Ok so today is definitely a new day. I finally have my gym membership and tonight is ZUMBA!!!! I am super excited to be back in the gym. 

The last couple days I have really been regretting getting surgery but too bad, what's done is done and I need to embrace this and my new life!!! Today I put on a pair of skinny jeans that have no buttons/zipper but just an elatic waist band.  They used to make my stomach do that ugly muffin top thing because they were a little tight.  Today I look through my drawer and see them and decide to put them on and guess what??? NO MUFFIN TOP!!!!!

So I put on a simple T-shirt and headed to the gym to sign up. My bff who picked me up was like whoa you are looking really small today!!! Made my day!! 

When I got home I decided to do something with the unjury protein powder since I am gonna stay away from softs for a while. I took unflavored protein powder, 4oz coffee, 6oz Over the moon skim milk and 2tbsp SF/FF caramel ice cream topping and yummmm.

Today I feel so much better and I am finally realizing I CAN DO THIS!!! Oh and I forgot, they do a body fat test at the gym and last year I know I was at about 51% and even right before surgery. Today?? 43%!

My new addiction: OH. I can't stay off this site. Sometimes I just come on and read what others are going through even when I have nothing to say. I love everyone on here. Information is great and the support, I don't know where I would be without it.  I know shopping is definitely going to be a new addiction but I refuse to let it get me into debt again. 

I know this is long, but I really feel my life is coming together. It is slow but it is getting there.  As this weight comes off, I have been working on getting out of debt and in about 2 months I will be debt free.  My MPH program is going well and in August I will be back in medical school.  My ex-bf and I are working on things slowly and hopefully that works out.  My relationship with my family is superb especially my mom. Everyone is so supportive since they have watched me struggle since I was a kid. I don't know how to describe this feeling but it is awesome. I also haven't not felt any knee pains since I have started losing weight.

I am glad you are having such an awesome day!!!  I did Zumba for the first time on Sat and had a blast, I did not relize how uncordinated I had become until the class, but I will get it back. 
I hope you enjoy your Zumba class tonight. 

 kuddoes to you for doing Zumba..its quite a worrk out i heard and i just can not do it....seriously walking up stairs is sometimes a tough feat for me.  NO coordination at all.  lol  

And all the emotions you ahve went through i have been there too.  And i realized the day after my surgery when i was awake and found myself alone for a bit that i had just had my insides rearranged and there was not a damn thing i could do about it so would now have to go forward and live with it and use it to my advantage.  

I only really wore those skinny stretchy jeans before my surgery and now they are not comfortable to me.  I dug out 3 pairs of jeans i had from 18 or so years ago.  Cherokee brand jeans from Target and they do not fit me hardly.  I am in the size 16's of those.  One size was an 18.  I have been holding onto these jeans for someday and someday has come...lol    Good for you for getting into those pants...next step will be real jeans.  

I use the Unjury Strawberry Sorbet protein powder and i mix it with 3/4 cup of milk..some ice cubes...a tablespoon of banana cream SF jello pudding powder and a couple strawberries and a few bites of banana.  Then usually a bit of splenda or some SF Raspberry syrup.  Blend it in my bullet and  drink a cup of that.  

I sure wish i could say that i was going to be debt free in 2 months...that would be an awesome feeling but we figure in 4 years we will be partially debt free.  Sucks....But we moved from a 300K house to a 115k house to try and pay off some bills. love my little house..its smaller but has a nice 1 acre lot that has trees on it and we love the neighborhood.  

Glad to see you have this strange addiction of OH too.  I am here most of the time when i am not working.  

Your doing awesome and i am so glad you are feeling so good about yourself and obviously its showing to the people around you.   

Thanks for the support ladies. I am heading out in about 15mins to go to Zumba.  There is a huge line to wait on to get into that class, that is how good it is.  It has really been with all your help that I am able to have this ah-ha moment today.  Thanks so much!!!

PS the regular jeans don't fit at all now.  I can put them on and off without unbottoning them.