You guessed it! I do! I'm rocking those freakin Coach sneakers tomorrow with PRIDE!!! I worked hard for them! (Well, it really doesn't seem like I worked hard- but hey my body went through a major surgery for it!)
I felt like I was having really slow losses there for a few weeks. But I figured it out- I wasn't eating ENOUGH! (Who knew?) Now that I have my caloric intake up a bit more the pounds are melting off again!
I went into the bathroom to wash my face and brush my teeth. I had to bend over to pick up my face wash because it fell and I found myself staring at the scale.... I thought why not... You really need to pee and it will be fun to see how much your weight changes afterwards.... Well the scale said 261.4 and I thought WOW! You should pee and then try this naked... So that's what I did...
259.6!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That's all I have to say for now.. And that is ENOUGH to make me a happy girl! I'm gonna take pictures of me wearing those sneakers every where I go tomorrow!!
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
NSV galore!
Last night I attended a WLS seminar with my sister Jessica. It was help by the same practice that did Noel and my surgeries and they asked me to speak to the group after the doctor. I did and was so happy to do it. I'm thinking I may volunteer to do it again if they are interested. The thought of helping other people decide to do this seems like something wonderful!
So I know I said I wouldn't post any more pictures until Alyse got back. And I promise that's going to be the case.... AFTER this post! LoL. I have to share it with you guys just because to date it was the biggest "AHA!" moment I've had yet.
Yesterday my sister Jessica and I stopped at my favorite Marshall's and I found the sneakers I wanted for my reward of reaching 50lbs lost. Well, I'm currently hanging out around 45 lost- but the sneakers were $50 at Marshall's compared to the $100 at Macy's. So I bought them but I'm not going to wear them until I hit my 50lb goal. But once I tried on every pair of Coach sneakers they had there and finally selected the ones I was going to purchase I had Jessica snap a picture of me holding the shoes just so I could document the moment. Well, I had her show me the picture so I could decide if it was a keeper or we needed a re-do. I burst into tears! The girl in the picture really didn't look anything like me! This girl has a neck, a happy smile and she LOOKS thinner!
Where is my huge belly? (granted part of it is just hidden by the jacket, but LOOK AT ME!!!)
So Jessica and I continue to tear up Marshall's. Flipping through clearance racks searching for the next great steal.. I mean deal. Well, I happen to flip past a pair of size 16 Se7en jeans. I've always wanted a pair, but they never fit me right in places like Marshall's and at Lane Bryant they are just too expensive. Well, the 16s looked .... Idk.. Big. So Jessica suggested I try them on. (Jessica!! The sister who HATES shopping and can't wait to get me OUT of the store!!) And guess what?
THESE are those 16s!! I didn't buy them though. $30 for a pair of Se7en jeans is a good buy- but not when you are only going to wear them a month or two.... If you're lucky. (Or actually 2 months at the same size would seem unlucky to me!)
And that's it for pictures. You guys can wait to April! The question is- can I?
So I know I said I wouldn't post any more pictures until Alyse got back. And I promise that's going to be the case.... AFTER this post! LoL. I have to share it with you guys just because to date it was the biggest "AHA!" moment I've had yet.
Yesterday my sister Jessica and I stopped at my favorite Marshall's and I found the sneakers I wanted for my reward of reaching 50lbs lost. Well, I'm currently hanging out around 45 lost- but the sneakers were $50 at Marshall's compared to the $100 at Macy's. So I bought them but I'm not going to wear them until I hit my 50lb goal. But once I tried on every pair of Coach sneakers they had there and finally selected the ones I was going to purchase I had Jessica snap a picture of me holding the shoes just so I could document the moment. Well, I had her show me the picture so I could decide if it was a keeper or we needed a re-do. I burst into tears! The girl in the picture really didn't look anything like me! This girl has a neck, a happy smile and she LOOKS thinner!
