April 30, 2007

So I can really feel restriction since my fill.  It really makes a big difference.  I have lost a little over six pounds this week and that is very good.  I really did not feel like I had enough energy to get out and walk the way that I should, but this week is a new week and will be a fresh start.  My initial goal is to walk 10 miles a week for four weeks in a row.  When I am able to stick to that without a challenge, then I am going to up the ante somehow.  I'm not really sure how that will be, but I will do it.  Next week I am starting back to Curves.  I am so excited about that.  I love Curves and know that it makes me stronger when I am faithful about going.  I was 346 on the scale this morning, so it is certainly moving in the right direction.  Hope you all are doing well too.

April 24, 2007
I know by far that it has been a while since I have posted.  I feel like I have been in a holding pattern for the last three weeks or so.  I know that I experienced what everyone else seems to.  I had gotten to the point where I was on real food and could eat anything I wanted without a problem.  Needless to say, I have pretty much stayed the same weight.  

My husband and I have been walking quite a bit though, so I am sure that has helped.  Last week we did 10 miles over the week.  I bit off more than I could chew last Monday and ended up being really sore and could hardly move on Tuesday and Wednesday, but we got back on track on Thursday.  I would have to say that one of the nicest things about Abilene is their park system and the walking paths at those parks.

Yesterady I had my first official fill.  It was certainly nothing that was bad.  Well I do not believe the experience of getting a fill was bad, but I can tell you that I was having a tremendous amount of gas pain the whole 4-hour drive home from San Antonio.  I took some Gas-X when I got home and that seemed to help.  I must say that the whole experience was not what I was expecting, but still not bad.  I guess I overall did not know what to expect.  He ended up putting 5 cc in my 10 cc Vanguard band.

I was very excited though about my weight.  I had vowed not to weigh myself at all for the last week or so.  I was just tired of getting on the scale and being the same or even up a pound or two.  I have discovered that the doctor's scale definitely weighs me lighter than my scale here at home.  When I initially went to see him my weight on his scale was 375 and my scale was 380.  Yesterday on his scale I was 348.6.  This morning by my scale I was 352, so I am really feeling good about my weight loss.  I would think that a fill would even make that go faster.

Well I must go get to work.  Hope if you are reading this that you are doing well also.  Thanks for taking the time to watch me ramble :).

March 29, 2007

Well today is my 32nd birthday.  I do not really appreciate getting older, but I will live.  I am on purees this week and have found this to be the toughest stage yet.  There just isn't anything that appeals to me in the pureed form.  I know that in a few days I will be able to do soft foods, so I will live, no fear in that.  I had my husband hide the scales because I would get on them every time I went to the bathroom which of course is not a good thing.  

I do have to say that I am feeling sad today.  When I talked to my mom on the phone last night she told me that a young girl in their church had lost her husband the other day because he was killed in Iraq.  In a round about way I have friends who knew him and stuff and I just feel sad for her and their 6 month old daughter.  The part that is hard for me is the guilt.  I feel guilty because I have said goodbye to my husband so many times when he has left, many times to the middle east and other times to other places, but he always comes back safe and sound.  There are times where I have certainly feared for his safety, but he has always come home in one piece.  I have been a military wife for 10 years now and I know that my husband believes in what he is doing, but I can't help but feel guilty that I still have my husband and hers is gone.  There first anniversary would have been April 8th, Easter Sunday.  If you are a praying person and you are reading this, please pray for their family.  His name was Sean Thomas.