How is weight loss for people over 50?

[green 6]

And I will let you know if I buy the jewellery. There is a Bracelet, 18K gold, a bangle which has two lizard's heads each of which are worked in a pave of rubies and diamonds. Some of the rubies are baguette. No really big stones but the workmanship is lovely and the bracelette as a whole is not petite. They will sell it to me for $6500 (plus I will have to pay 14% sales taxes) and the appraisal on it is close to $10 Gs. Furthermore, it would likely cost more to have it made now. The visual effect of the bracelet is quite opulent. Though the bracelet looks like a bangle it is hinged and the thing does fit loosely over my large and boney wrist.

Of course I have tons of funky chunky silver bracelets and of course I live a casual, messy lifestyle. This means that the bracelet will be only be worn with jeans, linen pants, capris, and baggy shirts and sweaters, eh.

My mum left me money when she died a couple of years back. It was this which has financed the lapband, the facelift and had decided me on opting for early retirement when my company offered me a retirement package. I can certainly afford this flash bit of jewellery. I guess I just find myself wondering if I am being sensible or a foolish greedy guts.

Money is such a complicated issue, isn't it? I have seen people who deny themselves the sweet pleasures of life in order to hoard the stuff and I have also seen people who pi$$ the stuff away on junk. In fact, I have seen this inside my own family! It is because of this that I have worked really hard to achieve some sort of balance in my own life: and so the house, the investments, and also the interesting experiences, the exotic trips. Nevertheless, I remain kind of neurotic about money issues. Thanks for allowing me to rattle on about this subject.

[phyllser 3]

Phyl - sounds like you need to trade in your man for a newer model, one that isn't as noisy. This one sounds like he's running awful loud.

Welcome newbies, and love your name, TitsL.

But I've spent 43 years "training" him!! He's not so bad. He was having a bad day yesterday.. Had to do with a son who is always calling us when he gets in a jam and wants money. So then I figured, since he was already mad, it was a good time to fess up about the shoes and that made it worse. He's okay today!

[NM Sunshine 1]

Phyl

Leaving a man after 43 years would be utterly stressful. If you have him trained some. It would be easier to train him a little more than trading up. I left mine after 37 rocky, stressful, conflict ridden years (and abuse). I had learned how to control the abuse some. We just lived parrallel lives. I finally got a divorce and it's been the 7 years of unbelievable stress. Just now the lawyers are finishing it off the settlement part, (the divorce was in early 2001). My children were hurt very badly over the whole thing. You just don't walk away undamaged from that many years of marriage. Also that damned divorce cost me $100,000+. :omg: yes, that is 6 figures!!!!!!

[Oregondaisy 2,021]

I made an appointment for a fill. I couldn't get in until the middle of Dec. I am going to really stress to him that I only want a small one.

There has to be a happy medium between being able to eat whatever I want, and throwing up all the time.

You would think that since I have had the band almost a year now, I would have that happy medium. I don't do well with being

able to eat anything or whatever portion I want. I want restriction!

[green 6]

But I've spent 43 years "training" him!! He's not so bad. He was having a bad day yesterday.. Had to do with a son who is always calling us when he gets in a jam and wants money. So then I figured, since he was already mad, it was a good time to fess up about the shoes and that made it worse. He's okay today!

If you put that much time into fixing him up then you are best off keeping him. And it does sound like he had good reason to run noisy. :cool:

[green 6]

Phyl

Leaving a man after 43 years would be utterly stressful. If you have him trained some. It would be easier to train him a little more than trading up. I left mine after 37 rocky, stressful, conflict ridden years (and abuse). I had learned how to control the abuse some. We just lived parrallel lives. I finally got a divorce and it's been the 7 years of unbelievable stress. Just now the lawyers are finishing it off the settlement part, (the divorce was in early 2001). My children were hurt very badly over the whole thing. You just don't walk away undamaged from that many years of marriage. Also that damned divorce cost me $100,000+. :omg: yes, that is 6 figures!!!!!!

A 100+Gs!!!! Oy vey! It sounds like you have been seeing some rough times, grrl! :cool: from Green.

[green 6]

I made an appointment for a fill. I couldn't get in until the middle of Dec. I am going to really stress to him that I only want a small one.

There has to be a happy medium between being able to eat whatever I want, and throwing up all the time.

You would think that since I have had the band almost a year now, I would have that happy medium. I don't do well with being

able to eat anything or whatever portion I want. I want restriction!

Be careful and keep us in the loop. :cool:

[phyllser 3]

Phyl

Leaving a man after 43 years would be utterly stressful. If you have him trained some. It would be easier to train him a little more than trading up. I left mine after 37 rocky, stressful, conflict ridden years (and abuse). I had learned how to control the abuse some. We just lived parrallel lives. I finally got a divorce and it's been the 7 years of unbelievable stress. Just now the lawyers are finishing it off the settlement part, (the divorce was in early 2001). My children were hurt very badly over the whole thing. You just don't walk away undamaged from that many years of marriage. Also that damned divorce cost me $100,000+. :omg: yes, that is 6 figures!!!!!!

I'm so sorry for what you went through. Really, most of the time mine is a peach. He does all the cooking, even the dishes, etc. Being a control freak, he thinks he's the only one who can do things the "right way"! So I just smile and let him! He doesn't dust and do bathrooms... YET!! :cool: Also, I tend to just VENT when I'm fed up with him, so you guys hear it all! I don't do well with keeping things to myself! And he doesn't have as much control as he thinks he has!! Like I said, if he only gives me a half glass of wine, I wait until he's not looking and go get my other half!!

[green 6]

I told my mate about the jewellery. We are gonna have a look at it together.:bounce:

[NM Sunshine 1]

green Thanks for the . Hardtimes, yep. But I'm preparing to throw it all into the past and get it on. :bounce:BTW that jewelry sounds beautiful.

PHYL A man who does the cooking and dishes is definately a keeper. My scale is in this crazy mode where it plays mind games with me every morning. Every day it is up a pound then the next back down a pound. This has been going on for a week. Last night told my man that he is going to have to do the cooking for himself.

[green 6]

Hah! Sounds like it is time for a gang meeting, eh. Bras and shoes on or off?

And for sure the gang is going to have to meet south of the Canucki border. You folks have the better climate, and now you even have the better buck! (And Green has never, ever eaten true BBQ. *Please note that Green is 58 years old, eh, and isn't going to live forever.* lol)

[ingyrob 1]

green how are your new lips? Are you pleased with them? Can you sting like a bee with them?

[green 6]

green how are your new lips? Are you pleased with them? Can you sting like a bee with them?

Why, I swear I could pass for a drag queen with these babies! :heh: The downside is that these suckers are all about false advertising. :phanvan

[southerngal_07 0]

Hey everybody, I am so excited. My date for my lapband surgery is fast approaching. Its two weeks from today. I am a bit nervous but still excited.

[CAROL99 0]

Do you have a pre-op diet???

If so what is it?

Thanks...Carol