Jennifer C.

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So, I am down a few more pounds.  I have 22 more to lose to be at my goal.  I am excited this week and I guess I am going to be one of those people who only lose duriing one week of the month and that is after my cycle.  I did had a bit of tragedy in my life this week, so I don't know if that helped or hurt my weight loss.  My best friend here in Oklahoma lost her two kids.  Her ex-husband killed her two kids and then himself.  We helped her get through the loss and the memorials for her kids.  It was so sad and I am still heartsick for her.  I don't know how she has been so strong through this time, but I do know that she is much stronger than she realizes.  I love her and I want her to be able to move and be happy again one day.  I will miss those kids!! 

Ok, so I am losing and gaining the same 3 pounds.  I keep going from 160-163.  This is so frustrating.  Where did the months go that I could lose 6-8 pounds at a time?  I am so sad that this is stopping and I am upset that this is it and that I won't be losing any more!  I have been having my monthly massacre.  That is what it looks like and I so tired of it.  I am ready for it to be over with and hope that I see some difference when this is done, but it is already tapering off so I would have thought that I would have seen some difference this morning when I hopped on the scale.  I weighed in at 160.2.  I am going to start going back to the gym once this month's cycle is over though!  I just can not exercise when I feel like this!  good luck to you all!

Ok, so here goes the numbers for this week.  I am down 1 pound this week!  I am so ok with that because I was afraid of having a gain after losing 6 pounds last week.  I am feeling great in my jeans and would love to get down the other 27 pounds, but even if I stabilized here, I would be happy, even though I am technically considered overweight.  I would really love to know how much this spare tire that I am carrying around my waist weighs!!  If it would be gone, I would be SO happy with my body!  I feel so much healthier!   The weight this week is 162!!  Yeah!

Ok, so I weighed yesterday and I am down to 163.  I was dying to get to 165 by the end of this month and I did it!  I am so scared that it was due to me being sick and that I won't continue to lose.  I had the flu and pneumonia and my TOM all in one week and hopped on the scale when I was done with it all and was down 7 pounds.  I guess it is some of the old mentality kicking in that makes me worry;  if I lost weight like that before, it packed right back on when I was well again.  I have gotten back on track and work daily on getting my protein in and eating again, but it is a constant struggle.  My nut wants me to hit 100-125 grams a day and that is so hard!  I need to upload some new pics.  I got to go visit some family that hasn't seen me in a couple of years and they were happy for my weight loss.  It felt really good to be able to show them what I've done!!  Oh yeah...I tried on some new jeans at Target the other day, size 6!  Get out right?

Ok, so I went up a pound last week and lost that one and another one this week, which puts me at 170.  I wan't 169 so bad by my birthday, which was Saturday, and it just didn't happen.  I never really set date/weight goals because I do not want to be bummed, but I did it anyway and I was bummed, so the only other one I've set is 165 by the end of this month, and unless something drastically changes, I don't see that one happening either, because the weight lose is really slowing down now.  I had to up my protein because my labs came back and it showed my protein was a little low, so they want me to try and hit between 100 and 125 a day, which is damn hard!!  I will get this weight off, I just have to stay with it!!  I've added going to the gym at least 3 times a week and hitting the treadmill and elliptical. 

Ok, I did my measurements today.  I lost 8 inches in the month of December, that is all total.  Not too bad I guess, that was with 8 pounds of weight loss too.  I have lost 8 pounds a month for the past 4 months and for that I am thankful!!  I went for my 6 month check up and actually got to see my surgeon not someone else and he said I am on track for where I should be at 6 months out and that I could expect to lose only 10 - 25 more pounds.  If that is the case I will be somewhat bummed.  I want to get to my personal goal which puts me at 135.  He said he figures I will end up at 150.  150 is far better than 243, but wow, I really want to get to that 135, which still puts me 9 pounds over my "ideal" weight.  Right now I am considered to be still obese, so that sucks.  Hopefully the scale will keep moving and I can get some more of this off.  My doc also said that I can expect the loss to come to a pretty good slow down or stop sometime in the next 6 - 8 weeks.  I am not ready to be done!!  I hope that is just a conservative guess and is not what will really happen for me.  So after that visit I am still kind of bummed, but doing what I can to keep things moving.  I had added some carbs in, I know bad me, but I have cut them back out, so this should help and I will be darkening the doorways of the gym here soon.  Wish me luck!!

Ok, so I haven't posted in a while.  I've had my DMIL here for the past couple of weeks and been dealing with Christmas and everything else, so here goes.  I weighed in this morning and I weigh 171.  I've been doing some shopping and at Old Navy, I can wear a size 8 jeans and XL top.  I also bought some new sweats today and bought a Med. bottom and they are baggy and the XL top is a little big too, but that is how I like my sweats anyway.  I always wondered how people could lose this amount of weight and not see it, but I am there.  I don't really see it until I look at the size of my clothes compared to what I have worn before.  This is exciting, now I really wish this damn muffin top would go away!!  It is going down, but slowly.  That is ok.  Good Luck to you all!!  Thanks for reading....

Ok, I weighed in today, in the midst of this wonderful ice storm that we are having and found out I have lost 3 pounds this past week.  I'll take it!  I have been being really diligent about getting in my 100 grams of protein and lots of fluids so maybe that is the key!!  I now weigh 176, get out right!!  I am loving this still.  I even went out to eat Saturday night with the girls and misbehaved a little, but did well the rest of the time, so not too shabby!!  I just hope I can keep up this trend.  I would love to see 169 by my birthday, January 12!!  We will see!  Can't wait!  Hope you all are having a happy holiday season!!

I have a valid WOW moment!!  I decided to try on a pair of jeans that I found laying on the floor in my bedroom tonight.  I slipped those babies right up over my hips with my hubby looking at me like I was crazy, well anyway, I told him, I know I'm crazy, I just want to see how far I am from them fitting.  I even said that I would probably have to lay down to get them buttoned and zipped, but guess what....I didn't have to.  They buttoned and zipped right up, no problem.  The kicker here, well they are my hubby's jeans and they are are 32 in the waist.  OMG.. I can not believe that!  I have never in my memory been able to do that!  I have always been a little, ok a lot, envious of his small waist, which I must add has just stepped UP to a 32, and I never figured I'd see the day that I would be able to slip his jeans on!  I am so excited and in awe of this.  I am still in shock a bit I think!!  YEAH ME!!

So, I needed a new belt because all of the ones that I have are too wide to fit into some of the belt loops on my new jeans.  I went to the store and bought one this past weekend and bought a large...that's it large, not womens size.  It fits and I can use the second or third set of holes on it, but I could only find black.  Yesterday I went shopping and decided to look for a brown one.  Well, I just wanted a plain belt and found one that is a men's belt, but it is reversible.  I bought a 36" and I thought I had measured my waist at 37" the other day, but it fit, not only did it fit, but I wear it on the 4th hole!  Yeah.  I am so excited.  

I was also browsing the clearance rack, which I always do and there were two courduroy jackets there that were really cute.  One was a large, so I grabbed it and tried it on and it was very roomy.  So, I looked at the other one, which was a medium and it fits with a little room to spare.  I am so in awe.  I really don't see myself as a medium.  I know I couldn't fit into a medium everything, but it does feel good to wear it and button it and it look good on!  I think they must cut jackets a little bigger so that you can fit layering pieces under.  Who cares....they both fit and it makes me feel great!!