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#1--get off the blood pressure meds. #2--Obtain strength and fitness

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Have defined arms like my personal trainer as a result of weight training

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Flirt with my husband and feel confident about it

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Guessing Game at Cedar Point--be guessed at 120 pounds

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do gardening without almost passing out

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Now that I have reached a one year goal, I wanted to update my introduction to include what I have learned.  First and foremost---the pounds do not mean everything!!  In fact, on my list, they don't mean anything.  What is important is your body fat percentage!  I use a Tanita body composition scale that gives me muscle mass weight, body fat percentage, water weight, metabolic age, bone mass and BMR.  I have also kept my measurements.  People talk about plateaus.  But are they really a plateau?  NO.  Not if you are keeping track of your measurements and your body fat percentage, muscle mass and water weight.  For example, there have been weeks where I haven't lost weight and have even gained weight.  Why?  Because I was gaining muscle mass and actually lost body fat and inches!  I wear a size 4, am 5'2" and weigh 134 in my last weigh in.  Some people may think that is alot of pounds, but I wear a size 4 AND my body fat percentage is 24 (my goal is to be between 22 and 25 percent).  

UPDATE:  My success toolbox:  Gastric bypass (of course), Physical fitness training, Obesityhelp.com, body composition scale, Fitday, Book--"Eating Well After Weight Loss Surgery", Pedometer, Speigel catalog for inspiration, Bariatric Advantage vitamins, EAS Carb control protein shakes.






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Body composition
on February 25, 2008 7:23 am
DATE TIME  WEIGHT BODY
FAT %
BODY
Water %
MUSCLE
MASS
BMR BONE
MASS
Metabolic Age
3/2/2007*   217.8            
9-Mar 4:05 PM 213.6 49.9 36.2 101.8 1545 5.4 50+
3/11/2007 6:00 pm DST 212 48.7 37 103.2 1556 5.6 50+
3/20/2007   207.6 45.8 39 106.8 1587 5.6 50+
3/23/2007 12:30 PM 204.6 47.6 37.7 101.8 1527 5.4 50+
3/29/2007 7:45 AM 202.8 47     1526   50+
4/7/2007 9:00 AM 199.2 47.8 37.5 98.8 1485 5.2 50+
4/13/2007 8:00 AM 196.6 46.5 38.3 99.8 1492 5.4 50+
4/20/2007 8:25 AM 196.4 44.2 39.9 104 1537 5.6 50+
4/27/2007 12:00 PM 190.2 45.4 38.9 98.6 1468 5.2 50+
5/18/2007 7:00 AM 182 43.5 40.2 97.8 1445 5.2 50+
5/25/2007 8:00 AM 178.4 43.3 40.2 96 1420 5.2 50+
6/6/2007 12 noon 174.6 42.4 40.8 95.6 1412 5.2 50+
7/2/2007 1:00 PM 168 38.5 45 103.5 1453   50+
8/4/2007 8:00 AM 156.8 39.3 42.5 90.4 1325 4.8 50+
10/1/2007 3:00 PM 147 28.9   104.5     50+
11/1/2007 3:00 PM 139 28.8   99.1     40
12/15/2007 8:00 AM 136.4 28.8 49.3 92.4 1310 5 33
1/9/2008 12:00 PM 133.2 27.6 50 91.4 1296 4.8 30
1/17/2008 7:00 AM 130.2 26.7 50.5 90.6 1281 4.8 28
1/23/2008   129.2 26.1 50.9 90.6 1280 4.8 27
2/8/2008 9:30 AM 134 25.9 51.2 94.2 1326 5 27

