tonya66

Hi all, I'm just swinging by, well because I haven't in awhile. Just wanted to say Hello to everyone. The big news in my world is I'm having a hysterectomy - and the doctor that is doing it is giving me a "free" tummy tuck. He always does it for the women he has to cut. So, I get a little bonus out of the deal. LOVE IT. I am having surgery next month, I'm so ready to be out of my "female" pain and issues. Hope everyone is doing great and enjoying their season.

Mix a little meat tenderizer with Water and sip on that, it helps to break down what is stuck. Also you could sip on pinapple juice, it works!

Anything about 1000 and I don't lose. I go between 800-1000. I have a very slow matabolism. I've been exercising A LOT, so hopefully that will help!

I watched the biggest loser show last night, all I can say is WOW. It was the finale, and I just can't believe how these people changed thier lives. They all looked sooooo good. It really inspires me. After the show, I went to the gym and had a really good workout. Tomorrow will mark 23 months since banding, and its getting so hard to lose a pound. It takes everything in me to lose a pound. One binge and I'm up 5 lbs. so frustrating. I need to stay focussed to lose the rest of my weight! Plan today: Bfast - just had some coffee Lunch - chicken breast and small spinach salad Dinner - chili - made with extra lean beef and Venison. Exercise - 3:00 PM - 20 min on eliptical 9:00 pm - circuit training and working lower body with weights - 1 hour Wt - 170.6 (down a pound from yesterday)

I watched the biggest loser show last night, all I can say is WOW. It was the finale, and I just can't believe how these people changed thier lives. They all looked sooooo good. It really inspires me. After the show, I went to the gym and had a really good workout. Tomorrow will mark 23 months since banding, and its getting so hard to lose a pound. It takes everything in me to lose a pound. One binge and I'm up 5 lbs. so frustrating. I need to stay focussed to lose the rest of my weight! Plan today: Bfast - just had some coffee Lunch - chicken breast and small spinach salad Dinner - chili - made with extra lean beef and Venison. Exercise - 3:00 PM - 20 min on eliptical 9:00 pm - circuit training and working lower body with weights - 1 hour Wt - 170.6 (down a pound from yesterday)

I had a long weekend, and ate way too much! I surprised DH with a spa retreat weekend (it was our 20 year anniversary). Anyhow, we ate out every night. I had horrible reflux and Sunday night was the worst. It was coming out my nose!!!! I finally got up and slept sitting up on my couch. I really couldn't sleep. Last night I went and bought some sudeafed, I think I might have some sinus drainage, anyhow, I did sleep a lot better last night. Only woke up a few times coughing, and it was barely a cough. I am reluctant to go get an unfill, my last fill was 6 weeks ago, and everything was perfect until just recently. I'm not sure if its my allergy or sinus, or if I could be just too tight. I'm going to wait it out for a week and see how I do. I can eat, i am just having a time with my reflux in the evening time. I'm going to stop eating by 7 tonight, take my sudaphed, and see what happens. If I still have the reflux, then its time for a tiny tiny unfill. wt 171.6 - grrrrr the weekend eating out has made my weight go up. Exercise - 3:00 - 15 min on elliptical 8:00 pm - 1 hour at the gym, circuit training, cardio and upper body weights.

I had a long weekend, and ate way too much! I surprised DH with a spa retreat weekend (it was our 20 year anniversary). Anyhow, we ate out every night. I had horrible reflux and Sunday night was the worst. It was coming out my nose!!!! I finally got up and slept sitting up on my couch. I really couldn't sleep. Last night I went and bought some sudeafed, I think I might have some sinus drainage, anyhow, I did sleep a lot better last night. Only woke up a few times coughing, and it was barely a cough. I am reluctant to go get an unfill, my last fill was 6 weeks ago, and everything was perfect until just recently. I'm not sure if its my allergy or sinus, or if I could be just too tight. I'm going to wait it out for a week and see how I do. I can eat, i am just having a time with my reflux in the evening time. I'm going to stop eating by 7 tonight, take my sudaphed, and see what happens. If I still have the reflux, then its time for a tiny tiny unfill. wt 171.6 - grrrrr the weekend eating out has made my weight go up. Exercise - 3:00 - 15 min on elliptical 8:00 pm - 1 hour at the gym, circuit training, cardio and upper body weights.

