My Dog looks like how I feel

My dog looks just like how I feel after this REALLY LONG week... 1 hour till I am off work!

Carrots for breakfast... No no

Normally for breakfast I have something like Greek Yogurt, soup, cheese, milk, cottage cheese etc.. This morning I opened the fridge and julliene sliced carrots jumped out as me. I love carrots! So I pack about 20 small slices of those and a cheese stick. I sit down to eat at my desk and after the second carrot slice I could tell it was going to take a long time to go down.. it's not painful and it's going to come back up.... I can get sips of water through so it should be going down soon :( I wont be eating that cheesestick for a few hours now though!

TGIF! I leave for the casino tomorrow with my inlaws to stay the weekend there and see Air Supply... I know I am stuck in the 80's. It's fun though.

Feeling good!

Ok so the last few days I have been getting my water in I think.. I feel like I am going to float away! I have purchased a larger water bottle for my desk 34 oz and have been making sure that I have 1 before lunch and 1 after lunch but before I leave work... that should keep me from dropping below my required water amount.

I also went to bed last night at 815! That was awesome and I slept sooooooo Good!


Btw I am in love with the Smokehouse almonds... The Jalapeno ones are super good too. I gotta watch the grazing with them.

Need more sleep

According to studies the body needs adequate amounts of sleep to function properly.. That includes to be able to efficiently burn fat. That's just another excuse I can use to sleep more :D

I have been going to bed around 9 and getting up between 445 and 5am... I am tired. I don't realize when I say I am going to bed at 9 that I am asleep that minute. I brush my teeth and get ready for bed... By the time I was laying down to close my eyes last night it was 927 :(

Tonight I am going to try and catch up on some sleep and go to bed around 8-830 :)

Blah blah blah!! I stopped losing!

I am just here to whine and bitch today I think. So I haven't lost anything in almost 2 weeks so I am getting grouchy. I don't 'diet' so I guess I can't expect to have a constant loss and I am sure it has to do with the liquid calories that I have had recently.. Those 2 apple martinis and 2 bloody marys Friday probably didn't help.


Well back on track now.. I hope! I stockpiled a bunch of greek yogurt to help me get back in the swing of things.

Sashimi AHI!

So well umm ya... SUPER GOOD! Like I knew it would be. I went to a fish house last night. I had the Sashimi Ahi it was very very good. I mean why the hell would anyone ever wanna good a fish? I dunno... Oh wait maybe because of the deadly parasites that they might possibly contain! Man I have those DUH should've had a V8 moments once in a while.

But no seriously... if I didn't have to and wanted to risk dying everytime I ate fish I would eat it raw.

So my dinner came with Rice, coleslaw, bread and cottage cheese.

I was only able to eat 1 slice of the sashimi and a few bites of coleslaw and cottage cheese.

I brought a slice of sashimi and cottage cheese in for breakfast. I can tell I am gonna get my moneys worth from this meal and then some.

Fish house

Well my mom is coming to see me for a couple hours today... We don't spend alot of time together. It's because of her loser husband who I umm hate. I don't need to say more.


Were gonna take her out to a fish house here in town. She is from the south so she loves anything that lived in the sea that you fry! So fish and chips it is. Luckily they are an upper scale fish house and not a skippers... so I am dying to try their sashimi :D

Crappy, Crabby, Cruddy!

I am super dooper crabby the last 2 days... Lots of stress, a new job, lots of learning, having an overly dramatic teenager (girl) , and my son going on his first date.


Jesus I need a break from reality! Well not really.. I just need a bit o time to relax.

I have an overnight trip planned with no kids in about 10 days so that will give me a bit of a rest... Plus a chance to go gamble at the casino :D

Happy St. Patty's

Well today I am back to running. I am not gonna let this crappy Oregon weather keep me in the house. Today when I get off work I am gonna hit the ground running. My border collie isn't gonna know what hit him.... He is gonna be a happy dog though I am sure.

10 Months and 3 weeks after being banded

I love love love my lapband! This is me 90lbs down at 10 months 3 weeks after being banded. I am still wanting to lose atleast another 20 and possibly another 40.. But 90lbs WOW!

A Big thanks to all the folks on LBT and especially my April Avengers on there.. Were doing awesome :)

Oh the weather outside is frightful :(

Well somehow mother nature has managed to find a way to go from 40's and sunny to snow... Rain back to sun. How could this happen all in 5 minutes? It's been like that for 3 days....... SOMEONE make it clear up I am going insane. I have never seen it snow in Oregon in March.. Atleast where I live.

Sucks.

Catching up!

Alright.... so I am here to do a catch up post.

I did start my job about a week ago so 1 week under my belt... YAY me. I like the job it's not that bad. Alot of learning when it comes to new software but I am sure I can catch on fairly quickly... take notes, take notes, take notes.... I do alot of that. It's already saved my ass a time or 2.

