Posted by Lisa on 06.14.10
Down 3 lbs. this week. Yeah, buddy! I am now at 191. I’m just praying it’s not a dream.
Oh, and I measured my waist today. 36 inches. say WHAT?!?! Oh yeah. 36.
The biggest measurement I have tracked for my waist is 46.75.
My hips?? Today are 44 inches! The biggest I have tracked for my hips is 56!
That is 22 inches in just those two areas ALONE! I think I need to measure all over and compare…what’cha think?
AND…just 7 more pounds and I’m no longer overweight! I couldn’t ask for a more blessed way to start my day!!!
Posted by Lisa on 06.12.10
Really not a whole lot to update on. Last weeks weigh in was a zero again. No big deal, because I’m losing again this week pretty good. I have seen quite a few of those zeros in the past 5 months, but can’t complain at the overall number, so I don’t let those bother me!
I recently ordered a pair of shorts and tank top from Kohl’s clearance section on their website. I ordered a size 16 shorts and an XL tank top to match. Well, they are both too big!!! I could have EASILY fit into a 14 shorts and a L top. SO weird!!!!
The one downside to the weight loss is the attention. I don’t like it. I don’t like people noticing me. I would rather blend in with the crowd. I get alot of looks and comments from people (people I know, and strangers, alike) and it’s really going to take some getting used to. It’s not a comfortable feeling right now at all.
My nicknames still make me giggle though. Skinny Bitch, Skinny Ass, Skinny Minnie…love them all…as long as skinny is involved, you can call me what you want! HA!
So today I’m off to the basement to get my gym area back in order, get the DVD player hooked up to the TV down there and get to working out. Things are a little saggier than I would prefer right now.
Posted by Lisa on 06.03.10
Who would have EVER thought I would be saying this (surely not me!), but I LOVE SHOPPING (for clothes…groceries still suck)! I absolutely LOVE being at a store, knowing I can grab an XL off of any rack and I can just about guarantee it will fit! Yesterday I took the girls shopping to get them bathing suits and flip-flops and while we were at Kohl’s I grabbed an adorable strappy-tank sundress. Put it on and it was completely adorable! I can’t even put into words how great that feels! But I didn’t buy it because it was like $40.00. Dangit.
As we walked by Lane Bryant, I just smiled hugely to myself, knowing that just about everything in that store is way to big for me now and I don’t have to pay their super-high prices for clothing anymore just to have something nice!
Yes, it is an XL that I am in, but WAY better than the 22/24 that were getting tight on me 5 months ago! Unreal.
I FREAKING LOVE THIS!!!!
And just a side-note: I am only 24 lbs. from my goal, and just 10 more pounds I will be NORMAL weight, and not overweight!!! 5 months ago I was in an Obese Class 2! In 5 months?!?! Seriously??? I am one freaking happy girl!
Posted by Lisa on 05.31.10
I weighed in at 194 this morning, for a loss of 5 lbs. this week! We had the wedding Saturday that I was in. Here is a picture of Abbie (age 11), myself, and Megan (age 7) while I was a the church getting ready in the Brides room.
So many people at the wedding hadn’t seen me since Thanksgiving of last year, so they had no idea how much I had lost. A few people didn’t even recognize me. It was great! So many compliments, my confidence was sky high! Something that I don’t EVER remember having. What a great feeling!!!
Posted by Lisa on 05.25.10
I actually will say more. We have so much on our plate right now, which is the reason for the lack of posts. I have finally put up some new comparison pictures, which I may re-do…they are small, so we’ll see, but they are on my photos page. And as you can see from the photo above, I FINALLY am under 200 lbs.! It feels really surreal. Like that’s not ME. Weird. Very hard to get used to.
I have gone from a VERY tight 22 (probably should have been wearing a 24, but I refused to) to a VERY comfortable 16 (which won’t last much longer – WOOT!!!) My shirts started out at a 22/24 and am now very comfy in a REGULAR XL from ANY store!!!! My bra size has gone from a 44C to a 38C and may need to be a B soon. Why can’t we choose which body part to lose weight from??
