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long time no see obesity help.  My weight is still off and I'm 4 1/2 years out. I still have to be careful about eating the wrong thing but life is good. I'm on facebook and I have more pictures there, I'll update here when I'm home. Peace and Love people

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NEW POST'S AT BOTTOM OF PAGE ~~~~~~~~10/14/06~~~~~~~ I guess here is where I tell my story.....Gosh thats a long story, we'll just skip to where I am today. I am 11 days out and still working out the kinks in this whole thing. I'm very glad I did this, so far, and it almost feels like it's too good to be true. The surgery was so much easier then I thought it would be and the recovery even better. I'm excited to be a healthier mom and wife and just to like what I see in the mirror. My inside doesn't match the outside and it's been a long time since i've liked my body image. I'm really excited about the future and hope to be a positive influence to my whole family. be back Monday-M ~~~~~~~~10/17/06~~~~~~~~ I don't know if I'm doing this right maybe I should be posting in the other section......Who knows anyway I saw the doctor yesterday and lost another 6 pounds. So thats -25 since the surgery, and a total of -67 since i got serious in my options class at around April. I had to do six months of nutrition classes and behavioral classes in order o get approval for the surgery, plus I had to loose 10% of my total body weight, which was 371 in January. Anyway, I ate a little too much today and it almost floored me. I don't know why I always have to do things the hard way, but thats the cross I have to bear. So the Dr. cleared me to start exercising. So yesterday I want for a walk with my sister but it was only around the block and it only took 10 minutes so right after that my grandpa and I went for another longer walk to make the whole 30 minutes. Then today I walked my daughter to the bus and walked for 30 minutes with my trusty hound Max and I gotta say it got a little tiring after about 20 minutes but i just looked at the ground and didn't focus on how much further i had to go and before I new it I was home. Way to go ! My BMI went down to 50.6 also. I'll take it. Chow for now.-M ~~~~~~~~10/18/06~~~~~~~~ Today was a good day. I stayed on track and didn't have any problems. I am a little sore from walking so I'm taking today off and listening to my body.-M ~~~~~~~~10/19/06~~~~~~~~ I chatted on line last night and had a great time. Met some new people, learned a few things and sharred my own wisdom. I had another good day, except I found out my nephew is getting shipped out to Iraq tomorrow. Please pray for Christopher.......be safe nephew. XOX ~~~~~~~~10/25/06~~~~~~~~~ I'ts been a few days since I've been able to bring myself to this computer and type the words that I didn't loose any weight last week. Damn! I measured and walked 3 times.......I was really in a funk for a few days, but today I felt better. I think I may have a little depression starting in from this but believe me I'm fighting it all the way. I guess the honeymoon period is over for now and I need torely on my own strength to get through this.....Thank God I'm a Strong Woman. ~~~~~~~~11/01/06~~~~~~~~ I'm posting not because I have any great news, but because I want to keep up with this and hopefull learn from it. My stomach hurts today. Maybe gas in my upper abdomen. I introduced to many new and wrong things into my stomach on the first day of purree. I'm pretty sure it was everything I tried yesterday. Except for maybe the ground turkey. Who know's? Back to basics today. ~~~~~~~~11/01/06~~~~~~~~ Wow! Today I had to go to Urgent Care because I had the worst upper abdomen pain in the world!! I still don't know what the heck it was, I'm assuming I can't eat ground turkey or maybe the oatmeal. In any case, I'm not eating either for a very long time, if ever. I did get under 300 lbs. I'm 296!!! ~~~~~~~~11/04/06~~~~~~~~ Wow another day and it just keeps getting better and better. I figured out how to puree my meat, well, just chicken so far but I think I'm off to a great start. I cooked 1 chicken breast in about a half cup of water in the crock pot all day and added some cream of broccoli soup and then put it in the blender with some juice, man it came out good. I got three meals out of 1 chicken breast. What a deal. Anyway, I just wanted to also post that my grandfather is dyeing, and all though I'm happy in my new life, "Life" still happens and we have to be able to roll with the punches as they fall. Thank God I can eat through my sorrow. See Ya Grandpa! ~~~~~~~~11/07/06~~~~~~~~ Well grandpa's still here, and nothing much to report. I chose not to buy a scale at this point in my weight loss journey, because I tend to be compulsive at times and I just don't want to deal with that kind of "funk" right now. I'm doing great and staying on track . I feel 'smaller' every day and I think that is what matters most anyway, Feeling it rather then relying on the scale to tell you it. ~~~~~~~~11/10/06~~~~~~~~ Not much to report. I still don't have scale, I might get one for Christmas from my daughter. she likes to be able to know my weight loss when she calls and I never have anything to tell her. So I guess I'm getting one. I feel great and love life. ~~~~~~~~11/12/06~~~~~~~~ Well, grandpa passed away