So I got back from 2 vacations back to back and I managed to lose 7 pounds between going to Kauai and going to California. I am at 182 right now. Thats about 22 pounds from my initial goal. 160 is where I originally wanted to be and thats what I told the surgeon.... that's still overweight by about 10 pounds. The surgeon being skeptical and thinking that no one loses more than 50-60% of their excess weight thought I would be about 180.. I am about there and dont feel like I am done. I can claim success to the number he threw out there in 2 pounds but I plan to keep goin.

My new jobs pretty tempting cause they have free candy all the time in the break rooms along with free espressos and cappucino... I will be good though. I have 1 cup a coffee per day and then stick with the crystal lites and flavored waters the rest of the day.

I have some serious restriction so I don't see much changing soon. I hope that it continues to go this great!

Trip to Cali

I found this mask at a TJ Maxx store somewhere in California. Makes me sexay eh?

This is the happiest couple on earth. After 9 years we decided to finally tie the knot! We have 2 beautiful children too. Brittany and Brandon :)



This is me posing in the International Market Place at Wakiki Beach.



I love trees.. What can I say. Guess that's why I live in Oregon!



The Lava Lounge was the bar we went to in Wakiki. We met the nicest group of Japanese kids from Sapporo... They couldn't speak a lick of english but we had so much fun it didn't matter.



This picture amazes me. I am still 180's in the picture but there is a defined waist and you can see space between myself and my husband. This was taken at the Beach House in Kauai. The food there was absolutely amazing and we had whales jumping out of the water in the background of the sunset. Breath taking... Once in a lifetime.



This is my husband and I also eating at the Beach House. I loved the Sashimi here it was to die for.

Just some fun pics

We had dinner at Dukes Canoe Club in Lihue, Hawaii.. Each time I had a drink I had to put the umbrella in my hair.. I ended up with quite a few lol. While in Hawaii we rented a convertible and did alot of sight seeing.

The picture of me in the mirror is while I was out shopping for a new swim suit to go surfing with.

Made it

Ok so here is the whole scoop.

I left on 2/5 for the hotel in portland at 5pm. We left for the airport at 6am on 2/6. Upon arriving im lied to and told that the plane was delayed because pilots had to sleep. So now the plane would leave at 2pm.

We go back to the hotel... all 11 of us. We return at 2pm to find out that they lied! The plane flew in on 1 engine and that it was all over the news and wasn't repaired. Now we would have to wait till 1130 pm for the next flight... a red eye. There was no guarantee when we arrived what our connecting flight from Oahu would be either.. we were just told we would arrive in Oahu at 330 am.

We finally get to Oahu and have to wait till the 530am flight... another delay. We land in Kauai and make it to our rental house well after 7am. I had an appt for the license agent at 930 am, the cake was delivered and the wedding was at 430.. Omg what a day that was.

It's all over now its all about the honey moon. Jeez it was a mess but very happy now.

Delay of flight... will that create a delay of wedding?

I am pretty ticked off atm. I wake up at 450 am at my hotel. I catch the shuttle to the airport.. All 11 of us.. we managed to get 11 of us on the same flight.

This hawaiin airlines man comes up to us and said I have horrible news. So we all freeze. He smiles and says oh it's not that bad. Phew I breathe a sigh of relief cause it's not gonna be bad. He proceeds to tell us that our flight is now delayed till 2pm. NOT THAT BAD!?! 6 freaking hour delay oh it's not bad at all. My ass.

I have my panties in a bunch right now. Not only that the flight now lands at 555pm instead of Noon but now I have to find another flight from honolulu to Kauai.

Thanks for ruining my day Hawaiian airlines... flight 25.

Heres what's keeping me company.. cheers

Hawaii!

This is my last post till atleast the 15th! I will be leaving for Hawaii and I can't freaking wait. I am Glowing with a tan and weighing 189! I am so happy haha. We have a total of 14 friends and family going with us. We rented this super awesome house from VRBO.com that will fit all of us... so much cheaper than 7 hotels a night.

I will be sure to post lots of pictures when I return. I can't wait to see the pictures that everyone else takes. I get to see myself from all other angles. I don't know why I find that interesting.... before I would of hit from the camera..... Now I wanna be in all the pictures!

Gonna get movin!

Today I wake up and I can't even grasp the reality that I dont have somewhere I have to be... My eyes pop right open at 445. I layed there for another couple hours dozing on and off. I am up now though. I just had some salmon and rice with Yumm sauce it was super good. I couldn't even finish the 1/4cup of rice more like an 1/8 cup of rice and about 1 oz salmon.

My plan today is to clean the entire upstairs of my house in preparation for my trip. I am gonna where my pedometer and see how many miles I can rack up running around cleaning today!

Where is the weight going?

I am super excited but seriously puzzled... Where is all the weight going? In January I lost almost 10 pounds! I didn't exercise at all so whats going on? I wish I knew what I did cause I would keep it up.

I will have to take another full body picture and do a before/during soon.