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This will be the first sad news posting I have made. I can’t tell you what my weight loss is. MY SCALES IS BROKEN! How do I know this? Well, unless I have lost 52lbs in the past week, it’s broken. I shook it, smacked it jumped up and down, and still nothing. So, I am sorry to say people……I don’t know how much, if any weight was lost. I can say my clothes feel roomy. I am not as tired as last week. I am taking vitamins everyday. I am tracking my calories and protein. But, until I can go and buy a new scale….I don’t know my weight loss. I am going to see how much they are tonight at Wal-Mart….even though I hate Wal-Mart….(they will be cheaper than Target) I also go and see Kevin next week on the 30^th, so I will see what he says. Of course the past time I went I was showing on his scale 7lbs more than my own. Of course, that is how it is on other scales and with clothes on! (I promise to keep the clothes on at the office) So, know that sometime later this week you will have a surprise update as I will post once I get a new scales. J

Hello! Here I am 8 months out from my surgery. I have lost 162lbs. That is still surreal for me. Even with the crazy week I had, and virtually no exercise (Spring break at the parks, BUSY time) I still lost 2 lbs. Would I like it to be 5….sure. But, I am now accepting that I will start to slow down. I have after all met my 1 year goal 4 months early. I am taking my vitamins, have every day this week. I am however tired of eating. It’s a big pain to remember to eat. I am staring at that last line. It’s a pain to eat. I think that to me is the funniest line ever. I still can’t believe it’s true. I think that is what I need to get into my head, now I eat for sustenance, to be able to move, live. Not for the pleasure of it.  Not that I don’t enjoy eating some things….but it’s not why I eat now. I have so many other things that I can do now to “pass the time”. I am going to the park, shopping, hanging with friends, socializing. These things I hadn’t done in a while. I have also worked out a deal with a coworker to switch Sunday schedules. So I am going to go to a new Church service I have seen advertised. It’s a contemporary service at a HUGE church here. Not usually my thing. I have always liked smaller churches, where I knew everyone….and mostly so everyone knew me, therefore hopefully didn’t judge me for what I looked like, but for who I was. I worry that in a larger church I will get lost in the shuffle, and people won’t get to know who I am. But I don’t worry so much about being judged for what I look like. Funny I worry about being judged at church!! I need to STOP worrying about what people think of me….but that is a LONG personal struggle to deal with. It didn’t go away with the surgery. I keep thinking, they don’t know that I look good now compared to what I was…I have to accept that I look good now just because I do, not comparatively from the past me. That girl is gone. But I think this is a good place to meet new people to be with. I am also going the OH conference on May 5^th. I think that will be great to meet other WLSers and get a bunch of freebies. (YEAH for freebies) I am going with a girl from Jawad's office so it should be fun!! So, for now, I am going to say, have a great week, and see you next Sunday.

I had to post this, it was so exciting for me!

Happy Easter!!! Today was really good for me. I woke up at a REALLY early hour of 4:55am, and got up and dressed to go to Sunrise service. It is held at Seaworld, and sponsered by ZRadio, our local Christian Channel. This was the 30th year it was being held. I went last year for the first time. As I was walking in this year, I thought back at the last time I was there. I was walking with a cane and weighed 160lbs more than today! I had my friends Kathy and Steven with me today. It was great. It was COLD. 50 degrees in Orlando...on Easter. How weird is that! So, we sat and froze, and I made the joke that this is why I miss the weight, cause I am so cold now! I had on 2 jackets, 2 pair of socks and gloves...and was freezing. We also sat down in the stands and in small chairs. Last year I sat up in the handicap section with my cane (having just got off crutches from my knee fractures) and had to sit on the edge of the seat, since I was too big for it. Today I sat back, and fit with plenty of room! Kirk Cameron was again the speaker, and a band called Echoing Angels performed. Kirk is REALLY funny. I have seen him a couple times. We then went to eat breakfast where Steven made fun of my little portions...but was happy to share in eating my meal! He is getting so tall and skinny now that he is in his teen years. Kathy commented on how we were both shrinking! She also said that I can stop losing weight until August, cause my dr said I should lose 160lbs in my first year. Here I am a week shy of 8 months and have lost the 160. So, I have 4 months and a week that is just icing on the cake...( I mentioned I can't have cake) But I am happy to say I am ok with that too! Hope you are with your loved ones this Easter remembering the One who has given us life and His son that died for us and this morning remember He is Risen!! Love to all.