Veronica

I've been watching Veronica for months now on YouTube. She just made it to ONEderland and made this cute video. She has been working out and eating healthy and has lost 65 pounds so far. Good going girl! Just thought I'd share. :)

14 pounds to go...

14 more pounds to go till I'm under 200!!!!!!! I weighed in today and I was @ 213.2 That puts me at last under my hubby for the first time ever. Yeah me!

Someone today told me my butt was getting smaller. I've been waiting for someone to say that to me. I've had a lot of people tell me "your face is looking different, and I can really see your weight loss in your face". I've thought to myself a couple of times when someone says's your butt is getting smaller I would cheer. SO CHEERS! :)

I will take some new pictures this weekend for my September pics. I took some the other day but... My pants are so big I look ridiculous. So I'll try again this weekend. I still have 3 pair of pants that fit (i think).

Shrinking...

The past few weeks on and off I have been cleaning and going through stuff. I've cleaned out cupboards, closets and drawers. I am filling up plenty of garbage bags. I've been stacking my "don't fit anymore" pants in a pile after I wash them one more time. I've been taking some of my old clothes to a consignment store as they stack up. Some she takes and the rest go to Goodwill. I shared a few pair of my old pants with a co-worker today too. Anyway, when I was getting dressed today I am finding less and less pants that fit in my extra "stack". You know the old up, down keep my pants that don't fit anymore stack. We all have one or two stacks. Most of my extra pants "stack" were size 20-22 and a few 18 and once I squeezed into a pair of 16. I have one pair of 16 in my house. "Here goes nothing" I thought. Let just see how much weight I've lost and see how close I am into fitting into them. THEY FIT!!! How's that for cool. :)

So FACT: I am smaller then I have been in years and years. About 14-16 years ago I weighed 340+. Lost some weight and a few years later I did succeed in losing a 100 pounds, that was about 10-12 years ago. With all that hard work, I remembering writing down 220 once for a minute or three. LOL With all my diets and exercise over the years I've never got to a healthy weight. Lost weight- yes, healthier- yes, healthy weight no, skinny no (never). And 6 years ago or so I got into those jeans once and gained that weight back from my lowest of 220 back to 291, in time.

This is where healthy starts for me...and I'm looking forward to getting to know healthy!

215

Well I did my Saturday weigh in this morning and did the totals for the month of August. I did my totals as today is the last Saturday of the month.

My weigh in today I am at 215.2.
I lost 5.2 pounds this week.
My total loss for August is 14 pounds.
I am at 75.8 total since surgery.
I am 2 pounds away from weighing less then my sweet hubby.

THAT'S IT... :)

220's gone and today I am 6 months post-op...

I am officially out of the 220's. Today is 6 months since surgery and I am down to 219.4 from 291. That is 72 pounds since surgery and 75 pounds since Dec. 06. Which ever number, Yeah for me! :) We will go with 72 pounds because I've been tracking my loss since surgery and not before. I think I just might make my goal. I had to set some kind of goal in the beginning to work towards. One of my goals was to lose 75 pounds by my 40th birthday in October. Being under 220 is a biggy for me and I am so so so so excited to be under 200 pounds too. That goal should be in 2 months or so. I seem to be losing right at 10 pounds a month. I am still losing hair, but it's not a lot and no big deal. My long term goal is to get under 170. So that is 50 pounds to go. I can tell my body is going to make me work hard for this next step in my weight loss. I have no doubt that I will have to work hard to get to that goal and it just won't come to me. This surgery is wonderful and I can't say enough good things about the Dr or his surgery. My MGB has been a tool for me. It has not been the easy way out. I can still eat "shit" food but I have learned how that makes me feel icky and I have to put the "right" foods in. This is my chance to make this happen and I have to take it. The best thing is the amount of food you eat or don't eat. I just love that. My brother was right, you can just take a bite or two and feel satisfied and be ok with having just a small amount. It just doesn't take a lot to fill you (depends on the food and day). One of my favorites is steamed shrimp. There small shrimp and it takes 8 to fill me. 8 shrimp to fill me, no way... A bite or two of a cookie, 1/2 cup of cottage cheese. That can't fill you, but it does for now.

The next 50 pounds should be life changing and I CAN'T WAIT...!!!!!!

Littermates...

I talked two a couple of the girls that I had surgery with the same day. Zoey is doing wonderful and feeling better. She is at 100 pounds lost and looks amazing. I was amazed. She looks great. My friend Karen is doing good too. She as me has lost 70 pounds so far. No problem with surgery and she is feeling happy and healthy. I am so happy for both of them! Our six month anniversary is here next week. It kind of went fast and dragged for me all at the same time. My sister in law Barb has helped me with my patients or the lack of I should say. She said a couple of things to me that have just "clicked". I have found some patients through my journey and am trying really hard to just let time pass and trust that this surgery with hard work I will succeed. I will also be making my 6 month check up soon. My Dr. will pull my blood for the first time since surgery and well see how I'm really doing.

