NOTSOFATSOs Team 3 New yrs challenge

[2big4mysize]

woo hoo for you FIna morphing that body of yours losing fat mass while adding lean muscle mass.

Fr1endly2 when is the surgery schelued?

Ragtimegal is still looking for the journals section so she is on site if anybody wants to PM her about checking in.

How is our vit pill popper doing Fr1endly2 any more emails from her?

[fr1endly2]

Well right now my date is May 25th, however last week all my family informs me they cant be available to help with my kids that week so im trying to move it out 1 week...not happy about this but I have not alternative. Surgeons office didnt confirm back with me if this is doable. I am only 1 lb away from required pre op weight loss now but i plan to keep loosing till surgery, its better for my safety, so they say.

Glad to here everyone is doing fine!
LISA

[fr1endly2]

WELL today i went back to my surgeon! HE was so happy at how much weight I lost in the last two weeks! I am down 23 lbs (fully dressed in the late day) so my surgery date is official now for JUNE 1.

I have a few weeks to go and i have to continue to loose and eat good.
ITS safer for my surgery!
THANKS for the support in advance
lisa

[fr1endly2]

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY TO ALL THE MOMS, GRANDMAS and MOMS to be on my team!!!

[2big4mysize]

okay I will play devils advocate

Lisa if you are losing so well doing Atkins because you have this stong need to get to that pre surgery weight goal could you have succeeded with just diet and exercise changes alone if your motivation to lose was stronger? I very much understand about emotional eating and being a carboholic but still being those things you are doing fantastic losing and sticking with your plan so you can have this surgery.

[fr1endly2]

Well its a good question......


TRuthfully I know how to loose weight, in my life i have lost 100's of pounds but I gain it back again and again. What i am doing now is sort of atkins/sort of not. I am eating to meals of a healthy PROTEIN shake from GNC and 1 meal of protein and veggie at dinner. THIS isnt easy but i had to loose so ia m for the last time of my life.
I also have trouble with the never getting full thing. And i dont have that "satsified" point that i need to be a sucessful looser. Many of the other times i lost big amounts of weight 50 - 100 lbs i wasnt geting much under 200 lbs. THIS time my goal is to get under that marker and stay there. ITS drastic...I have my days i worry is this the right choice but i also need better health. MY knees ached horribly this winter from carrying my weight and I lack self confidence and self esteem. I need this to fix some problems in my life. I want my kids to have a healthy skinny mom to be proud of not ashamed cause im 300 lbs...so hard but i think and so does my surgeon that this is for me being i have battled weight issues since a child never keeping it off forever. My surgeon is not the type to do this for MONEY, he turns away many people that this surgery isnt right for or other varrying reasons. I know the first surgeon i contacted was not like this. Some people had thin child hoods and gain later in life.... for me this battle has been with me 39 years...i think my first 5 years i was thin...started to gain when i went to school......SO yes for me i think this is what i need. My kids have a dad battling a horrible sickness and they need me around for a long time to come. I lost my mom young they sure arent.

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[fina]

lisa,
Just know that we are all here for you and we hope that you have a successful surgery. It is all about health. I am doing this for my health and to be around my kids also. I completely understand that.

I am sorry that I haven't checked in lately very busy with the department of health state survey finally over and adjusting to a new person in management I have been running around in circles. We did excellent by the way!! :icondance and I was a naughty person and fell off the wagon on mothers day... Boy am I ever paying for that mistake. Bloating, fatigue, and one **** of a migrane that still has not gone away. But I hopped right back on and I am drinking my water. I will get on the scale tommorrow and I will not be dissapointed by the number. If it is higher than what I was at, I at least know that It was my decision and I am the only one who can change my life and I cannot blame anyone for it.

So I guess tommorrow will be the judge of how the past week was to me.

Hugs and luv

[2big4mysize]

eyuck liquid meal in a can diet. :yikes That is a drastic fast weight loss program and not Atkins so you are not doing that good with your atkins right now either. :sadblinky I just want you to be sure you needed this cause if you can't get a handle on your eating you can eat around this bypass and gain weight on it too. Being there for your kids is a strong motivation as anyone who has come between a mom amd her kids knows!

Fina sorry about your carb blow out too. that nasty feeling is a strong deterent to many folk ever having a repeat blow blow out.

How is therest of team 3 doing?

[fr1endly2]

yes my kids are a motivator...I had to loose the last half of my pre op weight fast so this is what i am doing. I am eating more now but to hit the goal for the surgery thats what i did to drop 13 lbs fast and I did.
Now i eat ...some.
My kids need a healthy mom, there dad had some touch medical issues going on so they need me. And i currently and wtaching my dad suffer badly right now from his heart desease that began at my age. He had an angiogram in FEB w/ 4 stents put in and had another one yesterday 4 more stents put in. (he had quadruple bypass surgery 14 years ago) and will be evaluated by a surgeon as he has blockages they couldnt do yesterday. PROBLEM is he is not a candate for surgery, he is in remission from a horrible bone cancer that in combination with his diabetes, shut down his kidneys. WATCHING what he is going thru tells me i need to act and act drastic now for a healthier senior life. I need the smaller stomach
to eat less for what ever diet i am doing, so that for once ITS NOT JUST A DIET, its a permenent way of life for myself to overall eat less.

Thanks for support I dont mind them at all and I think you know that.

[Katlam]

Hey ladies, know this isn't my topic, but wanted to let you know that Lisa's dad passed away last night. She certainly will need all your support. I'll try to put a general post on the regular board as well.

Kathy

[2big4mysize]

Thanks Cathy I just saw your post on the board and was running here to post of our gang.

Friendly2 prays going up for you and the rest of your family during this time of added stress for you. I hope you can find a way not to turn to food for a comforter during this time. :hug Please let us know if you need anything.

[fr1endly2]

thanks for the concern.......

I actually am down 2 lbs.....

THE hard day on the eating was the 24 hours that i knew he took the turn for the worse and i was just waiting the phone to ring....but i did okay.

SINCE his passing I havent wanted to eat...but instead now i have my blood pressure dangerously up.....(other reasons too causeing) so
now im on some happy pills (anti depressants) and a med to lower my
blood pressure. NOT a dull moment in my life!!!!

THANKS FOR THE concern........WHAT has happened to our team??????
IS everyone okay???everyone well...hope its all that atkins energy
keepign you off your computers!!!!!!

[2big4mysize]

glad you are doing better. Blood pressure rising this close to your surgey isn't a good thing. I hate the knowing too and would rather it be a bolt of lightening then a lingering death.

Hey team 3 time for a round up where are y'all?

Ragtime just posted her pick smaller then snow white so we know she is still doing well but what about the rest of y'all?

[2big4mysize]

just wanted to let you guys know I will be scare for a while. My dad just died

[fr1endly2]

((HUG))) to big not you too!!!!!!!
Sorry to hear............ im hear email
or anything u know im dealing with the same thing.

LOVE
LISA