Weigh In:
Surgery Date 02-23-09 Weight ( 264 lb )
Today’s Date 11-11-09 Weight ( 176 lb )
Total Loss to Date ( 88 lb )

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Well I thought I was on a roll, but may it’s just a bounce. I always seem to lose, then bounce up and down a few ounces, then lose again. So .. I’m still losing, but it’s not as fast as I use to. What’s new about that … when you get old nothing is like it used to be. lol

Well, not to change the subject … but I forgot to tell you that my last batch of beautiful furry babies are now grown and at the pet store ready to get loving homes. We miss them, but that what I do it all for. To get them raised so they can all get homes.

Weigh In:
Surgery Date 02-23-09 Weight ( 264 lb )
Today’s Date 11-06-09 Weight ( 177 lb )
Total Loss to Date ( 87 lb )

Another pound and another Size !
Major Happy Dance

Weigh In:
Surgery Date 02-23-09 Weight ( 264 lb )
Today’s Date 10-24-09 Weight ( 178 lb )
Total Loss to Date ( 86 lb )

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My Weigh in … I think I’m back to losing again!
I finally hit 85 lb off . Happy Dance

Weigh In:
Surgery Date 02-23-09 Weight ( 264 lb )
Today’s Date 10-23-09 Weight ( 179 lb )
Total Loss to Date ( 85 lb )

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Today was my Birthday, so Hubby played hookie from work and we decided to take Disneyland up on their “Your Birthday Free” offer. That Free day for me, wasn’t so Free… It cost more than you think it would. But, It was fun to see the old park again. I have to say, I’m not so happy with the happiest place on earth any more. They’ve made soooo many changes, and for me … not for the better. I know they want to keep the park current, but I really miss the Old Park. The Park I grow up in, the rides I could recite word for word, if I felt like it. lol
Oh well, I guess time marches on.

I STILL HATE PLATEAUS !!

I’m sure I’ve mentioned this before, but I STILL HATE PLATEAUS !! It’s been a week or so and no weight loss. Although, I think I may be losing sizes, cause my clothes are getting too big Again …… How it does that I’ll never understand … Dropping sizes, yet No weight loss … but it does. Oh well …I guess time will tell.
I just hope I don’t stop here, cause I feel I still have 40 to 50 pounds to get to where I want to be.
Lets hope it is just the dreaded Plateau and not my bodies stopping point. They say, your body will stop where it feels it should and it will fight to the death to stay were it wants to. I’ve sent my body the memo where I want it to get to, but I don’t think it cares what I want .

As for my Furry babies, they are doing GREAT! Getting Bigger and more Adorable every day.
I’m sooooo happy because they haven’t shown any signs of the typical illnesses I usually get with most of the abandon stray baby kitties I get.

Weigh In:
Surgery Date 02-23-09 Weight ( 264 lb )
Today’s Date 10-05-09 Weight ( 180 lb )
Total Loss to Date ( 84 lb )

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This is an odd tale. About a week ago Hubby and I found a stray cat out by the pool. He didn’t look well at all, so I took him in and tried my best to save him, but it became clear that he just wasn’t going to pull through. Sadly we decided to take him down to the pound and have him mercifully put to sleep.

Here’s the odd part, as we were at the clerks window, a lady with her two kids came up behind us holding a large plastic box.

Curiosity got the best of me, so I took a peek in the box. Low and behold there was a litter of 4 baby kitties in there. They were approximately two weeks old.
Since I was a bottle feeder for a different pound and several other agencies, I knew that the pound would put them the sleep, because they do not have the staff to bottle feed kittens.

Just a few weeks ago, I babysat a 5 day old kitten for a nice lady that found him and was going out of town. I found myself have trouble staying awake for the around the clock feedings, so I told me hubby I would have to stop caring for kittens for a while, until I get truly back on me feet after the surgery.
It’s a hard job bottle feeding even one litter, but sometimes I just have to rest … and I can’t just lay down and take a nap when I need to while I’m caring for a litter of hungry Kitties.

