2 year surgiversary, 1-1/2 maintaning.
I was trying to wait until my labs came back so I could share some stuff I thought was important to share about us tracking our labs, but all of them have not come back yet, and today I found these berforey pictures.
I found some pictures today of me in 2008. This is the year after my daddy died and my 2 good sweet 14 year old dog friends died and I was just hopelessly packing it on. Who the hell knows how much I was weighing. Not me. I hurt so much all the time, in my heart cuz I missed the people I loved, but it hurt to stand too long, to walk too long, to sit too long, to lie too long. I exercised and was active but it really just seemed like all it did ever was hurt, and not change anything.
These "before" me pictures. These are the reasons I ask people irritating damned questions - when they ask for someone else to talk them off the ledge, these are the reasons I ask YOU questions so YOU learn to talk you off your ledge - cuz having friends and support is great, but sometimes YOU are all you have, and it could be SO EASY to GO BACK HERE. I know I irritate the **** out of some of you, and that's cool - but know that my heart is FOR you, is for your Health, is for your WHOLENESS is for your HAPPINESS, is for you to be FOR YOU FOR THE REST OF YOUR DAYS!!
I wish that for us all.
Its too easy to go back to the person you were, if you were a person with baggage, like I *am*. Anyway, some befores and some nows.
These I found today.
Here are fronts - The pink thing looks clowny on my 22 month out part but :} a friend had asked to see my then and now in them.
If you scroll the bottom bar all the way over you can see me in my white unders and my starting belly.
You can see I have extra belly skin and that's just what it is. I will not ever have an 0 for a belly button without surgery, but that's cool = my belly button modeling days have been over for a while. :}
And so you can see, there could be hope for you back roll skin!
Nows
1 year out
2 years out
Some of us maintenance folks irritate the **** out of some of yall. :} Its okay, we are all just human, but know this -
OUR HEART IS FOR YOU!!
Muwah, squeeze and
PEACE OUT KLOWNZ!!
Had some back questions about the skin, so here are some progressions - I lost back fat doing just cardio, but switching to musle for draping, you can see, made a huge difference.
Post Date: 5/22/11 5:18 pm
Both, I lost the back fat but when I did not have the muscle, I had bags. Wait - that one picture I put together that shows when I stopped lifting out so my hands could get used to transcribing full time again speaks volumes.
Here is me 08/2009 - see, I am losing back fat, still have it, but I have serious bat wings - THESE are really what bat wings are, not the bingo arm flap! I was still just doing cardio, but for upper body stuff, doing girlie pushups and triceps dips.
Yaay strong armishness!!
Okay - if you scroll over to the picture of me in black bottoms that was 4 months after the picture of me in the purple shirt 11/2009 - in November 2009 I lost my job that did not hurt my hands and had to quit lifting - you can see how much muscle mass I lost, and I was starting to have back flappidy things again.
I found some pictures today of me in 2008. This is the year after my daddy died and my 2 good sweet 14 year old dog friends died and I was just hopelessly packing it on. Who the hell knows how much I was weighing. Not me. I hurt so much all the time, in my heart cuz I missed the people I loved, but it hurt to stand too long, to walk too long, to sit too long, to lie too long. I exercised and was active but it really just seemed like all it did ever was hurt, and not change anything.
These "before" me pictures. These are the reasons I ask people irritating damned questions - when they ask for someone else to talk them off the ledge, these are the reasons I ask YOU questions so YOU learn to talk you off your ledge - cuz having friends and support is great, but sometimes YOU are all you have, and it could be SO EASY to GO BACK HERE. I know I irritate the **** out of some of you, and that's cool - but know that my heart is FOR you, is for your Health, is for your WHOLENESS is for your HAPPINESS, is for you to be FOR YOU FOR THE REST OF YOUR DAYS!!
I wish that for us all.
Its too easy to go back to the person you were, if you were a person with baggage, like I *am*. Anyway, some befores and some nows.
These I found today.
Here are fronts - The pink thing looks clowny on my 22 month out part but :} a friend had asked to see my then and now in them.
If you scroll the bottom bar all the way over you can see me in my white unders and my starting belly.
You can see I have extra belly skin and that's just what it is. I will not ever have an 0 for a belly button without surgery, but that's cool = my belly button modeling days have been over for a while. :}
And so you can see, there could be hope for you back roll skin!
Nows
1 year out
2 years out
Some of us maintenance folks irritate the **** out of some of yall. :} Its okay, we are all just human, but know this -
OUR HEART IS FOR YOU!!
Muwah, squeeze and
PEACE OUT KLOWNZ!!
Had some back questions about the skin, so here are some progressions - I lost back fat doing just cardio, but switching to musle for draping, you can see, made a huge difference.
Post Date: 5/22/11 5:18 pm
Both, I lost the back fat but when I did not have the muscle, I had bags. Wait - that one picture I put together that shows when I stopped lifting out so my hands could get used to transcribing full time again speaks volumes.
Here is me 08/2009 - see, I am losing back fat, still have it, but I have serious bat wings - THESE are really what bat wings are, not the bingo arm flap! I was still just doing cardio, but for upper body stuff, doing girlie pushups and triceps dips.
Yaay strong armishness!!
Okay - if you scroll over to the picture of me in black bottoms that was 4 months after the picture of me in the purple shirt 11/2009 - in November 2009 I lost my job that did not hurt my hands and had to quit lifting - you can see how much muscle mass I lost, and I was starting to have back flappidy things again.
We can do this thing, and if you are like me, there are some things you will not ever be *normal* about but know what?
Its not good, and its not bad, its just the way we are!!
AND THAT IS OKAY!!! Yaaay!
Looking good...thanks for the show & tell.
Liz
Liz
Duodenal Switch (Lap) 01-24-11 | Surgeon: Stephen Boyce | High weight: 250 in 2002 | Surgery weight: 203 | Lowest weight: 121 | Current weight: 135 | Goal weight: 135
Great show and tell. I really appreciate your hard work and dedication to lifting. And you can see from the pix that it really does work. Better get back to my weights.
66 yrs young, 4'11" hw 220, goal 120 met at 12 months, cw 129 learning Maintainance
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Thanks for posting and very inspiring. I'm doing girlie push ups and triceps curls now along with walking. I'm not allowed to do anything that effects my waist yet so I'm trying to build muscle. I only have hand weights now but I can see that what I have can make a difference if I keep it up. I really do appreciate you posting! Any suggestions on a sagging butt? LOL
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