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Hey all, I took a few pics this morning and added a 1 month comparison album with some shots. I have not done my face shot yet but will get that up later. I was shocked at what difference I can see already. i can't wait to do a 2 month comparison!!

I hope everyone is doing wonderful. Only 2 more days until FRIDAY! whoo hoo!

Well this weekend was one month from my surgery and I was pleasantly surprised when I did my measurements

	Prior	1 month
Neck	15.5"	14.5"
Bicep	14.5"	13"
forearm	11"	10"
chest	47.5"	45"
waist	42"	38"
theigh	27.5"	25"
calf	16.5"	16"
hips	45"	43"
knee	19"	18"

I lost a total of 16"!!! wow!
I lost 4"inches off my waist.  I also according to my scale have lost 23 pounds.  We had a great weekend. My father does theatre acting so we went to see his latest play, it was wonderful, I cried all through the second act.  And I overheard one of the guys my father acts with telling another guy how beautiful I was. He didn't know I could hear him and it made me feel sooooo good.  Then yesterday we busted our butts. We washed both of our cars from top to bottom, it took us 3 hours of sweating hard work but it felt great to be able to do it and not feel like I was going to die.  We had fun since our 3 year old was helping so we were spraying each other with the hose and being silly too.  I am going to put a few pics in my album as soon as I am done writing this too. I need to do some new underware shots so I can really see a difference so maybe I will do those tonight.

Well now that I have got my acid refulx issue under control I have been feeling great.  I have no idea where I have been getting all my energy from but I have been working out every day and some days I have been going for fast walks at work during lunch for about 45 minutes. I have been working out hard too and loving it for the first time in my life.  According to my scale I am down 21 pounds but I won't officially post anything until I see the doc on May 19th.  I just joined the May exercise challenge so if anyone wants to just do a search for May Exercise Challenge and join up.  I am going for 1000 minutes this month but hope to exceed that.

What is even more amazing to me is that I Have no restriction yet so all this weightloss has been MY doing alone and that makes me proud. I can't image how good I will do with restriction.

Well I spent the weekend testing some things to find out why I was getting such bad acid reflux.  Well I think I have figured it out. Hummus....yes hummus. I LOVE hummus, have never had a problem before surgery with it but there is a specific kind, which happens to be my favorite that is affecting me.  It is Athenos Greek style hummus which is SO FREAKING TASTY!! It has been a staple in my mushies phase. I cut it out this whole weekend and tada...the reflux is gone.  Figures the one food I really like during all this turns against me .  Oh well, I am glad I figured it out and it seems to be ok now. 
According to my scale I hit the big 20 pounds loss this weekend.  That means I only have to lose 2 more pounds before the 19th to make my mini goal of losing 5 pounds between my follow up appointment on the 18th and my first fill on May 19th.  I know 5 pounds is not much in a month but right now I have NO restriction and the doc said I would most likely gain weight, so I am out to prove him wrong.

Things are really looking up, The weight is coming off slowly (better than gaining). I feel wonderful, in fact I may call my PCP and see if and when I can try to get off my blood pressure pills.  I am not sure with my heart condition if I will ever be able to but I sure would like to try.  My skin is clearing up and almost has a glow to it.  The circles under my eyes have lightened.  My hair seems soft and shiny and my mood is way better.

Even with all the pain, emotion and uncertainty I am soooo glad I did this. This is one of the best things I have done for myself and I hope the tool continues to work for me

I am not sure why but it seems like since I have been exercising I have been getting acid reflux.  I think I had it a little bit before I started exercising but I don't remember it being this bad.  I put a call into the doc to see what they think but I have not heard back yet.  I took some rolaids and it is much better, I just get scared about band slipping and all that.  It is just like being pregnant, every little twinge and you think the worst.  The scale keeps staying at 18 to 19 pounds lost, the freaking thing hates me. I try not to be a slave to it and not let it get to me but you feel like you try so hard and not get anywhere.  I just want to get down a size, I want to wear all my 14's comfortably. right now I fit in my 16's and a few of my 14's snuggly.  You would think 19 pounds and I would be down a size, I guess my 16's were tighter than I thought!

