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  • Comment by sionnaingeal on 10/29/09 10:37 am
    Donna, you're going to do great! It'll go by so fast, you'll be home before you know it!
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SUCCESS IS.....
on March 4, 2010 8:28 am
March 4, 2010:  Last night I experienced symptoms that were making me feel "sick" on my stomach after eating last night. I usually experience this once a week.   I am continuing weight loss which I am glad but I still feel as big as I was 1 year ago.  I still need to fix my mind. I am working-out 5 - 6 days a week which some days are harder than other days.  I keep quoting this, "Success is the sum of efforts repeated day in and day out"  Robert Collier.   I continue my weekly meetings at the local TOPS.  I just won a contest on Tuesday night for not gaining any weight since January and will receive a $25 gift card.  I also got some charms to recognize my 30 lbs weight loss.  I look at these as rewards for me losing weight. I find these meetings very supportive and keeps me on track.  Blessings, Donna
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Going for GOLD to lose weight
on February 7, 2010 1:02 pm
2/7/10-  Every Tuesday I am going to TOPS in order to keep myself in check with the scale.  I lost 2.2 lbs and I was little down.  I have been working out at the gym faithfully.  If I had lost 3 lbs I think I would have been more satisfied with the results.  Maybe I was just retaining little more fluid than usual.  I struggled going to the gym certain days last week but I persevered and move forward.  I was thinking of those who are in the Olympics and how I know they push themselves to the maximum they can do.  I am not going for a gold for the Olympics but I am going for the GOLD to lose weight.  Sometimes the pains and muscle soreness gets to me.  I try to ice my knee and it does seem to help. Since I am 50 years old it sure makes a difference in exercise than it did about 12 years ago when I exercised.   I am highly anticipating to get under 300 lbs.  That is my next goal to accomplish.  I am 321.2 now and I have come along way since my highest recorded weight of 444 at my physician's office, that is over 100 lbs.  Somehow I am having a hard time celebrating the victory.  I will get over it but just a "feeling" anyway.  I am rewarding myself Thursday with a hour long massage.  I do deserve it.  At least it doesn't involve food.  Blessing to All! 
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3 months post-op GBY
on January 31, 2010 7:45 am
Jan 31, 2010.  This is last day of the month.  It is hard to believe how time flies by.  Today is frigid.  Snow and ice everywhere which makes getting around outside difficulty and dangerous.  We generally don't have snow here.  I feel that I am concentrating and eating more since I can't get out or travel anywhere.  I have been working out at gym for last 3 weeks and I have committed this for myself.  I am little frustrated with myself with my preoccupation with food.  I am not going to church this morning, not sure about tonight because of safety.  Since working out my weight loss is little more progressive now maybe because I am moving more it does help.  I just need to stay on track  and remember the basics of eating.  My TOPS support group keeps me and helps me focus on the scale since I did ignore in the past and don't want to let that happen again.  I have lost 9 lbs first week and 5 lbs each week times 2 to equal little over 19 lbs in 3 weeks.  I don't expect that to continue but I do want to progress forward on my weight loss.  I don't believe I can get to my weight loss goal until I have surgery on my abdomen since I do have a lot of fat that hangs.  I know it is disgusting. I now have 3 months post surgery and have lost almost 50  lbs since surgery.  Yippee!   God bless you all !
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Keep Moving Forward
on January 14, 2010 8:34 am
Jan. 14, 2010...  I just joined the gym last week and I was weighed in at TOPS and lost little over 9 lbs.  I know it was alot water but I know this can help enhance my workout.  My muscles are really sore and I must work through all that soreness to achieve my weight loss goal and fitness.  I chose to walk in neighborhood for 20 minutes and I played my ipod which the last song was Miss Independent remix which made me smile and get happy because it is my gran daughter's favorite song she is 4 years old.  She is one of the reasons I want to be fit so I can play with her and spend time with her.  Anyway I have to stay committed and keep moving forward.
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MY NEW COMMITMENTS
on January 11, 2010 8:07 am
Jan. 11, 2010..  This is first time this year I have blogged on this site.  I am feeling so much better.  For me it took about 2 months to get here.  I have been fighting alot in my head what to eat.  Sometimes I eat cookies and other things I really shouldn't eat.  I am working on my head trying to get it fixed.  I decided to join a support group (TOPS) that makes me more accountable by weighing in weekly.  Avoiding the scale got me in trouble in the first place.  Now I just want to maximize my weight loss.  I also started the WLS support that meets monthly.  I also joined the gym and started working out.  After the workout I felt so much better.  I got on the treadmill and walked on at 2 for 20 minutes and 2 minutes of 2.5 and it made me feel so much better.  I am starting some lifting for toning.  I just want to home myself accountable and commit to all this.  I know it is a lifetime change.  I think new commitments will pay off for me.  First and foremost my relationship with God will improve too. 
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Aug 26, 2009.  I am 50 years old.  I found this site by aol search and here I am.  Unbelievable I weigh a whooping 395 lbs at my PCP 3 weeks ago and along with thatI have a  high AC1 of 9.2   I looked up on this site with my height at 5"8" in that i have a BMI of  60 which means I am SUPER Morbid obese. GRRRRRRRRRRRRR......  I started on a new diabetic medicine called  Janumet along with sliding scale of Metformin with blood sugars over 250.  I started reflecting about my Aunt Patsy who died last year from complications of diabets.  I do not want to let diabetes takes over my body and end my life early.  My PCP ordered me to take my blood sugar 3 times a day.  Well that was awakening call for me.  My first FSBS was 327mg/dl. OMG I thought  I really need to change my life.  I have been addicted to soft drinks such as cokes, pepsi and mountain dew.  So for the last 3 weeks I have given up soft drinks.  That was a major step for me.  I have been trying to move alittle more and watch my carbs.  I am sick of chicken so I need to figure some other meats along with chicken.  My blood sugars have come down now and ranging from low 200s to 140 but mostly staying under 200 so that has improved.  I go back to my PCP tomorrow and hope that some more weight loss.  I have been working up for the gastric bypass for almost a year now because of my insurance and also because I had to go to California to spend time with my daughter.   I am due to go back to my cardiologist which is my last clearance for my bypass surgery on Sept 8.  I am praying for that clearance.  Please pray for me that I can get this surgery soon after that.  Then I will schedule appointment with Dr. Ken McDonald after that once I talk with his assistant on getting all my paperwork up.  I am looking for a support group here who is going through same process and who has had the gastric bypass and how they have got through everything.