Wow. I've been out of touch with the holidays and everything. This group has had a lot going on. Prayers for all, seems a lot of us need them. And congratulations on the new little one!! What a joy, and at Christmas.

I've been recovering, and was super busy getting things ready for Christmas. I have the whole family in for dinner on Christmas. What a joy. That was the best gift ever. Having my family and my husbands family here and being all together!!!! I hope everyone else had a wonderful Christmas!!

Weight wise, I'm not holding my breath. I've been experimenting with different foods, see what I can eat and all. Weight has gone up and down. Once all this good food is gone out of the house I think things will be much better. Right now I feel ok, but I have days of nausea and days of running to the bathroom and bad cramping. Hoping that gets better and isn't going to be the norm. I won't be back to work until January 11th, as my doc won't release me till the 8th, then I have to get cleared through Occ. Health at work, and my next shift day would be the 11th. What a long vacation I get to recover. I'm trying to enjoy it to the fullest. Today a couple friends and I are going to the movies and then dinner. Tomorrow I'm going to PA shopping!! Then I think while it's snowing I'll be sewing on Saturday.

Have a wonderful day Ladies!!!!

CHQ glad to hear you had a wonderful Christmas. It is great getting the whole family together. Hope you are feeling better soon. After i had my gallbladder out I had trouble with roughage- I couldn't eat too much salads or vegetables for a while. I hope you digestion issues settle soon.

Good Morning ladies........wow where has this month gone. I had a great Christmas, went to Houston the weekend before Christmas to spend with my son and daughter in law. She graduated on Friday with her bachalors degree in English Lit from the Univ. of Houston. We had her celebration on friday night, then had our christmas on Saturday......with my son taking me with him to finish up his Christmas shopping for his wife. DIL made homemade lasagna and a salad of course with garlic bread. And yes I only had 2 drinks with dinner. We then went to Moody Gardens for their christmas light display.

Came home on Sunday afternoon so I could spend CHristmas with mom and dad. Best thing that happened is we had the first white christmas in about 20 yrs. It snowed here in dallas on christmas day. It was great.........glad it is gone. Roads were cleared up when I had to go to work.

I will be posting the new thread over the weekend. Everyone please join us again.

Now to finish getting ready for work. Have a great day.

yeap, me tooo everyone. glad all the sweets are out of the house. got on the scales, and i can live with it. up a couple lbs, but it'll settle off in a couple days. i've read, that when sugar is in your body, it just makes you crave more. it sings to you all the time--'more, more, more'. I have an egg allergy, so a lot of the baked goods are off limits to me, but believe me, when i say that i know what doesn't have eggs in it.
hubby wanted a loaf of home made bread, so it's in the bread maker. hope i can stick to just one slice. when we went to n.c. my daughter later informed me, that she had had her best week at WW even tho, we were there, and it had been christmas time. Little did she know, that it had been on purpose. when i cooked, i baked a chicken, and had cooked a head of fresh cauliflower and made green beans.(no southern grease in them,etc.) and of course others stuck their noses up at the fresh caulif. and dug into the mashed potatoes, and homemade biscuits. sooo, she and i had lots of caulif. for us. :thumbup:
CHQ--glad you are healing.:) mean--enjoy shopping. :) V--no drinks for me, ever...my body doesn't like alchol.
cindy, thx, for the pm. happy new yr. alll.

I weighed yesterday, too. Up 1 lb, not bad I guess. tried my hardest to keep everything down to bare minimum - but with all the 'buffet' style eating we've been doing, it was hard to judge everything. I didn't have those drinks either, no alcohol - personal preference. Thinking of what our Taboo Tuesday might be to get us through the New Year - sparkling juice perhaps instead. I'll post something early on Monday to get everyone ready for their festivities. I'll have to post it twice, once on the December post and once on the January post when it's up and ready.
What's everyone having for New Years dinner? We're having mixed greens and black-eyed peas (supposed to be good 'mojo' and bring prosperity in the new year). I won't cook corn bread for the meal though, cutting back on the breads and I could eat the whole pan if I make it. Eat healthy everyone.

YOu guys are brave. I am afraid of the scale. I will step on to it on the 31st. My husband says it is good mojo to have sauerkraut on New Years so we will probably have that. Very high in sodium but low in calories. I drink an occasional drink but don't drink much alcohol either. We have a Christmas party Saturday night and are probably go out on New Years. New Years(if we go) is a pretty far drive out into the country so no alcohol for me. I always have to be the designated driver. About once a year when a couple of drinks sound good I make my DH drive home.

Ok, everyone, For the third time last night I had some bad stomach cramping. I'm wondering if it could be gall bladder issues. This has not been fun. What are some of the symptoms of gall bladder issues?

Gayle - I never had stomach cramping. I did have a muscle spasm issue that feld as if it was right above the stomach area on my left, but right below my ribs. That seems to have gone since surgery too. My main symptoms were extreme bloating all across my middle and up under the center of my ribs, sometimes making it hard to breath. Of course gas, heartburn, a little reflux, and pain in my back, under my left shoulder blade and across to my right. Oh, plus I was getting dull headaches, which I never get. Usually all my issues happened about an hour or so after eating my evening meal. Got to the point I was just eating a bowl of soup, or crackers. Seemed everything but that gave me issues. Thanksgiving about killed me as I thought God or someone would give me the holiday off to enjoy myself. Hahahahaha.....boy was I stupid. Layed in bed all night in misery trying to get comfortable.

I went to the gastro doc who sent me for blood work and an ultrasound. That confirmed it!! Gallstones and a diseased gallbladder. Surgeon said when he went in it was enflamed. And I feel so much better now. None of the old symptoms. Just some new ones that I don't mind. My body has to get use to the change and adjust. Learning what I can and can't eat when i go out, so I don't have a bathroom issue.

Hope you feel better and find out what the issue is!! I know that stuff like that is no fun!!!!

I'm still trying to figure this our. I have a lot of cramping, or pain just under the ribs, though it seems central. No pain in back or shoulder. No headache. There is bloating, and I belch a lot. It has happened three times when I have had some Chips and salsa. Though last week I had some without issue, as well as Christmas day. The second and third time I really wasn't hungry and I ate anyway. I suppose I should call my Dr after the first. I am going to be really careful how I eat this weekend. I don't want to go thru that again!!! From the beginning I have felt that this was no flu or bug or even food poisoning. Right now I am totally relating it to corn tortillas. Though, I have never had a problem in the past. I have had a cast iron stomach!!!
I sure hope this does not happen again. Maybe it is not gall bladder, maybe something else....

Gayle, maybe you have developed a corn allergy?