So Jessica and I continue to tear up Marshall's. Flipping through clearance racks searching for the next great steal.. I mean deal. Well, I happen to flip past a pair of size 16 Se7en jeans. I've always wanted a pair, but they never fit me right in places like Marshall's and at Lane Bryant they are just too expensive. Well, the 16s looked .... Idk.. Big. So Jessica suggested I try them on. (Jessica!! The sister who HATES shopping and can't wait to get me OUT of the store!!) And guess what?
And that's it for pictures. You guys can wait to April! The question is- can I?
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Ci vediamo nel mese di aprile Alyse!
(According to google translate that means "See you in April Alyse!"
Once upon a time there was a magic school bus. It was big and yellow and didn't particularly look any different then other school buses, but non the less was still magical. One day about a month after school started there were whispers as the bus stopped at a new house. A new girl got on the bus! Kids whispered and wondered who she was. She stomped her way onto the bus, sat down across the isle from me in the second seat and pulled her hood over her head. This isn't the magic part. The magic isn't even that this girl became my best friend on the face of the freakin' earth or that her younger sister became best friends with my younger sister. The magic is that over the next decade (yes Rachel, it's now a decade!) these four girls became sisters.
And now for the first time in that decade we're really going to be separated. The baby of our bunch is going to Italy for a semester and we are all so happy and excited for her. She will have a layover in Paris, France for a few hours and then arrive in Florence sometime during my sleeping hours. I'm going to miss her so much! Even though she goes to college four hours a way we still see her several times during the semester. She's home for Thanksgiving and Christmas, Chanukah and Easter and some of the birthdays. And with text messaging she just doesn't seem that far away. Well, now texting isn't an option thanks to international rates.
I know you may be thinking, "What does this entry have to do with weight loss?" but I promise you I have a tie in....... Ready for it?
In four months I could be a completely different person! I am already weighing about what I weighed in 2005 when our home burned down. Only another 15 pounds to go for what I weighted when I graduated HS. Another 30 to weigh what I weighed when I first met Alyse. (Rachel knew me in HS before I lost 60 pounds my sophomore year. I gained almost all of that back by the time I graduated.)
I think picture posts for me are going to stop for the next four months. YouTube blogs are going to be face shots only. When Alyse gets home I want how I look to be a total surprise! I'll keep posting weight loss and measurements- but you'll all just have to wait four months to see the progress..... If my sister has to then so do you!
Once upon a time there was a magic school bus. It was big and yellow and didn't particularly look any different then other school buses, but non the less was still magical. One day about a month after school started there were whispers as the bus stopped at a new house. A new girl got on the bus! Kids whispered and wondered who she was. She stomped her way onto the bus, sat down across the isle from me in the second seat and pulled her hood over her head. This isn't the magic part. The magic isn't even that this girl became my best friend on the face of the freakin' earth or that her younger sister became best friends with my younger sister. The magic is that over the next decade (yes Rachel, it's now a decade!) these four girls became sisters.
And now for the first time in that decade we're really going to be separated. The baby of our bunch is going to Italy for a semester and we are all so happy and excited for her. She will have a layover in Paris, France for a few hours and then arrive in Florence sometime during my sleeping hours. I'm going to miss her so much! Even though she goes to college four hours a way we still see her several times during the semester. She's home for Thanksgiving and Christmas, Chanukah and Easter and some of the birthdays. And with text messaging she just doesn't seem that far away. Well, now texting isn't an option thanks to international rates.
I know you may be thinking, "What does this entry have to do with weight loss?" but I promise you I have a tie in....... Ready for it?
In four months I could be a completely different person! I am already weighing about what I weighed in 2005 when our home burned down. Only another 15 pounds to go for what I weighted when I graduated HS. Another 30 to weigh what I weighed when I first met Alyse. (Rachel knew me in HS before I lost 60 pounds my sophomore year. I gained almost all of that back by the time I graduated.)
