Tammi H.

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I have three main goal weights, first one is 175 *I am only 1.5 lbs from that*

the second goal is 160 lbs *16 lbs from this weight*

and the third is the lowest of 150-154 * am 22-26 lbs away from this goal*

Goal three seems so close but so far way, or the other way around. I know I can reach this, but will be one happy camper if I only reach 160. That is only 16 lbs away, wow how close is that? It doesn't seem possible, after having fought with weight all my life and now it is finally coming off I see these goals being very reachable. Never thought 175 was going to reachable, but here real soon I will be reaching that goal weight and passing it by quickly.

Woke to a head ache this morning, and so very sleepy. Hope I feel up to the gym today, YEA I BETTER. It is something that I just need to do for me. It is Monday so it is time to be faithful and committed to myself. So going even if I am sleepy, tired , and have a slight head ache. I can do other things then swim if my head ache isn't up to swimming.

Hello. Just here to post that I am at 178.8. I am 3 lbs from 175, can't wait to hit that weight. Then I am looking to see 160. I know I can reach this goal weight, just don't know how long it will take me, but after all this time I am willing to work hard for it and wait. Surgery was done in 07, in 08 I reached 182 as my lowest, then with medications and eating habits I gained all the way up to 265, and so in the last three years I have been working hard to get off the meds, which I am, and then to loose the weight again, which I have and then some. So it has taken me all these years to start seeing the me that the RNY Gastric Bypass should had produced and remained so many years ago. SO just let me warn you, weight gain is an easy thing to do, but loosing it again is possible with patients and with determination and hard work, it isn't as easy as when I first had the surgery, but it seems to be a bit more rewarding this time around. Watch every pound that creeps up on you, and caution with medications you may take that say may cause weight gain, it will and can undo everything you and the surgery worked hard to accomplish, I am witness to that. But am here to give you hope, it can be reversed if you want it bad enough. I did not have the revision, thought that I would need it, but had test done and all was still working right, so then I knew it was my eating and the meds I was on and change had to happen. So three years later I am under the lowest I got shortly after the surgery. Never ever will I use Lyrica for my Fibro, I will suffer first then to put weight on. There is hope to get back on track. Or BOT. there is even a community here for that so you can have support and help from others getting back on track.

I am proud to report that I have left the 180's behind me. I am at 179.4. I cried and was so emotional this morning when I saw this, I could barely believe my eyes, I had to step on the scales I few times to make sure there wasn't a glitch in the scales. But no glitch at all, it said 179.4 each time I stepped on it. It is only going to keep getting better from here on out. My goal weight is 160, but if I can reach 150 I will do just that, that will put me in the right bmi for my height but not going to be discouraged and depressed if I can't because of the extra skin that is hanging on me lol. So if 160 is my goal weight then that means I am only 19 pounds from my goal weight, OMG, that is pretty close, can't give up now. I have had it rough since surgery. Medications that caused me to gain weight, pour eating practices as well and so much more, so this is been a long hard road to recover what has gone wrong due to me and medications, I am not about to let it all go now for some reason or the other. Nothing is going to keep me from my goal weight except maybe the dr saying that I have to stop loosing weight, that is the only thing that will do it.

I have gone past my lowest weight recorded on here, only by one pound, but for me that is the biggest pound of them all. I am on the road to seeing 179. I will get out of the 180's I just know I will. Then with hard work, devotion and determination I will then work to see the 160's. I would love to see my BMI weight, but with the loose skin I carry, I will not push to get there, I will hope to get around 10 lbs of it. So the 160's is most likely the lowest that I will end up going. I know I am going to do this, I have had a long journey getting where I am at, and I still have more of a journey to take on as well, bring it on I am ready.

I have joined the YMCA so I can get more active about three times a week. Haven't decided if I am going to take the car or take the bus. Probably the car so I don't have to wait on the second bus. Plus the gym is only a little over 2 miles away, If I can't afford gas for that then there is a major problem and I should just give up the car all together.  It does need tires and perhaps brakes, need to get this done so in 04 Mom and I can go back to Idaho to see family and friends. We have been out here in Tacoma for quite awhile without seeing family and friends, we have only been back once since 07. They are going to be so shocked to see me, for I was over 250 I believe when I was back there, so yeah I hope to shock a few. I have posted photos of me in the 190's, but am going to keep hid if possible until I get back there, so no new photos unless they are just face shots, my face hasn't changed that much since loosing the extra 10-15 lbs. I guess I am just rambling off and so I will go now. Just so much going on and going to happen, just glad to be where I am at. 181 You look so good. and getting in shape here I come. Sometimes I feel week, like my muscles and endurance will never increase, so hoping the gym will do me something wonderful.

I wish you all the best of luck on your journey no matter where it is. God bless you and hope the best for you.

I am finally back down to the lowest weight I have recorded on here :) oh how wonderful this does feel. Now 3 more pounds to see 179. That day I shall celebrate one way or the other. Have to come up with a way to reward myself once I see 179.

I am feel kinda weak lately, but I think it is just because this winter I got lazy, gained weight, and so it will take some time to get stronger. Joining the YMCA next month, May 3rd as a matter of fact so I can do some low impact exercises and swimming, those will help me allot and so I am ready for this, bring it on...

