Tyna S.

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Kristyna and I did a girl's night out.  We decided to do a little shopping then dinner.  We went to Kohl's because of course I had a coupon.  I grabbed some capris in both size 8 and size 10.  I never thought the 8's would fit, but Holy Cow they did!  My first pair of size 8!  Of course I bought them.  We also went to Old Navy and their size 8 fit also but the style was weird at the cuff so I didn't buy them.  Bought a cute shirt instead.  We did dinner at Red Lobster, shared an appetizer and a dinner and had a ton of leftovers to bring home.  It was an awesome night all the way around, spending time with my girl and buying a size 8!

Went up to Great Falls yesterday for fill #4, I had .2 cc's put in.  It's been almost a year since my last fill.  I had to drive my mom to Helena so I figured it was good timing.  This with some added exercise should help me lose the rest of my weight.  We joined a gym but haven't gotten into a regular pattern of going yet.  We'll see.  I do enjoy "playing" at tennis with Kristyna.  I have switched back to protien in my coffee and have seen the scale moving, so with the little boost in fill I should do well.  I had noticed my habit of snacking at night starting to come back.  It's not easy to always keep up the willpower.  I realized I missed the feeling of eating dinner and feeling satisfied the rest of the night.  That was my biggest clue that I need a little fill.  My restriction is good but not perfect so I knew I would only need a little.  The doc thinks I should be good for a very long time at this fill level.  He has added a total of 3.9 cc's since surgery a year and a half ago.

The doc's office did take updated pics while I was there and I got to see them.  The change is remarkable.  I still can't believe I was ever that big.  How, oh how did I never see it?  I'm so proud that I've lost over 100 pounds but now I hate answering the question about how much I've lost because it's embarassing to admit that I did have over 100 pounds to lose.  And I was told I have a cute little bubble butt the other day, it just made me laugh :-)

I'm now in a solid size 10 pants.  I'm not buying any more until I fit a size 8.  That's kind of been my goal since the beginning....no more double digit pant sizes.  My shirt size is a large but I wouldn't mind fitting into a medium.  My weight goal is almost another 22 pounds.  Hubby thinks I should only lose 10-15.  We shall see.  I'm happy now but not totally comfortable with myself yet.  I think no matter what, I'll always in some ways, still feel like the fat girl.  It's weird, but I do have skinny days and fat days...it's all a mind game isn't it?

-100............So Exciting!!!!!!!

Hi, my name is Tyna and I'm a scale junkie!

So close to 100 pounds lost.  I even clicked my heels 3 times, turned in a circle clockwise while waving my arms in the air and chanting incoherently............still couldn't make the darn scale show me 169.0.

I do have to say, the gym is fun and it's showing rewards.  I had to thank my daughter this morning.  She's so encouraging and tells me that if I start going to the gym the weight will "fly" off.  Damn I hope so :-)

So, I really do want to be -100 but then my next goal is to be -108 because that's what Kristyna weighs and I want to be able to say I've lost her.  What a visual that would be!

After Super Bowl Sunday and salty food my weight jumped up to 173.  It's taken me all week to get that back off.  Why or why does it come so quick and leave so slowly?  So now I'm back to where I was (170).  Just one more pound, just one more pound, just one more pound............I'm just going to chant that all day long and hit the gym tonight.  Maybe, just maybe I can see 169.?? tomorrow.  On another note, hubby doesn't think I need to lose 25 more, maybe 15.  Any my daughter was on an eliptical at the gym behind where I was at on the treadmill.  Apparently she doesn't really see me as any weight, just mom.  So when another lady got off a treadmill that she assumed was my size, then walked by me, she said, wow you are getting tiny.  She said I looked more like the tiny lady on the other side of me.  She does make my heart proud!  Stuff like that is always nice to hear because I look in the mirror and still see that I'm too big.  It's weird but when I first hit size 16 I thought I looked great, now I'm fitting into size 12 mostly and some size 10, but I don't feel that small.  Do our brains/eyes ever catch up to watch is actually in the mirror?  I think it's time to take more progress pics.

