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Topic: RE: July Check in!
Hi Judy we all take that taste of something now and then. hahaha my youngest son's bday was yesterday an di had a sliver of the ice cream cake. i only ate half of that sliver too. thats a real big switch from 6 years ago when i could polish off the whole cake myself.
even the sliver wasn't something i should have had with the LBS but it wasn't more than a taste. i enjoyed that tiny piece too. i wouldtake a very small bite and let it melt in my mouth. no one has enjoyed ice cream cake any more than i did yesterday. i was satisfied.
that is great 12 pounds! i bet you feel a whole lot better too. they say that 10 to 15 pounds lost is a change is clothing size. so congrats you deserve a pat on the back.
it takes very long for me to lose now. i'm dropping about a pound a month but i'm doing it healthily the way my docs wnat it done. maybe i shouldna listened years ago hahaha
take care god bless, pam
even the sliver wasn't something i should have had with the LBS but it wasn't more than a taste. i enjoyed that tiny piece too. i wouldtake a very small bite and let it melt in my mouth. no one has enjoyed ice cream cake any more than i did yesterday. i was satisfied.
that is great 12 pounds! i bet you feel a whole lot better too. they say that 10 to 15 pounds lost is a change is clothing size. so congrats you deserve a pat on the back.
it takes very long for me to lose now. i'm dropping about a pound a month but i'm doing it healthily the way my docs wnat it done. maybe i shouldna listened years ago hahaha
take care god bless, pam
Topic: RE: July Check in!
Hi Pam, I'm gald you're doing so good. I'm doing better. I have lost 12 pounds and I am trying real had not to go back to my old eating. I had not eaten any sugar since school has been out till yesterday! I ate some cake and homemade ice cream off of Charles' plate, so that didn't count!! HaHa. But that was better than eating a whole bunch ! I hope you've had a great 4th. Check in every once in a while and let me know how you're doing.
God has given me this day to use as I will. I can waste it or use it for good. Today is very imporant, because I'm exchaning a day of my life for it.
Topic: July Check in!
Hello everyone!
Things are going good in my small world.
Been busy at work and at home.
I just got done paintimng my living, dining, and upper hallways. it looks awesome! its a very bright yellowish gold. took me a while to fini**** but i'm so happy now that its done.
i'm doing very well health wise. the LBS is under control with diet and excerize. I do not have a problem sticking with the diet becasue i feel good. I'm eating good things too. i don't miss the things that are not good for me anymore.
the thyroid now seems to be doign good with the meds too.
the really great thing is that i' mlosing weight. VERY slowly but the scale is going down. I've lost a total of 8 pounds now. its taken me a year. Its funny i thnk back to how quickly the weight disapeared back after surgery. it fooled me into thinking thts how we are suppose to lose weight.
but now i know that normal people do not lose 125 pounds in 8 months.
I'm not complaining. I loved losing it that aquickly it was fantastic. I wish that it was that easy but hey nothing worth while is ever that easy.
so i'm happy with my 8 pounds in almost a year. hahaha
if i lose another 8 during the year then i'll be at the weight i kept the longest after surgery. i'd love to be there. i kept most of those clothes too.
so hello to everyone i'd love to hear how all of you are doing. Its great to see your posts Judy and Reenie we have got to get togther! we always say we are going to and we don't its a shame cause we are so close each and every day.
one of these days we'll do it!
take care and god bless to all of you
Things are going good in my small world.
Been busy at work and at home.
I just got done paintimng my living, dining, and upper hallways. it looks awesome! its a very bright yellowish gold. took me a while to fini**** but i'm so happy now that its done.
i'm doing very well health wise. the LBS is under control with diet and excerize. I do not have a problem sticking with the diet becasue i feel good. I'm eating good things too. i don't miss the things that are not good for me anymore.
the thyroid now seems to be doign good with the meds too.
the really great thing is that i' mlosing weight. VERY slowly but the scale is going down. I've lost a total of 8 pounds now. its taken me a year. Its funny i thnk back to how quickly the weight disapeared back after surgery. it fooled me into thinking thts how we are suppose to lose weight.
but now i know that normal people do not lose 125 pounds in 8 months.
