CJ Triplett

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2/226/09
Wheww.. time sure flies by, I am another year older and another year down after having GB.  I am still feeling good, and ready to take on any challenges that arise.  At 6 years post op, I am working hard to keep it together.  I am able to control my weight within a few pounds, and just know that if it starts getting out of hand, to take care of it before it takes care of me!  Everyday I have to make the right choices and that is harder for me with some things than others, but all in all I am feel as though I am on the right track.  Believe me worrying about 10 pounds is a lot better than worrying about 100 pounds.. So that's pretty much where I am today in my mindeset.  Although, after seeing that Jennifer Anniston Photo shoot.. I thought what the HECK! Jennifer Who?  And took a pic that made me feel very sexy and secure with myself for being the age that I am, and after the infamous "before"


1/29/08 HAPPY RE-BIRTHDAY TO ME!!!!
Well today is January 29th definately one of the most important days in my life..5 years ago I had my gastric buypass surgery! And at this time in the evening 7:45 PM I had already been up and walking around the hallway... I can't believe that it has been five years!  Time goes by so quickly, and I have been very blessed.  We all go through transition in life and I have gone through mine, but somehow I have managed to use the tool that was given to me to stay health.  At 5 years out, I have managed to maintain my weight.. I am not 165 which I only "visited" for a short time, but I realized that there is a natural place that my body is ok with being, and that range is between 180-190, My 5 year pictures that I just took today (wearing the blue tank top) I am at a cool 189 and feel great.. I am comfortable with wear I am.  If I feel myself creeping... I just bear down and diet a bit so that I can maintain.. When I was in the 170's I was contantly criticizing myself for not being able to maintain a weight that my body obviously wasn't meant to be.. I am 5'9" and I work out.. for me.. I just don't think that that is where I am suppose to be.. and in reality I feel as though as long as I am well under the 200 pound mark, I have achieved my goal.  I am after all going to be 42 years young or as I like to say, "I am celebrating the 21st anniversary of my 21st birthday!"  There still is not a day that goes by that I am reqretful about having the surgery and I truly think that this was the right choice for me and many others out there.  I am happy with who I am, where I am going and have learned to appreciate the person that I was because after all.. that was always just the outside person.. the core, the me inside has never chagned.  Well for all of you out there.. celebrate who you are, and where you have been but most of all celebrate where you can go and believe me, if I can maintain after 5 long years.. so can you.. so today's quote is one from me..
YOU are who you are, YOU can do what you set your mind to, 5 years or 5 minutes.. you are the same person, and you just have to be able to manage you.. not anyone else.. 
Peace and Love.. and again.. IF I CAN ANYONE CAN!!!!
CJ~


10-4-07 Time waits for no woman! And time sure has been flying by here!  Once again it has been months since I have written.. it seems like yesterday! I was just reading my last post, and I am on track with all things... I did start smoking again..Booooo, but I am working out like a fiend, and feel great about that.  I have also taken up golf, which I LOVE, and can't believe how much work it is and how freaking hard it is.. I have been playing now for about 3 months and getting pretty good at it.  I have been working a lot so whenever I can get the opportunity to go and hit some golf balls it definately relieves some tension.  Just trying to keep on keepin on.. Almost 5 years out and still holding on strong,  I know that there are a lot of folks out there that think that you can't maintain the weight loss over a long time period.. well here I am! Movin and Groovin into my 5th year, and I am at a comfortable body weight that suits me. So don't listen to the nay sayers... ONLY THE YAY SAYERS.. it can be done.. cause if I can do it... ANYONE can!  Today's quote...~Since surgery, I have been enlightened..literally and figuratively!~ 

1-18-07 Sooner than the last... :-) Well I it has been 19 days since I QUIT smoking... I have been very successful in my quest to cut out the smoking and amazingly enough I have severly cut back the drinking more than I ever thought that I could do.  What this means to me is that I was just lacking the committment to begin something that I was in the past aftraid of failing... Over the years prior to the surgery, I was constantly failing, failing at dieting, failing at the not smoking, failing at not going to the gym, failing at my marriage, failing in MY MIND at so many things..  But one of the great things about this surgery to me was the sense that I with the right tools was not a failure and if I set my mind to something I could succeed at it.  That is proving to be true right now.  Since My entry on the 1st of January, I have not had a cigarette, I have SEVERELY cut my drinking down, and I have started working out at home and getting my mind ready for going back to the gym.  I am very proud of myself, because I realized that I CAN DO WHATEVER I WANT TO DO IF I SET MY MIND TO IT! And so can you.  You just have to direct your mind to the position that you are heading in order to get you there.  My husband still smokes.. and I miss the time that we use to have when we would smoke in the garage together, or take breaks in between shows, but I FEEL so much better now, I wake up earlier again, I don't have such labored breaths when I sleep any more, so I wake up refreshed.. I plan on starting the actual gym on Monday, I have been working out everyday at home and am now ready to commit to going 4-5 days a week at the gym.. or running on my treadmill.  I have also decided to participate in Bob Green's The Best Life Diet... Yes it is a "diet" but it is also a way of life.. at almost 4 years out, I am at more of a normal diet regimine than I was before, and this program is about not just the body, but the mind, and I am anxious to try this new style of LIVING out... I am going on vacation in May... a little over 3 months from now and want to see what I can do....I have also decided to run in the Asperagus Festival in April.. So here we go... Do you want to come and join me?  Looking good, feeling good, smoke and alchohol free?  Drop me an email and let me know!  So I have these coasters at home that say all these reall cool things, and one of them has become my favorite...I only wish that my parents had set this one for me..The quote says" Prepare the CHILD for the PATH, not the PATH for the CHILD" Although I am grown up, my childhood path was not set in a fashion in which I could be successful.  As an adult I have had to create my own path, and prepare my children by teaching them healthy living and exercise habits that my parents never taught me.. I am still struggling with the path that was laid out but never explained to me.. so When you are drinking, to much, or smoking to much, or eating the wrong foods, or just not being a good person... just remember that you are preparing a path that your children will follow, unless you prepare THEM otherwise... Later!

CJ~