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Hello WLS Family,
A lot of thing has been going on in my life these days. Good and Bad things. Well I just had my 3 year Anniversary. I can't believe that it has been that long already. I'm all over the place with my weight. I have lose focus and on my workout and eating. My current weight was 224 lbs without clothes and with clothes you can say it's 229 lbs. Last year around this time I was 215 lbs and that was with clothes. Me and my husband been talking about starting a family and I got focus and was going to started eating right and working out , but haven't started yet. I'm still in a size 14/16. My mother is doing really well. She is down 65 lbs in 3 month. Well I just wanted to give an quick update. well talk to you all later.

Stay Blessed WLS Family
HAPPY EASTER!!!!!

Letecia Henry

October 15, 2008

 

Hello WLS Family,

            It’s been a well since I last updated my site. Well a lot has been going on. My Husband and I has finally went on our 7-Day Cruise (Sept. 21 -28, 2008) and we had a blast. I put pictures on both of our picture slide. We had so much fun that we decide to book another cruise for next year going to the Bahamas Sept. 20^th, 2009 and we can’t wait. Well I have some news to tell you guys…my mother has been approved to have the WLS. She has done all her test and now she is waiting for her date. I’m so happy for her and I have faith that she will be as successful as me and my husband was. We are going to guide her all the way though. I was sitting at home the other day and think about the very beginning when my husband and I started our process and all we had to go through to get where we are today. On November 8, 2008, it will be 3 years for my husband and on March 30^th, 2009 it will be 3 years for me. Man, time has truly flown by and we both have lost over 150 lbs each. What a blessing. J Well my current weight is 220 lbs. I’m up and down on the weight only because I’m not working out like I use to and I really need to get back to doing something because Lord knows I don’t want to go back to the 380’s. I love the way I look and I love to be able to shop at the regular stores.

            My Ten Year Class Reunion is coming up  April 2009 and I want to at least be down to 160 lbs and plus me and my husband both sign up for Chevron Houston ½ Marathon and we both need to get ready for that. There is so much going on in my world at this time, but I wanted to drop you guys a few line.

 

Well Stay Blessed WLS Family

Letecia Henry

 

 

April 9, 2008

 

Hello WLS Family,

 

My 2 Yr Anniversary Journey!!!  Just wanted to give you guys a quick update on my 2 yr Post-Op doctor visit. Well my current weight was 218.5 lbs. I was so happy, that mean I have lose a total if 162 lbs in 2 year. That’s so crazy!!!! :-} I have lost a normal person size. I was so happy when they told me that I really wanted to just cry. My husband also went for his 2 yr post op visit and his current weight is 224 lbs. He really wasn’t to happy with his number, but once they told him that he lost a total of 185 lbs. in 2 years he got happy. My husband and I have lost a total of 347 lbs together. I’m not going to even ask you guys if you know what I mean, because I know some of you know what I’m talking about and the rest will soon know. This surgery has really changed me and my husband lives and we are so thankful. I got some great news. One of my co-workers gave me some clothes when I first start losing weight. Some of them where 12’s/14’s/16’s and there were several pieces that I really like, but just couldn’t wear at that time. So I put them in the back of my closet and one day I would be able to fit them. Well that day has come, I was able to put on the 12’s and 14’s and of course I can wear the 16’s and some I can’t wear any more. I never guess I would be able to wear that size. I just hit the floor. I was so happy all I could do is cry like a baby (these tear are HAPPY TEARS). Just being able to put on some clothes those sizes (12’s/14’s) I can’t even remember every wearing a size 12/14. That gave me this drive to want to get really serious and focus to reach my goal by September. I came from a size 28/30 to a 12/14 and of course some 16’s has really made my day. Every Tuesday I watch the Biggest Loser Couples and seeing those people the size I use to be and hearing their story and has made me realizes that I wasn’t alone. We all went though the same issues with our weight and how we had to deal with it, I know this website is just the same, but hear and reading is two totally different things to me and they have really open my eyes to see we all are not alone. I just want to tell my story so people can truly hear what I know see. I’m sorry if I’m talking crazy. I have so many feeling that I just want to get out and just finally able to get them out. After the doctor visit me and my husband went to eat and we was talking about how I have change for the better and I told him that I really never knew this person that I have become. I can’t understand how I let myself keep treating me the way I did. I never like to be in the spot light and was always shy and afraid to be the real me. And he helps me really understand what he and everyone around me seen in myself. WLS Family please enjoys your new life, because I’m just really starting to truly understand what people mean when they say that. And every day I tried my best to really enjoy every bit of it now. There is so much I can do now that I never been able to do. I get comments everyday about how good I look where as two years ago people never really spoke to me about how I look. They just give you this look and you already knew what that meant. J Here’s the fat lady move out the way. I’m going to talk to you guys later.

