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  • Theater - I'm a costume designer and work with local theatres
  • Movies - I am also a costume designer for films, check me out on www.imbd.com
  • Historical Reenactment - I have run a renaissance guild for 18 years, vrijbuit is it's name
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  • Comment by smg on 8/27/06 6:06 pm
    A friend from the January Board Kristi you look great.... Wow I love the new hair cut........... Looking forward to hopefully meeting you with the group in January 2007.... Suzan San Mateo, CA
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Have a speedy recovery Angela in Corpus Christi 291lbs BMI 45.60 -234lbs Dr Michael Grace Open RNY Life began May 16, 2002 I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears. Surely..I will heal you." 2 Kings 20:5
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Body Image or what I think I see
posted on 1/18/07 8:50 pm
Not sure this title will still fit when I am done here.  I am traveling and feeling a little alone these days.  I love what I do, but I am not with friends that I can pall around with, so I am spending alot of time with myself.  I think too much in these times.  I know I look better, look great.  I also know that my arms are saggy, I have a waddle under my chin, alot more wrinkles on my face, and wont even describe my thighs and stomach.  But I also know these are much better on me than on others.  But I guess I am having a pitty party and am not happy with it right now.  I am going to Mexico in Apr. and would love to wear a bathing suit, but even a one piece wont work without a skirt I think, or maybe nilons  :)  I still have rolls on my stomach, I don't see those going away.  It isn't all that bad, but they get me.  But the worst part is the boobs.

I have always been a decent size.  42D to DD at my largest, could find a bra most times.  But now I am a 34 D, I can only find these in full size bras and they cut into my arm at the front shoulder causing numbness in my hand.  And those bras are few and far between anyway.   I also am way lower than I was.  My daughter and Mom and good friends keep coming up and pulling up on the bra straps.  Guess what, that only works for a minute, you see, you are pulling up everything from  my breast to my saggin stomach below my waistband.    It has all slipped.  Now I see why they do the whole body lift.  But that is all out.  I spent enough not working from this surgery, I wont put us in debt for vanity surgery.

Guess I just needed to sort of say this out loud.  I am very happy with the results of the surgery.  I am finding I fight the boredom and wanting to eat alot.  Out here when there is a show, sometimes the only thing you have to do is sleep, shower and eat.  So you look forward to meals.  Then when you are in the truck, and nothing else to do, there is the want to snack.  I am working hard on this.  I eat such small amounts and want to keep it that way.  I think I am still loosing, wont know for a few more months, but my new pants are getting looser.  I am wearing 10's and think 8s would work now.  SF jolly ranchers are great to snack on, but boy do they give me gas.  Tooting away right now,  ok, TMI.  But I still eat them, when I know I have time away from other humans.  I miss my popcorn.  I think I will check with catering and see if they have a microwave that I could use to make up a few batches at a time.  Put them in zip lock baggies and butter spray it just before I eat them.  They should stay fresh enough.

This is a little bit of a downer post, don't have alot of thoughts like this honestly.  It is actually a success journal here, as in that I haven't/can't eat away these feelings and I haven't turned to anything else either.  I have to deal with them, but I am doing so.

For those who might read this, be prepared to be honest with yourself.  Realize that your relationship with food is going to change and be willing to change with it.  Don't look for that time when you will be able to have that one food you love, but look for that new food that is good for you and you will learn to love.  I have found cooked veggies in soup are my new favorite.  

I am normal weight now, normal BMI.  I probubly am too thin, as I have some excess skin, at least 10lbs I would say.  I am still loosing, or my weight is redistibuting.  I am finding it very hard to eat more calories.  I am eating more bread, which out here is the best carb I can add.  The other carbs are mostly fried foods.  I am eating salads more, and having a more balanced meal.  I use to eat only protein, now I add other things in after I have eaten protein, or once in awhile I don't even have protein in my meal.  But I make sure I get at least 50g of protein a day, that's where the protein drinks come in.  I have also added a SF coffee mocha to my protein drinks, it adds a few calories and makes it so much better.  I also will have coffee with DIET Swiss Miss Cocoa mix in it.  My new Starbucks.  But read the lables, the no sugar added has 7g of sugar in it, the diet has none.

Well, these are my wondering thoughts, new I would stray from the topic.  But I am lonely and bored.  So this is my friend right now.  Sort of pathetic.  But it gets me by.


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