I actually got up at 5:20 this morning and exercised, I didn't last night because my TOM really started and I had a horrible migrane. So I will work out tonight as well. I would love to break it up into two workouts a day but I am not sure how well I will do on the morning workouts. We shall see I guess.  It was nice to have time to myself and watch the news while I rode my exercise bike.

Hard to believe only 9 more days and it will be a month since my surgery.  Funny how the 2 weeks of preop diet seemed to go much slower than the past month has!!!

Wow it is amazing how much easier it is to exercise without an extra 19 pounds weighing you down. I am actually enjoying it.  I am going to try to complete 300 minutes by the end of Aril. May I am going to join an exercise challenge and see what I can do.  I am feeling pretty good today considering TOM is still trying to show up but seems to be confused.  I got a lot of compliments on my outfit today and everyone is really noticing my loss.  I am wearing a top I would not have dreamed of wearing a few weeks ago. 26 more days until my 1st fill, I am looking forward to it.

I had a great weekend, Saturday we went to Epcot I really got my exercise that day! I walked for about 8 hours straight plus I had a 40 pound backpack on my back. We had a good time and a lot of family bonding so it was fun.  Sunday we had lunch, did some shopping, I bought a George Foreman grill and some stuff to get all the toys in our living room organized. Then our neighbors came over with thier son who is my sons age and we all hung out in the back yard while the kids played on the playground set we bought.  All in all it was a wonderful weekend I really enjoyed the time with hubby and son. According to my scale I am down 19 pounds so it is slow going but still coming off and that is all I care about!

I had my 2 week follow-up appointment today and all went well.  I am down 17 pounds finally putting me under 190 at 187!! Yippee.  Things are slow going but the scale is going in the right direction and that is fine by me.  With no restriction I am pretty much on a diet at this point but I have something to look forward to.  May 19th is my first fill appointment.  May 1st I can start eating tuna, soft chicken and things like that.  I worked out pretty hard last night and it felt great.  I think if I can keep a handle on what I am eating and get in exercise I should do just fine. I think we are going to Epcot this weekend so that will give me tons of walking!

Things are pretty good. I see my doc on Friday so I am looking forward to that.  I have no restriction at all so I am been really watching what I eat.  I did find out that anything with tomatoes in it (such as cream of tomato soup) does NOT agree with me right now. I had indigestion so bad I almost called 911, I could not move, it felt like my kidneys were shutting down, it was horrible!  I am sure the acid in the tomatoes were just too much for my tummy at this point so I will wait quite a while before I try that again. I hope I find out when I will have my fill on Friday.  It at least gives me something to look forward too.  I have started exercising too so that should help a bit. I actually got up at 5:30 this morning to get some in before I had to get ready for work. 

On an unrelated topic I was so excited yesterday one of the music industry magazines had asked me to do an article a while back. Yesterday they called to do the interview and they are doing an entire story on me. It is for the section of their magazine called "Formidable Females" and it is all about women in the music indsutry.  I was so nervous so hopefully I didn't sound like a geek.  It will be a whole page! I have 2 months to send them a photo so I will wait till the last minute so I can lose as much weight as I can before the photo gets taken!  Last month they did a story on craigie zildjian (of Zildjian cymbals)  I can't believe I am considered the same class of person as her!!  I feel like I don't deserve an article, although it is quite flattering.

Well I can tell bandster hell is here.  I pretty much have no restriction and could eat all day if I let myself.  I went to the store last night and stocked up on healthy stuff so if I do overeat it will be on good stuff.  I am trying really really hard to keep control and ignore my head hunger. The good thing is I am feeling really good and have plenty of energy.  I spent the weekend cleaning the house, scrubbing floors and playing outside with my son and that felt good.  The scale has been bouncing all over so I am ignoring it for now. yesterday it said I was down 18 pounds today I gained 2 pounds so I am trying not to be a slave to the scale.  I think I am ready to start doing some light exercising too so tonight I am going to give it a shot.  I have my 2 week follow up appointment on Friday so hopefully I will find out when my first fill will be.