Mslayd02 aka Mrs. Big_Cle

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229 and holding.........I know its barely in the 220's but never the less, I'm in the 220's. My next goal will be 199 by April. I know that is going to be a big goal but with a a lot of hard work i can do it. 

Until next time.

xoxo

Not a lot has changed since the last check post. I am hold steady between 235-233. Trying my best, to hop into the 220's. Well maybe I have not been trying my best.  I know I have been eating stuff that I shouldn't be (damn non-dumping pouch). I have been working out at all, although I give myself that talk every week about how I am going to do better and I AM.

I going to share with you my goal for the next couple of months and hopefully turn into my way of life.

1. Work out AT LEAST 3 times a week,
2. Incorporate more vegetable in my diet.
3. Limit my snacking between meals
For those who know me and for those who don't, I am asking you to keep me true to these goal. Send me message an make sure I am doing what I am suppose to do.

Until next time, when I plan to report back in the 220's.

xoxox

My last post was just a little over a month ago and I was hoping to be in the 230's and................here we go. I am officially at 235 and holding steady. I so excited about this goal. That puts me at a lost of 79lbs and 21lbs for the centry mark and 55 pounds away from the ultimate goal. Can you believe it i have almost lost 100 pounds. I couldnt have imagined in my wildest dreams. Although I know I have lost a lot of weight I still dont think i am as small as others see me. I get the comments all the time about how I am strinking and I getting skinny and its flattering and Im still working on taking compliments gracefully becasue I have a hard time with that. But it has just been amazing.  Now if I can just find me a real cheap store with cute clothes or a real good seamstress cause this clothing thing is getting expensive!

I am at my half way point!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Everybody join in

It almost passed me by.  Check me out next month this time and i hope to be able to report to be in the 230's. I tell you life is great!!!!!!!!!!!!!

As I sit here almost 4 months out from surgery and 249 lbs, I am just overwelmed. I dont know if it is that it just hit me or I am just having one of those moments but I just cant tell you how thankfull I am for this opportunity. Being over weight all my life I knew that i couldnt have done this with out some divine intervention and WLS. I started this process at 314 lbs, just the fact that i can come out tell the world, I was over 300 pounds is an accomplishment. I can look at my goal and it is sooo close I can touch it inspires me to work harder. I commit to work out, that has been my 1 down fall in this whole process. Last week I did a run walk on the track  and I cant tell you when the last time I ran anywhere (thanks Carmen for the encoouragement). I tell you when I meet goal it's gonna be a party and everyone is invited!!!!!!!!!!

I started my weight loss journey July 5, 2007. That was my first consult with the surgeon. A little less than a year from then I had surgery, May 5. This past Decemebr I got engaged to best man in the world (and yes i truley do believe that).

Well i just turned 34 this past Sunday (August 10) I must say this past year has been filled with so many great things for me. I am almost the woman I always saw myself as. Im down 60 lbs now and 40 more to go to meet my doctors goal and 60 lbs to reach my personal goal.

I just came back from a mini vaction/birthday celebration in Atlantic City. This would be my 3rd trip there and we always gamble, eat and drink. I had to modify that a bit since my trip prior to that was pre surgery. We ate but we bought one plate and we shared it and still had leftovers for a late night snack. I had my first drink post surgery. yeah i know Im too early out to be drinking but gambling and drinking go hand and hand and i probably wont have anything eles to drink for 6 months or better. I tell you surgery has made me a cheap drunk 1 shot of tequila and I am drunk as a skunk. I dont promote drinking after surgery becasue thats your own personal choice but I will say if you decide to do so make sure you are with someone you trust the first time. Becasue I had no idea it would kick me in the butt like that. Pre surgery it would have taken at least 7 or 8 drinks to get me were I was off 1 drink. But I had a ball. 

