Haven't done a blog update in seven months!  Geez ... spank me NOW, lol !!!! I need a good spank'n ... any takers?  Just teasing! 

All in all I have done great!  I have gone up a few lbs since the holidays, but am still very conscious of my food choices and intake.  I, like everyone else, start letting carbs and sweets start creeping back into our daily life, but its different for me this time!  I know that I must stop and rewind!  I could and never WILL allow the obesity monster to take CONTROL again!  So, I am back to basics as of today and gonna start back logging my food on Fit Day and posting it daily on the WETEO blog in the Main Forum.  This helped me so much my first year.  I also am going to drink the dreaded protein shakes (ugh) twice a day and have a lowfat meal once a day for a month just to get my body back to not craving carbs.  My two year check up is coming up the first of July and I want to weigh in at my goal of 190.  I was 205 at my one year check-up.  Being that I am almost 6 feet tall, I think 190 will be what I need to be at and is what I had projected from the beginning down from 370. Woohoo!!  Good luck to all!

I haven't blogged in a while, so I needed to "catch up."  Even though I have continued to be active on the "boards," I need to keep my blogs up so that one day I can look back and remember all the challenges, and goals I have overcome.  I journalize my food daily, and post my accountability on the WETEO board each night so that I can see exactly where I'm at with my food intake.  I strongly feel like this has been very important in this journal.  Calories really add up fast. 

My surgeon was so proud of my progress at my one year check-up.  All my labs were GREAT, all my co-morbities are resolved, GERD, sleep apnea, diabetes, high cholesterol, high blood pressure.  I am off of all my medications, and feel fabulous.  He said that I had far surpassed his goals for me, but that if I wanted to lose a little more I could, but as far as he was concerned, he had done his job by resolving all my co-morbities and restoring my body to a healthy state.  I am down 165 lbs in one year! My personal goals are about 15 lbs more.  I plan on having plastic surgery on my arms the first of the year.  That is my goal for 2011.  I plan on having my ducks in a row come January, and just add that dollar figure into my "health spending account."  My arms are my biggest trouble area.  I can't seem to hide those.  I might need a lower body lift some time in the future, but for now ... SPANX is doing a good job! Giggles! 

I have so much energy ..... and I find that if I stay busy ..... and active..... I can control the "boredom hunger" monster better!  That is my biggest challenge right now.  I have all this energy, and no one to share it with .... so that is also a goal for me.  Find me a man who loves to be active and GO GO GO!  I do miss love in my life .... and its time for me to consider that possibility.