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so today is Thursday March 11th.  As of this a.m. my weight is 275.4.  And the beauty of that particular # is that I am officially more than 50% to my goal weight of 209.  my halfway mark was 278.  whoopie!  this is great.  i love it.  my body is feeling loved and it's great.  i am doing things that i never would have done 72 pounds ago.  for instance.....ah-hem....drum roll please.........

i biked 12 miles on saturday!  can you believe it.  and not on a stationary bike!  a real deal pedal to the pavement, good old-fashioned bicycle.  i felt as though i was commiting exercise suicide, but I DID IT!!!!! 

smooches!

so I did the BMI calculator today to see where I stand.  I am officially less than 2 points away from being "obese."  I will be glad to get out of the "morbidly obese" catergory b/c to me....

Morbidly = Deathly

So that means in less that 2 BMI points, I will not longer be deathly fat.  Yippee!  I freegin' love my sleeve!
 

so my mom, sister, bro-in-law & niece all came in for my birthday.  we had a fabulous time.  i made a few "not the best" choices but i'm not beating myself up b/c they could have been waaaaay worse...trust me.  anywho, Sunday i signed up to do a Nature Walk with my support center here in Jacksonville and took my mom, niece & daughter with me.  I figured that the girls wouldn't be able to walk the whole way, so we took 2 umbrella strollers (not the best idea for a nature walk).  So the walk starts.  there are tree roots, pine tree junk, etc on the ground, so trying to push a stroller was not the easiest.  about 10 minutes into the walk, i no longer hear my mom right behind me. she had to stop to catch her breath.  once we started again, she asked how much further.  i knew that she wouldn't be able to finish the whole 1.5 miles.  so we took a shortcut to a wheelchair accessible path that had a smooth ramp that made pushing the strollers a breeze.  My mom kept apologizing to me for us only being able to do 3/4 of a mile instead of the whole 1.5.  i told her not to feel bad & that i applauded her for supporting me.

anyway, my point is.....at 282.4 pounds, i found that i am healthier than my 118 pound mom.  Who would have ever thought.  I guess we get so caught up on the # the scale says that we forget to notice how hard we have worked the rest of ourselves.  So if your reading this, take a second to applaud yourself for doin' whatcha gotta do!

cole

p.s.  did you check out my updated photos.....yay me!

So today is the big 31 for me.  To be honest, I am not that bent up about it like I thought I would be.  As a matter of fact, I completely forgot it was my birthday until I heard Rudy telling Jada yesterday that "tomorrow is mommies birthday!"  I looked at him like he was insane, then it clicked.  LOL!  Anywho, my mom flew down from VA for the occassion & my sissie-poo, niece & BIL are flying down today.  Here is our agenda for the next few days.....
Thurs-  SeaWorld
Fri- Disney
Sat-Tea Party for Lauren (neighbor friend)
Sun- Zoo & a Nature walk with the Novus Center (support group)
Talk about some great exercise!!!

Oh, so back to the starring.  So my mom just kept starring at me last night and telling me how she couldn't believe how great I look.  It is the first time she has seen me since surgery which oddly enough is my 2 month surgiversary.  So it made me feel good, but every time i turned around she was starrring at me smiling. :)

Well, until next time.