I'm not complaining. I loved losing it that aquickly it was fantastic. I wish that it was that easy but hey nothing worth while is ever that easy.
so i'm happy with my 8 pounds in almost a year. hahaha
if i lose another 8 during the year then i'll be at the weight i kept the longest after surgery. i'd love to be there. i kept most of those clothes too.
so hello to everyone i'd love to hear how all of you are doing. Its great to see your posts Judy and Reenie we have got to get togther! we always say we are going to and we don't its a shame cause we are so close each and every day.
one of these days we'll do it!
take care and god bless to all of you
Topic: Have a good July 4 th!
We are coming up on the 4th. of July and I was to wish each of you a happy holiday!
God has given me this day to use as I will. I can waste it or use it for good. Today is very imporant, because I'm exchaning a day of my life for it.
Topic: RE: It's Really Real
BRE visit http://www.obesityhelp.com/group/changedforGodforlife/members. Check out Fairfileld County Bariatrics WTNH, www.wtnh.com/dpp/ct_style/health_fitness/fairfield-county-bariatrics.
Hi Reenie,
Its so good to see u back but not only back but with a brand new healthy attitude which is quite alluring. I am so thankful to you in so many ways for being truthful, honest, and courageous to say the least in all u do. You are and always have been a wonderful inspiration to me and I am sure to so many others. Keep up the good work and look forward to your further posts...
Its so good to see u back but not only back but with a brand new healthy attitude which is quite alluring. I am so thankful to you in so many ways for being truthful, honest, and courageous to say the least in all u do. You are and always have been a wonderful inspiration to me and I am sure to so many others. Keep up the good work and look forward to your further posts...
BRE visit http://www.obesityhelp.com/group/changedforGodforlife/members. Check out Fairfileld County Bariatrics WTNH, www.wtnh.com/dpp/ct_style/health_fitness/fairfield-county-bariatrics. 
Topic: It's Really Real
Hi Marchers, I just had to drop in after dropping off the OH face-of-the-earth. I've come to terms with it all - the surgery, the weight loss of 216 lbs., the rebound gain of 22 lbs., the fear of so many things, weight regain being only one of them - the medical consequences to my health because of the surgery... I've come to terms with it all and I am at peace with the fact that I am truly LIVING NORMAL. I'd say the last 6 months has been a breakthrough for me. I no longer feel like a fat person waiting to balloon up again; I feel normal-sized. I eat normally and for the most part quite healthily. I enjoy an indulgence here and there but not to excess - just when I think I want a taste of something. No beating myself up. Just goin' about my normal-sized business. This is has been a revelation for me. After spending the first 47 years of my life as a fat child, a fatter adolescent, an obese young woman, and a super-morbidly obese middle-aged woman, I know now that I will continue to evolve, physically - as we all will. Change is inevenitable. What is important is Carpe-Diem - 'seize the day' - find your passions and pursue them. This is the essence of staying healthy. Pursue your passions, be physically active, eat foods that will nurture your body, and give yourself away in whatever way that will make a difference in this complicated and at times very troubling world. You all will forever remain a giant beat of my heart - thanks for everything. God bless. Your Reenie
Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today.
Topic: Checking in
As I can see, I'm not the only one that has been AWOL! Where is everybody? Pam, I see you on facebook sometime.
I have gained nearly all my weight back! The doctor put me on a new antidepressant in Jan and I gained 15 pounds almost immediately. In May I went to a new doctor and she said the antidepressant would cause weight gain, She changed me to Zoloft and I went back on my diet and I lost 12 pounds in less than two weeks. This week I have not lost but I knew I would not lose like I did for the first two weeks.
I started having awful feet and leg pain in Jan. also. This has gotten better since school has been out and I don't have to stand up a lot. But I heard this week that if I was low on B12 , this could cause this pain. I had the B12 here I just had not been taking it. I'm taking it now.
I hope you all are doing well and having a good summer.
