Lori G.

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Man have I been gone from here a long time. Been divorced, dating, moving. Wow ready to get my life back together. Need to update a lot of information and post some new photos.  Hope to get to this soon...  Wonder if everyone I used to chat with is still here? Hope to make new friends also.. Time for me to get back to me..... and what a great new me there is..

Ok what happened to my top photos. I have a lot of making up to do on here with my monthly photos.   Wow been a long time since I've been on here. Things sure can get crazy. I did find out now matter how much stress I am under, I didn't put on one pound. I'm now 2 years post op and I have lost 200 lbs. I step on the scale and can't believe it. It took me all this time to be able to see myself as everyone else sees me. It is unbelievable. I never thought I would lose this much weight. I feel great. I have my life back and I'm enjoying every minute of it. It's been tough, going thru a divorce, moving and finding out my move was a mistake. Dating and finding someone I really care for, who has an ex that left him but now that he has someone she won't let go. Causing so much stress. I have caught myself eating chips or eating more than I should. But I catch myself and realize it's not going to help me and this is part of what put my weight on me. I refuse to let myself get back to the way I was 2 years ago. I will never let that happen. I'm too happy and healthy now.  I hope to get on here more and update my profile and get talking with all the good people on here..

Gee I better fix that photo of me..lol.. It doesn't look good at all, all stretched..  
Well my divorce is final. Dating is very interesting. I met a few nuts. And now I've met a very nice guy. He's going through a divorce. We have to much in common and we are so much alike. Taking one day at a time. 
With all my stress I'm not eating a bunch of crap. I'm moving like I've never moved before. I came home from work today and mowed the lawn within a half hour. Before it used to take me so long because I had to sit and rest a lot. As of today I've lost 160 lbs.. I still can't believe it. The 14th I have my 1 1/2 year check up at the Bariatric Center.  My place is up for sale. I put an offer on a larger on in another park, away from my ex's.. My offer was accepted. We just now need to sell my place within 45 days. I've been doing a lot of packing. I'm still smoking. I'm hoping once everything settles down I can quit again. Going to be hard since my  new friend smokes. We will see how that goes. I'm realizing I can do anything. An menopause is a blast. Yeah right. I just love being cold then sweating to death. And now I only sleep 5 hours a night. I'll have to see if I can work on my photos on here this weekend.

Wow I can't believe I haven't been on here since Jan. Been a lot going on I guess. I'm 16 months post op and I have lost 152 lbs. Hell I feel great. My knee still bothers me sometimes but not like it used to. I think I have arthritis in my shoulder, actually bothering me enough that I'm thinking about having it looked at. The stupid thing is that I started smoking again. Not proud of it. My excuse is with all the stress I was afraid I might start eating again. My husband smokes so it was easy to start again. Good news is I'm going to see the dr in a couple of weeks and going to try the patch. It worked before so I'm hoping it will work again. And I don't think I'll be near anyone that smokes so think I stand a good chance of quiting.. I had this surgery to get my life back and get healthy, smoking is not going to help me..
I've been out straight with my Business Communications class. I took this one online so I wouldnt have to drive to the college in any bad weather. This has been the hardest class yet. With all the homework that is due every week. Seems like all I do is work and come home and do homework. Weekends are errands and homework. I only have 3 more weeks of class then I'm taking a break until Sept.  
I filed for divorce a little over a month ago. My husband felt the need to place a personal ad and look for women. I happened to find it when I was looking through the history on my computer for a site that I had been to. He denied it. I asked for his email password he said he couldnt remember. I figured it out, he used his name. He got defensive saying I didnt trust him. Started to pack some stuff and didn't notice me getting into his ad and seeing that he had contacted 5 women. He still tried to deny it when I said something about it later to his sister. She was talking to me on the phone saying her and her husband look at the ads all the time, as a joke. Hmm real amusing. I asked her do they contact people, she said no. I said he did. He denied it. I said I made copies of it, stop lying. The next day I went to the courthouse and got the divorce papers. I filled them out at work and had them notarized. I came home and served him myself. I gave him 2 choices. Sign and take your stuff and go. Or I get a lawyer and attach copies of his ad and who he contacted. He signed and left that weekend. I filed the papers with the court the next day. He still insists he did nothing wrong, and that he never would have cheated on me. The trust was gone and no way was he going to hurt me again. He stayed at a hotel for awhile then couldn't afford it anymore. He is staying with his parents until the closing on the mobile home he is buying in the same park that I live in.  My ex that I lived with for 12 years lives right behind me.. THink they should start a club.. He stuff is still here until the end of the month. I drop his mail off to his car where it's park while he is working. He still manages to call me for nothing and even stop by. He actually thinks we can date after the divorce. Hello are we missing something here or what.... Right after I had his leave he took some sleeping pills and was drinking. A couple weeks later he called his dr for anti depressants. Dr was busy and sent him to a crisis center. They called the police and took him to the hospital and made him stay there over night. He wrote me a letter which said stupid stuff like "didn't I make enough money for you" "are you seeing anyone" like it was my fault. The best one was " I was the only one that wanted you when you were so big"..  He takes no blame for anything. I still dont think he gets it. I was bored last weekend and tired of sitting here feeling sorry for myself so I looked in the personal ads.. First one I saw was his new one, looking for friends until divorce.  He sent me an email post card from his work last night. Was a photo of a beach and it said wish you were here..  What part of this doesn't he get.. I'm done and I'm moving on. I'm thinking about me for a change.. I deserve so much better.

