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Okay so the "ramping up" didn't work out so well.  I hurt my knee so I had to take a break.  Good news is it didn't slow my weight loss much.  I just had my 3mo check and was 51 lbs down!  It was about a week early and today is actually my 3 month and I'm down another couple so around 54 down!

Today I was able to purchase and excersise bike so I am hoping that will get me my cardio back and give my knee a break.  My goal for my 6 mo check is to loose another 30 lbs for a total of 80!

So I've been stalled out for 2 1/2 weeks between 200 and 203.  This week I started the c25k (for the 1,000 time) but this time with my hubby so I'm hoping that makes the difference. I've also added walking 2x a day for 30 min (only eve on c25k mornings), the 30 squat challenge, tone your arms in seven days (doing it longer than 7 days, lol) and abs.  Today I finally saw 199 on the scale.  I know it still may bounce up again but I saw it, and claimed it!  

Well I have been plugging away at my weight since surgery.  Most days seem fine.  Some days I just want to eat some pizza and give up but that is not an option(which I am happy about)!   My hubby landed himself in the hospital for a week which caused a disturbance but I came out okay.  I did have to venture out into the "eating out" world before I felt prepared but it turned out okay.   I made do with creative ordering.  Arbys beef and cheddar- no bun.  Burger-no bun.  Went to applebees with my sister and felt the need to tell her.  It turned out okay.  She told me she has been thinking about it too.  At first I think she thought I was going to get it done and nope its done and I'm recovered! The waitress thought I was a freak ordering chicken ONLY and then talked me into french onion soup which I hadn't thought of.  I'm glad she did because that is what I ended up eating.  Will have to remember next time to order it withOUT the bread in it but it was okay I just fished it out and set it to the side. 

I also had a family gathering at my house which I  was very nervous about.  I didn't want anyone noticing I wasn't eating most things.  You know what I  figured out?  People really don't care what I put on my plate.  No one even noticed!

I had started walking on most days after the surgery.  When the hubbs went in the hospital followed by the confirmation party at our house I didn't get the exercise in.  I did start it back up after though which I am proud of.  I am really working on pushing forward full swing.  I have started the Couch to 5k program.  I have started it before but never finished.  Today I will do day 3 of week 1.  I also started doing the 30 day shred with Jillian Michaels.  Its hard and I can't do the jumping jacks (or don't) I am still protective of my knee. (I dislocated it almost a yr ago) I do the "fat ppl" jumping jacks! lol but its still moving  and I do it hard so it does get my heart rate up and guess what?  My muscles are sore! Yay!

One more thing... My BMI is out of the 40's!!!

This time last week I thought I would be preparing for the hospital but instead I was sitting in the Emergency Room with my 2 yr old.  Such is the life of a Mom of five!  Monday morning(after waking up I was questioning my sanity!)  Now one week later I feel pieces of me starting to come back and its refreshing.  My hubby took a week off of work to be home for me (with the 5 kids!) So he will be going back on Tuesday.  I'm even playing with the idea of allowing my preschoolers to come back.  Original plan was another week off for me but we kinda need the $ so I will be deciding that tonight and hopefully wont regret my decision. 

Today we loaded up the kids and attended my daughters gymnastics meet.  I toted along a protein shake for breakfast and a yogurt for lunch as well as my calcium supplement.  I am REALLY trying to get on top of my vitamins as I know how important they are.  On the way home we stopped at a park and Bill watched the kids play and I got at least 30min of a walk in(I forgot to check the time) I was proud that I thought ahead to do that because it would have been hard (not impossible) to make myself do it once we got home.

In some ways this is the longest week ever and some ways it seems to have flown by.

So I had my surgery on Monday, April 1st.  Seemed like it was soo far away and now it is done!  I really didn't get nervous until I was actually IN the operating room so I'm a bit slow on the uptake! lol  I don't even remember them starting to put me out or anything. 

When I did "wake up"  (although I never actually saw the recovery room) I remember begging for something in my mouth.  It was so dry I felt I couldn't breath.  They had to remind me to breath through my nose!  They gave me oxygen for quite awhile.  For pain they were giving me morphine(I guess thats what I finally figured out) and It knocked me out but didn't seem to help the pain.  I had such a pain in the left side of my breast/chest!  It was also making me nauseas/light headed.  But nobody realized that is what the problem was until the LOVELY night time nurse that I cannot remember her name but SHE WAS AWESOME!!  She asked me if I wanted to try something else for pain because just maybe the med might be making me sick and 4 hours later I awoke and no chest pain!!!!  It was great!  Yes it still came back and I wasn't able to do cartwheels or anything but I was so happy for the relief!  I opted to stay the extra day (I was worried about pain meds and wanted a trial run on what they would be sending me home on before I left.  They sent me home with lortab.  Not my fav either.  Infact I took it the night I came home and not since so it was really a waste of $  I think it does help but it gives me wierd dreams so I'd rather have nothing. 