 

Stay Blessed WLS Family

Letecia Henry

Hello WLS Family,

I just wanted to give you a quick update. My current weight is 221.4 lb w/out clothes and 226.2 w/clothes and shoes. I'm so happy. I can say that I'm getting very close to pass my husband's weight. I been waiting on this day for a very long time. This month is my 2 year Post Op Anniversary(March 30, 2008). Man I can believe how time has pass by. As of today I have lose a total of 154 lbs w/clothes and 159 lbs w/out clothes. That full so wonderful. God has truly blessed me and my husband and he still keep blessing us everyday. Since I have had the WLS, I have became a more confident affectionate person. I have done thing in the last two years that I would have never in my right mind would have done. Having this WLS have really change me for the better, even though some people feel that I have change in the bad way. It like you get this new voice and mind and you take NO SHIT FROM NO ONE. I never been an out-spoken person and since my new life, I'm a very out-spoken person now. I'm QUEEN B---- OF THE WORLD!!!!!

I go to my 2 Year Post Op Visit w/ my doctor on April 7, 2008. I will have to let you all know how it goes. I do have a personal goal that I would like to be when I do go and it would be 215 lbs w/clothes on. My first goal was to be 200 lbs, but I would be happy with being 210/215 on April 7, 2008. I have some very excellent news...I just book me and my husband a 7-Night Western Caribbean, that we would be taking in September. Both of us never been on a cruise before, so we are very thrill to be going. I will have to keep you in the loop on us preparing for our trip.

Well I'm going to end now and I will holla at you all later.

 February 18, 2008

Hello WSL Family,

Happy Be-lated Valentine's Day to you all. :-} Life is good these days. My current weight is 231.2 lbs. I'm in a size 14/16 and I'm loving every bit of it. I have updated some pictures on my picture slide. I'm truly sorry to eveyone who has sent email and I haven't reply back to you guys. I'm currently working full-time and in school full-time, so I really don't have alot of time to get on the computer and read emails. I will try to do better in the future. My husband is doing well too, he is still in the 217/220 weight. He goes up and down every day. But he look wonderful. He also has put a few pictures on his page too. Well I'm getting close to my 2 year WSL date. I have set a goal to be 215/220 when I go to the doctor and March 30, 2008. Well I have to end this now. I will get back with you guys later. Please keep me and my family in your prays and I will do the same.

Stay Blessed WSL :-}

P.S. Me and my husband signed up for the 2009 1/2 Houston Marathon. We are so thrill. I'll have to keep you guys in the loop and our training. We plan on starting in the summer. :-}

 

January 30, 2008 

Hello WSL Family,

I just wanted to give you all a quick update. My weight loss is still moving right long. I'm down to 231 lbs. I'm so happy, since the last few months had been up and down. I even took pictures. Well I getting close to my 2 year Post Op Anniversary (March 30). I had set a goal to be down to 200 lbs by then. I will have to keep you all in the loop. Well I'll holla at you all later.

Stay Blessed WSL Family

 

 

December 11, 2007

Hello WLS Family,

I have some very execellent news, that I must share. As you know from the last time we last spoke I had gained weight. Well I'm back on track and I am back down to 247.6 lbs as of today. I'm so happy. Well I just wanted to give you all the good news. Please keep me and my family in you'll prays and I will do the same. I will update later. :-)

  

