Shelia N.

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BMI - 25.1/ Body Fat - 30.6% / Weight - 160.

I have been working out with a personal trainer and I think it is going great! I feel wonderful and I have begun to see muscle definition in my arms. I still have a lot of fat hanging out, but it is getting better. The weight loss has slowed down considerably, but we all knew it would. I have been working out everyday this last week. I have done two days of strength training and five days of cardio - not sure I can honestly keep that up, but it would be great to do every week.

BMI - 25.4/ Body Fat - 30.9% / Weight - 162.

It has been a long time since I have updated my profile. A lot of things have been going on and I am just now making the time. Not that I have the time..just making it. My husband and I have moved to Louisiana and I have been working in a new job and trying to get things ready for a new school year. I am working at a university here, while we are in the process of buying a house. Food wise things are not going so well. I find myself eating a lot of the wrong things when I'm not hungry. I am trying to work on that. I have started working out with a personal trainer this past week. I will do this for a month and see where I am at the end of the month. I am hoping to get good muscle definition and lose a lot of weight. I still have about 30 more pounds to go and I would really like to get that off AND KEEP IT OFF. I am getting really worried that I won't be able to get the rest off and then even more worried that I will gain it back. I haven't changed any old habits and that terrifies me. I feel great and that should be enough, but it isn't always. Emotional eating has always been my down-fall and it still is...the surgery only works on the physical stuff...not the emotional/head stuff.

BMI - 28.8/ Body Fat - 33.3% / Weight - 184.

Four more days until my 5 month anniversary. The weight loss has slowed down considerably; however, I really can't complain...I still am not eating enough protien or getting enough excercise. A lot..I do mean A LOT of things are going on right now. My husband and I are getting ready to move and change jobs...no excuse but a good reason. :) I will join a gym when we move and hire a personal trainer to help me with my weightloss goals, I am looking forward to the new life we are anticipating... :) Lots of good things ahead for us.

Today I bought a size 14!!! Yeeee Hawwww...so excited. They are tight, but I must say :) I look good. :) I couldn't believe it when I was able to button and zip them...although it wasn't the easiest pair of jeans I had been in - they are the smallest. :) Can you tell I am excited??? I will measure tonight and weigh on Monday - I'll update my profile then. I find it hard to believe that I am losing this weight. I still don't feel like I look good, no matter what I say, it is still hard to think of myself as becoming slim. I still have a gut on me, but a gut that fits into a 14! I just had to sign in and update my profile - couldn't believe I got into those jeans.

BMI - 29.1/ Body Fat - 33.6% / Weight - 186.25 / Inches lost - 57.25.

I weighed this morning and was astonished. I am so happy I could cry...not really but I was going to say spit, but that just sounded gross. :) I went shopping Saturday to find an Easter dress. I found one at Cato, but I wasn't really happy with it. I went all over the place and ended up at Goody's. I found a cute dress (OK..it was the ONLY one I could find) it was a size 14! Did you read that..a 14!!! I thought...what the heck and tried it on. :) IT FIT!!! IT FIT!!! My husband said that I might could have worn a 12. That made me feel even better. I don't think I could have, but the dress wasn't tight at all and I was so excited. I don't know that I have EVER been a 14. My weight loss has slowed down quite a bit, but I am not eating right (which I am not bragging about) and I am not exercising (again..not bragging) - I want to do all of those things. I teach school and have been thinking that after school is out I will start running in the mornings and maybe lifting some weights or doing my pilates video in the afternoon...or..just running in the morning. :) We went to my in-laws for Easter dinner and my husband's sister had not seen me in MONTHS. She was shocked at me. She said I was going to dry up and blow away. :) Comments like that really make me feel great. OH...and by the way...I am now considered OVERWEIGHT - not obese, not morbidly obese...just overweight. :) My BMI started out at 42.6 and now I am 29.1. I am truly blessed.

BMI - 30.22 / Body Fat - 34.87% / Weight - 193 / Inches lost - 55.25.

Yesterday was my four month anniversary. I was so hoping to be down 80 pounds by four months, but I got close - 79 pounds. My eating hasn't been as good as it needs to be AND my exercising has been non-existent, but I will get back on track. Yesterday I went to Wally World and bought a pair of size 16 shorts and a SLEEVELESS shirt. Could not believe I bought the shirt, but I bought the outfit to wear today and I am going to be brave and wear it. I know no one will say anything to me, but I am still very self-conscious about wearing stuff like that. My arms are still big, but not as big as they were. I asked my husband if he would be embarassed to be seen with me. :) He said he wouldn't be. :) Good answer!

BMI - 30.7 / Body Fat - 35.2% / Weight - 196 / Inches lost - 49.75.

My birthday! :) I had a WONDERFUL birthday. My family was really slick and had a suprise party for me. My in-laws came over, my husband's niece bought a cake, and my step-children were there. It was really a wonderful day. I did eat cake, but it was a very small piece and I didn't eat the icing. :) I am truly blessed!

BMI - 31.2 / Body Fat - 36.2% / Weight - 199 / Inches lost - ?? I'll measure tonight.

I am kinda bummed and then kinda not. The reason I am kinda bummed is that I saw a lady on the Before and After picture section and she had lost 100 pounds in 19 weeks. I am happy for her, but thinking...OH MY GOD...why can't I do that. She looked really good. Also, I was doing my Pilates video last night and just trying to get my abs held in and looking down to see all my gut just hanging there, all the excess skin....it can be a bit overwhelming, especially when you don't think you are losing fast enough. I know..I know...when was the last time I lost 73 pounds in 3 1/2 months, but I feel with the surgery I should be losing more. My weight loss has slowed QUITE A BIT, but the inches are still coming off. Thankfully. I took another picture yesterday and created a web page that shows my progress pictures. It amazes me that in 3 1/2 months I look so different. Everyone that sees me asks me what I am doing and that I look so good. That really helps me to not be so discouraged at my slow weight loss. I also think about the skin issue. I have a lot of saggy skin. It is so nasty. I am hoping that since weight loss has slowed, I am exercising - still not getting enough water, but really working on it - I am hoping that my skin will begin to shrink back. I am already planning a tummy tuck, arm tuck, leg tuck, and boob lift. :) Maybe a bit excessive. :) I will update my inches lost tonight, hopefully there will be more. I have been exercising. Maybe that is what has slowed the weight loss down, but kept the inches falling off.

BMI - 31.3 / Body Fat - 36.2% / Weight - 200 / Inches lost - 47.5.

It has been slowing going, but I am feeling great. I have started doing Pilates and I think even though I am not losing tons of weight, I am losing inches. I measure on Friday's and I will know then how well Pilates is working. I have only done it three times so far, since last Friday, but I know it will work.

BMI - 32.1 / Body Fat - 37.4% / Weight - 205 / Inches lost - 38.5.

February 25, 2003 - BMI - 32.7 / Body Fat - 38.0% / Weight - 209 / Inches lost - 38.5