MissMelanie

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I find that I continue to be a stress eater...and I am under considerable stress (the nature of the beast in my line of work.)  I HAVE started working out a bit more, so that is some progress.  I haven't gained weight but I have lost the progress I made in toning so I am trying to get back on track.  Hopefully now that the semester is almost over, I will be able to develop better workout habits...so that when Fall semester starts, I won't go downhill.  I am teaching an upper division business communications course in the fall so that will add to the stress level.  That is why it is imperative that I develop that workout ethic NOW.  LOL  I will get there, slowly but surely.

I am now 141.8.  I just knew with all the horrible eating I had been doing (start of semester, new freshmen, busy as hell), that I had gained weight...but I actually have lost.  Now that I know I have lost, I need to get back on track eating more healthily.  Don't want to lose ground!  And if anyone wins the lottery, please give me some money to have a lower body lift!

I am two weeks shy of my year and a half anniversary and as of this morning I am 146.4...a total of 161 pounds lost.  I have a lost a full size MAN (fortunately not literally...still have the full size man in my life...just not trying to carry him around!)

I have had more people tell me that they didn't recognize me when they saw me (one said if it hadn't been for my smile and laugh, she wouldn't have known me...and she has known me for over 30 years!)  That is a good feeling.

I feel wonderful...and incredibly sexy!  That is a LOVELY feeling!

I am now down to 148 and, if I do say so myself, I LOOK GREAT!!!  Instead of fat, I have some fantastic curves.  My significant other is quite happy with my curves!

I feel SO much better and now I plan to really work hard at the exercise so I can be much healthier.

This morning I weighed 162.9!  So far, that is a total of 144 pounds lost!  I am shooting for 135 (Dr. T says I am on a good trajectory to get to 150 via the surgery and it appears I am going to prove him right...the rest will be up to me).  My first anniversary is FEB 13th.  It is so hard to believe it has been almost a year since my surgery.  It has changed my life for the better is so many ways it is hard to believe.  It was the best decision I made for my health ever.  (Of course, a better decision would have been NOT to gain all that weight in the first place but the point is moot, I DID.)  And now it is coming off.  I intend to not allow myself to gain the weight back again.  It is so easy to do that.  My cousin had the surgery a good number of years ago, lost a lot of weight, gained it all back, and died last year at the age of 45 of a heart attack.  If I do nothing else, I am going to remember her when I feel the urge to eat something I shouldn't.  I am now the same age she was when she died.  It does stay in the back of my mind.