Doreen L.
Where does the time go?
Feb 07, 2011
So many changes..........
Apr 26, 2009
I can't belive how many things have changed in my life, let's start with clothing, I went shopping this weekend to get some clothes because everything I have is to big once again, and I was able to buy XL shirts and size 14 pants, there was no 14w just size 14, I also bought a new bathing suit size XL. Never in my life have I been able to wear those sizes, not even when I was in high school.
I can go to work out now and stay on the elipitcal machine for an hour! When I first began I couldn't last 2 minutes, now I can do an hour! A few other big changes...Ah I can go for a piggy back on my husbands back lol anyone who has ever been overweight knows that this is and experience that is exhilerating, he has also picked me up while ummmm you know and carried me across the room, never would have been possible before, and his shirts are now loose on me, before I couldn't put an arm in! I can bend my knee and poot my foot in front of my butt to paint my toe nails. Ah I could just go on and on I just want to say I love my new life so much and thank god for it every day!
A whole year later
Mar 23, 2009
I simply can't believe a year has come and gone since my surgery. I have lost 148 pounds since starting this wonderful journey, I can't begin to tell the many changes that have taken place in my life since accomplishing this. Never in my wildest dreams did I ever think I could be this person. I still feel like the old me, I'm embarassed to walk into a room full of people and always feel like people are staring right at me, I look at a booth or chair and wonder if I'll fit, I see people look at my husband and I often wonder if they think he could do better. I don't know if I'll ever get past this horrible mental thing I have going on. But I do know that almost 15 ten pound bags of potatoes is alot to carry around, I have a hard time carrying one so someone please tell me how exactly I carried all that on my body, and now that it's gone I have the skin, oh boy do I have the skin, sometimes I think it looks worse this way than it did being stretched by all the fat that I carried with me. I have less than fifty pounds to go to get to my goal and I simply can't wait to be there.
Slacker me
Dec 08, 2008
Oh wow
Aug 19, 2008
Almost five months out
Jul 13, 2008
This week will be my five month mark, I'm one pound away from a total loss of 100 pounds and I simply can not believe it. When I began this journey in June of 07 I could only look at before and after pictures and simply wish that could be me. Today I sit and look at my before and after pictures and wonder how the hell I let my weight get so out of control. I always started the days with the best of intentions, I always swore every year that by June i'd be smaller so I could go and enjoy the amusement park like everyone else, why did it take me so long to make this desicion? My life has changed so dramatically in this short amount of time. I'm no longer the person who wants to sit in the house and do nothing all the time, I want to be busy, I want to go out and I want to be seen. Who whould have ever thought that would be me? I've always been shy and soft spoken and embarassed when people talk to me. Now I love it when people approach me, especially people from work who I never talk to just to say they notice how much weight I have lost.
I can't help though but question one thing and I know it's silly but that thought is always burning in my mind. My husband who I know has loved me before we ever even saw each other seems to be enjoying the shrinking me more than the old me. I don't mean he didn't enjoy the old me, just the new things like I can wear his shirt, and he likes that, or my hip bones pop out, or my ribs other things that are changing he really likes, does this all mean he merely settled for the old me because he loved me, but he didn't love the way I appeared? I hope that made sense. I tried my best to put it all in writing.
My wow Day
Jun 22, 2008
We can forget the Wow moment, I had a whole wow day yesterday. We went to cedar point amusement park as a family trip we do every summer. Back in oh probably the early nineties I stopped riding the rides after being humilitated becaus eI couldn't fit on a ride at geagua lake park. So I would sit as the whole family went off and rode all day and had fun. Well yesterday after being a bit apprehensive, because yes you see numbers moving on the scale but you see the same person in the mirror I tried the seats at the ends of the lines and I fit, with room to spare. I rode every ride I could with exception of a few of the ones with bigger hills, lol, I am a sissy. But OH MY GOD I rode the magnum and so many others, more rides than I ever thought possible. I had the time of my life and felt like a little kid all over again. I have so far to go with my weight loss but this one day made it all so worth while. I will treasure this memory forever.
this picture is from June 21,2008
This picture is from June 24, 2007..What a difference!!
A lil over three months and......
Jun 05, 2008
Oh my, down to 283 that's almost twenty more pounds to add to the weight that is gone and never coming back. Some days I feel like it is happening so slow, then I sit and think when is the last time you lost almost twenty pounds in a month..lol ..then it doesn't seem so slow. I can move into positions I never knew existed, during sex and in daily routines. Hell tying my shoes and clipping and painting my toes has taken on a whole new dimension. People at work are noticing, people I've never really spoken too are calling me skinny and saying how much I've lost. My husband actually sat up in the middle of the night to make sure it was me he had just put his arm around, what a wow moment that was. I'm wearing a size 2x shirt and a very loose 22 pants. I simply can not believe how much I have changed in such a short time. and as for the rest of the loss all I can say is bring it on!!
Two months!!
Apr 15, 2008
I feel better than I have felt in years, if only I could describe the happiness I feel every morning instead of dread. What a switch is all I can say!!
Wow, almost seven weeks
Apr 06, 2008