In the past few weeks we have been still restoring the 1940 Ford car, re-roofing and re-siding my parents garage for them, getting ready for the wedding that I’m in this Saturday, had friends come in from out of town for a fun weekend, this weekend along with the wedding, my brother and his family are going to be here, and to top it off, I volunteered to make 250 programs for the wedding. We have been SWAMPED.
Good news though is that the pictures ARE finally up, and hopefully I’ll be able to post more often after this weekend. Thanks to everyone who commented and sent e-mails wondering where I was and where the darn pictures were! HA!
Oh! And one more picture! You can’t really see the true difference in the dress because of the pinning on the sides, but here is the bridesmaid dress that I tried on a month ago (pink one) and the one I will actually wear at the wedding (black one). When I put the pink one on a month ago, we barely got it zipped. I went last week for the fitting for my black one (same size as pink one) and I could zip it up and slide it OFF!! So there is a good inch on both sides that are pinned in this picture to make it smaller on me. I pick it up tomorrow in the right size!!!
Posted by Lisa on 05.10.10
Lost 2 more pounds this week. Small amount compared to average, and the only thing I did differently this week was start a new protein drink. I went to GNC and got Amplified Wheybolic Extreme 60 in chocolate and strawberry flavors. I love them! I started out on the first 2 days with just one drink per day. Each scoop is 20 grams of protein! But lately, to help get my fluids in, I have been doing 3 drinks per day. It’s great in the fact that it’s getting me 60 grams of protein daily, but it has also added 280 calories to my day. I’m going to cut back to one drink per day and hopefully next week I will see that 199!!! Just 3 more pounds is all I need! I know I can do it :)
Clint is going to take my new full body shots for me tonight when he gets home, so I will be posting those later on! Be on the lookout!
Posted by Lisa on 05.03.10
Here we go with the holy crap!, Oh my gosh!, are you SERIOUS?!?! stuff again. Can’t even believe the numbers I’m seeing. I lost another 5 lbs. this week for a total loss of 72 lbs. I think I should reference a thesaurus from now on, because I’m seriously out of words. I only need to lose 5 more pounds to finally be at 199!!! Unreal!!! I haven’t been this small in about 18 years or better. Of course my body doesn’t look anything like it did 18 years ago, with having 2 kids and all, but I feel AMAZING! I woke up this morning and saw myself in the mirror before my shower and was just stunned at the changes that are happening to my body. Everything is flattening out and the rolls are gone.
I need to get new pictures taken. It’s been more than 25 lbs. ago since my last pictures. I will get on that!
I have a few people in my life that are really concerned that I’m going to lose too much weight. I have 34 more to go to reach my doctor recommended goal weight. That is 170. It’s a very healthy weight for my height (6 foot tall) and falls well within the range of ‘normal’ BMI. I think alot of it is the drastic changes that have happened in just these 4 short months that people worry the weight will continue to fall off like this. Truth is, it won’t. It will slow down. And I’m very aware of where I want to be. I don’t want to be a twig. I want to have a healthy body. Not a skinny body. I want that sporty athletic build, not the anorexic model build. I have talked to the ones who are a bit concerned, but I feel bad that they are worried for me. They worried enough for me when I was diabetic and unable to control what was going on with my body then. Now I know what I need to do, and when I reach that goal, I will have to up my intake on carbs/healthy fats/calories to keep a maintain. There’s no need to worry <3 This is an amazing blessing in my life!
Posted by Lisa on 05.01.10
So I mentioned that last weekend we had a bridal shower for the bride of the wedding I am in at the end of this month. What I didn’t mention, was that I have been given a new nickname. From the time I can remember, I have had several nicknames from certain family members my entire life. My brother called me ‘E-uh’ from a very young age, because he couldn’t pronounce ‘Lisa’, and that one has stuck. My uncle has always called me ‘stretch’ because I was always so tall. My grandma always called me ‘Lynna’ (which is my absolute favorite, especially now when I hear it less and less after her stroke), my middle name is Lynn. I have had so many. But I think the most endearing is the most recent. ‘Skinny Bitch’. You have to understand my family to understand why this is perfectly ok. My family is hilarious. It’s a very endearing nickname, because they are happy for me, and I love it because anything at all that uses the word ‘skinny’ to describe me, makes my day!
