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Blog 64737

A blog by NewMechelle in General

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Does being thinner make you look older?

:confused:As I move closer to my goal it all feels a little unreal. When I started my journey a year ago in May My goal was to weigh 155. I was 164.5 this morning. Last week my boss told me I was looking too skinny and I needed to start eating. Me? Need to eat? Is this a joke? Then over the weekend I had a friend tell me I looked "older" with out all the fat. Now I realize the fat did help fill out all the wrinkles but I wasnt real happy with that comment. I wouldnt go back. Wouldnt change it fo

The scale is moving again!!!!

I am finally losing a little again. Some times it seems like those scales will never budge! They finally moved. I am down 90 pounds. From 258 to 168. I started out out a very snug size 22 and now my 12 jeans are getting a little baggy. My original goal was 155. I am only 13 pounds to goal. It is hard to believe. This time last year I never thought I would make it. Thank God for my band!!!! Mechelle:wub:

Tomorrow is my Bandiverssary!

Hello lapband family. I hope all is well for you out here. I am doing okay. I cant believe it has been a year. It has gone so fast. I wish I had done this years ago. That is my only regret from the year. I have not met my goal. That is a litte dissapointing for me. I am truely happy and feel blessed for the changes in my life despite the fact that I didnt reach my goal of 100 pounds loss. I was a size 22 (bout to explode out of ) when I began my journey and was 258. Today I am generally (notice

Soooo close but not there yet!

I am 18 days away from my Bandiverssary. I cant believe it has been a year. It has gone so fast. Unbelievably fast.I feel so blessed. I love my band. Dont get me wrong I would be lying if I said that every day has been easy but there is no way I could have been where I am right now with out the band. I had tried every thing every diet you could think of in he world I have done. For a while they worked but only for a while. The band helps me to be the best I can be. It helps me to stop when the f

It moved it moved it finally moved!!!!!!

i was starting to think that scale would never move. Honestly. I finally am out of the 180's. Now if history repeats itself and I know it will. I will be in and out of it several times before out of it for good but it sure feels nice to see 179 this morning. I am sooo darn excited to just see some change!!!:thumbup: So I am 24 pounds away from goal. When I started it seemed like a completely un attainable goal. 103 pounds. I never in a million years thought I could possibly get here. Now I can a

Some times I really hate that scale!!!!

I said I would not panic when my year started to approach and I was not at my goal of 100 pounds loss (I am an 77 loss) I said I would be grateful for how healthy I am now and that I have lost several sizes. I have lost 40 inches on my body, between 3-4 clothing sizes, off all blood pressure meds, no longer borderline diabetic, no longer have high cholesterol etc. but here I am the scale will not move and I am feeling a little down. I cant recall the last week or even month the little sucker mov

Celebrating the small things!

:thumbup:You know as you get closer to your goal it is easier to get frustrated because you know you are doing the right things yet the weight loss and slowed WAY down, I am about 76 down and wanna lose about 25-30 more, i talk in "about" and "arounds" because honest to goodness I fluctuate 2-5 pounds with in a few days it makes me so darned mad. But any way the things to celebrate: I now can cross my legs. I can comfortably take a bath and shave my legs and not splash ALL the friggin water out

Nine months out!

:thumbup:This Sunday I will have been banded 9 Months. I can tell the weight loss has slowed down quite a bit. I feel blessed and am still very grateful for the surgery but I wish I could get the rest of the weight off. I have lost 72 pounds. Still want to lose 31 more. I would do it again in a heart beat. I have lost 20 something inches and about four pants sizes. I have been a real slacker when it coms to the excercise. It is really hard for me when the weather is cold. I like to walk in the p

Almost 8 months.

On the 28th, I will have been banded for 8 months. I cant believe it. It has gone so very fast. I have lost about 67 pounds. I say about because every day is different but most days I am around 191. My goal is 155. I feel better than I have in years. I am wearing 14 and 16 pants. I have lost 30 inches all over my body. I still have a way to go but so much better than I was. So much healthier. SO thankful and blessed. I love my band. Not every day, not every week has been easy but I would not tr

Looking to 2010

Each year I start off New Years Eve with a list of goals that I hope to achieve with in the year. Some of them are met, some are not, some get "partially" met. This year will be different. I have been banded for 7 months. I have 40 pounds to reach my goal. I had truely wanted to be there by the time I hit my one year bandiversary however I am learning with each month that this is not a race or a contest. The goal should be my health. I have lost an average of 10 pounds a month untill December th

Feeling a little defeated today.

