I'm Going to LOSE it

I posted a Face to Face Friday set a couple of days ago. The current “face” is from the office banquet this last Friday. I NEVER ask for pictures of myself and happily handed my phone off to my photographer friend for solo shots. There were a lot of people I see infrequently who noticed […]

I’ve had this on my mind for a while. Actually, for as far back as I can remember, I thought “food addict” wasn’t necessarily the best label to give people. First of all, we NEED food. We need the nourishment to survive. We’re all addicts in a way. There is a faction of people who […]

This journey is a total mind game. Like I said yesterday, I had my own ideas of how fast I was going to lose weight. I’m losing…but I’m not losing 20-40 pounds a month. I had all kinds of ideas of meeting goal by May (at the latest, haha), ready for a swimsuit (like really […]

…as promised

Yea…I’m not going to make it. It’s okay…I’m super close and more importantly, I’m pleased with where I am. This journey has a lot of challenges…one of them is no one has the same journey – no one loses weight at the same rate, no one ended up here for the same reasons or even […]

It’s a thing…Transformation Tuesday. In the WLS online pages (the only place I’ve encountered this) it’s kind of a reminder to look at how far you’ve come. I’m focusing on that this week – since it looks like I’m going to miss my “soft” goal for Friday. It’s okay – I’m proud of how far […]

I’m at 78-80 pound loss. To me, it’s amazing and wonderful. I don’t always see the change in the mirror. If there is something to compare to, I see it right off. The clothes are smaller but I don’t always think I look different. I found my upper pelvis this week. I took a sassy […]

It’s drilled in from the beginning…exercise is very important in this journey. You have to get up and get moving. It’s actually outlined in the program guide I received: they want you walking immediately after surgery and with in what seems like minutes, but it’s really a week or to, they want you walking 30 […]

It’s always a challenge when you set out on a big change to maintain your motivation and inspiration. Weight loss and/or life changes seem to be among the toughest. It’s well documented that the surgery is not 100% successful. I still have to watch my eating, nutrition and exercise…ugh. More on exercise in a different […]

Tuesday, I needed to attend a function out of the office. For the last two weeks or so, since I found my protein rhythm, I have been in the same place doing the same thing. Naturally, I hadn’t thought this all the way through. It occurred to me and jarred me a bit when I […]