Jan C.

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on  August 14 was 3 years. everything is going well havent lost any in a long long time but havent gained either..so guess im doing ok....sometimes i forget that i am even different and think im normal and go to eat something that i shouldnt have but the pouch still is king and still remembers even when i dont. it will let me know very quickly what will happen...recently was at a friends house and she made some fresh apple cake with warm hard sauce ...tried eating a small portion but found out really quickly that i shouldnt have. had to make a mad dash for her restroom... so the pouch still works even at 3 years out. and im sure that if i could exercise i could lose some more weight , im getting ready now to have my left knee replaced and hopefully after that is well i can do some walking at least  and maybe other exercises.   I am so glad that i had this done and still at this late date would have it done yearly or more often if i had to to keep the life i have now. am looking forward to more exciting things to come.

wow cant believe im 68 now.....we just got home from a 4000 mile trip on a Goldwing Trike....pretty amazing for a 68 year old but doesnt seem that amazing to me for me...we have been in Az. visiting my oldest daughter who took us mountain climbing , yep me mountain climbing at 68 for the first time. we also walked and walked on lots of trails up in the foothills of t he mountains on several different days. went to so many things and saw so much and felt great. no pains at all in AZ i would move there in a minute if my hubby would want to too,.
while we were gone on vacation i lost 7 pounds that i have been trying for over a year to lose ....think it might have been all the climbing and walking ??? lol i bet it was...so now i know how much i can do i will be pushing myself more on the exercise but that doesnt compare to climbing....
also while there for two weeks i lifted weights with my daughter...she lifts weights daily ...strong woman.,...and she isnt a young girl anymore either......

WOW I  cant believe that it has been two years already. well as they say time flies when you are having fun. and fun i have been having. I am doing things that i never ever thought i would ever do again or in the first place. At 67 i dont regret this choice i made for a minute ever.
Before surgery i was dying slowly in my living room daily , now i feel like a kid again and tell everyone that i will live to be at least 110. lol
No more high blood pressure, when i go to a doctor now for something and they check my blood pressure they cant believe it is so normal. It usually runs about 118/68 . The only thing that hasnt improved in my health wise is the arthritis i have  but i take  usurally two Ultram daily and is enough. I have noticed that it takes a lot less medicines to do the job that it use to. Of course im not sitting and thinking about how much im hurting anymore.
I started doing a daily Post on the Mo. state forum before i had surgery and still do it daily , called Whats Happening. Mainly i started it to help out anyone that was needing someone to talk to  and ask questions it has grown and grown and if i am out of town I have to get someone else to do it for me but recently i bought a new wireless laptop so i can do them myself on the road. 
My husband and i are going to be buying a new goldwing trike soon and we are going to hit the road more and do more traveling on it so i thought the laptop would be interesting to say the least , with pictures of where we are when we travel.
Any way i am off the subject, lol when you get my age you do that sometimes lol what i wanted to say with this post was that i have healthier , happier and feel like i did when i was 30 ....Doctor Hornbostel in Sedalia is the best surgeon i have ever know and does the best work of any surgeon i have seen or heard about. He makes himself available night and day by giving his cell phone number to all of his patients and is very interested in each of us. He does a support meeting himself once a month after his months seminar and what surgeon does that?
As you can tell i think  he is the tops and Bothwell hospital is up there too . I have never been treated as well in any hospital as i was there. Even tho is it a small country hospital it rates number  one with me ..
well im off to make this next year more exciting than the last two have been Lord hold me down. lol

the new knee is doing really well except for the fact that my jeans rub the incision raw feeling. So i am having to wear solf pants instead of jeans, darn. My BMI is now 26 only one and half points and i will be considered normal lol if that is possible. 
We went on a Cruise at the end of January and i lost 4 pounds on the ship now how can that be and i have lost more since we have been home. I am now down to 152 that is a loss of 110 pounds since surgery in august , 06 I have never requetted my decision to have weight loss surgery at any time, not even the times that i had stalls and got totally flustered , i knew it was just a stall and it would continue on down the scales soon. 
When i hit on i try my very best to increase my protein levels and also my water intake and just so you newbies know it is still hard for me to get it all in in a days time . There are times i forget that i need to eat, not that sounds funny but i do. 
I am still deciding whether to have the other knee done but am thinking now to wait till like november so i will have all summer in the garden. I am still debating about getting a tummy tuck done too. 
will let you all know what or when i do. 

Had knee surgery on the right knee on the 4th. so far so good. I hope i am doing all i should be. and not too much. It isnt painful just swollen about twice the normal size. still not as big as it was before i ever started losing weight but really looks funny beside my skinny left leg. I gained 18 pounds of fluid i guess in surgery, it is beginning to come off slowly. it is now down 5 pounds so hopefully it will all go away. 
I had the Zimmer gender , ultra flex knee put in . they are suppose to be state of the art , top of the line new knees. Hope it gives me as much flexion as i want out of it. 
well i need to go get my knee up into the torture machine for a couple of hours. I always take a pain pill about 30 minutes before then can relax and sleep while the machine does its job. 
Hubby is taking such good care of me while i am down.I love him for helping me but it really makes me mad that i have to have someone to help me. 
Home health is sending in P.T 3 x a week to help me that really helps to have someone to rolll questions off of. 
Left knee will be done sometime in the future dont know how soon. May wait till late summer , dont know, may do it  soon. depends how long this takes to really get on my right foot good. 