I think winter is finally coming to Maine. We've had freezing rain for 4 hours now. It is suppose to change to snow. Who knows how much, I stopped listening. Either way I'll have to shovel or snow blow to get out in the morning to go to work.  
I've been craving pizza so yesterday hubby and I went to Ricetta's. The have a pizza buffet. I had 2 pieces of pizza and some salad. Hit the spot. On our way home we stopped at Days to see about getting my wedding band and diamond resized. I was amazed when he told me I needed an 8 1/2. A little over a year ago I wore a size 12.  I got on my gazzelle again last night. I'm donig good getting back in the habit of exercising. 

What a beautiful day it was today. It was in the 60's here in Maine in Jan.  We went to son inlaws place today for a corned beef and cabbage lunch.  I had a small amount of corned beef and cabbage. I also had a tiny bit of potato, something I usually don't eat. Son's Guardian looked at my plate and said "wow you eat a lot now?" I said I eat about 1200 calories a day now. My dietician says is where I should be. I guess she thought I should be still eating a few bites of things. Then she said "so this is where people start gaining their weight back".  I don't know, maybe I'm paranoid but why are some people just sitting there waiting to see me fail. I  think I do have snacks probably more than I should. They are healthy snacks. I haven't been exercising like I should. I'm still losing weight. Maybe slowly, but still losing.  I was a good girl and got my butt on my gazelle tonight. I moved my butt for 20mins. I used to barely make it that long. The last 5 mins I started sweating. I'm going to get back in the routine of getting on the gazelle every day. I can do it. I feel good when I do. It is suppose to be  nice again tomorrow. I might go over to Fort Williams and walk around tooo...

I made it through one family christmas gathering. Was with hubbys family. They did better than I thought they would do. They use to keep trying to get me to eat a bunch of food. Or sit next to me eating something they thought I wanted to eat but couldn't, thinking it would bother me. Guess they finally figured out I doesn't bother me. Well not that I can't have what they were eating. Just the fact that they had nothing better to do then try to tempt me with something. Hard to explain. I just know that 2 of them used to do it on purpose. I took my wraps with me. I had some ham salad and 2 small meatballs. Sister in law made 2 pies with splenda, but I couldn't eat any. I was too full from my wrap. I really like the fact that it didn't bother me they were eating macaroni and cheese. I sure hope I keep this mind set. I don't need those carbs and knock on wood I don't crave them. 
Hubby got me some sugar free Dove chocolate with raspberry filling and some sf peanutbutter cups.. yummie... We are having christmas with my family the 31st.. We are having sandwich meats. I'll bring my wraps again and salad. Last year nephew didn't know I had surgery and gave me a tin of home made chocolates. Diabetic hubby and daughter ate them. I bought some candy for gifts thinking I was giving them with my secret santa gifts but bought too much stuff. I took them to work today for coworkers to eat. I'm so proud of myself not caring about this stuff...  I sure hope I've got this all under control.. I know I keep saying that. I guess I'm just afraid I'm going to screw this up..

Well one year post op, 137 lbs gone. I went to the Bariatric Center for my appointment with the Dietician. She took my photo. Said I was doing good. I went this morning to have to blood drawn. They said they would call me if they saw anything that needed to be discussed. I go back in 6 months. She said my food choices were good. I need to get moving my butt more. I just can't seem to get moving. She told me I have another 6 months for the weight to come off. Guess it will get harder to lose after that. I only lost 4 lbs in the last month. I was trying to update my weight loss chart and it disappeared. I had a copy in my old account. Just have a couple months missing. I just copied that. Now I'm trying to figure out how to put it back on my new profile.  This computer stuff can drive me crazy. Guess I better get the tutorials out that I printed off. lol..

Ok I know I was losing a lot of weight but I didn't realize my eyes could shrink. I went to my eye doctor today. I had been the end of May for my annual exam. I've been having problems reading. He asked me if I had an medical issues lately. I said I've been having sinus problems and stress. And I said I had weight loss surgery almost a year ago and I've lost 137 lbs. He says "Thats your problem". Well I didn't think losing weight was going to be a problem. He explained a bunch of medical big long words that I can't pronounce. But basically my eyes shrunk, I think it's because of all the changes to my body from losing all the weight. He just put it that way for me to understand. He did a bunch of tests and had me read a bunch of letters with different lenses. He then showed me what I was wearing for glasses and what my perscription should be. Wow I'm going to be able to see again. My insurance only covers 1 exam and pair of glasses a year. So I spent almost $500. But I couldn't have waited until next May. I start classes again in Jan. No way I'm going to be able to do all the reading for class with these glasses. He also said my glasses were swimming on me. I never thought of that. I knew they needed to be tightened up. He said if they are not fitting on me right I'm not seeing through them right. Makes sense to me now. 
Next week will be 1 year since my surgery. I've lost a total of 137 lbs. 36 or that was before surgery. I have my appointment at the Bariatric Center. I think I only see the Dietician now. And they'll send me to get my labs done. 
I went called my dr. I was giving a nasal spray 2 weeks ago. I thought my sinuses were getting better. Last monday I called and said it was bad again. He called me in a antibiotic. I'm so smart I left them at work on my desk. So I'm taking my sinus meds again until I go back to work monday

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