7-3-10 151 lbs lost!!!

Well.... my Dear Family and Friends... my Team! I am still on my weight loss journey here! I can honestly say, it is going great! Yes, it is a full-time job... it has to be a constant way of life... forever front and center in my mind! I keep a food journal every single day (this is day #209 since surgery, and I am on my 4th book). I read labels, and keep track and think about every single thing that I eat!
I am feeling very good! I know so much of it is not only the fact that I've lost 151 lbs now (102 in the 6.5 months since surgery)... but because I am eating real foods! No junk is going into my body at all, and I know that helps tremendously!
I was to the doctor again on Thursday for my 6 month labs. Everything came back wonderfully!!! My blood sugar numbers, cholestrol, trigliceroids, the whole thing... everything is NORMAL!!! It is just amazing! Can hardly believe that just 7 month ago, I was in a completely different situation!!! I was taking 2 kinds of insulin, 4 times a day, my numbers on every single issue were completely out of whack!!! A few weeks before surgery, I was seeing the doctor and nutritionist, and I was actually crying because I was afraid I would die before I could have the surgery!!! I don't know if I have written that here before or not, but I know I haven't told that to very many people!!! I was SO unhealthy, and SO afraid that I wouldn't make it to surgery, to get the help that I needed! Yes, my kids and some family was afraid I would die on the table, die due to the surgery, but I knew I would die if I didn't have it!!! The surgery hasn't completely cured me... but it has given me the tools I surely needed to help myself!!! I know that the success or failure of this is up to me, and there is NO WAY, that I am going to let some kind of junk food hinder my health now!!! NOTHING tastes as good as I now feel!!!!
I am having fun with some new clothes as well. Kind of interesting, finding the kind of styles that I like. For SO many years... I haven't had any style... I have just had to wear clothes that fit, usually the basic tent type dresses! I was just lucky to find something that fit, and even luckier if I could find it in purple! :-) But now, I have been given a few things, and some are maybe a little "form-fitting" or maybe have a "waist". Seems pretty odd to me! I don't want to dress in kids stuff, or try to wear teen type clothes, but I can have fun things!! So this part of the journey has been fun and freightening at the same time!
I am enjoying part of the "giving back" now also! The clinic has called me a few times now, and I have gone to visit a couple of patients that are having trouble with their journey. Just trying to help them... motivate them... encourage them, etc! Just like all of you here have helped me in so many different ways! My team at the clinic is now encouraging me to go on-line to get my dietary technical degree? Not sure yet what that all will entail, but it is called DTR and I can do on-line schooling for that, then I can teach classes, etc. I am very excited to see where that will lead me! Right now I am attending nutrition classes every Wednesday, and then the support groups are Thursday evenings, 2 times a month. I am able to help out with the Nutrition classes, and I really enjoy that!
Well... my Dear Team.... thank you for your continued support here! I truly appreciate all of your enthusiasm along the way in my journey. Love ya all!!!
Eydie :-)