I have slacked on P90X and am determined to get to working out on a regular basis now. I had a few difficulties with the P90X. First, I suck at push-ups. The first DVD?? Like 13 different kinds of push-ups. Stupid. I had also gotten myself a chin-up bar, and found out that only one usable doorway in my house can hold it. All of the other doorways are too thick of a door frame. So I was having to run down the hall to the one door that it worked on, do the chin-up (ok, so I hung there laughing my ass off…couldn’t do 1), then run back for more push-ups. I have the resistance bands that I could use, but I have nothing to wrap them around in the area where I was working out in the living room. Yesterday, however, while we were out running errands, we found a cheap $30.00 DVD player that I can now hook up in the basement to the TV down in the weight room and be able to use my bands and/or equipment successfully! I’m SO excited that it’s all coming together.
I was really disappointed yesterday because I was trying to help Clint move some very heavy things around and was barely able. You don’t understand. I’m the girl that can (could) hike up a 100 lb. bag of feed and carry it around. Throw a 40 lb. bag of pellets (for the pellet stove) up on my shoulder like it was a bag of cotton and carry it into the house with no problems. Well, it seems that with my fast weight loss, I have also lost alot of muscle because my strength is literally gone. Holy crap. It’s like I’m a wimpy girl again. At first, I thought it was just because I didn’t have 70 extra pounds of weight behind me to move things. But I quickly realized that wasn’t it. I have just lost my strength. I’m sure with working out it will come back in no time, but for now, you may want to add ‘Wimpy’ to the nickname list.
Posted by Lisa on 04.26.10
I didn’t update last week out of pure frustration. I had hit another plateau. I really shouldn’t complain I guess..I have lost a ton of weight and really should expect my body to stall a little to catch up to all the changes it’s been through. So last week I showed a big fat ZERO on the scale. It’s ok though, because this week made up for it with a 6 lb. loss!!! I have now lost 67 lbs.!!!
I had a bridal shower to go to on Saturday (I’m in the wedding in May) and saw most of my family that hasn’t seen me since before my surgery. What an awesome feeling! People screamed when they saw me, two people said ‘Who the hell are you???’ when they saw me! My aunt even told me I look younger (in my 20′S to be exact!!! She was my favorite family member of the night…). It’s still a difficult task to take compliments from people. I know there is a dramatic difference in how I look, but I still just feel like ‘me’ and in some small odd way, don’t see the difference as much as someone who never sees me would. Something I need to work on. The psychiatrist feared this would happen for me, so I really need to work on it an not let it get me.
I just realized this morning that I only have 39 more lbs. until I hit my goal!!! How crazy is that?!?!?!
Posted by Lisa on 04.11.10
13 weeks post-op. Seems like just yesterday, yet seems like it’s all a dream. Weigh-in today – 2 lbs. lost!
There are so many changes happening, but just over this weekend there were a couple that really stood out to me. My wedding rings. They just spin. I am forever fidgeting with them because they spin around freely. All. The. Time.
Yesterday morning Clint woke me up early and wanted to take me and the girls to breakfast at a local diner here. We got up, got ready and headed into town for a great Sunday family breakfast. We sat down at our table (booth) and I just sat there staring down. There was at LEAST 6 inches between my stomach and the table. This is a HUGE deal, because the last time I was there was before my surgery and I remember feeling so embarrassed that my stomach basically touched the table. I don’t know how many times I moved my hand from my stomach to the edge of the table, quietly showing Clint the space in between! Talk about starting your day off right!!!
This weekend (including Friday) we tore our house up! We are waiting for our new hardwood floors to be delivered, so to be ready for it, we tore out the carpeting in the dining room, family room and living room, linoleum in the kitchen, and removed all the trim in all of those rooms. Then we put down 4′ X 8′ sheets of Lauan board in the dining room, family room and living room, and tiled and grouted the entrance to the front door and the front closet. Not to mention moving furniture from room to room around whatever room we were doing at that time. We’re exhausted.
Needless to say, P90X didn’t get started like I had planned, but what a workout all of that was!!! So this morning, my P90X workouts began!!! I am trying to figure some way to keep track of them here, even for my own sake to see where I started and where I end up in 90 days.
