driving me crazy not to blog...

I've had stories to share this week and haven't shared cause I'm not blogging till I weigh less then 200 pounds. Then what am I doing here you may be asking? I could not stand it... LOL

I'm even closer this week. I lost 4.2 pounds this week. I swam 3 times this week and am trying really hard to swim my ass off (literally). I'm going to be singing and dancing a little tune here soon.

Check in later...

207

OK, I'm getting close... I don't think all blog again until I weigh less then 200 pounds. So, it could be sometime till my next blog. It could be a week or two or longer. I just don't know. It's strange how it comes off and works sometimes. I am at 207.4 this morning. That is 83.6 pounds gone for me since surgery. It has been 7 months, 2 days since my surgery. The great part is it's gone- FOREVER

I'm going swimming again tomorrow morning. Happy for that.
The first of the month is almost here and I'll post a new picture soon.

And I will blog again after I weigh less than 200!!!!!!! I wonder if I can make my goal of 199 or less by my birthday which is one week from this Tuesday. Oct. 2nd is my 40 birthday. Hmm I'm going to try really really hard, that would be a great birthday gift. That's my goal!

I'll be back @ 199.9 or below...

Size 16 and My Blood Work...

I got my blood work back today. Not much had changed. A lot of the numbers are really close compared to 7 months ago. But some of the numbers have really changed...

Cholesterol was 196 now 139
HDL was 59 now 30
LDL was 124 now 95
Not bad for 6 months. My sodium, glucose, calcium and all the other levels are right in the good range. There also a whole other page of terms I don't get, but there in the good range too. I'm taking my vitamins each day and eating different good foods and it seems to be working.

Anyway, I weighed in this morning and I went down 2.4 pounds this week, but I was up one last week so anyway I'm at 208.8. I did go swimming today. Great swim. I really enjoy the water aerobics class very much. I asked for a swim belt for my birthday, and a tattoo. Felt good to go back after not going for 2 weeks. They were closed for one week for maintenance. We got our heart rates up really good today too. Friday you know, so the instructor is harder on us.

I went back to that clothes consignment shop today. I had 8 dollars credit. I took all my sweaters and a ton of pants to her to sell for me for more credits. She took 18-20 items from me. I bought a pair of size 16 Lee jeans for $8 and a cool pink tye dye shirt and has a V neck. I now fit comfortably in a size 16. I'm wearing a size 16!!!!!!!! My work pants are 16 and two of my jeans now are 16. I can't believe it. I'm wearing size 16 and they fit good, I didn't squeeze into them. Still wearing 18 cause I don't have many pants, but there big. But who cares sometimes. I've squeezed into a size 16 once as a adult. But never a 14. That will be a miracle when that happens for sure and amazing for me.

Great things to come...

Boring stuff but that's me...

Jury Duty part 2...

Not only did I have to go and sit for jury duty, I got picked to be a juror. LUCKY ME... I sat there all day hearing a criminal case over a I Pod nano. All day, past 5pm...and did I mention all day. GUILTY... so I got nothing done today. Didn't get home till 6pm, missed my haircut appt at 5pm. Not to mention I had a full day planned anyway in running. As you can read, yes I was perturb. Thousands of dollars spent over a $150.00 mp3 player.

I am swimming tomorrow morning no matter what... I'm not answering my phone if my job calls just to be safe. :) I might not answer to anybody to be safe. LOL

My blood work came back and everything is perfect! I knew it was! I will pick up the copy of the blood work tomorrow so I can see it for myself.

THAT'S MY DAY... glad it's over.

Jury Duty

Jury duty sucks...... Grr! My number came up again for tomorrow. :(

OK maybe I can swim on Friday... that's if my number doesn't come up again. Is September over yet? A month of this crap is crazy. OK I'm done *itching now.

Grr

Still sitting here at 210 pounds still. :( Don't think I'm eating today. I have just been stuck here going up and down between 210.4 and 211.4. Grr I need to get to the pool this Thursday and Friday, that's if I don't have jury duty on those days. I was thinking on Saturday would I be happy if I didn't lose another pound? Answer is: heck no... I feel better and I am happier because I feel better, but I know I still have a ways to go. I'm just stuck and don't want to be. I'm not eating different these past two weeks. Salads, shrimp, cottage cheese, spaghetti O's, eggs, same Ol same Ol foods. My hubby has told me I am even smiling more these days. I knew my body was going to make me work for these last 40 pounds. I've just been hanging with this body long enough to know it is going to make me work at it. So that's where I am this week. Heading off to work and hope I don't have jury duty on my days off so I can get moving again.

I am just a few weeks from turning the big 40. How the heck did that happen????? I am getting a new tattoo for my b-day. Still thinking on it, but think the one I am getting is pictured below. I like the sun and angel wings with the color. And I'm all about hearts. All my jewelry are hearts and I have one tattoo of my hubby's name with 3 hearts already. I want it to be colorful also. The sun to me would mean "a new day," "a new chance". And the same for the angel wings on the heart. "A new start" and "free to be me".

Stuck...

Just a quick blog for today. I'm home today as it is my day off. I do not have to serve on jury duty today or tomorrow. I have been called to serve on jury duty this whole month on my days off from work. LUCKY ME...