P.S.  The eliptical kicks my ass!  I could only do 5 minutes then had to switch to the treadmill.  My goal is to increase my time on the eliptical by at least one minute each time.  The ab work was fun but boy do I feel it!

Oh so close to hitting the 100 pounds lost!  Now if I don't sabotage myself I can make it.  As a family, we joined a gym this week.  I've never been good with traditional exercise so I'm hoping to ease into it.  We shall see.  Hopefully by exercising I can lose the last 25. 

Wow, the year has gone by so fast.  I love, love, love that Christmas is on a Friday this year.  Half a work day today then a 3 day weekend!

I'm still at 174 going in to the holiday.  I'm going to try my best to maintain that.  I'll be glad to just maintain and then I'll push the weightloss.  It's going to be hard on my willpower!  I made frosted sugar cookies, kiss cookies and fudge. Yum!  We're making plates of goodies and taking them to the neighbors so hopefully there won't be a lot left sitting on my counter.  I did try the fudge and oh my goodness, it was good.  We have family coming tonight so maybe they will eat it all :-)  Yes, I'm an evil food pusher.

I made it, I made it, I made it.

I don't know why but this goal was very important to me.  I am officially just overweight and no longer obese.  I am now down a total of 95 pounds and feeling wonderful.  I'm still not comfortable at my current weight so I know I'll continue to lose.  My official goal is to get down to 145 and be a normal BMI.  I don't know if I'll ever get that low but I want to be at least under 160.  So, if I can lose anywhere from 15 - 30 pounds I'll be tickled pink :-)

My BMI is now 30.0

I'm teetering on the edge of being obese and just being overweight by that standard.  There is no way in hell at this size that I feel even remotely obese.  Are the BMI charts realistic?  I did have one day of weighing 174.6 which would put me under 30 BMI but that was short lived :-)  I can't really count a new low weight until I'm there for at least 2 days in a row.  It kind of bugs me that weight is so finicky and fluctuates a little every day, but it is what it is and I'd much rather be 175 than 269 anyday.

On another note, I love shopping!  Okay, that's nothing new.  But I have discovered that how I feel during the day is somewhat related to how I dress.  If my clothes are more fitted and I feel "thin" in them, I'm more confident in myself.  So now I don't want to wear anything too big or baggy.  Weird because I always bought shirts a little larger than necessary just so the fabric wouldn't touch or cling to my fat.  I thought that if my fat rolls weren't visible then I didn't look so bad.  Little did I realize they truly were visible and I walked around looking like I was wearing a tent.  Just this morning I pulled a sweater out of my closet.  When I bought it I never tried it on (big mistake), I just thought it looked kinda of clingy so I'll buy an XL.  Wrong!  I put it on this morning, way too big....it hung on me like a flour sack.  So, yet another shirt goes in the give away box.  It took me 3 tries to finally find a shirt to wear.  Okay, so we shopped at Old Navy this weekend.  My daughter talked me into buying a striped shirt.  A striped shirt!  At first I was so against it but she kept telling me it would look good.  Damn!  She's right, it does look good!

Well, another Thanksgiving down and no weight gain!  We spent 4 days in Colorado with family.  We hadn't seen Barry's grandmother in almost 2 years.  She was pretty surprised when she saw me and that felt so good.  Thanksgiving dinner was so awesome.  One, because my brother-in-law did all the cooking and I did nothing and two, I was able to take a little bit of almost everything and feel full.  Although it was kind of funny because grandma kept looking at my plate because I eat so slow and so little compared to everyone else.  I couldnt' even think about dessert.  Now that's a weird concept :-)

The best part of the whole trip, well visiting family was the best, so the second best part was that shopping started at 10 pm Thursday at the outlet center!  My sister-in-law stayed out with us until 2:30 and then Kristyna and I shopped until 4:45 a.m.  We got some awesome deals and had a ton of fun just walking around and people watching.  I never got tired!  Kristyna and I talked about how much easier the shopping was this year after losing weight.  Although after getting back to the house and sleeping for a measly 4 hours I sure was tired on Friday.  And........almost all my Christmas shopping is done!