pupichupi

I'll be sending losing thoughts your way! And if you don't hit it this week, don't fret, it'll be here soon! Just keep moving!

Oh I am dreaming of being under 200 also, I know it would be a big loss this week if I hit it but I am thinking positive and trying to keep moving. You can do it girl! and if you don't this week there is always next week :-)

Thanks girls!!! I am staying positive!!!

:) feel the same way

Yes they do but I wouldn't give it up for the world, my son and watching him play football he is so dedicated and works so hard at what he does on that field, I love it!!! I just need to get off my rear end and stop slacking when it comes to me!!! That's my biggest problem is I just slack off cause I am tired by the time I get out of work, but need to really just get up and go.

I certainly understand... both of my boys were always active in sports and I KNOW how it takes so much of your time and energy. My "baby" is 15 now and my older son is 20 (daughter is 23 but she lives across the country), and I definitely have SO much more free time now that they are pretty self-sufficient. When they were younger and we had endless sports events going on, I would try to walk laps around the fields during practices (if they were too young just to drop off). I even did step ups on the bleachers sometimes mostly just to get the blood pumping when my butt was falling asleep on those bleachers!

It's a hard balance to find and I hope you find yours soon. Maybe since your son is active, you could get him to take fast walks with you or do some kind of physical challenges with him. My youngest plays lacrosse and even standing out in the yard with him tossing the ball is at least MOVING some! And I'd highly recommend trying to get up early and exercise at the beginning of the day. I was always SO much more successful doing that than if I waited until later in the day because like you said, after work you can really lack the energy. I KNOW nobody wants to get up early to exercise but it really does give you a great start to the day and usually nobody's needing mom's attention at 5 in the morning!

True, I wish there were bleachers at the field where my son practiced? I would have done step ups!!! I walked the track some, but didn't do it as much as I should have. I totally agree with you about getting my son out walking with me, he needs to keep up the exercise to keep in shape cause he is a lazy one and will sit around and eat junk and get big, he is already a big boy, 9 years old and weighs 135 and that's only cause for the last 3 months he has been working out every day with football? He started football over 140? So he is the one that I need to get on the right track now before he ends up like i was? My daughter is a little skinny mini? She takes after her fathers family, and so I talk to her about working out and staying strong, but my son is the one I worry most about with obesity?

Instead of being "disgusted with myself " over a tiny , normal fluctuation of 2 lbs, how about giving yourself a pat on the back for your progress so far ?

Pup, it happens to the best of us. This is what happens when you realize that you can eat a certain food that you hadn't been able to eat..or it could be hormonal or salt. You have been doing so great and I am proud of you, so you better not beat yourself up about this!!!

@Miss Mac good luck with your appt., @BladeFox thanks girl, I am really trying not to beat myself up, just chocking it up as a learning lesson, I havent found anything new I can eat, so I don't know how this happen, but I wasn't feeling good at all yesterday sharp pains in my stomach so I am wondering if that had a part in all of this? So I will just keep plugging along with this and see if next week is better? I was only 4 lbs from 200 and that is what discourages me, cause I am so close to onderland? lol

Yeah I have to up my B12, but everything else was great!!!

Funny I have to drop mine down. My B12 was double the high end of normal so now I just do the supplement every 2-3 days. Got some great tasting liquid you squirt under the tongue -- think it's Vitamin Shoppe's brand -- tastes like cinnamon.

Oh I have gummie bear B12's they are yummy!!! lol raspberry flavor, love me some raspberry!!!

way to go!! good vibes coming your way!

Hooray! It's so funny how you'll stall for a week or two then drop 4-5 pounds!

Looking forward to watching your progress...

Thanks I was really surprised and happy this morning to step on the scale, I thought cause I am getting so close to my goal it wasn't going to be such a good number?

Hoping everything comes out great! My 3 month's were good except I need to up the protein and drop the B12 to every other day. So exciting to see all those numbers in the normal range!

Yeah I am excited to see my glucose and cholesterol #'s down!!! I haven't had any of my vitamins checked since my surgery and I am 6-1/2 months out? So it will be good to know whats up? I am sure I need to up my protein too!!!

I know, I can't wait either. Everything at my surgeons office went well. All levels passed, so I can't wait to get it checked at my regular docs office too!

Easy, is that a flavor of bubble gum?

@Beni, I wish!!!

I agree.

@Ginger Snaps Thanks I know, I think that is probably what happen last week, this week is probably going to be just as bad if not worse but I will push through and do whatever it is I have to do to get through it. Thanks

It will come off, just keep doing.

@BladeFox Thanks!!!

@Cupcake I don't have a stress reliever??? I need one and wish it could be the gym but I just don't have the finances to afford the gym right now?

Pupichupi. Do you like walking , you can walk around your neighborhood or perhaps the mall, look into your community YMCA they have excercise program as low as $2.00 dollars per month. I hope this helps.

@Cupcake, Thanks I didn't know that about the YMCA? I will do that!!!

Wonderful!!!

yet another goal!! congrats

keep up the good work

You are doing fabulous lady! Keep up the good work - WOOT!!!

Your best bet is to go during the week, I work right near it and that is the best time to go? I know saturdays are the worst.

So funny... just finished up a walk with a couple of friends here at work and one of them is going to the Big E this weekend! She was telling me how much fun it is.

Aren't you glad you were able to walk as much as you wanted???

congrats girl..you are rockin it!

