Tess | Monday, February 03, 2003 - 07:48 pm     Yay! Stars. |
Jewels | Monday, February 03, 2003 - 08:05 pm     Great job everyone! What fun it is to be losers! I have lost two pounds, it is a start. I put on my pre-pregnancy jeans and was able to button and zip them...I couldn't breath, but I got them on!  |
Tess | Monday, February 03, 2003 - 08:22 pm     That's terrific, Jewels! |
Enbwife | Thursday, February 06, 2003 - 07:29 am     Jewels - me too! I wore a pear of jeans this week that I used to wear before the pregnant belly popped out. It felt great to finally be able to wear them out and not feel like I was dying! Have to weigh in this afternoon - always nervous about that but I'm really on the right track now. |
Nancy | Thursday, February 06, 2003 - 07:43 am     good luck lisa you must be close to needing a star for 5 lbs i bet |
Enbwife | Sunday, February 09, 2003 - 08:18 am     Almost - another 1.5 gone so I'm at 4.5 now. I feel great and am glad it's coming off gradually. When you're nursing you're not supposed to lose much more than 1 1b a week in order to keep the milk supply going. As long as I lose I'm happy. |
Nancy | Sunday, February 09, 2003 - 09:17 am     i hear ya lisa-- i lost .8 this week for a total of 58.4--3.6 to goal |
Tess | Wednesday, February 12, 2003 - 10:28 am     forgot to post monday. 2 more pounds lost for total 13 pounds so far. |
Enbwife | Thursday, February 13, 2003 - 07:35 am     I started working out on my treadmill this week and weigh in tonight. I had a few days where I went over my points this week so should be interesting... |
Denecee | Thursday, February 13, 2003 - 09:00 am     Great job Tess! |
Nancy | Thursday, February 13, 2003 - 09:46 am     good job tess...and yeah for Lisa.. I haven't been to the gym this week(i am having back muscle spasms) so i'm afraid to use the treadmill or bike--or weight train..ughh |
Tess | Thursday, February 13, 2003 - 10:40 am     Thanks Denecee and Nancy. ack! about the back spasms, Nancy. I hope they are gone very very soon. |
Egbok | Thursday, February 13, 2003 - 07:26 pm     Nancy, 4.2 to go....YOU CAN DO IT!! I have followed this thread off and on and I'm so amazed and impressed at how your got to this point. Congratulations!! I hope your muscle spasms are soon gone! Tess, Lisa, Jewels, Denecee and others...keep up the good food choices and drink that water!! I'll be keeping my eye on you too!! |
Enbwife | Friday, February 14, 2003 - 09:50 am     Another 1.5 gone - 6 1bs lost in 4 weeks (woo hoo)!!! I feel great and am even more motivated to get this weight off me. Worked out on the treadmill again this morning and feel good. It's -20 degrees celcius here (freezing!!!!) so I can't go out for walks with Nate, but I would if I could. Thanks for the words of encouragement everyone. |
Nancy | Friday, February 14, 2003 - 11:32 am     Yeah Lisa--here's your Star for your first 5 lb loss  |
Nancy | Saturday, February 15, 2003 - 09:23 am     I lost 1 more lb--so i've lost 59.4 with 2.6 to goal... I should make this before my one year anniversay on w.w. which is 3/26/03-- my spasms are better so i hope to get back to the exerciseing next week-- |
Tess | Saturday, February 15, 2003 - 09:59 am     Yay, Nancy! |
Enbwife | Saturday, February 15, 2003 - 10:00 am     Wow! That's a lot of weight to lose in 1 year! Excellent job Nancy |
Egbok | Saturday, February 15, 2003 - 11:03 am     Nancy, what a super-duper job you're doing!! |
Bob2112 | Saturday, February 15, 2003 - 12:15 pm     WTG, Nancy, Lisa, Jewels and Tess!!! |
Spygirl | Saturday, February 15, 2003 - 12:45 pm     Quick update on my weight loss. I'm almost 5 months out from my surgery and I have lost 75 pounds. I have about 19-24 pounds to go until I reach my goal. After that it will be a long process of toning and reshaping this body because my body fat percentage is still very, very high (in the upper range of 30% -- ACK!!!). My weight loss has significantly slowed in the last 3 weeks, only losing about a pound a week. That is absolutely fine with me and I'm incredibly satisfied. I wear size 10 pants and Large, almost Medium sized shirts. That is down from 18s and 20s, XL & XXL shirts. The one complaint I have is the continued hair loss, despite numerous attempts to slow it down. It makes me a lot sad because my hair was one of the physical traits pre-surgery that I really liked about myself. This morning when I got out of the shower, I noticed a significant difference in the thickness. It didn't even feel like my own hair. Another month at this rate and I am fairly certain I will have to cut my long hair completely off. Every decision has its side effects and consequences, and this is certainly one consequence of having this surgery. I still have no regrets about my decision, but I am just going to have to mourn the hair loss for a while. Good luck to everyone losing weight and know that small changes make way for big changes  |
Jewels | Saturday, February 15, 2003 - 12:46 pm     Thanks for the encouragement. I really need it. I am having a hard time finding the time to exercise. It seems like all I do is feed my daughter or play with my son. No time for anything else. I am also having a hard time figuring out how much food to eat to keep up my milk supply. I think I am trying to lose too much weight too fast instead of slow and steady and it is frustrating me. I'm not going to let it get me down though. Just need to find the right balance. |
Jewels | Saturday, February 15, 2003 - 12:52 pm     We were posting at the same time Spy... Are there more supplement vitamins that you can take to help with your hair? I have heard of people taking pre-natal vitamins for hair growth, don't know if it actually works though. I do know that both times I was pregnant, my hair completely changed and was thick and wonderful. I don't know if that was the vitamins of the hormones though! Now it is back to stringy and straight. (Sorry, I went completely off topic!) Congrats on all the achievements you have made, Spy. It is awesome. Congrats to everyone else too, you are all doing great.  |
Spygirl | Saturday, February 15, 2003 - 01:00 pm     I've added Biotin and Vitamin K (or was that when I added Vitamin A? I can't keep track anymore), increased my protein intake, added an expensive shampoo routine, and just this last week I added a herbal supplement. It is called "Ultra Hair Plus with MSM" by Nature's Plus. I picked it up at a local health food store and it came highly recommended. I'm up to try anything at this point. Good luck to you, Jewels, and don't give up.  |
Nancy | Saturday, February 15, 2003 - 02:48 pm     spy you must looks sooo wonderful--and feel wonderful too--i can fit into some size 10's pants but depending on the cut or style some 12's--my tops are definitely mediums and smalls--lost a lot of inches in my chest! it sounds like the wls was the right choice for you despire the hairloss problems spy and that is wonderful! now if i could catch a man(hey i can run faster now LOL) :-) (just teasing that' not the reason i undertook this journey |