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Goals

Cross my legs and be able to sit comfortably

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learn salsa dancing and ballroom dancing

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Tandem Skydive and Bunji Jump

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Reach Onederland

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Member Interests
  • Dancing - I love dancing and hope to do it more!
  • Karaoke - Huge Karaoke fan
  • Amusement Parks - I love roller coasters and one of things I look forward to doing is riding more.
  • Road Trips - I love travelling to new places and taking road trips
  • Yoga - One of those things I'm interested in doing but can't do, YET.
  • Horror - I love horror movies
  • RN - I am an RN in Labor and Delivery, I LOVE my job and hope to be a midwife someday
  • BMI over 50 - 57.4 starting BMI
  • WLS in your 30's - I'm 33!
  • Reading - I'm a self-help book junkie

Latest Surgery Support Comments

  • Comment by Kristie T. on 11/9/08 2:46 am
    The Healthier New Your is right around the corner, good luck & best wishes on an uneventful surgery and speedy recovery.
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Hello, and welcome to my profile.  I welcome any friends and comments.

Please see my brand new official blog with more updates, pictures and just my everyday rants and thoughts about this jorney and my life.

www.losingtheshel.com

waterfall999's Blog
waterfall999's Blog


I'm up to my eyeballs in ebay, please come look!
on September 17, 2009 4:31 am
I'm selling my winter coats and fall jackets, size 3x, also some Old Navy shirts, a cute skirt, belt, prada purse!! and shoes

Please help me out, I have to fund my new clothing, somehow! The closet is getting empty!

http://shop.ebay.com/waterfall999/m.html?_dmd=1&_in_kw=1&_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1

Ebay userid: waterfall999

Good luck and thanks for looking!
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One is the lonliest number.....but I LOVE IT
on September 6, 2009 6:53 pm
198 baby!

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Momentum - more on other blog
on July 15, 2009 8:44 am
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I know I like to see updates on people's pages so here I am. I've good momentum going, after a 2.5 month long battle with random issues, I'm finally starting to feel 'normal" so I'm exercising more, and just feeling better in general. I can eat pretty much whatever I want, and I still struggle with cravings for crap I don't need, but regardless I eat less and better than I ever did. I still have a serious fear of all this stopping and regaining, I'm hoping my fear will keep my momentum going!

I'm learning to deal with my new very squishy, oddly shaped naked body, it doesn't bother me too much and I did anticipate it, I knew i would have a lot of skin and the weight loss would NOT be evenly distributed. I dont' knwo if my buddah belly will ever go away, but it is slowly shrinking, meanwhile, my arms are TINY, my ankles and feet have shrunk incredibly, and my face is thinning out like crazy!

I've added new pics here, as well on my other blog and there is a link to my snapfish, with all the pics.

I don't post here much, but I do read.

i started tracking my food again, and was surpised by the amount of protein I am getting, which is good! Still most days I don't get 1000 calories, others when I have crap I don't need it was more, but I think I need to eat more? 

Especially since I'm working out more, I'm shooting for an hour of cardio most days, along with weights, and pilates.

I had a slight knee injury, it's better now, but I must be careful and kinda baby it, I worry I may not be able to zumba as much I like. I had x-rays taken and they saw nothing major just arthritis, which doesn't surprise me. I know I have that, in my back too, but execise helps, and so does pilates.

So anyway, read my updated blog, and check my updated video, I may have to make a new one, I'm out of space.

and SOME day I will scan older pictures, so I can really compare, i'm pretty sure i was over 200lbs in junior high, if not close to it. I don't remember exactly when I went over 200lbs, but I don't remember being UNDER.

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My weight loss journey

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stilll using new blog, but thought I'd post here....
on May 18, 2009 8:30 pm
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So, I saw my mom and it was SeVERELY disappointing, she really had nothing to say, she didn't seem shocked at all and was pretty much more interested in what I was eating than how I looked, her only comment was, "you still have a belly, when will that go away" I almost wanted to say "F you" and get up and leave, and now she wants me to help pay for her new computer!  If they only knew how much money I DIDN'T freaking have?!?!?!?

So I'm down to 219, from a high of 347, whoopee, nobody at my dr's office ever gives me credit for the nearly 50lbs I lost before surgery, and if one more freaking person asks, "so how much have you lost?" I'm going to puke.

Maybe I'm just feeling cranky today, maybe I just need to get over it....maybe maybe maybe maybe.....
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Be sure to read my new blog!
on March 20, 2009 8:48 pm
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I've been posting there about once a month.

In my last post here I mentioned how my BMI was in the 40's, down from 59! 

Well, it's 39, now!!!

Weird that's how many inches my waist is too. I can't remember being on 40"

The last few weeks, I've really changed, after about a 5 weeks stall, so it's time to stall again, I probably won't change for another few weeks. Just seems to be how my body is, but I don't know maybe that better?

About 6 weeks from my 6month mark and I'll be able to eat more veggies, I really haven't had many, I feel really limited by my food choices and I've made some recipes but some of them didn't turn out so well...

I'm seeing my mom for the first time next week since surgery, it's going to be dramatic, I can tell! It will be fun to surprise her tho!
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My Story

I've been fat ever since I can remember.  I had hardly any friends in grade school. I got made fun of a lot and that's where the problems began. 
My mom and I never got along and a lot of struggles revolved around food.  I was and still am a VERY picky eater, and my mom just didn't understand how I could possibly not like certain foods or didn't want something one day and did the next. It was a CONSTANT battle and so when I got older especially after I was able to drive, I used to go to the grocery store and buy whatever I wanted and eat it, usually hiding it in my car or in my room.

I would binge eat whenever I could, and constantly struggled with low self-esteem, feeling fat, what should I eat, what shouldn't I eat, etc.  It's really hard as a teenager to make the right decisions, when your food consumption is mostly controlled by your parents.  My dad was and still is a binge eater, he needs WLS worse than I do, but I doubt he would even qualify, I feel like mentioning it to him some time. 

In college I wasn't any better, and gained more than the freshman 15, I just slowly kept putting on weight, always in a constant battle with myself.  Feeling the stares from my friends and family when I would come home and they saw I had GAINED weight.

I pretty much gave up on dieting, for a while, I was depressed, lonely and didn't know what I wanted to do with my life, I felt totally lost.

I then started going to a doctor, asking for help, that's when phen-fen was popular, I didn't do that, but tried other drugs, for a while, metabolife worked, I'd lose 7-10 pounds in one week because i didn't feel like eating, but then I'd start eating again and gain it back. 

I spent the first 4 years of college, depressed, lonely, and self-destructive in many ways.  Something finally clicked and I went to nursing school and finally was feeling better.  Not exactly happy, but better.  I was in a dead-end relationship, only hanging on because I had nothing else.  I finally decided to join WeightWatchers, and low and behold I was successful; I ended my relationship, graduated nursing school and lost about 70 pounds.  I got a new job, started paying off debt, and was doing really well.  Unfortunately, because of all the changes happening in my life, I got off track and over the next 2 years I gained all the weight back and was back at the same place. 

I tried to find myself, again, started doing travel nursing, started a distant-learning midwifery school, but couldn't get motivated.  I was failing again, and out of control. 

So, here I am, nearly 7 years after graduating from college and I feel like I've not accomplished much. 

I feel like I'm being held back, I feel trapped by my food addiction.  There's so many things I want to do, that I cannot, and now here I am, finally having some real hope that I can be successful.

That's my story, not unlike others, I'm sure.  This is a turning point in my life.