn't feel like a year has passed by but it has.  I cannot wait to reconnect with a lot of you ladies and make new connections.  We have such a diverse group and everyone brings something different to the table.  Bottom line is we all have "weight issues" as our common bond and everything else just grows from there!  

Have a great day....I am off to get my nails done and than off to work I go....hi ho, hi ho!

Weigh-in Day and a new/old dress

(actually, I weigh everyday but Fridays are special!)

Goal = 150

Todays weight = 147

I did eat a brownie today for lunch so I will probably be up 5 lbs tomorrow!  I chose to go dress shopping for Chicago instead of my usual lunch and that was the result.

I shouldn't be blogging this but it is an NSV so I have to....the dress I bought today is the same dress that I wore last year except for the color and size. I am a creature of habit...I loved the dress last year and loved it even more this year.   Last years dress was a black size 14.  This years dress is red size 8!!!!!!!  Holy macaroni! (or lack of macaroni is more like it!).  I tried it on for Steve and all he kept saying was "you are so skinny" and "you really look hot".  Oh boy....it really isn't easy for me to accept compliments even from him.  I kept pointing out the fact that the dress will look better with Spanx on and he didn't want to hear it!  He said "what do you need them for, looks great just like this."  I love that guy but I am still buying the Spanx!

BOOBs 2011 Fun Facts

Title: BOOBs 2011 Fun Facts!

1. How did you pick your blog name?  This was a no-brainer for me.  I am the most impatient person I know and I "Can't Wait" for anything!  My first Blog title therefore, was "Can't wait to lose it with the Band"....since my revision to VSG, I dropped the "with the Band" part!
2. When did you start blogging?  I started blogging after finding Catherines blog.  I was quite the stalker for a while.....I was reading Catherine and found Amy than Sarah and the rest is blogging history.
3. Theme of blog (weight loss, family, circus clowns, sci-fi, erotica, fly fishing, doll collecting, star wars, etc) My theme if you will, is mainly weightloss with a whole lot of family, every day thrown in.  
4. Did you go to BOOBs 2010?  I sure did and I had the best time!  I was so apprehensive about it as it was way out of my comfort zone...you know, flying half-way across the country to hang out with 50 strangers I met on the internet!  Actually, by the time of the trip, it was only 40 something strangers as I had met up with Stephanie (my great roomie by the way) Sarah, Amy, Maria, Grace and a few others at different times in Florida.
5. When were you banded?  I was banded in Mexico on March 24, 2010...great experience by the way.  Unfortunately, I had such a hard time with my band.  I would finally get restriction and BAM, my body would swell and the band would clamp down.  This started a cycle of fill/unfills.  I was unfilled more than I was filled actually.  Somehow, I still managed to lose 50 lbs with my band.  On June 20, I had my band removed and I had revision surgery to Vertical Sleeve Gastrectomy...VSG.  This was the way to go for me.  I was able to finally reach my goal of 150 and I am currently at 146!
6. How much have you lost?  With the band and VSG I have lost a total of 67 lbs.  However, prior to my band, I had lost 21 lbs so in total, I have lost 88 lbs!!!!!  That blows my mind.
7. What are you most looking forward to at BOOBs?  I can't wait to reunite with all the wonderful women I met last year and I cannot wait to meet new friends.
8. What/who do you hope to find/see/accomplish at BOOBs 2011?  I just want to go with an open mind and have a great time with a lot of great women!
9. Children? Pets?  I have two beautiful daughters, Mallory (she has recently started her own blog and I hope to have her join us for BOOBs 3.0!) and Jordan.  As for pets, I have my little Shi-Poo pupster, Brutus but please don't ever mention that he is a pet...he thinks he is human!
10. Who is your roomie?  I am rooming with Theresa and Vickie.  I am so looking forward to hanging with my girls!
11. What day do you arrive?  I am arriving at 10 am on Thursday and I will be meeting up with Stephanie, Dawnya and Read at he airport...how cool is that?
12. What airport/flight/time?  Midway
13. What events are you signed up for?  I am doing the walking tour at this time and will be getting in some shopping, EATING, and whatever else pops up!
14. Hobbies?  I have become a gym-rat over the past 12 months so I guess this counts as a hobby as it is something that I truly enjoy.  I am an avid Kindle reader.  I love shopping and spending time with my husband on his motorcycle and mostly, traveling.
15. Career?  In my former life, I was a Senior Vice President in Human Resources at a bank that I worked for 23 years.  Upon moving to FL, I became a Realtor and I love the flexibility it gives me for all my traveling.
16. Single? Married? In a relationship?  I am married to Steve, who also happens to be the love of my life.  To have found someone who not only fell in love with me, but who loves my daughters as if they were his own, was hitting the jackpot in my book!  We have been together for 5 years and married for almost 4.  
17. Your birthday month?  January
18. What do you want other BOOBs to know about you?  I have a very different outlook on life since May 11, 2010, the day my dad and brother-in-law were killed on their motorcycles.  Every single day I am reminded how lucky I am to have my husband with me. (he was with my dad and BIL but was thankfully unhurt)  I have learned the hard way that life is truly too short and you just never know what each day is going to bring.  That being said, I try to live life to the fullest.  I try to see the good/positive instead of the bad/negative in each experience.  Its not always easy, believe me.