Check with y'all later. Judy
I have gained nearly all my weight back! The doctor put me on a new antidepressant in Jan and I gained 15 pounds almost immediately. In May I went to a new doctor and she said the antidepressant would cause weight gain, She changed me to Zoloft and I went back on my diet and I lost 12 pounds in less than two weeks. This week I have not lost but I knew I would not lose like I did for the first two weeks.
I started having awful feet and leg pain in Jan. also. This has gotten better since school has been out and I don't have to stand up a lot. But I heard this week that if I was low on B12 , this could cause this pain. I had the B12 here I just had not been taking it. I'm taking it now.
I hope you all are doing well and having a good summer.
Check with y'all later. Judy
God has given me this day to use as I will. I can waste it or use it for good. Today is very imporant, because I'm exchaning a day of my life for it.
Topic: Good Morning
Happy Wednesday Everyone!
I've not been sleeping well.
Last week I had a peeper at my back slider window. I was on the 3rd floor of my condo sitting in a dark room around 11pm playing with the computer. i heard footsteps on my back deck. there are all woods around my condo with only 18 units.
at first i thought it was my neighbor taking her trash out but when i glanced at the window it was dark out there. we can NOT take trash out without putting on a light its so dark you take a chance on a nasty fall. so i take a look out the window and i see a shadow. i can tell its on my steps cause of how the shape has blocked the railing. i thought no i'm not seeing this who would come up there? but then i saw it move.
now normally i'm a big old chicken but i got mad to think someone would be coming up my steps so late at night to peek in a dark condo! i ran down my stairs around the corner into the living room then staight to the dining room, looked out the sliders while flipping the outside light on.
NO one there. i go out onto the deck an listen no noise.
at first i thought maybe i was seeing things maybe i was wrong maybe the neighor had gone on their steps and didn't use their light. so i came back inside locked everything up night and tight again and went to bed.
of course i didn't sleep good that night.
the next day i talked to my neighbors and they said they didn't go out at all last night. i kept going over in my hed what had happeend and i know what i saw.
so now i'm not sleeping well at night. rats!
i need my sleep. i'm crabby cranky and tired. add to it that while we're having nice cooler weather right now the week this happened it was in the 90's and i didn't have my air conditoniers in the windows yet.
so then my son came and put those in. it was nice and cool great to sleep in BUT i can't sleep cause they are noisey!
i'm hoping this fear wears off soon. i did get one good nights sleep cause i was so tired i coudln't fight it.
do you know how much noise two little cats can make runnign up and down stairs in the middle of the night??? those little 5 pound bodies sure do sound alot heavier at 3am!
please know that while i am concnered alot of this posting is sarcasum i'm not terrified. i'm locked up good. alarms and all plus the neighbors are aware. i'm sure that whoever it was realizes that we are all watching and waiting and i'm pretty sure that my place isn't the only one thats been peeped into. ive also gotten new curtains. thats been hard for me to adjust to cause i like the windows all open for the light and hadn't bothereed with them in the back cause of the woods.
as for weight i'm still losing the 15 extra i had gained. the thryoid meds have helped big time along with diet and excersize. the down side is its so sloooooowwwwww my goal had been to lose 10 pounds by summer that was back in january. new years resolution you know!
well i'm not down 10 pounds only 7 but i'll take that 7! i've not gone down in sizes yet but my clothes are fitting better and loser. i had been in 10's now i'm 14's the 12's are around the corner it will feel like i have a new wardrobe when i hit that mark!
as i've aged with the extra skin and not excersiing a smuch as i should my body has shifted and changed. typical for menopausal woman! but let me tell you i'm a hot sound to be grammy! YUP i'm going to be a grandmother in october! first time for me and my child. we are all very excited.
the low blood sugar is very much under control. it won't go away but the symptons are not sever like last year and they are pretty much not around at all as long as i behave. not a problem to do caus i like to feel good.
no sugar not alot of fat keeping clories to 1200/1400
weight 178
highest weight before surgery 305
lowest after surgery 157
steadiest weight 167 kept that weight for 3 years before problems with thryoid and low blood sugar. my low blood sugar was brought on by abusing laxatives daily for almost a year. i know i know stupid! won't touch them now!
blood pressure - perfect
D's, B's. calcium and all that stuff in my blood - right where it needs to be.
meds - allergy medicim and thrypoid meds thats it. other than my vitamins and d's and b's and calcium
i feel pretty good.
hope all of you are doing well and if any of the old marchers are out there drop a line i'd love to hear from you.
