Monday Check-In - Everyone Join In !!

I am gonna start this one early this mornin, I will leave for work soon and not be back home till late this evening. Hope to see lots of responses!
Starting Weight in Jan 10: 303
Surgery Weight on Mar 15: 269
Last Week : 253
Today: 253
I've heard about a normal stall at this stage but of course hoped I would pass right over it....guess not!
On the good side I decided to measure this morning and was thrilled to see that I have lost 5 inches from my waist adn 5 from my hips. This is so important since I carry most of my weight in my middle (shaped like the blown up blueberry girl on Willy Wonka!) So I would have loved to see a nice loss of pounds but love the inches!!!
Have a great week ladies!

Hi surgery date buddy!  I started at 298, lost down to 284 during my 2-week "diet from Hell"; and am now at 259 this morning.

Look at your today's weight - you put 353 -- girl, get used to it!  You are out of the 300's, practice writing 2xx   and later 1xx :)  Isn't it great?  Congrats, you've done marvously.

Highest Weight - 400
Surgery Weight - 354
2 weeks ago - 284.4
Last week - not sure
Today's Weight - 281.4

I was on vacation up North in PA and Ontario CA at Niagra Falls all week.  Needless to say, I forgot to take my protein shakes and bars I had packed...but I was able to get some Atkins at Wal-Mart to help supplement.  I had to mostly eat out and try to avoid the evil carbs!!!  I was pretty happy that I still lost 3 lbs from the last weigh in. 

I did get to do a lot of walking on vacation and even went to a 4D Spongebob ride with my 8 year old that I would have been scared to go to before surgery.  it was a lot of fun! 

Hope everyone has a great week!

I am so glad you thought to measure..yay for you on the inches lost..   it makes the stalls on the scale a lot more bearable.. Don't worry the stall at this stage does not last too long.. just keep up with what you are doing and don't get discouraged and give in to any temptations and you will do fine.. just hang in there and have patience.. once your body gets adjusted the weight will start to come off again.. 

starting weight 303
surgery date  236
last week   202
this week  198

Yeah that's right... I am finally in Onederland.. It has been a long time coming.. I am so so excited.. I can deal with the slow weight loss now that I finally got into the 100"s.. being stuck for a month at 200 and just above was so frustrating.. and the ups and downs of 2-3lbs with water weight drove me crazy... but now it seems like the stall has really broken.. and I can have some patience..

Hope everyone has a great week.. I am enjoying the spring weather.. I hope you are too..

huggs..

 

HW:    455
4/5:     426
4/12:   423

See you next week ladies :)

So, here I am -- one day late. I was traveling from O'Hare to Los Angeles yesterday. I love that Chicago airport.

I'm a stress monkey today. I have to go back to the office. My boss and I are disagreeing on travel policy. I've worked here 18 years. She asked the wrong person about it (he's been here a whole month!). And I have two projects to finish before Friday.

My Ma is back in the hospital. She went in for blood on Saturday because her anemia came for a visit. I think she now has a hospital-borne UTI, but the nurse isn't listening to us. Mom gets wiggy whenever she has a UTI. When I stopped by yesterday on my way from the airport, she told me about the Buddhist cremation ceremony for some Japanese bigwig that someone did on top of our house. She was worried the windows would burn. That qualifies as wigged out for me. I'll be calling her Kaiser case manager after 8 a.m.

For what I ate last week, I should've gained more. But I'll be happy that the damage wasn't too bad.

Starting Weight: 388 (May 2008)
Last Week: ??? (week before that 252)
Today: 253

Everyone have a great week.

Yep you are back and the stress has already begun.. job, home. mom, insurance. hospitals.. I am so thankful I do not have the stress factors you have.. I am not sure I could handle it and this lifestyle change too..

I am sorry to hear your mom is back in the hospital.. I hope the insurance case manager can get things on the ball.. Having a case manager really does help and keep things moving smoothly. It is amazing how the doctors and nurses think us CIVILIANS know nothing about our own family.. you would think they would try to at least listen and investigate.. but that might make them have to admit they were not on the ball.. .. and that is too hard on the ego.. anyway I hope they get your mom better soon..

I am so proud of you for you weight.. Taking a vacation (well working vacation) and only seeing a 1 lb gain.. wow.. you did fantastic.   Maybe running all those stairs might have helped huh... lol.... I think you were doing so good in trying to comply with the right choices and execiseing as you could.. that is the real reason for it.. KUDOS Patti...

Try to relax and just let life flow.. Mom will get better and be back home soon.. the projects at work will get done.. all things will fall into place.. try not to get too upset with them.. just do what you can do.. that is all anyone can expect.. I have you in my prayers..

huggs..

I'm such a dork, accidentally re-creating this thread!  I'm sorry Cheryl! 

Howdy everyone...

HW:  380
SW:  244
Last week:  272
This week:  269

Highest weight - 390 (April '09)
Surgery weight - 340 (Aug. '09)
Last week - 229
Today - 229 ugh, but it's my own fault- I was on spring break and ate everything I could get my grubby lil' paws on!

Doing good so far, getting protein and water in and excited about working up a big ol' sweat today at the gym!

Tears in my eyes... I've lost more than I have on any thing in the past - 100 pounds!!!!!   here are my stats:

Highest   427 (2007)
Starting    399
Surgery     384
Last Week 300
This Week 298

I am thrilled!