So, as I stood there looking at those sweet angels in the large plastic box, my mind and heart were in a battle, should I or should I not take them. My mind told me … you just had a problem staying awake on the last baby and you don’t want to take on another litter….. And my heart just couldn’t turn away and let them be killed just for being babies.

You guessed it, My Heart won out and I’m bottle feeding 4 of the cutest little angels.
What are the odds of being in line with a box of bottle feeding kitties, behind an experienced bottle feeder. I tell you it must have been fate.

So, if any body in So. Cal. wants a give a good home to one or more of my little angels, they should be ready to get new homes by
November 1 ….

Weigh In:
Surgery Date 02-23-09 Weight ( 264 lb )
Today’s Date 09-30-09 Weight ( 180 lb )
Total Loss to Date ( 84 lb )

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Darn, I really wanted to hit 85 lb down by my
7 Month mark …. Missed it by that much ;-(

Weigh In:
Surgery Date 02-23-09 Weight ( 264 lb )
Today’s Date 09-23-09 Weight ( 180 lb )
Total Loss to Date ( 84 lb )

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The Other day Hubby & I when to a “Rock” concert … well prehistoric Rock concert filled with a bunch of 40 to 60 year old fans. . the 2 Old Bands put on a pretty good show for a bunch of Old Men lol
I wasn’t really a rock concert go’er even when they bands were in their prime, but Hubby is a die hard fan of “Kansas” and he wanted to see them again for his Birthday, so I tagged along.

A few days before the concert I wanted to get an outfit that would be good for the event, partly because I have under grown most of my clothes AGAIN and I wanted some casual like jeans to wear. Soooo I went of a shopping trip looking for the right pair of jeans to fit my body style.
First let me explain … I’m built different then most women. If I get a pair of pants that fit my waist the butt end looks like riding britches. I don’t have a true hour glass shape and frankly I never did even when I was young.

So I needed to find the Low Rise Jeans, so I could avoid having to fit my waist. At first I gravitated to the “Usual” stores and just couldn’t find anything close to what I was looking for, then it Hit Me …

I can NOW shop almost anywhere and fit the clothes. Sooo I went in to an “Old Navy” because I felt they would have more styles of jeans for me to pick from.

As I walked through the door, I felt as is I were on a whole different planet!!!
I had soooo many items to choose from, in tons of different styles including the low rise jeans I wanted.
I grabbed the style jeans I really wanted and hoped that I would fit them.
As I walked to the fitting room I saw hundreds and hundreds of interesting clothes is great colors, things that I usually never paid attention too, cause … anything “in style” never seem to be made it my old size. So why bother to look … only to get my heart broken again when I just couldn’t wear them, Right.

I went in to the fitting and slipped on the jeans …. they fit me like a glove … I was on cloud nine.
One, because I could actually fit anything in the store, which I haven’t been able to do in YEARS…. And Two, because I found the pair of pants I wanted and the Low Rise beauties were a NON stretch Jeans …
And Three, I realized I am no longer limited to the same old fat stores or the fat section of a store.

I learned that the World as opened it’s doors to Me and I’m no longer on the outside looking in.
You see, for years I had just block out all the things I couldn’t do. And frankly, I didn’t even realize I had done that, it just became normal to me.
I know it may not seem like a big deal to most people, but if you have ever been as heavy as I was, it means the world to you when more and more things out of your reach get within your reach and YOU have the power to pick and choose what YOU want, and not just what you have to settle for….. I can’t wait to get to my ultimate Goal !

Weigh In:
Surgery Date 02-23-09 Weight ( 264 lb )
Today’s Date 09-16-09 Weight ( 183 lb )
Total Loss to Date ( 81 lb )

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Weigh In:
Surgery Date 02-23-09 Weight ( 264 lb )
Today’s Date 09-07-09 Weight ( 185 lb )
Total Loss to Date ( 79 lb )

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