The day I came home I did a short walk with my hubby and then yesterday and today a 1mi walk with them.  So not much but something at least.  Yesterday I only got about 100 calories in and prbly 15 protein g so I'm not up on that yet I also only made about 5 cups of water.  I did have one retching episode when I was trying to use this chicken broth flavored protein powder the smell got me!  I dumped it immediatly and just had some regular tomato soup.  Which was good.

Today has been yogert for breakfast and malt o meal for lunch and I have added in my calcium today!  Maybe later my multivitamin... we will see! 

I am happy looking back on this side of the sugeryr.  I had some moments (that I kept to myself) that I was like "What did I do!??"  Now that I'm on day 5 I am again pleased with this decision. 

Preop weight: 3/13/13    248

Surgery weight: 4/1/13     237

Day after I came home: 4/4/13  228

Okay so let me begin to tell my story.  I am a wife and mom of five children.  I grew up in a family of 5 children too.  I loved it and remember growing up fondly.  I went on to become a teacher, then met my hubby got married and had my children.  That is the short version. 

Here is the long... In about 4th grade is when I remember that I started to notice that I was getting a bit bigger than my friends.  My older brothers were chunky too but they were never concerned with it (or at least never acted like they were)  My sister was married when I was 11 so I don't really remember how or when she started to put on weight.  I remember wanting to loose some weight but never knowing how to go about it and I was too embarrassed to ask.  So little by little I kept putting it on and occasionally tried my idea of a diet that maybe lasted for a day or so.  Just long enough for my brothers to realize it and make fun of me for it!  lol     

Going into college I was about 160-170.  I loved it there too and put on more weight again with no knowledge of how to go about taking it off.  I mean I wasn't stupid.  I know the eat less and exercise but not really a realistic plan of what should be done.  No knowledge of  counting calories, protein, fat etc.... or how many I should have in a day or any of that.  And taking to someone or admitting I needed guidance seemed out of the question!  I did exercise with my friends.  We went on walks or to the gym but nothing routine and it was just for fun... because they were going.  I graduated at about 185 lbs. 

I would say I was around that weight when I got married in 1998.  A yr later I had my first girl and then started a membership @ curves.  I also did a program called biometrics.  It gave me an eating plan and an exercise plan with a person to help you and keep you on track.  I got down to about 175.  I wanted to loose a bit more but not as much as I wanted another baby.  He was born 2 yrs after my daughter.  While I was pregnant we moved for my husbands job.  That was a hard move for me because I was a SAHM and I was worried I would never make any friends.  But I did!  A great group of friends.  About a yr after I had my son I started dieting on my own watching calories, exercising at the YMCA and never eating after 7pm.  I did well!  I got down to about 160 (from a 195 post preg weight) then I started weight watchers with some friends and lost some more... down to about 150!!!

Then we moved and I totally gained and got preg in about 4 months time.  After another girl was born I made a couple of weak attemps at weight loss but until she was about 2 all I did was gain.  I started ww again after another move at about 205 lbs. Over about 9 months time I lost really well and again got down to about 150!  For about 10 min I did a happy dance and then was preg AGAIN!!

#4 was born my biggest baby yet and I was huge!  About 215.  I would say I tried about 2 or 3 times and would bounce around but never lost for any length of time.  Then it was #5  I had him and my weight was about 220 after he was born. 

******** This is where my life changed.  5 weeks after my son was born my Mom died.  She had non- Hodgkins lymphoma but the death was sudden and unexpected.  After that I gained more.  Lost again on a diet called PINK which I actually like and think I did pretty good until.......

First I got a terrible case of poison ivy (yes weird but true!) Went in the hospital a couple times and was on strong steroids for a couple months and a couple other meds thats main side effect was weight gain!  lovely   And gain weight I did.

17 months after my Mom died my Dad died from the same illness.  Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma.  His we saw coming but it didn't help us to know... it is a weird feeling when your parents are gone.  You feel...  lost.

with this plus the fact that 3 weeks later I dislocated my knee.  I was out of commission!  I couldn't exercise  but I still had the great ability to EAT!!  Now I am 245.2   I am set to have vertical sleeve surgery on April 1st and I couldn't be more excited. 

I will start my liquid diet on March 16th but I would like to loose a few lbs before then.  Maybe 5?? Anyway thats me till now!