December 4, 2007

Hello WLS Family,            

First, let me started out tell you guys HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!! I’m truly sorry for not keeping you guys in the loop. A lot has been going in my world. First, I gain about 22 lbs. YES, you guys heard me correctly. My current weight is 263.6 lbs as of December 4, 2007. I’m so upset with myself and I feel so ashamed with my self I can’t think straight. At the beginning of October 2007, I was all the way down to 241.6. Just over the last few months I started putting on the weight. I been very stress out and depress and I just stop working out like I use too. I know what it is I just can’t stop thinking about the problem and trying to find ways to solve it. Okay, before I go any farther let me tell you guys what’s been going on…..I really don’t mean to put my business out there but I feel really close to you guys and I think of you all as family, so if you guys may have words of encouragement or anything that may help me deal with this problem I would love to hear it. That’s why I don’t mind telling you guys because I know deep down that you guys want judge me, but would keep me in your prays and thoughts, like you guys have always have. With all that said now here is the problem…..okay for the whole summer as you guys know from my pass updates I been going to the doctor every month at least 2 or more times. And every time I went I found out something was wrong or I had to take more pills. Well at the same time me and my husband had decide that we would try for a family. So, then I started going to my doctor who referred me to an OB/GYN (Dr. Barnsfather) which had referred me a Fertility doctor (Dr. Roach).  So, the results can back that we would have to do infertility treatment.  And there may be a very slim change that my husband may be able to get me pregnant. I was so hurt by the news and I could tell that my husband was hurt too but he was trying to stay strong for the both of us. I guess I was mad because doctors keep telling me before I had the WLS that if I lost the weight then I could get pregnant and now they telling me that I may not.  I got really depressed about that and every time we went around people it seem the more they ask “When are we going to start a family?” It just started making me more and more sad and depressed. I just start not working out and I started eating more sweets then anything.  Just this pass weekend my father made a comment to me about me look like I was gaining weight and I already could tell that I had gain some weight and I really didn’t need him telling me that, but deep down I knew that was what I really need to make myself up and started back working out.  So, this pass Saturday I ate breakfast and went walking/jogging though my neighborhood. I got me a really nice workout. Then I came home and jumped on my trampoline for 15 mins and did about 3 sets of 10 sit-ups. I was supposed to go back walking again that evening but it rained. So Sunday morning, I got up and walk my neighborhood again. That evening my husband and I did Slim & 6 workout tape. Monday, I decide that I was going to change this weight gain so, I sign my mother, my husband, and myself for a free two-weeks at Bally’s since that the only gym by my mother’s house. Well I have to go now, I’m sorry it took me so long to update. I will try my best to keep you guys in the loop. Until next I’ll Holla. J       

 

 

August 28, 2007

 

 July 23, 2007

Good Morning WSL Family, Sorry I don't inform you all about my 1 year Post Op visit on last week. Well a lot has went down since my last update. I tell you guys about that in a min. Okay well my two doctor's appt on last Monday went really well. My blood pressure was good. So they changed my pills to another kind that I could take if I was to get pregant and they wouldn't have to change them then, so that was change and I got some more pills. But over all I was really happy with both of my doctor's visit for the first time in a long time I was really happy. My WSL doctor was really please with my lab work and the only thing that was low was my B 12 so I had to get a shot. I am down a 131 lbs for the year and I'm to return next year. :-) So now my goal is to keep losing the weight and keep going to the gym. They did  tell me to not do so much cardio because they seen that I was doing a lot of cardio and not a lot of weights, which I was doing a lot of both but more cardio then anything. I can so that's true so, I'm going to try and do more weights and less cardio. Now the other things that have ceen going on is that me and my hubsand have move and we been packing and this last weekend we was moving some of our items so we haven't had anythime to go to the gym. I feel really bad because I have gain a little weight..... right now I'm 249 lbs and I really wanted to be out of the 240's by the end of the month. I'm not really depress just a little stress so I know starting August 1, 2007 I have to get back busy. I still may have a chance to reach my goal to get down to 200 lbs by my B-day. I know that's going to be hard but I'm going to try really hard to get there. Well that's all for now and I'll holla back at you guys later. Thanks for all the love WSL Family.

