Deb Breneman
WLS Buddy Cruise 2011
Apr 26, 2011
WLS Buddy Cruise 2011
Cruise to the Bahamas on the Carnival Sensation leaving from Port Canaveral
Sept. 4-8th, 2011
Inside Staterooms starting at $358.82*
Ocean View Staterooms starting at $393.82*
*Prices are per person and include cruise fare, all port fees and government taxes and a one category upgrade!
We will also be having a meet and greet and several opportunities for some great sharing time!
If anyone is interested in going but would like to share a room, you can put down your deposit and add your name on a list for roommates.
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Mar 16, 2011
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My first surgiversary!
Jan 25, 2011
Going to the doctor tomorrow for my one year check-up and to review my labs. Will post later after I have the verdict from the doctor.
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How my weight loss has gone.... first year:
Jan 18, 2011
Here's the way my weight loss has gone since surgery. Ten pounds was lost pre-op.
Starting weight 250
Surgery date: 1/25/10 240
week 1 231 -9
week 2 227 -4
week 3 226 -1
week 4 220.5 -5.5
week 5 218 -2.5
month one loss -22lbs/ total post-op loss -22lbs total -34lbslbs
week 6 216 -2
week 7 211 -5
week 8 209.5 -1.5
week 9 206 -3.5
month two loss -12lbs total post-op loss -34lbs total -44lbs
week 10 203.5 -2.5
week 11 202 -1.5
week 12 198 -4 ONEderland!!
week 13 195 -3
month three loss -11lbs/3 months total post-op loss -45lbs/ total loss -55lbs
week 14 192 -3
week 15 187.5 -4.5
week 16 187 -.5
week 17 184.5 -2.5
week 18 183.5 -1
month 4 loss -11.5lbs /4 months total post-op loss 55.5lbs/ total loss -66.5lbs
week 19 179.5 -4
week 20 177.5 -2
week 21 175 -2.5
week 22 173.5 -1.5 month 5 loss -10 /5 months total post-op loss 67lbs/ total loss 77lbs
week 23 170 -3.5
week 24 170 -0
week 25 168.5 -1.5
week 26 166 -2.5 month 6 loss -6.5 /6 months total post-op loss 74lbs/ total loss 84lbs
week 27 165 -1
week 28 163 -2
week 29 161.5 -1.5
week 30 158 -3.5 month 7 loss -8/ 7 mos total post-op loss -82/ total loss -92
week 31 158 -0
week 32 158 -0
week 33 157 -1
week 34 154.5 -2.5
week 35 151.5 -3 month 8 loss -6.5/ total post-op loss -88.5/ total loss -98.5
week 36 152 +.5
week 37 149.5 -2.5
week 38 147 -2.5
week 39 145 -2 mos 9 loss -6.5/ total post op loss -95/ total loss -105
week 40 144 -1
week 41 141.5 -2.5 AT GOAL!!!!!!!
week 42 140 -1.5
week 43 137.5 -2.5
week 44 136.5 -1 mos 10 loss -8.5/total post op loss -103.5/ total loss -113.5
week 45 135.5 -1
week 46 134 -1.5
week 47 131 -3
week 48 130 -1 mos 11 loss -6.5/total post-op loss -110/total loss -120
week 49 130 -0
week 50 130 -0
week 51 128 -2
week 52 125 -3
Update- I ended up getting as low as 119lbs. I'm trying not to lose anymore and would actually be ok with gaining a bit back. My bones show. lol Had my gall bladder out and my nausea is quite a bit better so I'm able to eat more. Hopefully, this will put a stop to the loss.
I'm normal! I'm normal!
Nov 07, 2010
I shared the news with my family and with unanimous reaction... negative. My husband has a problem with the BMI charts and hates for me to use that as a measurement or goal. He's concerned that I'm losing too much weight or not getting enough protein and calories in. I have had trouble lately eating enough and he knows that so he's hounding me about it. I just wish I could get some excitement out of this group though. I thought I'd never see this day and it's here. I'm excited!
