nfocus74
long time, no post....
Oct 22, 2012
well, it's been a long 3 years since my last post....have recently moved away from Cheyenne...am back to trying to walk more faithfully, get some more lbs and inches off...
my Meema, whom I was extremely close to, passed away in 2010--I mourned her for a very long year which included eating whatever I wanted (lots of ice cream) and generally not caring about my weight loss...I put on 50 lbs over that year, and had to buy bigger jeans last Christmas, cause I just couldn't breathe anymore in the old ones I was squeezing into...I was pretty disgusted with myself, so when summer hit this year, I decided I had to get myself in better shape. My hubby and I started walking nearly everyday, at least a couple miles round trip. By September 2012, I was down 2 jean sizes from the "fat" jeans I purchased last December and almost 10 lbs lost since my PCP visit in June! I'm feeling better, not as tired and my joints aren't as sore. I've still got a long way to go, but am accepting that at 38 I'm on a journey, and if I don't get it all together at once, it's OK, cause I'm gonna be living this the rest of my life!!
changes
Aug 03, 2009
Thought I would update...
Jul 27, 2009
The dress I wore to church yesterday was a size 16! How exciting. Of course, my hips which will always be my widest part are still size 18, but it was an A-line dress, so it worked out OK! Even my "skinny" sister has taken to calling me "Miss Skinny", so it's a pretty nice feeling. And I just feel so much better now, more energy...actually want to do something after I get off work, instead of going home and crashing.
I did have to have my GB removed last month due to gallstones ( a lot of them!) which we found accidentally while checking out something else. So, if anyone's reading this, might not hurt to have a sono--it's pretty common I'm told w/weight loss patients. But my doc told me I can just put that behind me now, and thank God, I've had no complications since then.
This last fill (my 2nd) has been quite interesting. I can't eat early in the morning, things just won't go down most days. Even my tiny BC pill gets stuck sometimes. So my wise sis-in-law shared a trick to drink warm liquids before I try sending anything down, which works pretty well most of the time.
It's been 10 months since my surgery and I'm still so glad I did this! Got to go to a ladies day at my mom's church this weekend, and some of the people there whom I've known all my life didn't recognize me at first. Pretty neat that I've changed that much. Even I don't recognize myself in the mirror some days. Now if I can get some of this jiggly stuff to tighten up some more that would be perfect!
6 month checkup...
Mar 12, 2009
My two main battles right now are getting my exercise in and drinking all that water...I'm still trying to get that accomplished in a day! Hoping that w/spring upon us, I can get more motivated to walk daily. One of my friends from work had lapband about 6 weeks ago, so she and I are our own support group and trying to walk together on the days we have same schedule.
While doing some shopping this week, I found some capris I thought were cute and they were on clearance, but when I checked the tag, they were a size 26 and I thought, "Well, those are too BIG!" It was a nice moment for me!!!
I can't believe it's been 6 months already and that I have done so well. I'm so grateful to God everyday that He allowed me this opportunity and I'm going to continue to do my best to succeed.
Well, it happened...
Feb 02, 2009
Down another size--Woohoo!
Jan 25, 2009
another goal accomplished!
Jan 12, 2009
Thanksgiving
Dec 04, 2008
The great thing now is that I am down 51 lbs!! I was shooting for 50 lb total weight loss by Christmas and actually reached 49 lbs by the week of Thanksgiving.
PMSing...
Nov 10, 2008
and just wanna eat today! I haven't, but I surely have wanted to...I had a bad habit pre-lapband of just feeding the monthly monster, so this has been difficult today. I'm not hungry, but my mouth would certainly like something to munch on. I didn't lose any from last week to this week, but didn't gain any either. I'm really not that worried about the # on the scale today since I am pmsing, figure there's some bloating/fluid there.
On the bright side I was able to wear a new dress to work that has been stuck in the closet w/the tags still on it, since I was too fat to fit it. That's always exciting! And I wore a new suit to church yesterday that is about 3 sizes smaller than where I started in September. Hurray!!
First Fill
Oct 29, 2008
