age 45-50 group. Anyone interested?

I have looked for twins and poked around other groups without finding a real support group.

I am 48, 5'5", SW 151, CW 134, GW 128

I am the school teaching mother of three in their upper teens, wife of my 3 lbs from goal hubby.

SO...

Anyone interested?

Lucy, I am so sorry for your loss.  Connie said it best, I think.  I won't repeat it.  Just take care of yourself and take one day at a time.  God Bless you and your family.  ((((HUGS))))

Thanks so much for all the support though this time.  Mother had a beautiful funeral if such a thing can be beautiful.  Tomorrow we are packing up her personal belongings and deciding what to do with them.  She led a very simple life because she gave all her money to others in need so it will mostly be clothes.  It's like pulling off a bandaid, better to do it quickly to keep the pain from lasting longer.  Hopefully will be back losing soon.  The after dinner did not help today. 

Hi Everyone!

Lucy, I hope that you made it through the weekend with peace in your heart. I know working will do some good in helping get your mind in another place if only for awhile. I have talked and thought of you and your family all weekend long. I wouldn't worry about the losing weight problems for a bit. Hugs to you and your family. Maybe soon I will ramble you into some laughter K?

Ok girls on another note I was reading about this cinnamon and honey diet aide...It says you just boil a cup of water pour it in glass add a half teaspoon of powdered cinnamon and then add a teasppon of honey (after it cools). You drink half before breakfast and then the other half before dinner and or bedtime.... This is supposed to help decrease your appetite somehow...I thought yeah sure but then saw something on GMA about cinnamons effects on decreasing hunger so now I am curious, I mean what could it hurt to try it. I don't usually go for these kind of things but wondered if any of you have heard of this before? 

Have a good week everyone!

Hi Connie,

You got a smile out of me so that's a start.  Hehe  Cinnamon is good for you but I've never tried that.  I've felt all the good thoughts and prayers. 

Hi, I joined this site yesterday, I am 46yrs old, from Calliope in Queensland Australia and weigh in the super sized heavy weight category. My daughter is nearly 17yrs old. I am a single mum of one --- live in a rural setting and work as a massage therapist part time. Want to regain my life style of fun, freedom and doing what I want when I want. I don't have great mobility or self confidence just now - am aiming to change that. Hi Connie - my thoughts go to you - Megs x

Hi Meg! Welcome! I love your accent! Well just knowing you are Austrailian. I have always loved the accent! Um I think you meant Lucy was in your thoughts BUT I must say if you notice the time it is 4 a.m. here and I was awakened to water rushing wildly in my bathroom...I got up to find that the knob that actually CUTS THE WATER OFF had popped, busted, oh hell, whatever happened long story short I have a flooded bathroom, carpet,every towell I own is soaked, I am finally dry myself but shaking like a leaf in the wind. I grabbed the pipe with a large towel and then soon realized I had no way to cut it off inside so ran to the phone called my brother that only lives down the street and well an hour later all my water is cut off and I am a nervous wreck. I don't know if my insurance covers such things and I of course am not working due to taking care of my Mom and don't really know what I am gonna do if Allstate doesn't pay for it. I just want to cry. I know that I have quite a mess right now and am in such a state of mind I had to get on my laptop and write to my girls and grumble and cry! The cats are all looking at me "saying" Mom why are you washing the inside of the house....must be time to play....fight....meow....and walk on the towels...CAUSE THEY'RE ALL SQUISHY!!!!!!!  My Mom has doctor appts. tomorrow well um later TODAY and I am going to go crazy before it even hits daylight......ok thanks for listening ladies...can't say I actually feel better but I guess some. I always try to be an optimist so I am thinking Thank you GOD that I was home...my whole house would have been flooded in no time if not! Pray for me girls......I need a nerve pill at this point! 

Connie

Oh my dear Connie.... sounds horrendous!!  I hope your insurance will cover it for you - don't see why they shouldn't.  I had a somewhat similar experience several years ago, except I was on holiday and my next door neighbour discovered the problem.  Nightmare for them.  We lived in a townhouse and the neighbours spotted water on our patio, under the front door.  Luckily they had a key (to water plants, etc) and let themselves in, only to discover our water tank had leaked (rusty apparently) and water was over the whole of our dowstairs - carpeted living room, tiled dining and kitchen.  They had to deal with all the mess and get carpet steamcleaners in, etc.  Luckily most big items were saved, but I lost several boxes of papers, family photographs etc.  We did claim insurance for a small amount, they covered it okay!! 

Thinking about you...and whilst this is a catastrophe, at least you and the cats are all safe and okay!  Hang in there girl.......

Oh Connie - this sounds terrible!!!! I hope all dries out and your insurance pays up - mine would!!!

can relate to the pill thing - am suffering panic/anxiety and am trying the perimenopausal thing drug free - i really have my days!!!!

give the cats a mop each - lol - they can earn their dinner cleaning up!!! if only!!!! my dogs would look at me like i was mad and the cats would scat to the stables!!!!!

i hope your mums appointments go good and you get a good nights sleep tonight :) keep in touch --- it is so hard to keep on track food wise when life turns to crap hey!!!!!!

Well girls I had such a horrible day that I did the ultimate bad thing. You know Pizza Hut has the deal on a large Pizza for $10.....well.....I just polished it off this morning. I told you guys how I am when stressed and boy was I stressed and still am. Today is the 5th anniversary of when my Daddy died and I tell ya it really doesn't get easier you just manage your emotions a bit better. So anyway I had planned on watching a movie and getting lunch with my poor little Mom but as it is I have to wash and dry about 1000 towells that I used to suck up water until I got the wet/dry vac but I swear the towells did more...anyway I left a fan going all night long and this morning it is still very damp. I know this all will have to be replaced if nothing else Mold could develop and thats all I need with Asthma.  I am so sore from all that freezing cold water so my hands neck back and legs are killing me this morning.....THIS TO SHALL PASS... right ladies? lol

Lucy hope all is well with you hon. Even with all this FUN I am dealing with I do have you on my mind.

