NicoleH930
Scale Moved!
Jan 10, 2007
Whoo hoo! The scale FINALLY moved again. I was convinced it was never going to move again for me and I would never reach my goal. I have lost about 8 lbs in the past couple of weeks. I guess that darn exercise has something to do with it. I haven't been to the gym tho, in over a week, so it's time to get started back.
I did do plenty of other exercise over christmas break - we put in ceramic kitchen tile and hardwood in my boys' rooms. Then, hubby and boys went to colorado skiing for 4 days, and I had to do the paper route that my oldest normally does. That was alot of walking! So I don't feel too guilty for not going. I start back to the early morning classes tomorrow - ugh.
Only complaint I have right now is I seem to be extremely exhausted this week. It normally comes and goes for me, and this is one of those weeks I guess. Been trying to get to bed early every night, but not sleeping all the way through like I was. I'm waking up extremely thirsty...so I have been bringing water to bed with me. Maybe I'm a bit on the deyhdrated side? dunno.
I have a checkup with my surgeon on Friday - will be interesting to see what he has to say, if anything much. I'm assuming I'm right on track. He never really gave me a goal weight that he wanted me to be at...so going to check with him on that. I do have a goal for myself....hoping it's realistic.
I did some shopping over the weekend and tried on a size 12 jeans. WOW - I was jumping up and down and you couldn't wipe the smile off my face! It has been over 15 years since I was in a size 12. I think when I graduated HS, I was a size 10/12 and then 2 years later when I got married I was already up to a size 16. Yay for me! My clothes goal is a 10, and weight goal is 125 - I have 30 more to go. Is it possible? I don't know, but I hope so!
I did do plenty of other exercise over christmas break - we put in ceramic kitchen tile and hardwood in my boys' rooms. Then, hubby and boys went to colorado skiing for 4 days, and I had to do the paper route that my oldest normally does. That was alot of walking! So I don't feel too guilty for not going. I start back to the early morning classes tomorrow - ugh.
Only complaint I have right now is I seem to be extremely exhausted this week. It normally comes and goes for me, and this is one of those weeks I guess. Been trying to get to bed early every night, but not sleeping all the way through like I was. I'm waking up extremely thirsty...so I have been bringing water to bed with me. Maybe I'm a bit on the deyhdrated side? dunno.
I have a checkup with my surgeon on Friday - will be interesting to see what he has to say, if anything much. I'm assuming I'm right on track. He never really gave me a goal weight that he wanted me to be at...so going to check with him on that. I do have a goal for myself....hoping it's realistic.
I did some shopping over the weekend and tried on a size 12 jeans. WOW - I was jumping up and down and you couldn't wipe the smile off my face! It has been over 15 years since I was in a size 12. I think when I graduated HS, I was a size 10/12 and then 2 years later when I got married I was already up to a size 16. Yay for me! My clothes goal is a 10, and weight goal is 125 - I have 30 more to go. Is it possible? I don't know, but I hope so!
Exercise
Dec 18, 2006
I've been on a stall for about 2 months now...or maybe I should say, just loosing VERY slowly. I think I've only lost about 5 lbs and maybe 1.5 inches around my tummy in the past 2 months. I hadn't been doing much exercising and decided to join a gym last week. I exercised every day last week except for 1....doing some sort of cardio - either classes, or just walking on the treadmill. I've lost 3 additional pounds in just a week....so it's helped me focus and actually want to continue working out...provided the weight keeps coming off!!! I have about 38 more pounds to loose to hit my goal weight of 120. Have no idea if I can make it or not....but that's what I'm working for.
I also went shopping with a friend over the weekend. We hit a huge mall and outlet store in Auroa, IL. Many moons ago, I would go shopping with her and she would shop for clothes and I would be so depressed and disgusted because I couldn't shop at the same stores she did because those clothes didn't fit. This is really the first time since surgery that I've spent an entire day clothes shopping - it was FABULOUS! I bought a sweatshirt at GAP and Arepostale - two places that would have never fit me before - and I even bought LARGES, not XL! I was in shock all day long and just had the absolute best time. I didn't over spend tho, because hopefully (crossing fingers and toes), I will get the remainder 40lbs off and have to go shopping one more time. It was so fun to at least try bunches of stuff on.
