Scrapbooking my journey!

Hi Kathy....I had my surgery one Monday, May 13th, 2002. That is another special day to me...It's my daughters birthday...she turned 8 the day I had my surgery. I started scrapbooking the morning of my surgery...I had my before pictures taken and that got me hooked. Its been over a year now and I'm on my 5th or 6th book. I really enjoy scrappin', it is so relaxing. I have one book of my weightloss, one and and half started of my daugter, and a couple family books. Some of my pages are of me at my 30th birthday party, partying with friends, the night I hit and killed a deer (I got pics of my and the cop, and of my husband and dad loading the deer into the truck), my sixth months comparison...what a difference, and lots of other things. One of the pages I like the most is of me skiing...I haden't skied in like 16+ years, I still didn't like it, but the page was fun to scrap. Good luck to you.....

Lots of thanks to all of you for your great ideas! We had our surgery on July 18th and you bet we took the camera! I have a great shot of us in the same hospital room trying to hold hands! I started journaling last march of 2002 and I have been taking pictures all the way! I love creative memories stuff and I have a lot of STUFF! I was thinking of getting the natural album. I just love everybodys suggestons!

Ladies, ladies... I am excited to see so many of you creating scrapbooks of your weight loss journey. I am a Creative Memories consultant. I had my surgery Nov. 4 and am down 93 pounds. I, of course, did a scrapbook to document my journey. I never want to forget how hard the journey was. My album consists of a before photo of my girlfriend and I (she had her surgery 4 weeks after me) in front of the Roly Poly sign. Yes, we must laugh at ourselves. I also included my letters of recommendation from physicians as well as the big letter of approval from insurance. Then I included all the greetings and well wishes from friends upon obtaining a surgery date. I used calendar pages to then document the day of surgery, and the weight loss following. I make sure to put photos on the calendar pages as well as document my weight and measurements (don't forget those measurements). I also jot down milestones like being able to buckle my dance shoes with ease or where a normal size bath towel around me. Hope these ideas help you in creating your scrapbook...in celebration of YOU. Cindy

I am only thirteen days out. Y'all have given me such fantastic ideas! Since I am still fairly close to my beginning weight, I will have some photos made of me at Pizza Hut, Krispy Kreme, etc. Also, an idea I came up with while reading these posts: I'm going to have a BUNCH of copies made of my "good" before photo. At a lot of my milestone points, I'll have the "original" before photo to put beside the "newest" me. (I'm a BIG dreamer! I have a twenty-eight year old daughter and a six-year-old grandson who don't have any of their albums completed, yet. )