I havent blogged for a while but I read every day to see how others are doing. The last few days have been rough. I was banded may 28th. Bye Thanksgiving I had lost 63 pounds and felt like I was doing pretty good. I have gained and lost 3.5 pounds since Thanksgiving several times. This morning I weighed 197. I try not to compare myself to others but I read earlier about some one who had been banded a week before me who is down 90 plus pounds already. It makes me feel like I am really not doing w

I am thankful for so much this year

As I look back at the year, I realize just how blessed I have been.For my parents who have always been loving and supportive, my husband who is my rock and made a withdrawl out of his 401k so that I may have a second chance at life(lap band surgery) My beautiful healthy children, for a home a job and most importantly to my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ who made all of this possible. I know without him I would have nothing and be nothing. On the 28th I will have my band for six months. This mornin

I'm Feeling a little nervous

I am starting to fear something is wrong. When I first had my surgery, I religiously took prevacid each day as my doctor told me I would need to for at least a year. I did so for about two months. It is SOOOO expensive. Even with insurance, it was almost $90. SO I decided to skip it. Maybe not forever but there was just not an extra $100 laying around for this medicine all the time. Any way I also take daily meds for headaches. I have for years. Some over the counter excedrin migraine tylenon, s

I am so very close to onederland

well I got on the scake this morning and was 202. SOOO very close, just a few more pounds and I will be out of the two hundreds hopefully for the rest of my life. This has been an amazing journey.There is always the fear for me that (as I have before) I will lose the weight, get where I want and need to be and then in time, little by little see the weight creep back five pounds at a time. This time I have a plan. I will weigh regularly. I didnt even have a scale before. I knew I was fat I was ju

I know this is a little TMI but.....................

:redface:Okay some times we get into a little TMI on these blogs but I dont know where else to turn for these kind of odd questions.But here I go...... Before I had my band I had IBS. I lived in the bathroom, my husband joked and would tell me to save time instead of eating I might as well just throw the food in the toilet. I would often go four or five times a day. Now after the band, I go days and days (sometimes even a week or more) without going to the bathroom. Obviously I am eating less n

Im NewMechelle I guess

As You all may know I have desperately tried and tried and tried to get a ticker working. At this point, it is not the ticker as much as it is my stubborn streak refusing to give in. Any way, while working on it yet AGAIN last night, I got a wierd message that said something like "you need to change your user name" I thought maybe to actually change my signature I had to change my name too. Any way, for any one that may care, Hopefulmechelle, is now NewMechelle and to top it off......I still don

Still a little down

Last night i was a little down. I had been doing very well and out of the blue, a pulled calf muscle. Feels more like a torn one. Any way today is about the same. I am still searching for my "sweet spot" may have found it, not sure yet. I had a fill twelve days ago. The only thing I can eat comortably is soup and mashed potatos. I went to dinner with my husband today and tried an omlet.Oh not so good. It felt like I was swallowing gravel. Hurt all the way down. So I tried tiny bits and slowed wa

Feeling down today

I have been doing pretty good, eating well, losing slow but steady, met my first big goal of losing 50 pounds excited about being around 7 pounds away from Onederland. I have been so motivated to excercise, just walking almost two miles five or six days a week. No one in the world hates it more, just about the time I get used to it and almost enjoy it.....I am walking down the steps this morning and hear a snap, like a twig snapped in half, I almost threw up, broke up in a cold sweat and hit the

I vow this is my last "ticker" blog

Okay I would like to thank every one that has tried to assist me in my dingy attempts to do the ticker. I figured out how to do the ticker. I got a really cute one, loolks adorable half way almost to goal I have copied and pasted to option one block on the "update signature" area. I have copied and pasted on the option two area. I have tried hitting upload, save signature, and preview signature. Each time I do this It says invalid file. Does any one have any idea what I may be doin wrong? excep

Please talk to me like a third grader

You know what is cute? When those people who are used to fooling around with computers try to tell us slightly computer challenged folks how to do something and it just sounds like greek to me. Okay I am trying to do a ticker thingy. I clicked on user cp, went to update your signature and then from there......clicked on every possible area and no luck. Yes I admit it. I am not the brightest crayon in the box. Could some one help a sister out? Thanks and God bless. Seriously, talk very slowly and

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