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Today is the beginning of week 5 of Bootcamp. Let me tell ya'll a few things. I love and hate it all at the same time. For two months my weight has stayed the same. Finally this morning the scale has moved 2 pounds so I hope my stall is now over. I have done so many new things with my body it is crazy. Did you know there are so many ways to do the plank? Oh, did you know there were so many ways to do push ups? Well let me tell you there are and I love them. Yes during I am grunting, cussing and ready to quick but I keep going as much as I can. Three days a week  I do a minute and a half jog that kills me. I hope one day it will get easier. LOL. I do cardio on the elliptical machine three days a week. All this is done before 7 in the morning except for Saturdays. I still don't really see a difference but I feel so much better. I see myself reaching my goal within the next year.

Okay, I never thought I would enjoy a Friday as much as I do this one. I have completed week one of bootcamp for Monday, Wednesday and Friday plus cardio on Tuesday and Thursday. Yes, that is a total of 5 days of working out. I feel good, sore, but good.
I learned something very valuable today. During these last four weeks during my cardio I was working too hard. My heart rate was too high. It was working my heart but not burning fat. I am going to buy a heart monitor to help keep me in my target heart rate zone.
When I was in great shape, this is how I lived my life. Eating as I always had done, with little chocolate, and working out. Its like falling of a horse/bike.  Once you know how it may be a little difficulty to get back on but you don't forget how.
So lets see what the next 5 weeks shall bring. I will keep you all posted.

 Okay, today was the introduction session of the bootcamp. I didn't have any expectations and I am glad because it would have blew every last one of them. In 40 minutes I worked harder than I did these last three weeks at the gym 4 days a week an hour a session. Wow, I feel it all over and it is good. I am glad I found this. I can't wait to see what results I will have in 6 weeks. This stage is the most challenging but well worth it. I deserve this and more. 
Oh did I mention that I am doing all this with only 4cc's in my band. I have officially entered "ME TIME!!!!!!!!!!" 

I have put the scale up . I was driving myself crazy with the weekly weigh in sometimes during the week as well. I go to the dr's on May 12 and they will weigh me and June 18th the end of the 6 week bootcamp I will weigh in. I can't keep torturing myself.

Ok, I got on the scale and I am about 3 to 4 pounds heavier. WTH, how is this possible? I am still eating the same but I have added working out and weights 4 days a week. Yesterday, I did see a difference in my body. I'm tighter. So where do I go from here? Is it the muscle mass that has given me the few pounds? I am not going to stress, I am not going to stress, I am not going to stress.

I will continue doing what I have been doing and see what happends. I was told that it takes 8 weeks before you truly see a change in your body. Oh wee.

Hi, today begins phase two of my weight loss journey. I am going to finally begin exercising. Yes, horrible right. I have lost 38 pounds with out any form of excerising, well walking the halls and going up and down the steps. I am excited. I like working out but I have allowed my job to sap me of all my energy.  I finally feel like myself which = engery again. I will be going to the gym four days a week until the first week in May. In May, I will do a three day a week bootcamp and two days a week at the gym. Yeah for me. Wish me luck. Luckily I tone up very quick when I put in the time. So watch out now. Lol

Ok, this is a good day. I weighed in at 230.4. I don't know how I got here after the great food I ate this weekend. But I am back on track. I will not be weighing in for two weeks. But I will be around. Let us continue to thrive and become who we were destined to be.

 Ok, I got on the scale this morning. Yes, I am obsessing with getting down to 230 so I can move on to my next weight goal. I weighed in at 230.4. I am not going to actually post my new weight until Monday. Lol, I am on a roll. I just have to get through this weekend. My fathers side of the family is cooking, well they are trying, I will eat the bbq chicken and fruit. So everyone enjoy your Easter.

 OK, I weighed in Monday and I was the same weight. Now let me tell you why. LOL I went to Cleveland to see Mint Condition and I wasn't such a good girl. I ate chocolate chip cookies thanks to DoubleTree Hotel. Then I went to Bahama Breeze. Oh my, its one of my favorite restaurants and I ate. Fire-Cracker Jerk Shrimp shared with my best friend followed by Bahamian Seafood Chowder ate half, Cesar Salad ate half and 3 coconut shrimp. Oh did I mentioned we shared dessert: Chocolate Pineapple Upside Down Cake. This sounds like a lot but I did not eat that much. Now I have confessed my sins. I am home and back on track.

These are the things I am learning. I can have what I want and love just in smaller portions. If this was two years ago I would of ate all of that plus about two strawberry/pina colada's. I have come a long way and I will make it the rest of the way.  

So I was going to stress, yeah right, I don't do stress to much on the mind, body and soul. I wanted to weigh in at 230 by the end of March. I am 1.2 pounds away from reaching my goal. I want to scream, but I would not take anything back from this past weekend. I pray come this Monday, I will meet this goal and move on to the next one. 

Ok once again I had to weigh in. I haven't done this in two weeks due to women issues. Yes, I am bloated two weeks out of the month, every month. I weighed in at 232.4 down from 234.6 at the beginning of the month. I have one more week to reach my goal set at weighing 230 by the end of the month. Watch out now cause here I come. I find this journey to be very fascinating to say the least.
I have to stay of the boards sometimes because there are so much negative comments about having the band that I start to cause myself undue worry. Im not saying these things are not possible to happen to me, but I can not stress about the what if's or might be's.
Each day, week I gain the power to be successful. Me gaining all this weight took 14 years. Yes, I started gaining weight slowly but surely in 1996. This is a process that I am willing to go through and take my time doing it.
This is my new motto: I Eat to Live, Not Live to

 Eat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It has taken me a long time to get here and I am loving every minute, second of it. I began as a girl/women who had allowed herself to lose all self-esteem. I have it back in abundance now and it feels great. Well I wasn't going here so........... Until next time. Let's Live.

 Ok, as you all know I went in yesterday to get a possible fill. I received 1cc which put me at 7cc total in my 10cc band. I didn't eat (meaning drink because the first day after your fill you are on liquids) for a while because I wasn't hungry. When I did I had a few sips and was stuffed, followed by throwing up half of the liquid. This morning, I tried drinking a Special K French Vanilla protein shake. I could not even drink 1/3 before I felt like I was going to die. I began throwing and spitting because I could not swallow my own spit. Literally. I called the doctors and went right in. Oh my, I was in bad bad bad shape by this time. I threw up while driving to the hospital on myself. Can we all say, "YUCK!" I get there and they take one look at me and rush to get me in. She finds my port and bam you felt the pressure release from the chest and stomach. I readily drunk that nasty concoction to see how it was passing through my port. Well to get me back to how I was yesterday, she had to remove 3cc's. WTH. Oh well I now have to build back up again.  I feel so much better. I came home and drunk a Special K without any problems.  Followed by two hours later a fiber 1 yogurt and 60 calories dark chocolate mousse. I am not hungry  I feel full. That is one experience I never have to have again.