(Rachel and I, June 2003)
I think picture posts for me are going to stop for the next four months. YouTube blogs are going to be face shots only. When Alyse gets home I want how I look to be a total surprise! I'll keep posting weight loss and measurements- but you'll all just have to wait four months to see the progress..... If my sister has to then so do you!
Friday, January 6, 2012
Dehydration
SUCKS! Around 2:30 today I started to feel really... weird. My lips were burning (dry and chapped) and I felt like warm and cold all at the same time with a side of fuzzy headed. I know I haven't been getting in all of my fluids but heavens to Betsy I've sure been trying!
Called around to see if my PCP or the urgent care centers could do an IV because going to the ER is all out of my pocket until I reach my $1000 deductible. (Thank you 2012, NOT!) PCP can't do it, urgent care won't do it- so I call my surgeons office which is an hour away. Immediately upon hearing me say the word "dehydrated" the PA gets on the phone with me. They don't do IVs there but they will let the ER know I'm coming. FML!
I asked her how many ounces I should get in today to help prevent a trip to the ER (and the big bill) and she told me to get in at least 50 ounces before I go to bed. So far I've done about 30... So 20 more to go. She also told me to get Gatorade- so that's what I'm sipping on. I feel sort of better, but my lips are driving me crazy. The tingle!
And THEN- not sure if this is good or bad- but the feeling of being lightheaded- guess who's office has a "slight" gas leak today? Yup! Glad to know the worst of my "dehydration" symptoms was being caused by inhaling trace amounts of gas fumes!
But- after speaking with the PA they want me to go to the ER and get an IV drip in the morning if I don't get in my 50 ounces before bed. I'm dehydrated and I know it. But I'm also fighting a trip to the ER so time to go sip sip sip!
Oh- and Nick is coming over and we're gonna watch a movie and be us!
Called around to see if my PCP or the urgent care centers could do an IV because going to the ER is all out of my pocket until I reach my $1000 deductible. (Thank you 2012, NOT!) PCP can't do it, urgent care won't do it- so I call my surgeons office which is an hour away. Immediately upon hearing me say the word "dehydrated" the PA gets on the phone with me. They don't do IVs there but they will let the ER know I'm coming. FML!
I asked her how many ounces I should get in today to help prevent a trip to the ER (and the big bill) and she told me to get in at least 50 ounces before I go to bed. So far I've done about 30... So 20 more to go. She also told me to get Gatorade- so that's what I'm sipping on. I feel sort of better, but my lips are driving me crazy. The tingle!
And THEN- not sure if this is good or bad- but the feeling of being lightheaded- guess who's office has a "slight" gas leak today? Yup! Glad to know the worst of my "dehydration" symptoms was being caused by inhaling trace amounts of gas fumes!
But- after speaking with the PA they want me to go to the ER and get an IV drip in the morning if I don't get in my 50 ounces before bed. I'm dehydrated and I know it. But I'm also fighting a trip to the ER so time to go sip sip sip!
Oh- and Nick is coming over and we're gonna watch a movie and be us!
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
1 Month Update
Well, technically I still have two days until the one month mark- but I like to be early *wink*
First off, found this awesome illustration to show what I did. (Thank you google images.)
I'd like to say- I DON'T MISS THE STOMACH THAT WAS REMOVED!!!
So in one month I'm down 30 pounds (stupid 3 week stall), lost a total of 15 inches over my body, went down one pant size, and down two shirt sizes. I'm starting to have a neck again and when I'm not at work I have TONS more energy. (Work is sucker of all human life force.)
To celebrate my success I decided to try something I'd never done before for dinner. I follow a Vlog on youtube of a gal that goes by VSGTanya2011 who is from Louisiana I believe and in one of her videos she talks about crawfish.... Sparked my interest and I went searching what these critters were. I found tons of recipes for them and best I could tell they were like little itty bitty lobsters. Now- anyone who knows me IRL (in real life) knows I LOVE me some lobster! However, for me to get a lobster now would be stupid. I'd take two bites and be done and have to give it away because reheated lobster sucks. And well.. I'm just too stingy when it comes to lobster to give it away...