The same thing has happened to me, I figued out that I'm having some sinus drainage at night, therefore, making me have acid reflux. Last night I took sudafed PE and that helped. What was happening is I was PBing my saliva at night (due to the drainage) which was making me tight. Tis the time of season for all the drainage, so you might try something like that. If it continues, you really need to have it checked out.

Juno - GO GET ANTIBIOTICS! I have a sinus infection too and started the zpac and already feel sooooo much better. When your sick, its hard to get to the gym. But hey, you lost 2 lbs this week, congratulations! I've been missing in action for the last few days, i've been sick myself. I also had a spa weekend with my hubby, it was our 20 year anniversary so we just spent the weekend together at a spa resort, it was sooooo nice. Well, talk to everyone later.

Hey guys.....Sula - wow, surgery? I can't remember what type your having? How long til you find out if your insurance approves? Juno - hope you feel better soon! Things are plugging away for me. I notice that before I struggled between 170 to 174, now my weight bounces back from 166 to 170. Saturday, I had reached a new low of 166, today I'm at 170. My stomach is very bloated. I cannot weight for my surgery! I know I will feel better, and I honestly believe I will lose weight. I won't have all the Water retention I have, and the bloated belly. Anyhow, I've been good in the exercise department the last week. I went last night, so tired and almost blew it off, but forced myself to go to the gym. I was glad I did. Well, talk to everyone later.

Thanks for sharing your story.

Thanks Carol! I am back on track and will stick with it, just got back from a shopping trip and bought a size 8 pair of pants!!! Thats motivation for me to stay on track for sure!

Thanks band_groupie, I need someone watching me.....lol. Thanks for stopping by my journal.

LOL - not about your ordeal, but your attitude. I got a good chuckle reading your post. I am going thru "almost" the same ordeal, but it turns out its my uterus making me pee my pants. lol. So I'm having a hysterectomy to remove it. I have adenomyosis which is causing me - not so much fun. Well, I love your attitude and hang in there. I've been banded for "almost" 2 years and I absolutely would not trade it for anything, I love love love my silicone buddy.

Well, things are rolling along, I'm doing great, then what happens? Well, I start to sab0tage myself. I go on an eating binge that last approximately 5 days. Man, old habits are hard to break! I will say, since the band, my binges are less frequent, however, the band has not stopped my binge eating. I am not able to binge on as much food pre band, but let me tell you, I can still hold my share of eating. Not that I eat a whole lot, I guess what I do now when I binge eat is eat the wrong stuff. I ate about 2 pieces of Tres Leches cake - yum. I guess I should be happy that all I was able to eat was 2 pieces. Pre band - I would have eaten at least 1/2 the cake. Now, thats not all I ate during my bings, everytime I would eat - I turned to sugar, instead of my good protein. It was a vicious cycle. I don't know what is wrong with me sometimes. But, because of eating the WRONG stuff, the scale has not moved. Also, when I binge eat, I figure, why exercise, so I don't even exercise. Enough of my talk, enough of being down about it, so I got rid of the cake, and headed to the gym last night and I just got back from the gym today. So, I'm over my binge eating for awhile. And over whatever made me snap and go crazy. My question to myself is WHY? Why do I do it? I'm doing so great then all of a sudden somthing snaps inside of me and I go completely CRAZY with food. Why? For the life of me I cannot figure it out. They say people eat because of emotions, but I can't figure out what emotions are causing me to eat. I have a wonderful marriage of 20 years, two beautiful children and my life is for the most part is perfect. Or at least, its perfect for me. My dad was going thru an ordeal, he almost died in November, however, he had two surgeries and pulled thru wonderfully. The binge eating didn't even start until a few weeks AFTER his ordeal. I held myself together and made good food choices when he was going thru his ordeal, so not sure why all of a sudden, when things are good, I go crazy. So, this is something that I must work on. I must be good to myself and quit trying to destroy all the work that I've done to get to my weight. Well, my goal was to weigh 160 by end of the year. In order to do that, I need to lose 2.5 lbs every week until the end of the year. Can I do it? Darn right I will! So I am making a promise to myself that I WILL be good to me. I WILL NOT binge eat. I WILL go to the gym, and I WILL do everything in my power to reach my goal. I deserve it and I'm worth it. Now, how is that for self talk. :thumbup: wt - 167.9 exercise - 10:00 am 20 min eliptical HIIT 3:00 pm upper body work out 9:00 pm - 30 min on eliptical Goal for the weekend - 1. stay off the scale 2. eat clean 3. Go to the gym - EVERYDAY!