My goal this week is to get up early (UGH, so NOT an early morning person) and go to they gym for their 5:30 am classes. I didn't start off very well today tho....I didn't make it to bed until 1 am (I'm an EMT for our local volunteer fire dept and we had a call). So being at the gym by 5:30 would have meant only 4 hours of sleep and I can't operate on that little bit of sleep. So, it's early to bed tonight and going tomorrow morning!
I also went shopping with a friend over the weekend. We hit a huge mall and outlet store in Auroa, IL. Many moons ago, I would go shopping with her and she would shop for clothes and I would be so depressed and disgusted because I couldn't shop at the same stores she did because those clothes didn't fit. This is really the first time since surgery that I've spent an entire day clothes shopping - it was FABULOUS! I bought a sweatshirt at GAP and Arepostale - two places that would have never fit me before - and I even bought LARGES, not XL! I was in shock all day long and just had the absolute best time. I didn't over spend tho, because hopefully (crossing fingers and toes), I will get the remainder 40lbs off and have to go shopping one more time. It was so fun to at least try bunches of stuff on.
My goal this week is to get up early (UGH, so NOT an early morning person) and go to they gym for their 5:30 am classes. I didn't start off very well today tho....I didn't make it to bed until 1 am (I'm an EMT for our local volunteer fire dept and we had a call). So being at the gym by 5:30 would have meant only 4 hours of sleep and I can't operate on that little bit of sleep. So, it's early to bed tonight and going tomorrow morning!
Photos
Dec 11, 2006
Ok, I've been working for about 2 hours now and finally figured out how to save my photos as jpeg, and in a smaller size, since it kept telling me they were too big. They are a bit fuzzy, so going to have to work on that....but at least they are there now.
Have to also go back and see if I can find the saved the photos on disk somewhere from before I had surgery. I have actual printed copies in my scrapbook, but not sure if I actually saved the pictures on cd. More to come, I hope!
Have to also go back and see if I can find the saved the photos on disk somewhere from before I had surgery. I have actual printed copies in my scrapbook, but not sure if I actually saved the pictures on cd. More to come, I hope!
12/11/06
Dec 11, 2006
I'm not normally very good at this blog thing....wish I would have kept a more detailed account on a blog since I had surgery. I did good with taking pictures and measurements tho, and have faithfully added those to a scrapbook. I want to upload some pics to my profile here, but having issues figuring out how to do it. I did send one pic to their help email asking them to put in on my profile for me as my main pic and they haven't done it yet. That was a few weeks ago....guess I'll need to have hubby look at it and help me out. Not computer illiterate, but when I tried to upload it to this site I couldn't seem to figure it out.
Today, my weight stands at 162 lbs (or there abouts - it keeps jumping between 160-164). I've lost 80 lbs in 7 months. The past two months I've only managed to loose 4 lbs. I did take my measurements yesterday and I lost about an inch from waist, butt, and bust....so I know it's still coming off, just slowed waaaaay down. A couple of weeks ago, I talked to the nut, and after tracking my food for a few weeks, we determined that I'm not eating enough. UGH. Been trying to get more food in, especially protien, but not doing a very good job of it. I also need to up my water and exercise more. I definately liked it better when the weight was just melting off...and now it seems like I'm gonna have to start doing exercise (which i hate - don't mind being active, just hate exercising) to in order to get these last 40 lbs off.
Ok, enough moaning and complaining today....hopefully tomorrow will be a better day!
Today, my weight stands at 162 lbs (or there abouts - it keeps jumping between 160-164). I've lost 80 lbs in 7 months. The past two months I've only managed to loose 4 lbs. I did take my measurements yesterday and I lost about an inch from waist, butt, and bust....so I know it's still coming off, just slowed waaaaay down. A couple of weeks ago, I talked to the nut, and after tracking my food for a few weeks, we determined that I'm not eating enough. UGH. Been trying to get more food in, especially protien, but not doing a very good job of it. I also need to up my water and exercise more. I definately liked it better when the weight was just melting off...and now it seems like I'm gonna have to start doing exercise (which i hate - don't mind being active, just hate exercising) to in order to get these last 40 lbs off.
Ok, enough moaning and complaining today....hopefully tomorrow will be a better day!
