Carpet Fiasco Over: Good News
After setting some realistic goals for this coming year, I realized that I have been letting you all know about my actions every day but I have been a little quiet about the results. I have said here and there that since October, I have lost weight but I wanted to give you guys an update.
I told you a while back that I can wear my skinny jeans and that now they are loose; well, today, I didn't have a warm shirt to wear, so I pulled a shirt out of the closet that I bought last year and thought it was an XL (I like my shirts loose) but when I got it home, it was a M. Well, last year, a medium was a little snug so I hung it in my closet and left it there. Today, I was going to hang it back up but decided to try to put the shirt on and if it was too tight, I was going to layer over it with a large t-shirt....Ladies, the medium was loose...it was loose in the arms, the shoulders, around the boobs, and the belly, and the hips...The thing hung on me like my husbands shirts hang on me...I even took it off and looked at it thinking maybe I had been wrong about the size...nope, it's a M.
So, I thought, well, maybe I should go ahead and try on a pair of jeans that I wore a few years ago before I gained some of that weight back from when I was so sick. Anyway, I gotta say, they slid right up my thighs and over my hips and I didn't even have to suck in my belly to get the things snapped and zipped.
Well, you know how when you wear clothes that are so baggy and loose that people don't really notice if you drop a pound or two but then the minute you put on a pair of clothes that fit, everyone starts commenting on your weightless.....if I heard once, I heard it a million times about how much weight I've lost. So, that's the deal on my progress on my new year's objectives.
If I could just start walking again so I can build back up to the distance and speed before hurting my foot.
One more thing: you know, one of my goals was to drink more water and less diet coke and coffee and I am doing much better but the ultimate reward was to be less dry skin and maybe get some of these wrinkles off of my face. I've even been doing facial scrubs and a lot of moisturizing cream. Well, strutting around all day today thinking I was just too cute with my medium shirt and small jeans and then I cleaned my glasses in front of the bathroom mirror and put those suckers back on and there it was....my chin, from plucking at a hair that I couldn't find, had all these little sores around the hair, which I eventually did pluck....but the truth is that side of my chin looks like I have a huge pimple....dang it and then, I got up close and personal to the mirror and on the other side of the chin was a two foot long black hair....I swear....how many people saw my chin and thought I was in need of some facescapping. Well, that's my update for the month...next week, we are giving up the fish....or the butter....I got to decide.
Post your update....
Jeannie,
You are doing an awesome job in some major life areas! Changing your eating habits in such a major way is huge...sometimes we don't realize how much we have changed until someone points it out or we have a nice surprise like you with moving down so mu*****lothes size.
What an accomplishment! Congratulations!
I'd be strutting up & down your mountain like a freaking pea**** in full bloom!
You go girl!!!
I have done pretty well on being nicer to hubby. We have been going thru one of those honeymoon periods for several weeks. I have also been more patient with Jazz which is paying off.
My eating has been up and down. I know it is from stress. However, if I am going over calorie wise it is with nutritional food...not junk. To me that's progress!
I have been Wondering if I ever pigged out if my sleeve would work bc I tend to eat often rather than alot at one time. Well, last night we went to Texas roadhouse and had to wait an hour to get seated. I was mentally and physically hungry by the time we were served so I started with the ribs and ate 3 very quickly.
Oh yes...my sleeve works!
So that is my update...
Off to buy some smaller new clothes!
Kathy
Kathy,
You are making great progress too. I know how hard it is to be nice to these men. Like now, my DH knows I am posting but he keeps harping about Einstein....I know; I read it too. Geeze.
It is so hard for us mature ladies to raise our grand babies. Don't beat yourself up if you loose you patients with your granddaughter. Whenever I have my grandkids for any length of time, I find myself getting short with them and then wishing I had been more patient. I even find myself apologizing to them over and over again and they say, it's okay, we were being too loud or we were not picking up our things. So, I'm sure your Jazz completely understands. When you find yourself being short with her or fussing at her, talk to her and apologize. The thing I remember the most about my grandmother was not the times she fussed at me or even the times she took a switch to me and my cousins...I remember the time she held my head in her lap while my mom rushed me to the local hospital after I had been stung by a wasp and the medicine wasn't working to stop the shock and she was crying and telling mama to drive faster and as tiny as she was, she carried me while running into the hospital and she yelled at the nurse to give me medicine...afterwards, when I was in an oxygen tent, she held my hand and told me she was so sorry for making me go outside and play...That day, I had said that the wasp were swarming and she went outside and looked and said, oh, sissy, those wasp are not swarming so you sit under the tree and play...well, the wasp were swarming and one found me and stung me and that's all she wrote. But she apologized and apologized...That's what I remember.
And it is so good to know that your sleeve is working. I always say, if we are going to over eat, let's do it with quality foods that we can get some good stuff from, that will make our metabolism work for us and not against us, and that will fill us up fast...You are making all the right choices and you are doing so good. Hang in there and remember that if you mess up one day, pick yourself back up and get back on track...that's how we are different from before WLS...before, we would say, next week, I will get back on track or it's already too late to lose weight for summer, so I will wait till fall...you know those scripts we played...but now, we get right back up on that eating good and moving more horse and ride that pony.
You are wonderfullllll.
Hello Kathy....I am always smiling when I see you ave posted. You really are my "Ray of Sunshine"!
Losing patience is something we all deal with from time to time. You will be okay. It sounds like life at your house has improved, especially with Jazz! That is wonderful!!!
Glad your sleeve is still working!!!
Love you much...hugs too....connie d
Hi Jeannie....I am so proud of you a medium top...WOW and skinny jeans!!!! Oh how I would love to be that small again.
You have a lot of determination and willpower something I don't have much of. Oh well my own problem not yours.
I keep forgetting to ask....can you PM me answer....you have not friended me on here or on Facebook. Also where is the picture you posted of yourself? We sure would love to see you and not that ghost in the box.
Have a great day...love and hugs....connie d
Good morning everyone......
I guess this is our thread for the day. I am so excited for Carrie and Vickie too!! I pray all goes well with Caralee's delivery for both Carrie and baby. Vickie I know you will be a strong coach and loving every minute of it!
I am feeling better. My throat is a little scratchy but much better. I am so glad.
I don't have plans for today. I will just go with the flow. I might go out and work on a puzzle a little later.
I pray for all our loving OFF Family and their families as well. Special prayers for those in need.
Tons of love and oodles of hugs.....connie d
