Hey lovely people!  Just checking in for the month of March!  So, I've gained about 3 - 4 pounds (depends on the day and time of day, lol) and I'm getting concerned.  I was okay about being at a stand-still but with gaining weight.....I DON'T LIKE IT !

Now I know what INSANITY really means: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results!  I ain't crazy and refuse to be a dog chasing his own tail!  So starting today I will do some form of exercise.  I know, I know, I've been saying that since I've had the doggone RNY but I'm serious.  This weight gain is serious business and it is simply not an option any more!  I've got to hold my own self accountable!  I mean lets get real here.  It is no one's responsibility except for me to get off my butt and move!  BUMP trying to rely on other people to hold me accountable to do WHAT I KNOW IS RIGHT!!  I'm reminded of this in the Bible (I'm paraphrasing here) in Romans Chapter 7:21...when I know to do good and want to do good "evil" (in this case my laziness) is present on every hand!

So, I vow to do GOOD, and stop letting laziness conquer me!  I'm waging war and I intend on being victorious in the end!

Miracles and Blessings
~Karnita~

So my BMI still says that I'm obese  ...WOW!  A real news flash to me!  I said in December that I would lose the 100lbs by March, well that hasn't happened.  Sweetpea went to Austalia and New Zeland for almost a month and I had to watch the kids.  Needless to say it has been a very stressful 3 and a half weeks.  I have not paid my bills since November, my truck broke down and my heat hasn't been working in my house since the end of November!  I have a lot of catching up to do.  I was thinking about letting the truck go but I don't want to pay another car note!  I finally got my furnace (heater) fixed yesterday. Things are slowly turning around, however, I need to get off my sorry tail and get in the gym and move something!

Blogging really helps me put things in to prospective.  I need to lose exactly 55lbs to get to my doctor's goal weight for me, which is 130 lbs.  Toning, and eating properly (I believe) is the key to me not looking sick like I'm a crack-head!  Oh, and taking my vitamins like i'm suppose to. 

Anyway, I just wanted to let you guys know what's going on with me.  Please pray for my strength, sanity, and a continued successful weight loss journey.

Miracles and Blessings
~*~Karnita~*~

Christmas is over and now its time for the new year!  I'm excited (I know your guys are sick of me saying that but I am)!  I've had a really bad rough couple of weeks beginning on the 17th of this month.  I'm just going through a lot relationship-wise.  Nothing that I need to delve into here but just keep me lifted up in prayer.

Christmas was much better than Thanksgiving.  I was with my mother, sister, daughter, son, and niece.  We all spent the night at my mother's house Friday night and stayed up to cook Christmas dinner.  It was so funny because my mom tried to hang with the youngsters .  She knows she goes to bed around 8 p.m. and she stayed up with us until 1:30 a.m.  Actually I was done my doggone self around that time.  I went to bed !  The kids woke us up around 8 a.m. and I was back in bed at 10 a.m.  I'm getting too old for this!  Anyway, mother was trying to tell us how to cook everything.  She is hilarious.  We had Turkey, ham, green noodle casserole (consists of spinach noodles, chicken, and cheese), green beans, cabbage, dressing, giblet gravy, corn bread, a pound cake, pineapple upside down cake, and a pear pie.  I ate one slice of dark meat of turkey, a piece of ham, TBL of green beans, TBL of cabbage, TBL of green noodle casserole, and a corner of corn bread and I had water.  I was so full!  I fixed the cabbage and the sweets.  I think I did really good.

Anyway, I didn't make to my goal of 100lbs lost by my one year surgiversary but I'm maintaining.  It will be Wednesday, December 29th,  So my new years resolution is to make it to my goal of 100lbs lost by some time in March.  I think I can do it, I just got to buckle down and do the exercise!

So lovely people, I will be seeing you around next year!  Everyone be safe and have a happy and healthy New Year!

Miracles & Blessings
~Karnita Gail~

What's up lovely people.  I decided to post today because I missed the mark last month.  Just wanted to say that my Thanksgiving was sad.  This was the first year that I didn't spend with my family (me, my mother, and my sister).  I was so depressed.  Mother didn't want to cook Thanksgiving dinner so my sister and I said that we would.  Then she changed her mind and decided she didn't want to go to my sister's house.  So my sister and I decided that it didn't make any sense for us to cook if mother wasn't coming so we made other plans.  Well, mother decided to cook some crazy a** stuff for Thanksgiving and I definitely didn't want to eat it so I didn't go over to her house so I was with sweetpea and my Godkids and my son.  Needless to say I didn't even eat anything.  So I guess that was good.  I maybe ate a slice of ham, collard greens and squash casserole.  I ended up baking 4 -5 cakes Thanksgiving weekend (I did really good by not eating but a couple of slices with ice cream).  So I would say that Thanksgiving was successful as far as me eating food was concerned.

GOOD NEWS!  I found a group of ladies that are in my support group here in Augusta that go to the Y (which I'm a member of) and I will be joining them starting next week.  It's so great to have exercise buddies!  I'm so excited.  Oh, let me give you the information - this group on yahoo is AWESOMEIt is led by this awesome woman named Carla Hall and the whole staff for Dr. Blaney and Dr. Chasen (my surgeon) are wonderful people.  If you want to join, it's augustawls@yahoogroups.com, Check us out.

Also, one of my friends from off of OH is having her surgery today and I just realized that she's here in Augusta at Trinity Hospital so tomorrow I will be going to visit her (ssshhh - it's a surprise) after I get off from work the only problem is that I don't know her real name BUT there is one floor at the hospital dedicated to Weight Loss surgery so it shouldn't be hard to find her.  So once again I'm excited.

Oh, forgot to tell you that in October I did a 3-mile Walk From Obesity and it was great.  I don't have any pics (I've got to do better) but my 6-year old son came with me and we had a blast.  It felt good to do the walk without huffing and puffing and my knees not hurting.  It was a great accomplishment for me.

Well, my one year surgerversary will be December 29, 2010.  I haven't loss the 100lbs I wanted to but I'm still striving for that goal and to eventually get down to 130lbs like Dr. Chasen wants me to.  I'm excited about the Christmas holidays coming up and being off from work for a whole week (something I haven't done since I've been employed here at my job for 11 years).  So once again .....I'M EXCITED - what about you!

Love you guys!
Miracles & Blessings
Karnita Gail