So, I stopped to Price Chopper on my way home from the gym tonight. Picked up an itty bitty red skin potato and a bag of frozen crawfish. (On sale for $8!) Brought it all home, boiled some water with some Cajun seasoning and tossed in about 8 of the little guys with the potato. It was delicious and I was happy to feel like I ate a normal serving of something. (Serving suggestion on the package is actually 22, but hey 8 sure seems like a lot more then the 2 crab legs I can eat!)
So0o0o0o0o... Since my last blog there has also been the start of a new year. I actually made some resolutions... But really they look more like goals. They are;
1- Go to the gym three days a week for the month of January. (They say it takes 30 days to make or break a habit, so I'm hoping to create this habit.)
2- Wear size 12s by my birthday on October 30th. (Actually hoping for a size 10, but 12 will do.)
3- I want to be able to run an entire mile by 2013. I don't care if it takes me twenty minutes to do it (the amount of time it currently takes me to walk a mile)--- I just want to be able to run a mile.
4- Buy a pair of Coach sneakers to celebrate when I hit 50 pounds gone for good!!
5- Get a massage because my body has been through hell and back and deserves it.
6- Get my hair trimmed more then twice this year. (The last three years I've managed two trims/cuts a year.)
7- Maintain a GPA of at least 3.5
I think that is a nice little list. Cheers to 2012 and how completely fabulous it is going to be!!!
First off, found this awesome illustration to show what I did. (Thank you google images.)
So in one month I'm down 30 pounds (stupid 3 week stall), lost a total of 15 inches over my body, went down one pant size, and down two shirt sizes. I'm starting to have a neck again and when I'm not at work I have TONS more energy. (Work is sucker of all human life force.)
To celebrate my success I decided to try something I'd never done before for dinner. I follow a Vlog on youtube of a gal that goes by VSGTanya2011 who is from Louisiana I believe and in one of her videos she talks about crawfish.... Sparked my interest and I went searching what these critters were. I found tons of recipes for them and best I could tell they were like little itty bitty lobsters. Now- anyone who knows me IRL (in real life) knows I LOVE me some lobster! However, for me to get a lobster now would be stupid. I'd take two bites and be done and have to give it away because reheated lobster sucks. And well.. I'm just too stingy when it comes to lobster to give it away...
So, I stopped to Price Chopper on my way home from the gym tonight. Picked up an itty bitty red skin potato and a bag of frozen crawfish. (On sale for $8!) Brought it all home, boiled some water with some Cajun seasoning and tossed in about 8 of the little guys with the potato. It was delicious and I was happy to feel like I ate a normal serving of something. (Serving suggestion on the package is actually 22, but hey 8 sure seems like a lot more then the 2 crab legs I can eat!)
So0o0o0o0o... Since my last blog there has also been the start of a new year. I actually made some resolutions... But really they look more like goals. They are;
1- Go to the gym three days a week for the month of January. (They say it takes 30 days to make or break a habit, so I'm hoping to create this habit.)
2- Wear size 12s by my birthday on October 30th. (Actually hoping for a size 10, but 12 will do.)
3- I want to be able to run an entire mile by 2013. I don't care if it takes me twenty minutes to do it (the amount of time it currently takes me to walk a mile)--- I just want to be able to run a mile.
4- Buy a pair of Coach sneakers to celebrate when I hit 50 pounds gone for good!!
5- Get a massage because my body has been through hell and back and deserves it.
6- Get my hair trimmed more then twice this year. (The last three years I've managed two trims/cuts a year.)
7- Maintain a GPA of at least 3.5
I think that is a nice little list. Cheers to 2012 and how completely fabulous it is going to be!!!
