ONE-derland at last!

Kat C
on 10/5/06 4:28 pm - Tuscaloosa, AL

Slow and steady wins the race? Heck, I dunno. All I know is I've tried to keep my shoulder to the wheel during the 18+ months since my surgery, and at long last, I stepped onto a scale, and saw a number STARTING WITH A "1"! Oh happy day! A week ago, I weighed in at 196. I started on 3/28/05 at 351 lbs. I have about 25 more to lose, and losing it actually seems possible! Even this far out, I still have months with up to 10 lbs. lost (also some with NONE lost, but I like the 10 lb months better right now!). In other news, I lost that last 4 lbs while on my wedding trip! I got engaged last September to my sweetie of (then) 6 years. On September 15th we left on a road trip from Alabama to Maine (of course I weighed, and was 200 exactly). We were married privately on a beach in Acadia National Park on September 20th. We got home the 27th and had a big wedding celebration here with family & friends this past Friday, September 29th. It's been a crazy time, but I'm getting back into my groove. I started working out with a trainer in June and have kept that up all along. We went mostly to national and state parks on our big road trip, and I did tons of walking around, some of it the most challenging hiking I've done to date. It was great to be able to do that, and to stay in old hotels with no elevators and not worry about getting myself and my stuff up and down the stairs. Heck, pre-op, I could not have made it from the parking lot of our wedding site to the site down on the beach. I've kept my profile updated pretty regularly, if anybody's curious about my post-op journey. Photos from our wedding are posted here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/47341438@N00/sets/72157594302893548/. Just wanted to give a shout-out to my March 05 buddies about finally reaching these latest milestones! I hope you all are doing well. Kathy

pebbi64
on 10/5/06 11:58 pm - Fredericksburg, VA

RNY on 03/02/05 with

Oh Kathy, I'm so happy for you! You are doing so well and Congratulations on the recent marriage. What an awesome blessing and I wish you both nothing but the best of what life has to offer! I'm doing well. I've lost 103 lbs since my start date of 3/2/05 and I haven't lost anything since Jan 06, but I haven't gained either. So all is well. I am trying to kick-start my weightloss though. I do so want to lose some more pounds by Christmas. So, I've increased the activity level and I'm avoiding all snacking between meals. "A bad habit I had to break".. Anyway, I'm only doing my 3 meals a day and also my protein shakes. I just started yesterday, so I'll see where I'm at next week during weigh-in time. My 18 month checkup with my doctor went well and all my lab work came back in the normal range. My doctor did take me off of my B12 supplement though because my result came back too high. So now, I'm just taking the B-complex and all my other supplements, but no b-12. He told me to try this but if I find that I'm getting tired, I can add it back in but not at the level that I was taking it. I go back in March 2007 (my two year mark) to see how I'm doing. Other than that, he was real proud of my outcome! "ME too!" We need to get our board active again! I notice that many don't visit anymore. What's up with that? LOL. Me, I'm just a lurker mostly on the main board, but I still check in from time to time and I think its important for us to check in with our fellow Marchers to see how we are all doing. Well take care and have a blessed day. Pebbles