Been on the Atkins diet again since the 9th of last month and I have lost over 20 pounds. I am so close to the 182 that I have recorded on here as my lowest weight after the WLS that I am just thrilled to reach it. I then want to see badly 179, don't recall the last time I was in the 170's, perhaps when I was still a youngster, like in my late teens. That is like a LONG time ago for me. I can reach the 170's. I am in a bigger goal looking to reach 150, but without skin removal I am going to be realistic and realize that the 160's is most likely the closet I will get to my perfect bmi. Unless Dr Schmitz stops me at another weight. Then I just don't know if that will be case if so then I will listen to him, but I just want to reach the goal. What ever that goal maybe.

The holiday weight just doesn't want to come off, but what is even worse is that I am having a  nightmare of a time changing my eating back to what I was doing. I just been packing in the calories. I need to keep my daily calories to a certain amount each day, and my moving to a certain amount a day to see the scale move, and I know this, but have it been easy to do? NO WAY. I just want to almost cry myself to bed at night when I know I have gone over the calories for that day, and then the next day the scale doesn't move down, if it moves at all it is up for a day or more, then maybe go back down to what I was at. So this is slow going. I am not happy with the weight I am at. I am over 195 and that is not acceptable to me. I have to keep this stubborn attitude because it is to easy at this far out after having the WLS to just allow or not notice the pounds adding up. I did not have this surgery to be back to where I once was. So I strive to be 195 or below daily. and so 198 is NOT GOOD. I know I can do it, just was hoping that GETTING BACK ON TRACK again after the holidays would happen faster and easier then it is. Lord give me the strength and will power to make the much needed changes to escape the added pounds of this years Holidays. Thank you God, for you on my side this is possible, and will happen. Just must be patience and see it happen in a bigger picture. AMEN.

I am working on saving up for a new/ good used treadmill. Walking in this neighbor hood isn't always the safest, and so a treadmill will be a great blessing for me. I would invest that amount into a gym, but fear I would not always want to leave home to travel to the nearest YMCA. So the monthly payments that would go into a gym is going to go into a saving for a treadmill. My living room will shrink to near nothing, but my health is so important that I will live around one. I will do it for me, appearance doesn't matter to me, but my health does. Pray for me that this goes fast for me please, if you have read this even. God bless you.

     This is just painful. I was 3 lbs from my lowest weight, and then bam, I am now 12 lbs from the lowest weight I was at again. This is a depressing day for me on Christmas Eve to have seen the weight gain. I knew I had gain some, but thought I could control it and keep it at 5-7 lbs, but 12 lbs, this is out of control for me. Now I had in my plan to have weight loss as a New Year resolution any how, but it is now more important that I implement it more then ever. I have to get this weight off again, and God I pray I don't gain more as there is Christmas dinner yet to come.

     I am looking forward to the Holidays coming to an end so that I am not bombarded with sweets and junk food every where. Yet I have enjoyed this Holiday season. Have received some needed gifts already and have some more to come that will be opened up today or tonight. It is a ritual for my family to open up gifts on Christmas Eve, and then focus on the Christmas Dinner tomorrow. I don't want to focus to much on the dinner tomorrow.

    I wish everyone has a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year, and may all your wishes come true. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year...

I have three pounds to go to get back under the 190 mark, back down to my lowest weight I have reached since the weight gain. I have lost a total of 74 pounds since I regained weight. I am so very happy to have lost it again and am faithful to keep it off and pray and hope and want to loose more, but if  I can't, I am always grateful to not be at the 320 I once was. That was a nightmare, life was so awfully painful, both physically and mentally. I am still working to reach the lowest possible weight as I can even with it being so many years out from my surgery. In February 26th 2013 it will be my 5th complete year of having the surgery. I have had some low Vitamin D issues but other then that I am doing well. It has taken me 2+  years to get the 74 pounds off and continue to maintain at a lower weight, and I will not stop trying to loose more weight, for as I continue to work towards loosing more weight it helps me to continue to maintain as well. 

With that said, the weight is going UP AND DOWN. not happy with that either. I need to get out and walk more with my dog, and do more indoor when I can't or it is to cold to get out and do anything outside. So I know what I am doing wrong, eating to much, and not moving enough. Sure wished I could afford a gym, but if I could, I probably wouldn't go. SO with that said, I just have to get up off my butt and do the things around here that I have to do and stick with them, for I know that they help me out allot. just been not feeling well, and with the Season here it has been hard, so I am just not going to kick myself to hard during this time, and when the season is over then kick it in gear and do what I have to to reach my goal. I am only 13 away, and at one time was only 8 away. 8 lbs away from my first big goal. SO come on Tammi, you can do this, you can reach your main goal, and then see what happens from there.  God is with me and so is Annie my little baby dog. She is why I am as active as I am. With fibromyalgia it is so easy to just say not today, I hurt. but with her needing out 3-4 times a day I get out at least that many times a day, maybe not for long walks, but I am at least moving, you know better then sitting here on my butt in the house all day long. The first few months of 2013 I will reach my goal, or so I am praying and hoping so , and will be working on this. Hope to maybe have support from James, and Don my friends. James I might start seeing as something more then just a friend. Have to see him a few more times first, hang out a few more time.