O.k. so I have been changing some of the ways I am eating. I am not one of those where sugar and snacky stuff makes them sick. I wish! So I have decided that no matter what one of my meals was going to be a salad, and that no more late in the day snacking. Such bad habits I have. I have to clamp down or I am going to go right back to my old bad habits. Has anyone one else out there been a year out and still battling old habits?
The difference for me is that they feel like just bad habits. I don…
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Added by Rainy on October 20, 2009 at 7:41am —
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Hi Everyone,
Well I can't remember the last time I wrote here. Summer was busy and long. This last month I had a plateau. I would bounce between 256 and 258. It was frustrating. Then finally I started dropping the weight again. I am trying to be carefull about the carbs. I think being on the run this summer I ate to much snack foods. The really funny thing though is that my body shape changed even though I didn't lose any weight. i am excited that my arms seem to be retracting some skin. Still…
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Added by Rainy on September 27, 2009 at 11:04pm —
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Hi everyone,
Starting out at such a heavy size I really didn't give myself a set weight goal. I mean it is not like I don't want to get to a certain size, I have thought about what it would be like to weigh 150lbs. I don't even remember being that weight ever. In 10th grade I weighed 190lbs, and I thought I wasn't so bad then. So I do hope to get below 200lbs, but I don't keep an exact number in mind. As of today which is about 7 1/2 months from surgery I have lost 126lbs! That is no sneeze in…
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Added by Rainy on July 8, 2009 at 12:00am —
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Well thank God it wasn't a plateau. I weighed myself this Monday and lost another 3lbs. Which is about my average 2 - 3 lbs a week now. I am officially down 119lbs! Since November 19, 2008. I posted a couple of new pictures. Me in some not so baggy clothes. So maybe you can see the difference. I should do side by side photos of my face. I should use my drivers license picture. You can really tell the difference there. I hope everyone has a good holiday weekend.
New food this week: Nutella and w…
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Added by Rainy on July 3, 2009 at 1:52am —
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Well,
I think I have hit my first major plateau. In the last two weeks I have lost one pound, and I don't feel like I am losing at all. Last week I was hungry all week, this week I take a couple of bites and am done??? So weird how this works sometimes. I wish I had some of the intolerances to food that I read about in others. So far I can eat just about everything (smaller amounts) that I did before. The only thing I have to avoid like the plague is greasy things and salad. I get sick to my st…
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Added by Rainy on June 25, 2009 at 11:19am —
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Hi everyone,
I broke my lap top and just got it back. Life has been crazy for me lately. My father passed away last weekend. He had cancer and was in a lot of pain, so I try to cling to the "He's in a better place" theory, but sometimes it is hard. While we were very different, he was such a huge person in my life. How does this wrap around food, and all that is related? It does because all I wanted to do was drown my sorrow in food. I was never much of a drinker, but I probably had the same re…
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Added by Rainy on May 30, 2009 at 1:39pm —
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Hi all,
Kim Chastain left a comment on my blog about protein. She is two weeks out and still has cravings for what she ate before. Even though I am almost 6 months out, I remember my first couple of weeks at home after the surgery. The first week wasn't so bad. I was not at home in my environment and it was easy to feel different. Then when I got home it was like a punch in the face. I wanted to dish up like I used to. I would see something on t.v. and just salivate for it. I did start experien…
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Added by Rainy on May 4, 2009 at 9:50am —
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O.k. I don't know about everyone else, but I have cravings for beef, and fruit. Not just any fruit, but citrus. Oranges mostly. I crave orange juice, I crave mandarin oranges and regular oranges. It is weird. I like fish and chicken and it is a large part of my diet now a days, but i really crave beef. ????? Weird?? I don't know. I just don't get the same satisfaction when I eat chicken or fish. And I eat a small container of mandarin oranges every day along with some orange juice every day. It…
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Added by Rainy on April 28, 2009 at 11:58pm —
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Well no more weight loss this past week. But it didn't bother me as much as I thought it would. It is like one week out of many more. I would like to get below 190 if I can. I was reading anothers blog regarding exercise, and I too have not been doing regular exercise. It has been hit and miss. I have been walking but not regular, since the weather here is not regular yet either, I don't worry about it too much. I have projects, and I keep so busy now. I am much more active than when I was befor…
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Added by Rainy on April 28, 2009 at 7:47pm —
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I know a lot of people get excited when they hit onederland. I am going to be excited when I hit onderland, but for those of us who were way into the 300's it is exciting to see that two at the beginning! I haven't been in the 200's for about ten years or more. So I am excited to announce that I am in TWOVILLE!!!!! Or whatever everyone calls the 200's. I weighed myself early this week just because I was so close on Monday. On Monday I was 302lbs today I weight in at 297!!!!!!! It was so cool to…
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Added by Rainy on April 16, 2009 at 5:49pm —
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I think I mentioned earlier about how my perceptions of my size are still skewed. Well I guess so are my husbands! I was looking for a pair of my jeans and couldn't find them anywhere. I finally asked my husband if he had seen them. Nope. I asked him to look in his clothes and sure enough he had picked them up thinking they were his and folded them and put them away with his jeans! That was so funny to me. That he could mistake my jeans for his. I went out last night for karaoke, and someone was…
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Added by Rainy on April 11, 2009 at 1:43pm —
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Today and for a while I have been having a problem realizing my new size. I look at clothes and think there is no way I am going to fit into that then i try it on and have room to spare. I hope my eyes eventually catch up to my size. I have been so used to sizing up clothing so I don't have to try it on at the store (not fun when your nearly 400lbs) that I am going to have to figure out to look at myself differently. It is just so exciting to see the shrinkage. I didn't really notice it a lot at…
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Added by Rainy on April 5, 2009 at 11:34pm —
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I can now fit into jeans and actually be comfortable. You know as a big girl even if you can find your size, most times the jeans are binding and uncomfortable. Now I am wearing jeans comfortably! I am never going to get stuck in stretchy pants again. Anyway, that was my woo hoo moment of the last couple of weeks. It is amazing how much the weight loss shows when you actually wear clothes that fit. I am down 89 pounds as of last monday. I weigh again tommorrow. I can't believe I have lost so muc…
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Added by Rainy on April 5, 2009 at 5:26pm —
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Hi everyone,
I am now in Oregon visiting my sister, her hubby and kids, and my father. I have had a nice time here. I will be going home tomorrow. I can't wait to weigh myself since I missed my weigh day. I will be happy to sleep in my own bed soon. Get back to normal life. It was nice to see myself throught the eyes of those who have not seen me these past four months. It really made an impact on me. To realize how much I have changed already. It was really cool the other day in the good will…
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Added by Rainy on March 26, 2009 at 12:47pm —
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Hello everyone,
Well I have spent the day getting ready to go on my yearly trip to see my sister and neices in Oregon. I love my time there. It is not too terribly far away, but far enough that it makes it a chore to go back and forth. About 6 hours. Already got some karaoke spots pinpointed. I am going to leave about 4 a.m. I love that time. Quiet, little traffic. You feel like your the only one on the road. Put some road rock on and your set!
I don't know what it is about typing, but I seem…
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Added by Rainy on March 21, 2009 at 7:07pm —
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Well, I am doing good so far. I have been post op for four months and now have lost 82 pounds as of last Monday. I have this whole other life now that I did not have before and that I could not have kept up with before. I enjoy so much more than food now. Don't get me wrong I still like food. I am not one of those that never gets hungry (I wish!). And I am not one of those who has to be a picky eater. (Darn it!) So I started tracking my calories just to give myself a picture of where I am at now…
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Added by Rainy on March 21, 2009 at 1:56am —
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