WLS Cruising weekend get-away
Oct 26, 2010
I set this up for our Indiana group but it's open to anyone. Let me know if you have any questions. A first of many get togethers hopefully.
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=165153206837610
New life!
Sep 03, 2010
My husband and I are on a road trip this weekend, traveling up to Vermont to meet up with two of our sons who have been hiking on the Appalachian Trail for the past few months. We stopped a bit ago and while my husband ran in for a potty break I took a little hike up a hill a bit in the distance to take a photo. I was thinking as I smiled to myself, not long ago I wouldn't have wanted to do this. When my husband came out and saw my photo he said, "you hiked up there" When I said "yes", he said, "remember when you wouldn't have wanted to do something like that?" I smiled and said I was thinking the same thing.
One thing that has had me a bit sad is that my husband hasn't said too much about the physical changes in me. Last week he told me privately that when he saw me walking down the street with our grandson he thought to himself, "she's hot!". :)
Oh, and a funny thing happened last weekend at Holiday World and Splashin' Safari (in addition to me riding the super slides with my 5yr old grandson). When we arrived and my husband went ahead with the boys, my daughter and I went to rent a wagon. When we met up with my husband he said to our daughter, "you aren't gonna believe when I saw you in the distance I thought, who has Ashley picked-up. It took me a few seconds to realize it was your mother (me). I LOVED IT!
Update 8/23/10
Aug 23, 2010
I'm seven months out from surgery on Wednesday. Will post new photos.
Goal is getting close now but the weight loss has slowed down to about 7-8lbs per month. I'm hoping I lose another 20-25lbs but it may take a few months. That's OK.
Tame the Emotional Eating Beast for Good
Aug 19, 2010
Tame the Emotional Eating Beast for Good3 Ways to Get Back on Track-- By Dean Anderson, Behavioral Psychology ExpertSparkPeople advertisers help keep the site free! Learn moreThis really is what it feels like, at least in my experience. You’re doing OK, cruising along, when suddenly something happens that stirs up a bunch of feelings, and all of a sudden the Beast is awake and eating everything it can get its hands on. Or maybe it isn’t always that dramatic—maybe you just get bored, or start feeling a little anxious because there is nothing going on to distract you from that vague sense of impending doom that always seems to be lurking just under the surface. Even that little bit of free-floating anxiety can be enough to wake the Beast up and set it on the prowl for something to eat. Or it might be as simple as getting home from work or school, or finding yourself alone for a little while, after a hard day. Whatever the trigger might be, the Beast isn’t about to go back to sleep without doing some serious eating first. Or so the story normally goes. There are two basic and complimentary approaches you can use to tame the Beast before it trashes your food plan, and you’ll need both for long-term success. The difference between them is the same as the difference betweenemergency medicine and preventive medicine. The main focus here will be on coping with the immediate emergency. You’ll find more information about the preventive approach, aimed at putting an end to the problem for good, in the links at the end of this article. The bad news here is that will power has little effect on controlling emotional eating. From a psychological perspective, the shift into emotional eating modeis usually a “state-dependent” event, which is a fancy way of saying that it involves shifting into a different state of consciousness (or persona) with its own independent set of emotions and related thinking patterns. For a little while, you literally aren’t your normal self, and the normal tricks you use to manage your behavior and thinking may not work. The good news is that your Emotional Eating Beast is a pretty dim-witted critter, and you can trick it into going back where it came from without too much effort, if you know how to do it. Here are some tricks that usually work:
1 Step Back, 2 Steps Forward What Is Normal Eating - Part 3 An Exercise in Self-Esteem This article is Step 4 in SparkPeople's Mind Over Body series, a 10-step program to ending emotional eating and creating a permanent healthy lifestyle. View the full series here or continue to the next step. |
My body is messing with me now!
Jul 29, 2010
Well, sticking with the program and hoping for better results on Monday when I do my weekly weigh-in.