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I dont know how to change the BMI to what it is right now but I guess I need to figure it out

I have not posted in a long time but I did figure out by myself how to post a picture of myself tonight I feel like I really did something now to just remember how to do it next time. I have been really having a hard time losing weight for the last year and really had not lost anything to speak of and I was getting very frustrated by it so I called my Dr. Office and the first time I called which was back in 2007 (DEC.) and they told me to write down everything I ate well you know how that goes sometimes I forgot to do it and I was not getting down three weeks of that written down as they asked so time went on til April this year 2008 and I thought enough is enough and I called back this time they made me an ap. to come see the Dr. and the he scheduled an endoscopy to look at the pouch and also to see the stoma well the stoma was enlarged way to big so he did a procedure called sclerotherapy on the stoma to cause scar tissue to develope an to make the stoma smaller well it has worked but he said with the last one that he thought we would need to do it another time and see if that would be all but it has helped a lot I dont eat near as much as what I was, the food was just going on thru and I was not staying full like I should so there are things a person can do if you are not losing or have stopped losing before you should so hang in the people there are options and I'm sure glad I found one  

my friend and I have decided to try to make time to walk every day but I have to drive 11 miles to get to town to walk on a better surface so as to not walk on these ole country roads all slanted and everything uphill and downhill. well our first day we walked 2 miles, I hope to keep it up .

Well I needed some new smaller shorts but really not wanting to go buy any more this year, and I noticed my husbands denium shorts I had just washed and hung up on a hanger in the ulility room and I looked at them and thought I WONDER, well I tryed them on and sure enough they fit I could not believe it  i want to wait til next summer to buy my new shorts, what you don't know he has always been tall and rather slim, but they were a size 38 waist and I never would have fit into them before I don't know when my waist has last been even that size he always wore a size 34 then a 36 and now since quitting smoking and eating more he has aquired a size 38 waist ,I can't wait now til I get out of them also, I have packed up so many clothes now its unreal but I have some good friends and family to give them to . Even my slim daughter has given me back a jacket I had given her and she was now tired of it and I can't wait to wear it and let her see just how much Mom really has lost, Oh to wear my kids clothes.

tonight I fixed my husband and I buffalo burgers, on mine I had cheese (more protein) and I had dill pickles on that too, I don't know why but I can eat the buffalo better than regular hamburger, just a little bit of hamburger and I'm full, but I was able to eat all of the buffalo burger and it was so good too, I got them frozen at Trader Joes, I am getting rid of more clothes, I wash them and put them in a tote, to be never more. I need to buy more shorts but not going to this year I will pack these away too, shortly because they are too big now but maybe get the rest of the summer out of these, my closet is getting smaller but I will wait to buy the stuff I really want when I get to goal.

About 3 maybe 4 years ago I talked my husband into taking me to this event and when I walked out of the park I did not think I could make it back to our car, I told him then ,don't ever bring me back here even if I ask you to, my back I thought was about to break and I was so out of breath I thought my chest would explode and at times I had to stop to just catch my breath and rest I can remember places we went I would have my husband to park as close as he could so I did not have to walk so far because I really could not walk the distance at all.
  Well I was ask by my sister to go to the balloon fest last night and I jumped on it, Yes I want to go  to the balloon fest! I walked in there did not have to stop was not out of breath and could even talk while walking too, my sister always was the slim one but last night she was the one doing the huffing and puffing and her back was killing her and my daughter was having a little trouble walking too and talking at same time . I think the other night when I was walking with my other daughter she was surprised that I could keep up with her because I could not before, I am blessed to have been able to have this WLS 

i found a flourless bread at Trader Joes and it is pretty good when you really need to have bread as a sandwich and has lots of fiber too really is good taste

walked again tonight and I was not out of breath one time, did not have to stop to rest like before I had this WLS I think my daughter was surprised that I was not even heavy breathing  we walked down the road and went in the cemetary and looked at all the old stones she and I hadn't done that for a long time since she has been married and that has been at least 18yrs ago and she still rememberd some of the special things about some of the stones or monuments, glad we took that walk together with the grandsons again I even carried the cat part way, I live out in the country and it was nice just to look at all the nature things, the earlier part of the day one of the boys said grandma come and swim with me so I got in the pool with him and we did have fun , and when they are here I give them my full attention because you can't do anything else anyway they like my attention for sure and I love to give it before long they won't care to stay alnight at grandmas and I do try to make them things that are special to them, as they are so special to me, my grandchildren, I love them so much!!!

I walked with my grandsons tonight while they rode bikes I walked and never once was I out of breath, I do not remember when I was able to walk that trek that I had  done before but always had to stop and catch my breath or my back was killing me before I could get back home  I could have walked it again, but  then I fixed the kids a buffalo burger and I had one with cheese no bread, but of course now I'm not carrying that other person he was heavy from my top weight of 337 I have now kicked that 112 lb. person off of my back never to carry him anymore,  I now wear tank tops and feel so much cooler and not have to wear two shirts just to try to hide the extra fat rolls but I wasn't kidding anyone it was still there for all to see I just tryed to tell myself it wasn't that bad but it really was, now what does it really look like to have 112 one lbs. of butter stuffed in your cloths I sometimes think of that ,just to stack 112 squares of butter in a stack  and think about how that would look would probably make quite a stack full! No wonder I could not hardly make it in to a store to shop without stopping to get my breath before I had my life saving WLS I thank God for it, just  to have this tool to work with is wonderful. I need to change my BMI because it is not still 42.9 sorry  have not posted lately

last week on Fri.4-7-07 I went for eye checkup now I don't wear glasses anymore either, that is one of my changes here in my new life, but I also went an played lazer tag with my grandkids it was wonderful to know I could do some things again and do more, the kids were real excited that grandma was going to play lazer tag with them, and it was fun too,Then today I took 2 of the boys to go swim and I did water arobics while they swam and went up the water slide, then we went and walked they played basketball and one of them would come up and walk with me  I walked the inside track 12 times which makes a mile, I could never do that before I could only make it around once and have to sit and rest because either I was out of breath or my back was killing me, I could not believe it today I walked the track without stopping and I WAS NOT OUT OF BREATH ONE TIME IT WAS WONDERFUL,( here is a new pic my grandson took this afternoon) If anyone out there has second thoughts about this surgery don't ! Just go for it you will be glad you did but find you a good Dr. which I thank my friend Sherry Snow for showing me the way and finding our DR.