Not but 9 days left till i have my first knee surgery. I am excited to maybe have knees that will let me really get around well on them again. 
I am down to 157 pounds, seems every pound lost now is a fight to the finish lol but I havent gained any and hopefully wont. I still have to watch the cravings and when i just have to have something make sure it is protein that i eat, I have some fatastic Protein bars that i order online from www.freshenergybakery.com 42 grams protein per bar. 1/2 at a time is enough and usually eat a whole one a day sometimes if i am working i will eat one and 1/2  because it is really hard to take food to work with me. and being a nurse it is hard to find a time to eat so i can grab a bite of this and keep going. 
Not a lot new, hope to be able to take a cruise the last week in Dec. if my right knee is well enough and when we get back will do the left knee. 
By the time they are well enough to go back to work , dont know if i will or not since i will then be in spring planting mode and that will take a lot of my time as always. 
Praise the Lord for this surgery it has really given be back my life.

Cant believe that on the 14th of Aug. it will be a year since i had my surgery. And that now im thinking about getting plastic surgery done. If i had all the excess skin gone from aroun my middle i know i could wear size 7 jeans easy. I bought a pair of size 8 levis and i can get them on by laying on the bed and then zipping them up and they arent that tight anywhere else just in my belly area. wow!!! last year at this time i wore a size 22/24 . 
I am going back to work as a nurse when my nursing lic get in. I was offered a job in a nursing home for a really good wage and told me that i could work just 2 days a week if that was what i wanted. I had to pay 122.00 to get the lic reinstated but it will be worth it . 
Maybe that Gold Wing trike that Joe and I want is in sight in a year. Never know what next year will bring. 
I do know this has been one of the best years of my life . Im now at 169 and still losing . It is a lot slower now than it was at the first but that is ok. At least i know that it will still work. 
If i had to do this surgery every month to keep it off ,I WOULD , It has meant such a change in lifestyle and so much less pain. that my world has changed so much it isnt even real. Now instead of sitting in the house all the time , i am outside playing in my flowers, Digging holes myself, planting, weeding and all the hard things that go with gardening. And i can feel myself getting stronger and stronger all the time. 
Life is good. Thank you God , Thank you Dr. Hornbostel.

wow i cant believe it has been so long since i have been here. Dr. Hornbostel the other day called me the bloging lady so i guess i better get it up to date. dont know why it has been so long since i have been here except to say i have been busy. Gardens, emails writing a daily thread on the OH, Missouri board etc etc. 
I have met some really nice people that i know will be life long friends on the board. 
Tuesday on the 19th when i saw Dr. H. i weighed in at his office at 177 today i weighted 175. hope fully by august 14th i will be down to at least 160 . i just need to lose 6 more pounds to be overweight and out of the obese catagory. 
im not having any problems other than i cant eat enough protein thru real food so still have to have at least 2 protein shakes a day to get it all in. nothing much new to report i guess that is why i havnet posted on here much lately. will try to at least give a monthly update . i said i will at least try.  
Oh yeah i am working 2 days a week as a sales clerk for Hanes outlet in theRed roof  Mall in Branson. seems i really have a knack for it . lol. I am surprised and i really like it. 
Now that i know i can be on my feet all day like that i may get my nursing lic. reinstated and go back to work as a nurse a couple days a week. 
I am having lots of trouble with upper back pain and neck pain am going to have to go and have something done for the neck pain it is relentless. bye.

Forgot to get on here on the 14th cant believe that it has been another month already. I see why now that people slow way down on the computer. I have been so busy in the yard and the green house that i just forget to do this posting to my profile. 
Well weight this morning is 186. that is a loss this month of 5 pounds . Not a lot but i will take it I am excited because the scale is moving agin. I dont weigh even as much as i once did. When i first had surgery i was weighting every day. Now most of the time i dont think of it untill i go to do my monthly measuring. 
I have lost some more inches. more like 1/4 inches in most places. I think the biggest was an inch under my breast. 1/2 inch in the boobs and waist and 11/2 in hips 
I have lost a total of 76 pounds now at 7 months. not bad for a lightweight. Im pleased so far. Will be more pleased when i lost about 100.

Things are maybe starting to go downward again. I got on the scale this morning and it said 191 so that is the least it has said ever. Im going to claim it lol. Maybe it is the end of my stall . Sure hope so. We are going to water aerobics 3 times a week and i would love to go 5 times a week. If gas would come down some i would. I have to drive 50 minutes to get there so it takes a little bit to go over and back. 
We have a new great niece now born Feb.16th She is beautiful. You can see her picture in the photo album titled New babies. on my profile. 
We are expecting 3 more this month. 2 great grand babies and another great nephew. so will post their pictures when they arrive. 
I have been playing in my greenhouse and i am already running out of room in it. Need a new place to overwinter my tropicals next year. Maybe close in the back porch with windows that will raise so we can get the breeze but yet still get the warmth too. will have to see.