JennaKopanyi

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Just blasted through the 70 pounds lost mark! I'm very excited... 7.8 pounds to normal BMI! I'm going to make my Yule goal!!
Got weighed and measured at the gym yesterday, in the two months since I've joined, I've lost 29 pounds, 22 of which were fat.
I've also lost a total of 21" off various body parts in that time! Woot!!

A lot of people haven't known me under 180 pounds, friends I've had for the past 10 years! This is a very exciting time in my life. I'm very thankful I found my surgeon who gave me the tool I needed to get where I am today. I think I'm going to blow his goal weight for me out of the water by my 6 month check up (in January)

Bulletin: Todd picked me up last night, that is lifted me off of the ground from a standing position with no help from me, and held me! for like a minute!! and wasn't even breathing hard. This was afer I told him that one of my goals was to have him carry me across the threshold!

I think I am going to start bawling again...

I am the happiest girl on earth. Today the scale is no longer my enemy, it told me that I am 9.8 pounds away from being normal weight! I cried almost all the way to work... with joy! And I just updated my weight and saw how far I've come, I just want to go hug my surgeon! Maybe Monday at support group...

Sooooooooooooo deliriously happy

It's been a great day so far, and I am only now sitting down to drink my breakfast. I went to the gym this morning, as I always do before work. I pack my clothes for work teh night before and I wear my gym clothes for the drive. So I go to Curves, I do my circuit, have nice conversation, do the 60-second squat challenge (and lose track of time and totally make it!) Then I rush off to the changing room and pull on my skirt, which promptly tries to fall back down as I lift my arms to change my shirt! Well crap, it fit last time I wore it, which now that I think on it, was about a month ago. It's a size 13 and I am just barely in a 10 (the tight side not the loose side). So I pull back on my tight shirt and secure my skirt with it, then put on my regular shirt over that. My beautiful pin stripe skirt is now about 3 inches too big, I know because I measured it as I put a safety pin in it (which I had to liberate from my nemesis at work).
On my way back to my desk, I ran into a co-worker who went out for surgery in early October. He stopped what he was doing and just stared as I walked toward him, it was pretty hilarious. He said many nice things like "damn how long was I gone?" and "You look great!" "You must feel like a new woman". 
So between people being nice and my skirt falling off I am pretty full of myself today :P
Tell me about that nice things that have happened or been said to you!

Teddi~ Let me know if Rachael or Kelly wins the fight for my skirt :)

I have been waiting for this day! I finally ran into someone I used to know who didn't recognize me. I worked with this sweet lady at the hospital for a couple of years 8-10 years back. wE worked together a lot and she was one of the few coworkers I really liked. I now older, though look about the same age, and probably 30 pounds lighter than when I last saw her.
I saw her at the gym this morning, and someone mentioned her name. I had to make myself stare at her before I recognized her, she has also lost a bit of weight! After some prompting she remembered me :)
It was a good morning

I hate grapefruit, really I do. I loathe it with a passion, and yet I used to drink Fresca and couldn't understand why I loved it so. Now I have a new conundrum. I tried the sample pack of the Syntrax Nectar protein powders and the pink grapefruit is my favorite. How can this be?! I just don't understand my taste buds, not one little bit!