Tomorrow I go to my primary Dr for my 6 month check up. He will pull my blood as we talked about it 3 months ago. He wanted some time to pass and then check out my blood work to see how I am really doing. I think fine and all will be well. I am having no troubles at all. I have my strength back and feel great and I am taking my vitamins each and every day! So I guess the blood work will tell the whole story, so we will see. Otherwise... Not much new. When we went out of town this past weekend I did get myself 3 new shirts. I have about 2 pair of pants that fit right and all my shirts are falling off of me. I did really well. Went straight for the clearance rack and I got 3 shirts for 15.00 bucks. Not bad huh. Wanted to buy everything. New pants, cute shirts, but I didn't. I just wanted something that fits! LOL Two of the shirts are size M and I didn't have to just go to the plus size side. Can't wait for more shopping. I have not been shopping in 6+ months and I was starting to have withdrawals... He he he

This must be my week for the scale not to move. I'm just sitting here at 210, not sure why... but that's the way it goes some weeks. I wanted to go swimming this morning but Derrel has my car as his truck is full of cedar he bought the other day for our business. So he took my car and I am car less today. Going to clean and do laundry today so it should be exciting around here.

:)

Who Knew...

Well my new camera has a small video camera on it. Who Knew... So playing with it this weekend I took a few videos of the monster truck show. It's short as I don't have a very big memory card for saving videos. I will get one though, as this is cool. So here is my first video off my camera and a couple of pictures of me and my family. :)

A couple of things caught my eye and my head this weekend that have changed for me since surgery.

The first thing is I took a bath the next morning at the hotel where we stayed. Aw :) Our tub at home is so so small that when I get any where with a normal sized tub I jump right in. Anyway, I was able to just stand up after soaking in the tub. Not get on my knees and push myself up out of the tub, but rather just push my self up and stand up straight. BIG ONE PEOPLE. I noticed it and I was amazed and thrilled. I also felt good being out in the heat and did not get short of breath. We parked at the end of the parking lot both days and I didn't cringe of worry that I would "hurt" to bad for the walk. I actually thought to myself yeah he is parking in the back so we can get extra walking in for both of our health sakes. I was not the biggest girl there anymore. YEAH for that! I did not have or feel deprived at the sight of all that grease and food everywhere. We did eat before we went so that did help. I knew what that food would make me feel like if I ate something like a corn dog or french fries. That is one thing about surgery, you will pay if you over indulge in grease or sugar (at lease for me). I can still have "some" but your body will react and not always kindly. I did have about 5 small bites of a elephant ear on Saturday. Even just having 4-5 bites of that fried food my body reacted. Not bad but it was like the grease went right through me. My body can not adsorb it anymore or not as much of it. For me grease is the one thing my body can't tolerate to much. I have not got sick as I have not tried to many fried foods. But I ate 2 little fried chicken strips a few months back and it did the same thing to me. Sorry if I'm getting to personal but I know people thinking or going through surgery want to know what it's really like day to day. I want to share what it's like for me day to day. This surgery really is a personal journey in many different ways, it's not the same for everyone. That's why I share... Anyway, it wasn't a big deal, just slippery... :)

That's enough sharing... That was just a couple of things that made me go hmm...

Monster Trucks

Well were off to the monster truck show today and tomorrow. We have done nothing fun this summer. It's been all about work, work, work. So this weekend were all off, took the farmers market off and were heading into the valley for some fun. Were going to tractor pulls, monster truck show and going with some friends and our kids.

Also on a funny note: I hate my husband this week. LOL just kidding. As I've been blogging all summer I just want to weigh less them him and I CAN'T WAIT TO WEIGH LESS THEN 200 POUNDS. Well my hubby got a couple of health reasons he needs to get busy with eating healthy and exercising for his heart and body. He has been eating way better then he used to eat in his past. But now they have taken him off his cholesterol meds and now he really needs to take control of his health. Well he is eating salads with me and other good choices. Yeah for him! And don't get me wrong, The timing is something... He is losing weight again and is now below me by a pound or so and going to beat me to that 200 goal line. Grr I was lighter then him for a minute. And he is racing me to 200 pounds. I want to win! LOL MEN All in good fun. But fact is I still want to win!

Anyway, I'm down 2 more pounds this week. So I am at 210.8 and Derrel is at 209.2.

And were off to have some fun.

Till later...

We Can/Will/Want/Won't

This video is about 7 minutes long but I liked it...

yucky...

Well after not eating all day yesterday we went out to dinner after delivering a cedar planter bench to a customer. It was late and I think I waited to long to eat. I did eat some almonds about 6 to tie my tummy over. I had a small salad and 1/2 of chicken sandwich. I ate the salad and took about 4 bites of the chicken and started feeling icky. Well that feeling stayed with me for several hours. I did try to just throw it all up but that didn't really work out. I knew if I got sick I would spend today feeling icky too. So I got off the bathroom floor and got up and took some pepto/water and went to bed. Blah... Not sure if I ate to fast or just to much or what. I don't believe this what they call "dumping" cause I didn't get the shakes. It was just different, just nauseous this time. Don't feel like I ate to much food, maybe I ate to fast but whichever that has not happened to me very much at all. So I feel lucky about that. Otherwise I feel better this morning and glad I did not get sick last night. That always makes the next day icky too. So I better not get that hungry again and wait to long to eat.

September photo

Here is my September pictures.
weight- 212.8
weight loss- 79
6 months 8 days post-op.
Getting there, but not there yet... I lost 14 pounds this month but I don't see a difference.