Well, things are rolling along, I'm doing great, then what happens? Well, I start to sab0tage myself. I go on an eating binge that last approximately 5 days. Man, old habits are hard to break! I will say, since the band, my binges are less frequent, however, the band has not stopped my binge eating. I am not able to binge on as much food pre band, but let me tell you, I can still hold my share of eating. Not that I eat a whole lot, I guess what I do now when I binge eat is eat the wrong stuff. I ate about 2 pieces of Tres Leches cake - yum. I guess I should be happy that all I was able to eat was 2 pieces. Pre band - I would have eaten at least 1/2 the cake. Now, thats not all I ate during my bings, everytime I would eat - I turned to sugar, instead of my good protein. It was a vicious cycle. I don't know what is wrong with me sometimes. But, because of eating the WRONG stuff, the scale has not moved. Also, when I binge eat, I figure, why exercise, so I don't even exercise. Enough of my talk, enough of being down about it, so I got rid of the cake, and headed to the gym last night and I just got back from the gym today. So, I'm over my binge eating for awhile. And over whatever made me snap and go crazy. My question to myself is WHY? Why do I do it? I'm doing so great then all of a sudden somthing snaps inside of me and I go completely CRAZY with food. Why? For the life of me I cannot figure it out. They say people eat because of emotions, but I can't figure out what emotions are causing me to eat. I have a wonderful marriage of 20 years, two beautiful children and my life is for the most part is perfect. Or at least, its perfect for me. My dad was going thru an ordeal, he almost died in November, however, he had two surgeries and pulled thru wonderfully. The binge eating didn't even start until a few weeks AFTER his ordeal. I held myself together and made good food choices when he was going thru his ordeal, so not sure why all of a sudden, when things are good, I go crazy. So, this is something that I must work on. I must be good to myself and quit trying to destroy all the work that I've done to get to my weight. Well, my goal was to weigh 160 by end of the year. In order to do that, I need to lose 2.5 lbs every week until the end of the year. Can I do it? Darn right I will! So I am making a promise to myself that I WILL be good to me. I WILL NOT binge eat. I WILL go to the gym, and I WILL do everything in my power to reach my goal. I deserve it and I'm worth it. Now, how is that for self talk. :thumbup: wt - 167.9 exercise - 10:00 am 20 min eliptical HIIT 3:00 pm upper body work out 9:00 pm - 30 min on eliptical Goal for the weekend - 1. stay off the scale 2. eat clean 3. Go to the gym - EVERYDAY!

Well, I have been having some "female" issues. So I had my annual with my gynocologist (sp?) and anyhow, after a few test (ultra sound, MRI) they have found that I have adenomyosis - its a form of endometriosis (sp) but it effects the uterus. Well, to make a long story of short, I will be having a partial hysterectomy in January (1/14/09 to be exact). So, I'm not looking forward to that. Well, maybe a little. I'll be glad to not have the massive cramps during my monthly, well, and not even having a monthly will be nice. I've asked the doctor to keep my ovaries, so I don't have all the hormonal issues, and she has agreed to keep them if all possible. I will be off work for 6 weeks, and I won't be able to exercise for at least 4 I think. But the doctor says she usually order her patients to take off 6 weeks. So not sure, how long it will be. My main goal is not to just lay around and EAT. I don't want to gain weight, I would like to lose during this whole ordeal. Talk to everyone later.

I need to do the same! I need to get with my program and STICK to it. Oh yuck. I don't really mind the snow, but I HATE the ice.

