131lbs

Well, here we are in the middle of another big change in our house. My husband is changing jobs, which means I'm changing jobs and we are trying to find a house to live in. Lots of stuff going on which are causing my band to be too tight. I've lost a lb a day this week but I know that will get better when the stress lightens up. Today my boss asked me to stay where I am and keep running the B&B. That would alleviate the need for us to move, so maybe that is what we are supposed to do. I'm just not sure where God wants us to go from here.

Anyway, I'll post more when I know more.

139lbs

I hit 101lbs down today!! Yea!!

141 lbs

If you have seen NSV and wondered what it means... Non-Scale Victory. Something wonderful that happens to you but doesn't have to do with the scale moving. I have had a ton of NSV's over the last year but here I am again with ANOTHER!! I have a FAVORITE pair of size 10 jeans that I wear "first" every time they are clean :) They have been getting baggy and I knew I needed a new pair, my husband said enough, get a pair of jeans that fit. So yesterday I went shopping. HA I had fun!! I LAUGHED in the dressing room and it wasn't because things were too tight, everything was too big! I of course grabbed size 8 in everything, I couldn't be smaller than that. HA Too big!! So started grabbing 6's!!! Did you hear that 6's!!!! They fit, perfect, so of course I had to grab 4's, I gotta know how far I have to go. HA They fit!! I'm a big comfort girl so I went with the 6's :) My head hasn't quite wrapped around that one. I kept going back to the size 10 racks and then laughing and going to the 6's and 4's. Oh, I'm telling you it is hard to even type that. I called my husband crying and for once it wasn't because I was sad. Oh and another funny one, I didn't sweat in the dressing room. Usually I sweat soooo bad when I do anything, but especially trying on a cart full of clothes, nope not anymore. It was great, I came home with two bags of clothes and I finally have somethings that fit. I wish lots of success on all of you going through this journey.

143lbs

Well, I went on a wild ride there for a bit. I took my son to the movies and pizza. I ate just the cheese off the top and much to my dismay, spent the rest of the movie in the bathroom, PBing. I
told myself, only liquids the next day. Well, since I have no will power, I ate chicken noodle soup and ate some noddles. That started the pain all over and then that night, I ate a couple of bites of roast beef. I spent the rest of that night PBing. So the next day, down to 141lbs I start to get worried, that I'm out of control. I start having thoughts about needing an unfill, going to the local Dr., what a waste my last fill was, on and on... So I spend that day on liquids, latte in the AM, protein drink that afternoon and all night. What a horrible thing those protein drinks are, UGH. The next day, I'm back to eating normal, it's all good. No unfill, no more money spent. In the big picture, I do feel like I'm a little too tight and maybe I should have skipped my last fill, but I just had to get to goal. And I don't feel like I'm too tight to eat, but just that quality of life issue. I shouldn't be this tight for the rest of my life. I plug along though because I know in a few months I will be pregnant and need an unfill of at least some at that point. I will deal with it until then. Oh, and one day after being back on solids, I gained 2lbs back. That is OK, I will happy floating between 148 and 143. I don't want to make myself crazy trying to stay thin, I just don't want to let it get out of control again.

Bye for now.

145lbs

I made it to my final goal. I really wanted to make it to 145lbs and here I am. I don't know if I will maintain this weight or not but it sure feels good!!

146lbs

Well it appears a fill was what I needed. I met goal December 20, 2007 and have maintained that loss since. I have been hovering between 146-148 since that time. I had lunch with a friend and and she said, enough. :) I appreciate her honesty and told her at the beginning of this journey that I didn't want to become one of those people that "looks" sick after I lose weight. She told me that I needed to stop losing now. I told her I wanted to get to 145lb and then I would stop and she said, nope. :) She made a good point though, after I get a tummy tuck and all this skin removed, I will probably be down to 145 lb. I know that surgery isn't happening for a few more YEARS, I need to be done having babies and nursing and all that good stuff first. I hope to "work on" getting pregnant in July of this year, we will see. My husband isn't thinking that way right now, so we have to get on the same track first.

I had a funny NSV yesterday. I went to donate blood and because I'm O- they always want me to donate red blood cells and not just whole blood. Before I donated I told the gal the last time I gave blood that they really wanted me to give blood cells and I didn't care and would do that again. She laughed and said, "you don't weigh enough" you have to weigh 155 lbs to do that. How funny it was, I haven't NOT Weighed enough for anything before in my life. HA HA

Life is grand with the band!!