tonight at 10:02 pm surrounded by all of his children. And all his family stood together and prayed with him around his bed, as he gave up his fight against cancer. I'm fine, I guess. I may go weigh tomorrow at the local Kaiser. ~~~~~~~~11/21/06~~~~~~~~ Well I guess I don't have anyone else to blame my slow weight loss on, but myself. I haven't been exercising and I just went back to work after 7 weeks sitting on my butt. when I weighed myself last, the day after halloween, I weighed 296, and yesterday I went to a local Kaiser and weighed and it said I only lost another 6 pounds. I guess I need to get off my duff and start walking. My heels hurt so badly that it makes it hard to walk. ~~~~~~~~12/3/06~~~~~~~~ I mad an appointment with my new Dr, for her to take a look at my heel. I plan on kicking my exercise up a few notches in January so I need to be able to take the pressure off and get some relief from this pain. I plan to join a gym in january with my 11 year old daughter. I believe 24 hour fitness has a kids area for my girl to get some exercise as well as myself. This way we're spending quality time together too. I still don't own a scale and I'm still quite pleased with the decision to not buy one until I start at the gym. I could imagine the torture I'd be putting myself through right now. I feel great, cloths are still getting bigger and I pretty much don't make mistakes about my eating. I know what I'm suppose to have and what I'm not. ~~~~~~~~12/16/06~~~~~~~~ I have a busy day today. getting ready to go on a mad shopping trip w/graham. Got company coming, need to clean up a little, pick up daughter from train, have birthday party and bar-b-que. Go to my husbands Christmas party tomorrow after dropping daughter back off at school. Phew! At least we're getting a hotel room where the party is in Newport Beach. And I have all of Monday off work to spend my husbands bonus money....I mean spend time with my grandparents. lol I'm doing both actually. We need to get our Christmas stuff done. I still don't own a scale. I know my weight loss is slow due to lack of exercise. But the weight is coming off. And January is when I get serious. I gave my self 3 months and January is the time. My GP didn't have anything encouraging to say about my heel pain. She just gave me a paper with some exercises on it. I'm going to try them because I feel the lack of muscle in my feet and toes. I can't even get on my tip-toes. ~~~~~~~~02/02/07~~~~~~~~ Wow It's been a month. I finally weighed and lost another 10 pounds. I know it would be coming off quicker if I could move and exercise more. I just need to keep reminding myself that it is coming off. Slowly,... but it is coming off. The bummer and at the same time cool thing about this, is that i keep getting to go shopping for cloths....good and bad. I'm having fun at a very safe pace for me. Not smoking for the past 6 months is truly a blessing. But I have a lot of work yet to do...I have to implement an exercise program for myself and then hopefully, my family and then maybe my friends. And who knows what else. ...... I have to work tomorrow and get up at 3 am, so until next time. ~~~~~~~~02/17/07~~~~~~~~ Well I broke tradition and weighed my self before I wanted to and lost another 4 pounds. at least its a loss even though it's a small one. I still feel my cloths getting bigger, so I guess thats good. Pretty soon I'll be able to go on the roller coasters at Magic Mountain. Yippee!!! I'm moving faster and more active. I always want to try to write something witty for this site but can never come up with anything..........I guess i'll just have to be myself. Men are starting to notice me more and I'm not to sure how to re-act. I mainly just laugh. I'm so in love with my husband that no man can turn my focus from him! ~~~~~~~~03/16/07~~~~~~~~ I broke down and bought a scale......Not to sure if it was a totally good Idea, I tend to be a little obsessive but I'm hoping it was a good decision. I feel like I need to be more accountable and more pro-active with my weight loss and keeping on track. I've unfortunately found out I can eat almost anything and still loose weight. Although it's not coming off fast but it is coming off. I'm not exercising either and I feel a lot of guilt because of it. I'm not a good example to look at but I guess this journey is mine to take, or screw up if need be. I am going to start exercising just as soon as my heel issue is dealt with, I need to be more pro-active in that issue as well. ~~~~~~~~~05/07~~~~~~~~~ It's been a while and I think I hit plateau. I have lost half of what I want but have so much further to go. I feel great but still need to step up my exercise. I fixed my bike and have gone riding a couple of times it's really windy where I live so I seem to have ready made excuses lined up. I have been snacking so I know it has caused my weight loss to level off. We won't be having any of that! Time to step up the exercise. I went to 24 hour fitness and I flashed back to 7th grade gym class!!!!! yikes! I don't think a gym like that is for me. I guess it's back to curves. For now anyway. My total weight loss is 131 lbs. but only 89 since surgery. still not too shabby. I recognize where I'm failing myself and plan to regulate. pray for me! ~~~~~~~~10/04/07~~~~~~~~ I'm down to 213 starting weight 371, i hope it keeps coming off............more later.