I will post on Tuesday for my six month weigh in...

family swim

I did get up this morning and go swimming at 8am. Had Derrel drop off Jonathan at the pool at 8:30 on his way into work and Jonathan sat there and watched me swim. He now wants to go with me tomorrow morning to my water exercise class. He said it looked fun. So tomorrow Jonathan is going to go with me. Now if I can just get my hubby Derrel to join me it would be good for all of us. Jonathan will be going back to school soon (yeah) so this is just a treat to him. I just about lost my swim suit today in the pool. We do jumping jacks and jump in and out of the water and my suit was falling in the front. So I'm happy to say that I've grown out of my swim suit. A couple of months ago we went to Costco and I bought one of the suits there because I knew by winter I would need a new one and living in Oregon I would not find one after the summer months had past. So I bought one at Costco and got size 12 since I knew my one at home was a 18. They do have a lot of stretch to them. Being forced to see if the one in the closet fit as I don't need to show my water aerobics teacher my boobs, I tried on the size 12. It fits fine, so now I don't have to worry while jumping anymore. :) I'm pretty much wearing a size 16-18 pants and large tops now, and a lot of the 18 are WAY to big. It just depends on the brand. My extra stack of pants are shrinking and all way to big. I had lots of size 20 and 18 in my closest but now I'm running out of clothes. That's ok, I know where the Goodwill is until I'm done shrinking.

I'm just about to the point of being a smaller size then I have been in many, many years. I mean I feel very lucky, happy, thankful, (all kinds sorts of emotions) of being fortunate enough to of had this surgery and feeling healthy after surgery. It feels good, feeling good. Did that make sense??? And because of my surgery, along with my diet and exercise it gave me a fighting chance.

things are better...

I got home this morning from inventory about 7am. We worked from midnight to 7. I got up at 10pm to get up and head into work. I can not believe how I feel, it's no where near the same for me these days. The pain I feel in my body, hips, & ankle is no where near as bad. I really am feeling a difference these past few weeks. Lovin it... I am very excited to feel the differnce in the future.

I'm tired so I'm going to bed...I just took a three hour nap today after i got home. I'm going swimming tomorrow in the morning so I have to get up early.

inventory time again... :(

Say it isn't so... Yup it's inventory time again at my job. I go to work today (Tuesday) and get off work at 5pm. I will head home and try to get a cat nap in as I need to be back at midnight till 8am. I hate inventory! I did it last time with no meds and I was very happy to get through that hard work without pills. It's has been 3 months since inventory and it should even feel better than 3 months ago.

Not much else new here... Just had to nag about my long long day and night. Guess I'll sleep Wednesday away since all be up all night.

smaller size

Went to the farmers market today of course. I've had my eye on some tye dye pj pants. I love to hang at home in pj pants. :) And when there styling it's even better! They were the non stretchy kind of pants so I got XL. They don't fit. Guess it doesn't really matter because they are PJ pants for home. Will I ever get used to buying different sizes? I guessed wrong... It's a good feeling though!

Today was my Saturday weigh in. I am down 2.4 this week. I worked really hard this week everyday, went swimming etc. Thought it would be more, but all take it! My weight this week is @ 221.8. That's 70 pounds since surgery (291 was my surgery start weight). Someone asked me that knows I had surgery if I was done losing weight? "Are you kidding me" I said. "I just got started".

I took this cool picture of this butterfly hanging around my front flowers on my deck. Just thought it was cool and I'd share...

Changes...

Yesterday @ worked very hard at my job. I had "new guy" there with me as I was training him. So since I had a co-worker (in training) I decided I was going to clean up the back room. It was so bad I didn't know where to start, so I just dug in. Anyway, I didn't get out of the back room for 5 hours. I was cleaning up advertising and supplies and going through everything and making it neat so if you need it you can find it. Anyway, when I was leaving my store I was tired of course. When I was walking out to my car I noticed how different I am feeling. I was not limping as much as I used to, I didn't fall into the car, or push myself out of the car to get out. It's just different now and I'm starting to feel that difference. My hubby told me "how could you not feel different the amount of weight you have lost is like carrying our son Jonathan on your back all day". Wow, when you put it like that - no wonder. The way I will feel in another year will be wonderful, and that is exciting. At this point I can do my day at work and still have energy to finish the chores I need to do when I get home. I am feeling great and feel lucky to of had this surgery. I am also 7 pounds away from weighing less then my hubby. That's my first goal and I can't wait to weigh less than my sweet hubby. And then less then 200 pounds is right behind that goal. That will be sweet and a great feeling!

Not Bad...

March vs. August.
5 months, 9 days post op.

Underdog

I lost 5 pounds this week! I like those weeks. Not eating anything different. Salads, tuna, cottage cheese, turkey and things like that are a big part of my meals these days. At today's Farmers Market I am going to buy some fresh veggies. Mmm They will be spendy but fresh and yummy.

I had a great visit with my mom (step mom). It was very nice to see her and Kambria my niece. Went to lunch and walked around the bay front some. She was amazed @ how I looked. I had not seen her since Easter. I still have Derrel's brothers kids here with there dog pickles. Kids are fine, pickles is a pain in the ***. He's a beagle, need I say more. Cry, cry, whine, whine and then he whines more. Oh yeah he howls too. He good as long as he is asleep. He has run off with his hound nose in the air across our field 2 times. Hate to lose there dog while there gone, but jeez he does not listen like my dog. LOL




Anyway... that's it.

August Pics...

down 67 pounds

The only time I can see my weight loss is with a picture. Here are my top of the month pictures. I'm already down 5+ pounds this week. Weird how some weeks you don't move and then other weeks the scale just moves everyday. I did meet my friend at the pool this week. I wanted to stay in bed because it was my day off, but I knew she was going so I got out of bed early and headed into town. I do enjoy the water aerobics class very much. :)