My BFF went under the knife today to have a lap band done. Im excited for her and i wanted to come home after visiting with her and post my weight loss journey so far here.... I guess the easies way to do it is to post a link to my journal. Please feel free to read it and comment on it. Some is kinda embarasing but it might help someone make the decision for themself one day...
http://www.obesityhelp.com/member/romamith
I look forward to any comments...God Bless everyone!
Monday, July 28, 2008
Monday, July 14, 2008
Not so great!
Breakfast:egg 70 cals 6 protien 0 carbs/turkey bacon70 calories 4 protien o carbs
Mid-Morning:Home made chicken jerky 40 calories 8 protien 0 carbs
Lunch:shrimp 80 calories 18 protien 0 carbs/cottage cheese 100 calories 13 protien 5 carbs
Afternoon:colby jack cheese 100 calories 7 protien 0 carbs
Late-Afternoon:tuna 100 calories 11 protien o carbs/egg 70 calories 6 protien 0 carbs
Dinner:3 oz hamburger 165 calories colby jack cheese 100 cals 7 protie 0 carbs/mozzerella
45 cals 8 prot 0 carbs
Calories:950
Carbs:7
Protein:56
Water Intake:64
Exercise:1/2 walk
Comments: I think i can do better on my calorie intake. I have learned that if i dont eat the yolk of the egg then the egg only is 2 calories compared to 70....So im learning as i go....
Sunday, July 13, 2008
Tracker
I was cruising some blogs today and came across this one with a nifty idea to keep track of your daily intake. So i kinda borrowed the idea and since im starting to track everything tomorrow i thought it would be helpful.so here is the layout.
Breakfast:
Mid-Morning:
Lunch:
Afternoon:
Late-Afternoon:
Dinner:
Nutrition Information
Calories:
Carbs:
Protein:
Water Intake:
Exercise:
Comments:
My plan for the next week is that i will eat between 500 and 800 calories per day. The protien count should be quite high since im doing all protien for this past week and the next week as well. After that then I will add on healthy carbs. I already drink tons of liquids and i will be walking mon thru thusday for about 30 mins. Its a great start to get me back on track. So far im down 4 pounds with 90 more to go to reach my goal of 175.
Breakfast:
Mid-Morning:
Lunch:
Afternoon:
Late-Afternoon:
Dinner:
Nutrition Information
Calories:
Carbs:
Protein:
Water Intake:
Exercise:
Comments:
My plan for the next week is that i will eat between 500 and 800 calories per day. The protien count should be quite high since im doing all protien for this past week and the next week as well. After that then I will add on healthy carbs. I already drink tons of liquids and i will be walking mon thru thusday for about 30 mins. Its a great start to get me back on track. So far im down 4 pounds with 90 more to go to reach my goal of 175.
Saturday, July 12, 2008
Christmas 2006
I forgot to add my pic to my last post. Dont i look hot compared to 2001? Hubbys not to bad either LOL
My second birthday.
On Aug. 4th 2004 I went under the knife to have my life saving Gastric Bypass. It was scarey but it really did save my life. I have lost enough weight that i can now enjoy everyday. No major complications from the surgery, thank you God! I went for a year on one heck of a plateua of loosing no weight. I guess what happened is i got comfy with where i was at and stopped trying. I had no weight gain and i think thats why i never really thought about getting back on tract. Well I have recently realized i have had almost a 30 pound gain so that was enough to kick me back into gear and get back on the right way of eating for me. I just finished week 1 of a 2 weeks protien only diet. Im cutting all carbs because there poison to me. I will after 2 weeks gradually put the carbs back into my diet but this time it will be more like healthy veggies and some fruits. Im going to really try to cut out all bread and pastas because i love them too much and they just pack on the pounds. Oh and im walking mon thru thursday. Not to much to start because its way to hot and its miserable. Im currently looking for a tread mill i can get rather inexpensivly. But till then i will walk in the heat. Its all good. My hubby is diving into the weight loss journey as well. He has not had the surgery because he doesnt need to loose over 100 pounds. But he is eating smaller portions and cutting back on bread. He still eats a sandwich for lunch but he has cut back alot... And he walks with me... He is amazing.