Oh Meg about the menopause, I think I am now over it. *crossing fingers* I haven't had a hot flash or a night sweat in months....good luck with that believe me I truly understand and I also did it hormone free. I did go on paxil I know that sounds odd but it really helped.

Suz, You are right about the best thing is  that we are all ok ! It is tuff and stressful when this sort of thing happens. I was thinking yesterday about the families that lose they're homes to floods tornadoes and such. Bless them all for being strong and restarting they're whole lives from nothing. At times I feel so weak the way I let things stress me out so very badly. Like I said before it definitley could have been worse...what if I had not been home! 

Ok friends I am through rambling and hope to be back soon with something amusing and carefree to chat about!

Love ya all!

soggycatwoman!

Hey Connie,

We managed to salvage our carpets - honestly, no mould or smells!  we actually lifted the carpet loose and put a couple of buckets underneath to prop it up off the floor and then used a couple of large fans and  ran a dehumidifier solidly for about 2 days...it worked!  Of course we then had to get a carpet fitter in to fix it down again, but much better than having to replace the whole thing....

I hope you and your mom can find some time today to remember your dad together, enjoy some good memories...i still think of mine, (and kind of talk to him silently!) every day...as you said, it's not easy.

Lucy, hope you are doing okay too, I know the hurt is still very strong at this stage, for you.

Hello to anyone else who is checking in, but not "chatting to us".... Tammy?  You doing okay?

Oh Connie! so sorry about your flood...no fun...hope things are back on track...

Oh Connie,

I give the best hugs and am sending you one now - I am a super sized girl and my hugs are warm and nurturing. I still have my Dad and don't know what I'll do when he goes - he is seventy next year and my daughter just adores her poppy - she has always said he is more of a dad to her than her father......

I am thinking of you with your carpets and Lucy with her lost ----

my anxiety has been high these last few days - cruel things said by 'friends' thinking you 'need to know' but only than give part of the 'need to know' information!!!!!!!!!! am over it- am over perimenopausal anxiety...didn't even want to swim today but did and am glad i did. one of my best mates came up for a visit yesterday and will stay for a while --- which is great - he will help get a few things tidies up around the place....

Well - you take care - put the pizza behind you and pick up and move forward - stress is a bugger - take care.

cheers

Megs

Hi! I'm here!  I always check in, just don't always have something to say.

Connie, hope you're all dried up now! LOL  That same thing happened to me in our old house and it was terrible.  I also used a dehumidifier and that dried things up quickly.  Dont think twice of the pizza. So what!  It is what it is.

Lucy, sure hope you're doing ok.  I know its so hard.  Thinking of you. :)

Today I weighed in at 184.4.  I am getting back down again.  I've stayed on track for 9 days and I'm proud of myself.  I'm writing the numbers on my calendar for everyone to see. So I sure don't want to put a "1" back up there bc I messed up.

Hope you all are well.

Tammy

Hi,

I'm meg's from Australia and just writing to say good on you and you should be proud of yourself.

cheers

megs

Thanks Meg!  I've made it thru today....Day 10!  :)

Going for my MRI on Tuesday, will probably get the results the following week bc of Thanksgiving.  I know I've gotten worse just want to know how much worse my back is.  :(  Hope I can lay on that hard table long enough. 

Hi,

good luck - i go to the doctor Tuesday - he will say - lap-band - i don't want it - but i want referral to gyno and endocrinologist to see why hormones and anxiety are bad - food wise not too bad today - anxiety levels way up than fine --- over it!!!!!

it's Friday here - weekend here we come - you have a good one.

cheers

megs

Well, my dd and her bff got approved for their apt!  Move in is Dec 18th.  One out, one to go! LOL  Now they want my furniture!  Sheesh!  They are going through my cupboards looking for what they can take!  I gotta watch 'em!  They'll have everything and I won't have a pan to cook with! LOL  I'm so happy for them though.  So is my son.  He says he has a vacation spot now.  ;)

Hope you all are doing well......weekend is here!!! YAY!!!!

Giggle ---- watch the toilet paper - that might vanish as well!!!!!! We swam this morning - so nice ...... than crappy anxiety ---- need to get back to my head space of a few years ago ----- going to breakfast tomorrow at the beach --- will be excellent with good friends and my daughter....

have a great weekend......

Oh Meg I envy you...going to breakfast at the beach!!! That sounds so relaxing! I am feeling better since "the flood" but not with my weight I am up 3 lbs. I just can't get myself back on track and I think I am in trouble with the holidays coming and all........

I hope everyone is having a great weekend. I am still FANNING my bathroom and hoping for the best!!

Will check back in later!

hI - gotta say the early moorning swim at the pool followed by breakfast at the beach on this hot, sunny Queensland day was perfect and just what the doctor ordered :)

Weight issues suck and my fluid got no better in the heat - i am reading a new book and trying to stay positive and embrace all so as to see it all in a positive light - than the fluid will go - weight will go down and over the next year i won't have to sit at the lovely table watching my friends go down onto the beach - i will join them :)

i have decided to embrace and love the change i am experiencing - it is making me a wiser, even more beautiful woman :)

keep fanning - just think - if it was here - all would be smelly and mouldy by now :)

cheers

megs x