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dee257

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  1. dee257

    19 months since banding....

    By dee257,

    Its been awhile since I have posted here....
    Life for me is so very different then it has been for most my life...
    I wake up every morning HAPPY...wanting to get dressed...wanting to look in the mirror. Even wanting to go for a walk...thinking back its all things I always wanted to do...just wasn't going to happen with 130 extra lbs on me...
    The band is the best thing I have done for ME...Im thankful for my supportive Husband and my sister who is my bestest friend also....
     
    Oh it has been work...in the beginning I was hungry like I read many of you are..but I knew what I had to do to get where I wanted to be...I hung tuff and its so paid off..I started with a BMI of 47...I was tired all the time...who wouldn't be ...Yesterday I weighed in at 130 with a BMI of 25 !!!! My Dr pointed out to me that I have lost more then what I weigh right now...omg I never thought id do it...well yes I did...what I really didn't know was how good it would feel in all aspects of my life and my family's life ..I have been studing to get my GED ...though I did have to take a break from that due to
    my husband had a heart attic a lil over a month ago and wow that wakes everyone up fast..he is doing very well now...eating right ...exercising a lil more then he did before..during that month my band got so tight I couldn't eat anything and enjoy it...not good...I did see Drs yesterday and got my band unfilled ( scary ) but a upper GI on Monday and if all looks good he will refill it...I was at 8.5 ccs....might go down to 8...what ever he says...
    SO life is wonderful 19 months since I was banded !!!
  2. dee257

    winning this

    By dee257,

    Just have to put down in print a NSV I had today
     
    Yesterday I got myself down because my day started just like every other day
    for lunch I wanted soup and decided to have a bowl of onion soup...then another...
    and in each bowl I put oyster crackers in them...My down fall is pretzles and saltie crackers are
    trigger foods for me... so from there on it was a eatting frenzi for me...Thank goodness I dont have any junk food in the house...so I over did with good things...
     
    I woke up this morning with a fear OMYGOODNESS please let me get ahold of this eatting and not have a day like yesterday...( I swear I even dreamed of food)
     
    So breakfast I had my usual yogurt...ok....lunch time I had a bowl of salad with a C of cottage cheese garnished with some slivered almonds....4 bites in and I was wow...Im full !!! But I was scared not to get my protein in so it took me a hr to get it all down....
     
    Then I started watching TV as I folded laundry....The Cake Boss....and they were baking with Choc...and OREOs....and OO WOW I wanted choc !!! SO I got myself a small SF jello cup....took 2 bites and really enjoyed and thought about the taste...I satified my craving and folded the foil lid back over the cup put it back in the fridge and I was happy...
    This may all sound like such a small thing to some of you...but for me its a HUGE NSV....
    A year ago I would of had one cup cuz I wanted one....the second cup to taste it...and a third cup cuz I didnt even taste the first 2......Food controled my every min of my days...to be in control of food is the best......
  3. dee257

    I just dont get it...

    By dee257,

    Ok i have been sitting here reading the furums this morning...
    and WOW....
    I mean were all in the same place....sure some of us are a lil more ahead then others...but we all started at the same START LINE....we all want to get to the same place....
    yet Im reading so much meanness from so many people....Were living in a world with so much meaness right now....It just saddens me to see a group of people with the same goals...hurting and even wishing bad to each other.....I just cant wrap my mind around this....
  4. dee257

    when I was fat

    By dee257,

    As many of you know I have a special needs son....who is in and out of the hospitals .
     
    Well he just came home from his latest stay and this was the first time I wasnt the fat mom
     
    It made such a differance...so many things I never realized...
     
    I was so much more of a advacate this time...I was not afraid to go ask for a nurses help...or any thing that I thought would make him more comfortable or even for myself....When it was time for his meds and they were not there...I didnt feel like Oh gawd...what should I do...I knew what to do and I did it...and to my surprise I think I was treated with more respect...or at least its how I felt on the inside and that all showed on the out side...
     
    And any one who has ever slept on a hospital cot over night knows how that feels when your 100 lbs over weight.....and this stay it still wasnt comfy but it wasnt uncomfy with the added OMG blankets dont move and uncover my big O butt while I sleep...
     
    After some stays I can remember being so hungry but I wouldnt dare ask for anything from the nurses.....what would they think the fat lady wants more food !!!
    This time...I asked if I could get some SF jello...or some crackers and peanut butter...
    and I was proud of that....simple pleasures being with in a normal weight ...
     
    I can not thank my Drs and Nut for the new life they gave this lady !!!
  5. dee257

    feeling pretty dang good

    By dee257,

    I have been sick with a stomach bug for 3 days...
    God Love my husband he went to do a lil Christmas shopping with me yesterday
    and as we walked pass the womans undies he stopped the cart and said..."hun need some undies" and I couldnt help but notice he was NOT looking at the grannie pants I useually wear....he said them black ones look nice..and it looked more like dental floss to me....LOL...but we picked a size 7 out..brought all the stuff home and was more interested in putting the kidspresents away and had forgotten about the dental floss....
    Well kids get home and start clearing the table off....my 11 yr old finds them in a bag and he is like...WOOOO whos are therse !!! my 14 yr old says Oh are they for my girl friend !!??? His dad snatched them and said they are for your mother !!! let me tell you their moths dropped....so did mine !!!
     
    But before heading to bed...hubby told me to try them on...and lets just say....im liking them LOTS !
     
    Hubby says Santa may have to stuff my stoking with some ....
  6. dee257
    Ok as you all know...well most of you I have 7 sons....and today I had to have a serious sit down hug him talk with my 11 yr old who has a eatting problem. He is so into sports and latly I can see all he thinks about is what he can eat.So today when he came home from school I had a snack ready for them all a healthy one....he ate then ..next thing I knew it he had a slice of pie....then a piece of angel food cake...and so on.....finally when I cought him going for one more snack I said "hun you have to stop...." I told him he was just eatting to eat and couldnt possible be hungry....wellthat lead to him crying....saying your always picking on me mom...OMG made me cry...and then we went out sat in the swing and talked....I told him ow I so dont want to see him ever have to be where I am now...and I pointed out my nephew who also is very heavy...I reminded him how athletic he is and how it will get harder and harder to run....heck I told him how I couldnt walk with out holding on to his brothers wheel chair just to lean on it....So after the tears were dryed....we got on line did a BMI chart for kids....got his and then we made a shopping list together....after football practice dad "J" and mom went shopping...He is very excited to be my healthy eatting partner....and I told him I bet in a month or 2 I can buy him one of his first pairs of skinny jeans....and we can toss the gym pants ....It was a hard afternon but I think he is excited now....I know I am....God Love Him....cuz I sure do !
  7. dee257
    good afternoon all....
     
    I have been upset since being banded I have not seen my scale move more then 3 lbs....
    I have been walking miles every day and just not being a couch potatoe at all....eatting all good things...trying not to eat to much of it...but not always good there...but still the scale wont budge...( waiting for my first fill)
    This morning on the way to church my 10 yr old yells as only a 10 yr old can...WOW MOM YOUR BELLIE DOESN`T TOUCH THE STEERING WHEEL ANY MORE !!! I had to take a moment and smile and rejoice in his excitment and my joy .....God is Good !!! and who needs the scale !

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