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I'm 61 years old and have been over weight since my late teens. I live in Southern California and I work. My husband and I have no human children but we totally spoil our 2 Chihuahua's. Sweet Tee and Ms Patches want for nothing. Sweet Tee is wrapped in my sweater (I'm wearing it) and laying on the table between me and my laptop at the moment. We also have 1 Cockatiel, also spoiled.
We have been remodeling our home for the past 4+ years and are currently working on the kitchen. The best thing about where we live is the beautiful pool we had built 3 years ago. I just love the water and spend most of the summer in the pool.
I'm scheduled for lapband surgery 2/26/08. I would like to lose 180 lbs. My goal is to get healthy not thin. Thin is the icing on the cake I guess. I'm not looking forward to the saggy skin and droopy boobs.
Well time to update the old profile. We bought a new puppy a few months back. His name is Rocky and he's a Great Dane. We just love him. He's 7 months old now and growing like a weed. He is learning to sit, down, heel, come, stay, stand, back, play and eat. Oh I guess he already knew how to do that. :) He brings me the stuffed toys so we can play tug of war with them. My Chi, Patches, tries to take the toys away from him but she's about 1/10th his size if that.
I'm losing weight again. I went through about 6 weeks of playing with the same 3 lbs and now the scale is headed down again. I think I finally have it dialed in to where I know how much to eat. It's funny how I still think like I did before the band and I fix too much food. Lately I've begun preparing smaller portions that I eat very slowly. I also live for my after dinner snack and 40 calorie sf fudgecycle. I'm down 33.5 lbs and loving it.
August 4th, 2008 I had a busy weekend cleaning house, doing laundry and installing kitchen cabinets. Yes my kitchen remodel is still not finished. On a good note though we have built and installed 12.5 lineal feet of base cabinets on the north wall and a 6 foot cabinet on the south wall. I have a galley kitchen. We temporarily installed the new cooktop and I used it for the first time last night. I was so excited. Even better when I weighed myself this morning I was down 35 lbs. It's been a bit slow and I've had a lot of adjusting to do but I'm so glad I have a band............. :)
