11 MONTH ANNIVERSAY!!!!!!

Today is my 11 month anniversay!!! I told Em the other day that any weight loss from here on in is just gravy. She agreed. She said, "Momma, you had this surgery so that you would want to get out and do stuff and not lay around and sleep all day. You've accomplished your goal already!" And she is absolutely right! While I am a LONG, LONG way from skinny or even not overweight, I feel so good ALMOST ALL the time!!! And I have more energy than Em, Jim & Jon put together!!! Yep, it was worth it!! And even tho my loss is starting to slow way down, it's still great! I have lost a grand total of 209.2 lbs in 11 months!!!!! That's about 19 lbs a month or 4.75 lbs a week or .7 lbs a day!!!!!!!!!!!! WOW!!!!!!!!! My BIG problem now is drinking! I simply DO NOT want to drink alot and nothing to drink tastes good anymore. I drink koolaid, water, and flat fresca (cherry, peach, & plain), flat root beer, and flat Sprite zero....The flat soft drinks taste best, but before I wanted to chug-a-lug my drinks all day.....now, a couple of swallows and I don't want anymore for the day. Any thoughts? Suggestions? I know the more I drink, the MORE I lose and really want to get small enough to get this 50 lbs of sagging skin off my belly!!!!!!! And I want my knees replaced!!!! So set your old Queen straight!!!! Smoochies Arlies

Arlis!! Congratulations!!! I'm so thrilled for you! We gotta get together again - can't wait to see the changes!! Do you like iced tea? I find that decaffeinated tea with splenda tastes really good on some days and goes down really easy. I am finding, however, that it's a lot harder to get the fluids in during this frigid weather and I'm not getting mine in, either. Anyway, I just wanted to congratulate you cause you deserve it!! Rebecca

I DON'T like tea....I will not drink in a box, with a fox or anyway you fix it, Sam I am....... Sometimes, I wish I did like tea.... Smoochies Arlies

Hey Doll, Like you I was tired being like an old bear 12 months out of the year. You know your sleeping a lot when people start calling you Rumple Also like you, my button is set on GO GO GO. Poor Johnny !!! I'll be glad when I can say it was worth it. I'm still a ways from that just yet. Unless someone wants me to lie that is. But having said that, I am alot closer to it that I was right after surgery. I'll be there one day. When I don't know. I'm so happy for you. You are just a losing hussy I tell ya Think about it.... You've lost weight without doin any exercise or not much if any because of your knees & being in a scooter. Your the only person that can say they "scootered the weight off" !!! But you have got to drink woman !!! If you don't I'll have 2 words for you. KIDNEY STONES !!! Trust me..... DRINK !!! I don't know what to tell you about getting liquids in. Other than maybe tell yourself that you have to drink a certain amount for every chapter of a book your reading. Have you tried a little of fruit juices just to mix it up some ? Maybe think about having to drink a certain amount before leaving home. A check list on the frig with the totals you've drank ? For you & the family to see. That way they will get in on the "are you drinking enough" train. Anyways............. I loves ya even if you never take another sip !!! Tammy

Way to go on the weightloss that is soooooooo great! You really are an inspiration to prolly everyone on this board! Keep up the good work Queenie! Keli

Bows to her Majesty ,you go weight loss Queen!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Arlies, I love drinking Spiced Apple Cider made by Alpine. It is a sugar free/ caffeine free powder that you mix with hot or cold water. It has no calories and 100% of the daily requirement of vitamin C. i mix mine with 8oz. of ho****er. I also like the SoBe Lean sugar free drinks at Wal-Mart. Sonya

Is it from Walmart? I will get me some....I drink sugar-free hot cocoa from time to time and decaf coffee from time to time....but NO tea! Smoochies Arlies

I get the spiced cider from Wal-Mart. I also like Krogers version of the spiced apple cider. They do make apple cider in the tea but it taste nasty to me. Good Luck with your fluids. Sonya Sumrall

Dear Queen !!! Hats off to ya... over 200 lbs in less than a year. Wow. I'm impressed. Makes my measly 140 lbs look like jump change huh? HAHA. I'm just so very happy for you, I know how much this is going to change your life, just can't wait to get you the surgery on your knees that you so dearly need and omg.. next time I see you , you're gonna be runnin around like a spring chicken, I just know it !!! I don't have the magic cure for ya when it comes to drinking, I drink like a fish, every time I think about a snack, I grab me a bottle and start drinking. I probably gulp too much and too fast and that's one reason I can eat so dang much now... but hey, I'm still going at a rate of 1-2 lbs a month and it's going DOWN not up, I'm happy. My only drink of choice is the peach tea from Wal Mart. I drink it like I'm addicted or something. My husband knows I'm hooked and makes SURE I never run out, since that one time I made him run to WM in the middle of the night to buy some hehe. Every now and then I gotta get a soda when I run outta what I had brought along and I just can't do the sodas any more. The citrus fresca is the only one I can half way enjoy still. Everything else is gross now. So I know how it is. If I was stuck with plain water, I'd do horribly on the drinking part. Just keep looking for something u like. Maybe a few more warm beverages? Different teas, with splenda? It would work since its cold outside now.. and in the summer, u can drink those cold and they're refreshing. Do you like peppermint tea? Obviously you're doing something right.. keep up the good work and keep trying with the liquids. Cuz u know we love u and we want u to have the best results possible.. and u HAVE to get your 64 oz at least to get there !!! hehe ~Andie~