MONDAY WEIGH IN!

GOOD MONDAY TO ALL,          HOPE ALL OF YOUR WEEKEND WENT WELL AND YOU DONE ALOT MORE THAN I DID. I SHELLED PEAS AND BUTTER BEANS AND THEN PUT THEM IN THE FREEZER ALL THE WHOLE TIME. WHEN I WASNT DOING THAT I DIDNT HIT A LICK AT A SNAKE. LOL VERY LAZY THIS WEEKEND. SO TODAY IM HAVING TO PAY FOR THAT WITH ALOT OF HOUSE CLEANING AND CLOTHES TO WASH. UGH.... I DID MAKE ANOTHER PLASTIC SURGERY APPOINTMENT WITH ANOTHER DR TO SEE WHAT THEY HAVE TO SAY AND ITS TOMMORROW. IM TRYING SO HARD TO KEEP FROM HAVING TO DRIVE ALL THE WAY TO ATLANTA FOR THIS... I KNOW THERE ARE ALOT OF GREAT SURGEONS OUT THERE AND THEY ARE NOT ALL IN ATLANTA LOL... HE IS FOURTY MILES FROM HERE AND THE APPT IS AT 2:45. SO GUESS WE WILL SEE WHAT HE HAS TO SAY. IM GOING WTH A POCKET FULL OF QUESTIONS SO WILL SIZE HIM UP WHILE HE SIZES ME UP LOL....NO ON TO OTHER THINGS.... LETS GET THE SCALE OUT AND HOP ON AND DO OUR THING THIS MORNING... ALL NEWBIES AND LURKERS ALIKE AND DONT FORGET THE ONES WAITING ON THAT SPECIAL DATE..... BEGINNING WEIGHT-397 SURGERY WEIGHT-386 LAST WEEK-179 THIS WEEK-178 HAVE A SMURFY WEEK....

Morning all!

Highest Weight: 377.7 Surgery Weight: 375-377 Last Week: 278.4  This Week: 276.4  Loss: 2.0  Total Loss: 101.3 lbs  I made the century club! It feels great. I didn’t have too good of a week though in total weight loss. I was really slack on my protein and I didn’t work out at all. This week will be a better week for me. I’m doing the protein train, so hopefully that will jump start me back on eating properly… heck even eating at all. (I’ve been eating only fruit and sugar-free popsicles for the past week… I know, I know…) Also, my personal trainer is back from vacation, so I plan to work out twice with her and 4 extra days of cardio. My 6 month surgiversary is coming up in 16 days and I want to loose about another 11 – 20 lbs. I want to have lost (total) about 120 lbs by then. Wish me good favor and diligence.

This is as of last Thurs  highest weight - 445 consultation weight - 440 current weight - 408 Deadline to get under 400 - August 3.  That should be do-able.  I need to get into gear on the exercise, I wasted the weekend!  I've felt very tired for a few days, think I need to have someone check my blood pressure dosage again - beta blockers really take the wind from my sails sometimes - I've already had to half my dosage after losing 20lbs. 

Sending you well wishes on meeting that August 3rd deadline!   You can do it!  I applaud you for doing exercise at all.  I can't seem to manage anything except swimming and some leg lifts in the pool.  I'm such a slug!  I can't wait to feel lighter than air!    Less medicine?  AWESOME! Keep up the good work!  Jeanine

Well, my weight loss seems to have ground to a halt.  I hate plateaus.   I'm trying not to be discouraged, but you know how addicted some of us are to those numbers on the scale, and how happy it makes us when they move downward! Beginning weight: 530 lbs Surgery weight: 407 lbs Last week: 240 lbs This week: 238 lbs I'm back where I was two weeks ago.  At least I didn't gain.  <---positive spin there Kix

Hey, you lost 2 pounds! That's awesome!! (I'm trying to spin this in a positive way - is it working? )

This week I loss 6 lbs. That takes me down 110 lbs. Tomorrow(07/17/07)is my 6 month post-op. I have been sick this week. At first I was constipated then I was running out of both ends. That is probably how I loss so much weight.  I couldn't keep anything down. I am feeling better now, but this weekend was awful. I am happy to say I am officially Obese. My BMI is 39.4. I am pretty happy about that   BEGINNING WEIGHT-362(01/13/07) SURGERY WEIGHT-357(01/19/07-the day released from hospital) LAST WEEK-258 THIS WEEK-252

Hey Marge, You probably needed the down time, so good for you!  Boy does your southern upbringing come out in this post - "didn't hit a lick at a snake" made me laugh I just continue to lose nice and slow and I'm ok with that. At least I am still losing! There's a lady in my support group who had surgery 2 weeks after me and hasn't lost anything for 3 months - she has been so depressed. And she is a stickler with the diet too - unfortunately she can't work out because her back is so bad. I certainly feel for her and we are going to try to do something together that won't hurt her back - I'm hoping we can find something that works. I'm not sure why I keep losing but I am soooo thankful. surgery weight: 371 last week's weight: 195 this week's weight: 193 Only 13 to goal! I'm hoping to get there by September 13, my one year anniversary. So, I am really going to start pushing my workouts and going for longer hikes. Of course it is so hot right now that i'm going to have to climb a mountain to get away from the heat!

It's been a few weeks since I posted, but I'm back!  So much is going on in my life right now, it's very exciting!  I've been offered a new job, which I have accepted, and there's a chance I might be doing foreign travel. It's also more than double my current salary ... whoo hoo! Beginning weight-374 Surgery weight-359 Last week- 197  This week- 193  Total weight loss - 181lb gone forever!  Tomorrow will be my one year surgiversary, and today I go for my one year appointment. Hope everyone has a great week!

WOW Jan! How incredible!  I am so impressed with your stats!  A newbie like me needs to hear of success stories like yours...i am so motivated..especially when you say "gone forever". That thought brings tears to my eyes because I have been fat over 40 years and want it gone forever too.  Thanks for sharing. Congrats on your success and Happy Anniversary!  Jeanine