I want to end this blog just giving thanks for all the blessing that I have been given. I thank him for thinking more of me than I could ever think of myself.

xoxo

How bout 60 lbs gone and down a shoe size. Im telling you Im loving life. Thats all I had to say for now

What an amazng journey this has been so far. I went to my 2 month checkup last week and the Nutrionist and my PCP said I was doing really well. I was concerned that i wasnt getting the right things. So i took in some labels of things I eat on a regualr basis and she let me know that they were just fine.  Of couser she said I need to do better about my protein which I already knew.  I have tried so many diffent protein drinks and I just cant tolerate any of them, its just not a good taste. So I decided I would try the unflavored Unjury..............IT IS THE BEST. i dont taste that proetin falro at all. I have gone from forcing myself to try to get one down a day to happily drinking 2 a day. i have made all kinds of smoothies. That in itself was a major hurdle for me. Now if I can just conquer that exercise thing I will be doing really good. 

I weighed myself this mornign to my suprise I am now down 57 lbs. Getting across the 50 lb mark seem to be so difficult but now I have accomplished that plus 7 more. My PCP goal for was 200 lbs and my personal gaol is 180. Either way I think that I well on my way. I am just so proud of myslef, I have just done HELLA GOOD in 2 1/2 months. All my pants are too big now and Im just slapping a belt on with them until I get to a more stable weight. I had a short perod of time where I was out shopping but I think that was because I was just amazed I could get into a size 18 and the 22/24 shirts were loose on me. I love that feeling. Next time I report I hope to be able to say i have hit that midway point.   Until next time. xoxox

Well not a lot going on with me. I went back to work this week and got a lot of compliments on the weight lost. Its amazing how interested in the surgery people get after you have had it. I cant count how many time I have been asked "well how much do you eat now". I keep getting well how are you feeling. My answer to both are i dont eat nearly as much as i use to and I FEEL GREAT. I went shopping.....yeah i know this is no time to be buying clothes and loosing weight but I really needed some shorts. So I headed to my favorite, well the one of few places I can shop for right now....Lane Bryant.  Lo and be hold the shorts are 2 sizes smaller than I was wearing prior to surgery. I was sooooo excited about that. I also went shopping today (yeah I know i have a problem) Got the cutest little outfit. Thats all i going to be buy for now. But it feels so good to go in put on clothes and they just fit so much better. 

I also went to the gym and I guess since I have droped a few pounds the pace i use to walk os no longer a challenge for me. I guess Im going to have to pick up the pace now. Which feels really good, cause if im not winded and sweating like a pig I dont feel like I got a good work out in. 

Right now im trying to get over this 40lb hurdle. My first goal is 50 lbs gone and it seems like its going to take me forever to get to it.  i cant really complain because I havent been this small in soooooooo many years.  Well until next time.......XOXOX

First let me say it seems like it has been much longer than 2 weeks. Its almost been 3 weeks but seems like over a  month. I went to seen the Dr yesterday and he said everything looks good. Im healing well and losing pretty good. By there records Im down about 15lbs. Now let me expalin this, that was my weight the day of surgery. When I left the hospital I was 14lb heavier than when i went in. So of course you know I had to ask him, why are we calculating from that weight. He explaination was most people dont realize we have pumped them up with fluids prior to leaving the hospital. Exlain to him I knew because I weighed myself prior to leaving the hospital. So Im calculating based on what I was when I left the hospital becasue i worked hard to loose that weight on my liquid diet........I say all that to say......as of today i am down 30lb. Go me! Go me!

I had my first wow moment yesterday. Even though the scales said I lost weight I just wasnt seeing it. I tried on some clothes I had that were too small or snug and to my suprise they fit very well. I had some clothes I was about to donate to the Goodwill, I gotta rethink that. Im going to go thru them again see what I can wear. Plus I had a pair of jeans I had bought form Old Navy and if any of you have shoped there you know there plus stuff runs a little small. Well the jeans were a size 20 and yeah they fit tooooo. I was so happy I was about in tears. Hopefully this will be one of many WOW momnets.  Till next time XOXOXOX