thursday

Well thank you Susan. I agree everyoine needs to be aware of the long term challenges we will face. I still drink shakes to boost my protien. Just because I am 7 years out does not mean it is easy. Like you said we get accustomed get comfortable and get brave and lazy. BUT, you can correct your poor habits....5day pouch test, can help, getting back to basics can help.  So to all of you.......if you see a pound or two creep on you can take the proper steps to get back to basics and lose it!!!!! DO NOT WAIT until 30 creeps back like me.  Anyhow on a lighter note.......tonight I have a date.....with my 14 y/o son. We are going to Big Foots Lodge for dinner and then off to the Fed Ex Forum to see Brad Paisley. So, I get to see too good looking men tonight!!!!!!  yay me!!!!!!  I think my son Sebastian is better looking though.........ha ha Ok everyone, I am going to do some work talk to you later thank you for listening to me tammy

Hey girl with date! Sounds like you're going to have a great time tonight.  What's your plan for eating out?  Gary had this problem yesterday when the boss took them out for pizza after a training session. He planned on Fitday.com for his salad and two slices of thin crust cheese pizza. It was just enough, but said he was shocked at how many slices his co workers ate. He's starting to recognize how much we, as a society eat!  I'm proud. While I was in the losing process I tried not to get onto the scale everyday. It was hard, but if I didn't lose even a .10 of a lb, I thought I was doing something wrong. Well, now I'm on the scale every day. If my weight goes to 129.0 I watch it and if it goes to 129.5 I'm ON IT!!  Have a great evening with your boys... Hugs and smoochies

Have fun at the concert!!

THANK YOU!!!!!

Tammy, can you tell us what things you have done to maintain for so long! AmyBeth

I maintained until the last 2 years. I am a stress eater and under alot of stress and gained 30 back. The thing is this......my surgeon and I never set a goal weight as I was almost to small to qualify for my surgery. So we just decided that losing between 80-100 would be ok. I am 5 ft tall and weighed 233 the day of surgery, I got to 133 within the first year and a half.  I stayed in the 140-145 area for ever and then in 2006 it started coming back on, in 2007 I had plastic surgery and the last ten of 30 popped on .  The only thing I can say is that I really did not eat.....I was always forgetting to eat. I was walking alot too. Back then I really felt the feeling of being full on two bites of food. One of my problems was drinking coke.........I am trying to give it up now. My doc new I was extremely addicted and my 12-24 cans a day went to one......as of sunday Jan 27 I stopped drinking it. I have had a few sips this week. For me to give that up would mean me letting go of the bad things I have been through.  My life changed when I was 15-16 and got pregnant by a man who said he was 18. He was 23 married and had 3 kids. I hid the pregnancy until I was 7 months and my mom put me in a maternity home and made me give up my son. I then got married at 18 to an abusive man and had my daughter....we divorced within 3 years. I remarried and had my son......that lasted 10 years and thats when my weight ballooned...................while I was pushing maximum density my loving husband was cheating on me with 2 women and got both of them pregnant. One miscarried and one placed the baby for adoption. I tried to make the marrige work, but after I had my surgery I told him to leave. So at this point I was a new post op and trying to make it on my own with limited money trying to feed my two kids and getting used to being employed.......I never ate....I bought food for my kids and not me. I DO NOT RECCOMMEND THIS............................. I got to 133 and was cute and tiny........then my depression started and my kids became teenagers and my money got tight and I started eating......... I am trying to get on track. I started the 5 day pouch test and failed on day three the day I could eat. I got stressed. Then last night it was dinner out tonight is dinner out. I am starting back on it Saturday. I did lose 5.5 pounds in 3 days........ On a closing note, my adopted son is 21 and I dont know anything about him. I cry daily for him. Maybe someday. take care Tammy