*Highest weight was 234 (lost 17 prior to surgery).  Highest body fat percentage was 52%
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Monday, February 25, 2008 - New Measurements
on February 25, 2008 7:14 am
  2-Mar 13-Apr 29-May 29-Jun 20-Aug 1-Oct 1-Nov 18-Jan
Neck 15.50 14.25 13.00 13.00 12.75 12.75 12.50 12.00
chest 48.00 47.50 41.00 40.00 38.00   35.75 35.00
Waist 46.00 41.00 34.50 33.75 32.00 29.50 29.00 28.00
Hips 55.00 49.50 43.50 42.50 40.50 38.00 38.75 36.50
Biceps 17.25 15.50 14.00 13.00 12.25   11.75 11.00
Thighs 32.00 29.00 23.75 24.75 24.00   22.50 21.50
Calves 19.50 18.50 17.25 16.50 16.00   15.50 15.00
forearm   9.50 10.50 10.00     9.25 9.00
ankle       9.50 9.00   9.00 9.00
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Thursday, February 7, 2008 - I'm on the cover!!!
on February 7, 2008 5:45 am

Being the cover story of Health & Leisure has surely been my most wonderful WOW moment so far.  Check out the magazine at http://www.healthandliesureonline.com

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Friday, January 11, 2008 - Photo Shoot
on January 12, 2008 2:40 am
I had my photo shoot with Health & Leisure magazine today. www.healthandleisureonline.com.  

They took pictures of me at my personal trainer's (Peggy Staycoff) fitness studio at her house.  bfit2@comcast.net.  We took several pictures in my workout clothes in the fitness studio, then I changed clothes into something more dressy and took some more pictures from her formal living room.  Peggy has a beautiful home, and the cathedral ceiling with floor to ceiling windows in the living room was beautiful.  I am so thankful to Peggy for suggesting that we do the photo shoot there.  I felt like a star, but felt a little uncomfortable.  I would have liked some more specific direction on posing because I am not used to having my picture taken and what posing looks good for me and what doesn't.  They showed me the pictures before the shoot ended and they looked pretty good.  There were alot of problems with lighting/shadows.  Some of the best looking pictures of me had shadows so won't be able to be used.  

I also found out that I will be ON THE COVER!!!  I am so excited.  Its really something I would have never imagined for myself.  Although, if I think back in my life, this kind of thing does happen to me from time to time.  

They said the issue will be released sometime at the end of January, around the 27th.  It is distributed in many locations in Southeast Michigan, but can also be downloaded from the web site in PDF format.  

They provided me with a couple of previous issues.  I have to say that I am really impressed with the information in the magazine.  I will be sure to keep reading it.  There are ALOT of very good articles. 

I also weighed myself prior to leaving for the photo shoot.  I was shocked to see that I had lost 4 pounds in the last week.  I had been under the weather, so maybe that contributed to it.  I now weigh 129 and am at 26 percent body fat.  My goal is to get to 25 percent body fat.  My doctor told me he didn't think I would be able to get that low because of excess skin and having a larger bust size.  Well, I guess he wasn't correct in his assumption.  Additionally, my surgeon told me that the ideal body weight for someone 5' 2" is 126.  Of course, that doesn't take into account age or muscle mass.  

Since I wasn't feeling well last week, I wasn't able to work out.  Consequently, I also lost a pound of muscle mass.  I gotta pump it up to get my muscle mass back up there.  Peggy, my trainer, said she is going to adjust my workouts to get my muscle mass back up.  At one point it was at 103 pounds.  

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Tuesday, January 8 2008 - MAGAZINE FEATURE
on January 8, 2008 10:49 am
I weighed myself today and I am down to 133 and a size 4 pants.  My body water percentage went up a percentage, and my muscle mass went down.  Darn....I haven't done my weight training consistently for a couple of weeks due to being sick.  Gotta get back to it.  My body fat percentage is around the same.  

But the real news is the call I received from my surgeon's office yesterday.  They said a Southeast Michigan magazine called, Health & Leisure is featuring my surgeon in an upcoming issue.  They wanted to know if I would be willing to be part of the article as a successful patient.  I am so excited about this!  Just goes to show that hard work and dedication always produce results beyond expectations.  I hope it comes to fruition!  Of course, if it does, I will let everyone know.  

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