Wow, that will be nice. My sister-in-law had one, and I swear, she looks like a totally different woman. Food is such a hard thing to cope with. Juno - hang in there and it will get better.

I have a gym right here at my office, I'm on the 4th floor and the gym is on floor 1. Its free and available to all employees. I can take a few breaks and go down there and do a quick 15 or 20 min to get my matabolism going. I just need to do it more often. Then at night, I like to go to my gym by my house. Its open 24 hours so I have no excuse not to go.

Hey, where is everyone? I get lonely if I don't pop in here at least every other day. Hope everyone has a great week, and don't eat too much. I am still trying to fit exercise back in my life. I did go to the gym last night, and just got back form a 15 min break on the eliptical machine. I'm going to really focus this week on the gym.

Just to update - I'm still 12 pounds away. arggggg - This is so hard, but I will do it. It's jut going to take some time to get to goal. I did make it to the gym last night, I know that I need to be more consistant with the exercise and until then, I won't get to goal. The only way to get to goal is to get to the gym! Even though the scales have not moved, I am smaller for some reason. I bought my first pair of size 8 pants the other day. Yes, a size 8! I haven't worn a size 8 since - well, I can't even remember a size 8. I'm sure they are made big, because every other pair of pants I try on I have to take a 10. Well, I really didn't care for the pants that much, but since they were a size 8 I had to buy them. I just had to. Anyhow, will post later, but I am still working hard to get to my healthy weight of 155.

I found your albums and looked at your picture. Not only do you look like a totally different person, I'm sure you feel like one too. Congratulations on your success!

Well, I went to the gym last night. I received a 7 day free trial to the new Gold's Gym that opened up about 1 1/2 miles from my house, so I decided to go try it out. Even though I belong to another gym, which is just 1 mile from my house, I figured a change of scenery might be nice. Well, now I'm thinking about joining the Gold's gym too. It was really really really nice. I went into the "cardio" room. It is a huge room with a freaken movie theater in it. Its like being at the movies, with surround sound and its dark. I jumped on the eliptical and before I knew it, I was into the movie and looked down and had done 45 min on the eliptical. Burned almost 400 calories. I loved that! The bad thing is they do not have a "family plan" like my other gym does, so if I join, I will have to just join and pay additional and keep my membership at my other gym too so I can go with my family when they go. Even though they rarely go......my 16 year daughter has been going a lot lately. She just won't get up in the mornings with me. I need a morning partner to help encourage me to get up! My weight this morning was less than yesterday. I seem to be dropping again. wt 168.1 My exercise plans for today are: Exercise - 10am 20 min on eliptical Exercise - 3pm - 20 min on eliptical Exercise - 9:30 pm - 30 min on eliptical Next week I will focus on getting back to stregth training 2 to 3 days a week. I will still need to do 5 days of cardio but I do need to add my strength training in.

Well, I went to the gym last night. I received a 7 day free trial to the new Gold's Gym that opened up about 1 1/2 miles from my house, so I decided to go try it out. Even though I belong to another gym, which is just 1 mile from my house, I figured a change of scenery might be nice. Well, now I'm thinking about joining the Gold's gym too. It was really really really nice. I went into the "cardio" room. It is a huge room with a freaken movie theater in it. Its like being at the movies, with surround sound and its dark. I jumped on the eliptical and before I knew it, I was into the movie and looked down and had done 45 min on the eliptical. Burned almost 400 calories. I loved that! The bad thing is they do not have a "family plan" like my other gym does, so if I join, I will have to just join and pay additional and keep my membership at my other gym too so I can go with my family when they go. Even though they rarely go......my 16 year daughter has been going a lot lately. She just won't get up in the mornings with me. I need a morning partner to help encourage me to get up! My weight this morning was less than yesterday. I seem to be dropping again. wt 168.1 My exercise plans for today are: Exercise - 10am 20 min on eliptical Exercise - 3pm - 20 min on eliptical Exercise - 9:30 pm - 30 min on eliptical Next week I will focus on getting back to stregth training 2 to 3 days a week. I will still need to do 5 days of cardio but I do need to add my strength training in.