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Another year has passed I guess this is my yearly update!!!  It has been a trying year filled with many changes, the least of which has been my body.  I am proud to ay I have at least maintained my weight and not had the scale moving too much in the wrong direction.  Last May, I hurt my knee in kickboxing class.  I was down for the count of two months while I went through physical therapy.  When I was released to resume my exercise program, I found that my knee was just not working the way it used to.  There was alot of pain when I jumped or lunged...so my practice kinda went by the wayside.  By this time it was July and We got the news that we had to move to Lansing, MI.  My partners business was closing in our small town.  The only way for her to stay with the company was to move and assume an open position in Lansing.  It was a grueling process to get transfered in the same city...but I did, and I LOVE my new position( as much as one can, in retail)  I joined a gym in Lansing called Fitness USA, but it still lacked the energy of my club in Alpena.  I couldn't remain in a routine here, but I managed to get there at least twice per week.  
In february I took some nasty falls on the ice...reinjuring my knee.  finally I got a doctor that ordered tests and refered me to a surgeon.  I had a torn Meniscus and some scar tissue(from previous injury), Severe arthritis, and a Baker Cyst.  I am now recovering from my surgery, and have been able to walk without crutches for a couple days.  I hope the weather cooperates so I can get out and walk and rebuild this knee.  I know I won't be kickboxing anymore, but I want  so desperatly to take off this remaining 50 pounds.  
Since my reinjury in February, I have gained 15 pounds.  I used to think, 15 pounds was water weight in my pinky finger!!!  LOL!!!  I now have felt what it is like for a thin person to gain this much weight.  It is depressing!!!  

My goals for the next week:  To adhere to healthy eating, walk a bit more each day, quit eating 3 hours before bed and drink my water and take my vitamins!

Hello everyone!  It has been so long since I have updated here.  I have lots of new pics and info on my Myspace page...please feel free to visit.
www.myspace.com/midnitegypsy 

Our trip was amazing and you can see all of the vacation pics here too!

I have gotten down to 215 pounds in just over a year.  120 pounds gone forever.  I am still teetering back and forth.  Losse one gain two, loose two gain one.  I loose about a solid pound a week.  I have been trying to stay off the scale daily.  it seems to move better when I do.  I have not spent as much time at the health club as I should.  Just seems like work has taken over my life again, and w/ warmer weather, I am always busy doing something.  Tomorrow is my first day off in a week and I am spending my day on me...working out and working in my yard!  I really hope to get myself focused again.  I would like to start dropping two pounds a week again!!!

March 18th Brenda and I fly to Miami to catch a cruise to the Bahama's!!!  I am so excited, I cannot wait!  We are going snokeling, and renting waverunners.  I would never have imagined myself doing these things!  One excursion I am hoping to get on is the Dolfin Encounter.  I have always dreamed of swimming with Dolfins!

Happy New Year!  The year has brought so many changes!  Over 100 pounds gone forever!   The love of my life, by my side,  making positive healthy changes with me!  Challenging my body physically every week, in Turbo Kick Class, and Sculpting!  Life is good!  I have so much to be greatful for!  2007 is about the new me!  I have met goals I never believed possible! 

I guess I shouldn't be so hard on myself.  I was looking at the BMI calculator and I am no longer SUPER MORBIDLY OBESE...just Obese!  95 pounds in 7 months is a milestone!  Happy 7 months to me today!  I have been struggling to get past 235.  This morning I dropped again.  

My body has found a comfort zone...but I am not comfortable with it!!!.  When I look at pictures of me now, I don't feel that I look any different that how I felt at my highest weight.  A few weeks ago my mother showed me a picture of me and my grandmother about a eight months pre op.  I can't believe I looked like that.  But where I am at right now, is how I always pictured myself looking to others.  How distored!!!

The scale is finally moving again.  I was on vacation for a week, and gained four pounds.  I have been fluctuating for two months.  I know this is how I have been eating.  I have not been focusing on protien.  I have allowed myself snacks and sugar, and have seen that it is easy to fall back into old habits!  I am still going to the health club three times a week and working out for an hour.

I took my fist class at the health club on Saturday morning!  I guess my body wasn't ready for this kinda movement.  My legs feel like jelly!  But the important part is that I went, and I did it.  I was able to move in ways I never thought possible.  The class was called Sculpt on a Ball.  A combination of Yoga and Pilaties.  WOW!!!  My muscles hurt!!!

My goal is to be down another 20 pounds by Dec. 31st,  my birthday!  I have 72 days to reach this goal.  I am discovering, that loosing has been relativly easy up to this point.  Now I have to work hard to make it happen.  But that is ok...now I know I can do it, and I won't fail.  I am physically capable of doing things I only dreamed of...like working out, and not quitting because I couldn't handle it!