I have had a couple of episodes of dumping syndrome and it definitely helps keep me on the straight and narrow.

it really does, I tried ice cream once this past summer and it made me ugh gross, and so I figured it was all the sugar, and so I tried sugar free frozen yogurt and the same thing, so I am all set with that, I do sugar free Popsicles??? I think maybe it's all the cream that are in those, I can't even drink the protein shakes post surgery cause they are too creamy even when I make them with water, but I can have greek yogurt? I don't know it's strange?

Righteous!

Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks ladies!!! I like the whole making small goals they are easier to accomplish and it makes me feel good when I hit those smaller goals. I look forward to having the end goal but the little ones in between make it easier to get to that end place I want to be.

Amazing!

Thanks Everyone, @BladeFox, I know what you mean about digressing, I feel like there are times where I do this also, I need to get back in the game of eating right and working out more. I have been so lazy lately that i barely work out if at all? I am so freaking tired running from work to football and sitting in the cold at football at night, I just have no desire to work out?

Congratulation's. I am so happy for you. Keep up the good work

@BladeFox I lost 3 lbs this week? I am down to 212!!! So not bad, considering I am only 37 lbs away from my goal?

Told 'jah.

@BladeFox hahaha, thanks!!! I wish it would keep going that way, I could deal with 3 lbs a week!!! lol

thanks jordan, it really does seem to fly by after, I do remember before, always thinking when is the day going to come, it's sort of like when you go on a trip somewhere, and your so excited to get there and it seems to take longer then when you come home? lol

I know, I am so pleased with my weight and inches! Congrats to the both of us.

@BladeFox, thanks hun, I am glad you have done so great too, and I am so glad that I had someone like you to go through this at the same time, your always so upbeat and positive, and I really appreciate that!!!

What you mean? A pound is fantastic! Hurray, hurray for you. This is a marathon and a pound lost is a pound conquered. Stake that flag, you just earned it.

@Beni, I know, that is how i feel, any pound lost is a great success for me, as I am getting closer and closer to my final goal and the pounds are coming off less and less, this week friday is my 6 month mark, and I am only 39 lbs from my goal? I am good with that!!! VERY GOOD!!! lol

Amen!!!!

@Bandista, that is great that your down to a 12 and ready to go into a 10, I fit into GAP jeans for the first time in my life, not that I am superficial and need only expensive store cloths, I got them from a cousin and so when they fit, I was amazed!!! I love it!!! I am still in a 14, which fits good right now but I know another 20 lbs or so I will be out of those and into a 12 too and then I will have no cloths? I have been hitting the 2nd hand stores when I have a couple extra bucks, and I think I am going to just start buying smaller sizes just to have cause I have enough 14's for now, and then when I am able to fit the lower ones atleast I will have something to wear that will fit? @proudgrammy thanks I think readjusting my goal was the best thing for me right now, and it just makes me realize that I don't have to look at the # in lbs, but I can look at it like whats best for me to be healthy!!!

Pupichupi that's great I'm 5'11 and my hola is 170 but if I get to thin I will reevaluated my goal I have 80 more pounds to go and I'm almost 4 months post opt keep up the great work.

Awesome cupcake!!! Thanks!!!

I am right there with ya!! It's been brutal all weekend!! The only thing working for me right now is Tylenol Severe Sinus (daytime of course.) Hope you feel better soon!!

Thanks you too Zoey!!!

@BladeFox, Yeah that is what I am still looking at my "0's" too. I am still debating what my final goal is going to be, cause originally it was to get the 150, but I don't know if that will be too small for my height? I am 5'8" and I don't want to look sick when I get down to that point, so when I get down closer to that point I will see how the final is going to be. Most people tell me I am wasting away now, lol but I know I can't stay at the point I am at now cause I am still in the obese column of the BMI Graph, I am 15lbs away from the overweight part of the graph, and for my height anywhere between 120-160 is the healthy range, so we shall see, 150 will be half of my original weight though that is why I picked that number when I started?

Getting into that overweight category is wonderful!!! I didn't have as much to lose so I hit it pretty quickly but it still felt great. I set my initial goal on the high end of a BMI of 25 but I'll see when I get there if I want to go lower or not. Now that I'm at 49 lost (can't seem to knock off that next pound to say 50) I'm FINALLY starting to get comments about how much weight I've lost. Seems it took everyone a LONG time to start commenting! lol

You're doing great!

@Ginger Snaps, it does feel good to get those comments doesn't it. I think I didn't start getting them till I was around 50lbs down, so don't worry it's just peoples perception of you isn't due to your weight, or they see you everyday, which is good, but wait till you see people that you haven't seen in a while, I have a birthday party for my brother on the 20th and I haven't seen anyone that will be there for probably close to 8+ months, so the last time they saw me I was pre surgery, lol so they aren't going to recognize me now??? lol no they will cause my face still looks the same just I am 1/3 the person I was??? LOL Just keep positive amp up your exercise or change it up a little and you will get that 50!!!

AMEN to that!! Happy Friday!

Hey blade thought I lost you? Yeah I agree, it did take me a bit to heal from the surgery to start with and so waiting till I have the skin surgery is definitely my best option!!! Thanks hun!!!

Just needed a break for a bit with everything that's going on on the job front! Still working on smoothing that out. Cheers~

Ugh well I hope it all works out ok!!! I haven't had a great month at work and its been very stressful but keeping hopes that it will be all over soon.