Trying new things.
Well this is new to me. I hope I do it right. If there is any suggestions on how or what i should do then please let me know. I want to start by telling the story of how my current husband and I met. Its funny because we met twice then the 3rd time we actually got married.
So here it goes......Enjoy!
The first time we met.....
My story oddly enough begins with me in a chat room. Who would have figured? LOL. I lonly lived in the chat room day and night for as long as possible. I had split from my husband and was waiting for the divorce to come thru. I had alot of friends online and a family in the chat room. Everyone cared for everyone and if you had a problem there was always someone there to lean on.
One day I was in the chat room and a new screen name came on and it was one i definitly wanted to check out. The reasom it was so intreging to me was because it was my real first name. So i looked up the profile and found out that we were the same age and she lived California and that made us neighbors. I instant messaged her and we started to chat and we became good friends. She told me about this man she was seeing/chatting with on the internet with hopes of more in the future. His name is Grant and he lives in Australia. She told me alot about him and i told her he sounds like a wonderful man and i truely wanted the best for both of them. At one point she even tried to set me up with her brother which bombed big time. Well we became good friends over the next few months, chatting everyday and we even spoke on the phone a few times.
One day i was online killing some time when i got an instant message from Grant. I was suprised to see this from him because i knew he was seeing my friend. He said "hi how are you?" and i replied "good thanks." Then he asked if i knew who this was and i said yes we have a mutual friend. He told me that he never has ever initiated the first instant message before but felt he wanted to get to know me. He explained that our friend would send out emails to all the friends on her contact list and he saw my screen name on the list a few times and thought it was one of the cutes he had ever seen and looked up my profile. At the time my screen name was xshellybeanx, and my profile was all jelly bean related. Example... im 32 jellybeans old, i have 2 jellybeans at home and im looking for my one true jellybean LOL. He told me he made a note to himself that he must talk to me after reading my profile...
After the first chat i wasnt sure what to do because i knew that Grant and i would only be friends because i knew he was spoken for by my friend and i would never ever ever step on anyones toes like that. But he was someone i wanted to keep as a friend. So I decided to copy and paste the chat and send it to my friend so she wouldnt think anything bad was going on between us. Well this move on my part backfired big time. She got so jelouse and gave Grant so much grief for it. He basically told her that he was going to keep chatting with me and she needs to get over it. (not those words exactly because Grant would never talk to any woman like that). Needless to say me and my friend went our seperate ways. I did keep speaking to Grant tho. And he would keep me informed if she was doing ok or not because i really did care about her.
Grant kept seeing her for awhile. Love those LDR's (long distance relationships). But she kept playing head games with him and Grants not into all that. We kept talking and our friendship grew strong. But i must say he did have my heart from the start but i knew it couldnt happen because he was already spoken for plus the long distance thing was a big issue for me. So i held my place and was satisfied with having him as my friend. We would chat on the phone quite often and he would listen to my issues and i would do the same for him. Infact i think he saw me thru 3 different boyfriends LOL. Im sure glad those guys didnt last LOL. He was always there to back me up and give me his opinions. We had a great friendship and our mutual friend kept pushing him away. So one day he suprises me and says he is planning a trip to the states and would like to know if I would like to meet him in person. I ofcourse said no, LOL... yeah right.. ofcourse i said yes. So the trip was in the works and he at this time had decided to not see her anymore with hopes of any kind in the future for them, but still stayed friends. I remember telling him once that I would back off and not talk to him anymore if thats what needed to be done. Because i dont want to keep anyone from being together. But he always assured me that i did the right thing and not to worry.
