QOTW: Moms the Word!

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QOTW: Moms the Word!
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Mon, 05-02-2005 - 12:18pm

Well it's mother's day coming up this weekend, and we all love our Moms.

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Registered: 12-04-2003
Mon, 05-02-2005 - 12:32pm

If you could get your Mom any gift for Mother's Day what would it be?


I think that I would give her a real vacation.

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Registered: 03-19-2003
Mon, 05-02-2005 - 12:54pm

If you could get your Mom any gift for Mother's Day what would it be?
I think it would be to send her to some beautiful spa for a couple of days, really pamper her!! She's not the type of lady who indulges in that sort of thing at all, but I think she'd love it.


Is your mom a positive role model fitness and eating wise?

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Registered: 01-21-2005
Mon, 05-02-2005 - 1:32pm

If you could get your Mom any gift for Mother's Day what would it be?


I'll answer this in regards to my MIL...because my own mother

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Mon, 05-02-2005 - 3:49pm

If you could get your Mom any gift for Mother's Day what would it be? This year, I'd get her a maid. Dad is recovering from surgery so mom has to clean at the motel besides at his other cleaning job, and at home of course. My sisters help, but if she could send someone else to do those things, she would have some time for herself. And she has a knee that needs surgery so she could do that too and not have to worry about the work getting done.

Is your mom a positive role model fitness and eating wise? Or a lesson what NOT to do? Is she supportive of your weightloss efforts? She is pretty good at the eating thing. We always had veggies with dinner, raw carrots or cooked ones. And we had a garden years ago; we'd have to bring in the corn and snip the green and wax beans and clean the ruebarb.... That was kinda cool. Mom is still active, or as much so as she can be, but she wasn't really into exercising like I do. She has a stationary bike and uses it sometimes. I think she wonders why I am so interested in martial arts, but she knows I'm a tom boy, and so is the oldest of the two girls they adopted. I am sure she is happy that fitness is important to me though. She knows about the weight gain and heart disease that runs in our family.

Lorie

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Mon, 05-02-2005 - 6:58pm

If you could get your Mom any gift for Mother's Day what would it be?


I would love to send my mother on a vacation to this spa in New Mexico.

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Tue, 05-03-2005 - 1:05pm

If you could get your Mom any gift for Mother's Day what would it be?
Total retirement and someone to shop with regularly!!

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Wed, 05-04-2005 - 10:23am

If you could get your Mom any gift for Mother's Day what would it be?

I'd get my mom 2 things. A ramp (for her wheel chair) they haven't been able to afford building yet, and a nice hot tub built into a nice deck.

Is your mom a positive role model fitness and eating wise? Or a lesson what NOT to do? Is she supportive of your weightloss efforts?

My mom is supportive of my weightloss efforts as long as it is healthy. She's a lesson in patience, love, acceptance and faith. She has severe Rhumatoid (sp?) Arthritis. She is not my bio-mom but our relationship is something I would never have dreamed possible.

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Sat, 05-07-2005 - 10:57am

If you could get your Mom any gift for Mother's Day what would it be?

My mom really wants a healthy relationship with each of us kids, and really wants us to get along with each other. For various reasons, that is NEVER going to happen. Since it is the only thing she really wants, I would try to find her some help to accept the way things are, rather than mourning the way she wants things to be.

Is your mom a positive role model fitness and eating wise? Or a lesson what NOT to do? Is she supportive of your weightloss efforts?

My mom hasn't eaten a vegetable since I've known her. She survives on dove ice cream bars and cheese its. She has never had a weight problem (probably because she eats about 3 times a week, MAX) and she has no desire to adopt a 'healthy' lifestyle. I used to bug her about it, but she just had a physical and was given a clean bill of health and the dr said that she should keep doing whatever she was doing. I have NO idea why she is healthy, she shouldn't be.
She says she is supportive of me losing weight, but when she was here she kept groaning about how she just couldn't live like me, and wasn't that food awful, and wouldn't I rather just have an ice cream bar and blah blah blah.
Karen