I've not been sleeping well.
Last week I had a peeper at my back slider window. I was on the 3rd floor of my condo sitting in a dark room around 11pm playing with the computer. i heard footsteps on my back deck. there are all woods around my condo with only 18 units.
at first i thought it was my neighbor taking her trash out but when i glanced at the window it was dark out there. we can NOT take trash out without putting on a light its so dark you take a chance on a nasty fall. so i take a look out the window and i see a shadow. i can tell its on my steps cause of how the shape has blocked the railing. i thought no i'm not seeing this who would come up there? but then i saw it move.
now normally i'm a big old chicken but i got mad to think someone would be coming up my steps so late at night to peek in a dark condo! i ran down my stairs around the corner into the living room then staight to the dining room, looked out the sliders while flipping the outside light on.
NO one there. i go out onto the deck an listen no noise.
at first i thought maybe i was seeing things maybe i was wrong maybe the neighor had gone on their steps and didn't use their light. so i came back inside locked everything up night and tight again and went to bed.
of course i didn't sleep good that night.
the next day i talked to my neighbors and they said they didn't go out at all last night. i kept going over in my hed what had happeend and i know what i saw.
so now i'm not sleeping well at night. rats!
i need my sleep. i'm crabby cranky and tired. add to it that while we're having nice cooler weather right now the week this happened it was in the 90's and i didn't have my air conditoniers in the windows yet.
so then my son came and put those in. it was nice and cool great to sleep in BUT i can't sleep cause they are noisey!
i'm hoping this fear wears off soon. i did get one good nights sleep cause i was so tired i coudln't fight it.
do you know how much noise two little cats can make runnign up and down stairs in the middle of the night??? those little 5 pound bodies sure do sound alot heavier at 3am!
please know that while i am concnered alot of this posting is sarcasum i'm not terrified. i'm locked up good. alarms and all plus the neighbors are aware. i'm sure that whoever it was realizes that we are all watching and waiting and i'm pretty sure that my place isn't the only one thats been peeped into. ive also gotten new curtains. thats been hard for me to adjust to cause i like the windows all open for the light and hadn't bothereed with them in the back cause of the woods.
as for weight i'm still losing the 15 extra i had gained. the thryoid meds have helped big time along with diet and excersize. the down side is its so sloooooowwwwww my goal had been to lose 10 pounds by summer that was back in january. new years resolution you know!
well i'm not down 10 pounds only 7 but i'll take that 7! i've not gone down in sizes yet but my clothes are fitting better and loser. i had been in 10's now i'm 14's the 12's are around the corner it will feel like i have a new wardrobe when i hit that mark!
as i've aged with the extra skin and not excersiing a smuch as i should my body has shifted and changed. typical for menopausal woman! but let me tell you i'm a hot sound to be grammy! YUP i'm going to be a grandmother in october! first time for me and my child. we are all very excited.
the low blood sugar is very much under control. it won't go away but the symptons are not sever like last year and they are pretty much not around at all as long as i behave. not a problem to do caus i like to feel good.
no sugar not alot of fat keeping clories to 1200/1400
weight 178
highest weight before surgery 305
lowest after surgery 157
steadiest weight 167 kept that weight for 3 years before problems with thryoid and low blood sugar. my low blood sugar was brought on by abusing laxatives daily for almost a year. i know i know stupid! won't touch them now!
blood pressure - perfect
D's, B's. calcium and all that stuff in my blood - right where it needs to be.
meds - allergy medicim and thrypoid meds thats it. other than my vitamins and d's and b's and calcium
i feel pretty good.
hope all of you are doing well and if any of the old marchers are out there drop a line i'd love to hear from you.
Topic: RE: Got to wear shadeeeees....
what a nice posting!
i wish you lived closer i'd stop and visit your shops.
congrats and best wishes
i wish you lived closer i'd stop and visit your shops.
congrats and best wishes
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