Stay Blessed!!!!! :-)

  

July 12, 2007

Good Morning WSL Family, Just going to give you a quick update from my doctor's appt. that I went to on Tuesday. Well I must say it went really well. My blood pressure is still a little high and the doctor gave me a different kind of pill that will help my blood pressure and also not stop me from getting pregant like the other one was doing. I really don't know that. I guess that's what I get for going to all these different doctors. My current weight on the doctor's scale said I was 248.2 lbs and when I got back to work I weighed on our scale at work and it said 244.5 lbs. So it's all good. The good thing about the appt. was that I had to get some lab work done for the 1 Year Post-Op appt that I will be going to on Monday and this may sound crazy as hell, but the nurse that drew my blood was able to get 12 tubes of blood from MY ARM. The reason way I was so happy was because since I been Overweight they have never been able to draw blood from there they always have to get it from my hand. I know my ass should had passed out, but I was all happy and laughing and making jokes. That's some crazy stuff. I see myself getting happy over some of the crazies things since my WSL.  :>) It's just funny that all. Well I'll have to let you guys know how the next two doctor's appt go on Tuesday. I was sent this email from I believe was SparkPeople.com  that I thought was so neat. I hope you all enjoy it.....

Enjoying the marathon

Life is like a marathon. We run and run, not knowing where (or how far) the finish line lies. We focus so intensely on prolonging the race but sometimes--despite our best efforts--the race is cut short. Too often we don't relish the path of and enjoy the details instead of just pounding the pavement of life. What personal boundaries can you expand to help you enjoy your life? Today meditate on the simple joys: a warm bath, reading a book to a sleepy toddler, or spending quality time with your family and friends. All of life contains bumps in the road such as losing your job or an unforeseen illness. But it is up to us to determine the quality of our lives. Remember, we don't always determine the distance, but we can determine the path. 

You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.

- Shira Tehrani

 Well until next time Be Blessed.. :-}

 

 July 10, 2007

Hello WSL Family, I have a few updates to tell you about. Today I have to return to the Doctor's Office, I have to get some blood work done. My WSL Doctor call me and I have to come in for my 1 Year Post-Op visit on Monday. Yes, I'm late my 1 Yr Annversary was March 30, well they said they had the wrong address on me and all the mail that they was sending to me was being returned back to them so they finally decide to call and now I must go. It's really both of our fault, they should have been call and I knew I had to have it done and I didn't bother to call them. So to top it off I had another Doctor's appt on Monday as well with another doctor so now I have two appt's. It's going to be a great day that day.  :-)  So I will keep you guys updated on how everything  goes. I hope my Blood Pressure goes down and I get a good report on that. My current weight is 244.4 lbs. I'm getting really happy about the weight finally starting to move down now. I been going to the gym like I said I was. Really twice a day whenI get off of work (I do racketball for 45 mins to 1 hr by myself at the gym at work and then head to 24 Hr gym with my husband for about 2 to 3 hrs), I hope to be down 5 to 10 lbs by Monday. I have been under some stress so going to the gym is really helping  me keep my mind off of food and all the sweets I like to eat when I'm going through something. Thanks  again everyone for all your encouranging words in the emails. They are really helping me. I'm feeling a lot stronger these days. I would like to ask the WSL family to say a special pray for my grandmother(Mary Jones) she was rushed back to the hospital  on Sunday and this time they found a little spot on her brain. She was rush to the hospital last month but they didn't find anything.  My family can really use some extra prays. Thanks again WSL Family, you guys are the best.

Until next time......Be Blessed :-)

 

July 5, 2007

Hello WSL Family, Happy Be-lated 4th of July. I hope everyone hoilday was nice. Well not that much has happen since the last time we talk. My current weight is 246.8 lbs. At first I didn't think I was going to make it to my goal I had for my B-Day, but I may have a chance. 200 lbs HERE I COME!!! {:-) Yesterday me and my husband decided that we would go to the gym twice, we went that morning and again that night. I know we both burn like 1500 to 2000 calories. Our goal is to try and burn 800 to 1000 calories a day when we go to the gym. I also started back going to play racketball at the gym at my job. My goal is to do it 5 days a week for an hour and then go to the gym with my husband when he gets off. I was very surprise to see so many people at the gym yesterday. But I don't blame them the weather in Houston was really bad and all you could really do is go some where and be indoors. Well I just want to give you guys a quick update. I will write again really soon. Thank everyone for all the very nice email. I really don't  know what I would do without you guys. :-)

BE BLESSED WSL FAMILY!!!!