Infact before Grant made the decision not to see her anymore i was going thru my own delema. Because i had such strong feelings for him not only as a friend but i wanted more. It was eating me up inside. I had to tell someone and who better but my best friend. It took me awhile to tell him tho because i didnt want to ruin the friendship that we had arleady started. So finally one day i was talking to Grant on the phone and I just told him. I told him that i was having major feelings for him and i knew it was wrong because he wasnt mine to feel this way over. He told me he was so flattered about the feelings i have and that the friendship will not be hurt at all for my confessing my feelings to him. I was so happy because i didnt have to keep my feeling bottled up anymore. And he understood . In fact he thought it was awsome That i could be so honest with my feelings.... what a man! No wonder i was falling in love with him.
Well the day gets closer to when he was to arrive and can you believe i lost my job. How great is that. But Grant was right there to back me and support me and to keep telling me that the right job is out there ect. Me losing my job was a good thing anyways, because this ment i could spend every minute with him when he came to visit instead of only after work.
I recall the day he was to leave Australia to start he journey thru the states is the first time i ever told him i love you. We were talking on the phone and about to hang up and i just said it. I love you. I couldnt think of him going on a plane and God forbid something bad happened and i never said it to him. I had such butterflies in my tummy. And the funny thing is that to this day i dont remember his responce. Ill have to ask him one day what his responce to my first I love you was LOL.
The day come and my roomate and I got to pick Grant up from the airport. He will be staying with us for three days and im so excited to finally have him come. My poor roomate had to deal with me. I feel for her i really do because i think i would have smacked me if i were her LOL. Imagine a teenager all giddy. that was me for days before.
We were standing by the doors to unboard the plane when i saw Grant for the first time. I was so excited to finally meet him for real. He sure was cuter in person LOL. I knew that this was gonna be a great 3 days even tho he was here just as "friends". I got my first hug when he got off the airplane. We walked to the baggage area and thats where i gave him a gift. my first gift to him was a little leather keychain with a cactus stamped onto it. It was actually a symbolic gift. Grant and I have another mutual friend named Curtis D Cactus and this was to represent him. Actually Gurtis is a fictonal charecter that Grant came up with one day while i was chatting with him. He would say we dont have watch dogs in Phoenix, we have watch cactus. So this is where Curtis D Cactus came into being. Its more of an inside thing between us, I guess its one of those, "you had to be there" things.
It was so great to finally have Grant here, talking to him face to face was so much better. The plan was that he would take me out to dinner the first night to show his thanks for the hospitality of letting him stay with us. So we go to Black Angus for dinner and we had an awsome time. Sitting across from him and talking to him was amazing. There was never any of that embarrasing pauses in the conversations and we never seem to run out of things to say. That was our very first date. I love to listen to him talk, his accent makes me melt... The best part is that he is a Christian and very firm in his faith, i admire that. And he knows how to treat a woman the way she should be treated. Well after eating and chatting for a few hours we decided to get some wine and head back home.
We talked more at home and got to know each other alot better. Its funny because to Grant and me, the presidential debate will be one thing we will never forget. Its during the debate that we shared our first kiss.
We had a wonderful time. We went to see a movie and went to the state fair while he was here. We had a wonderful time. And my kids love him to. Which was the most important thing to me. But unfortunatly he had to leave. I was very pleased that the visit went this way because he may have come as a friend but he left as my boyfriend.
His next destination, believe it or not was to our mutual friends home in California. I didnt mind tho, because i knew the status of there friendship and I knew i had won his heart. I trust him and will trust him till the day i die. Plus i knew if he didnt take the opportunity to meet her while he was so close, that it would be something he would regret in the future. So its all good.
the second time we met....
Grant now being back home for a few days sends me an instant message. He tells me he wants to see me again but this time we should each go half way and meet in Hawaii. This way it is more like a vaccation for us both.
So 6 months and 3 flights latter i get to see my man again.
We got to the hotel and its not 2 mins from the beach. So i wanted to go to the beach right away. I havent spent much time that i can recall in my past at the ocean, but i do now know that i have fallen in love with the ocean. There was a pier right out the hotel door. Its called The Wall. I didnt want to leave the pier. But Being we just arrived from long flights we decided to head back to the hotel for alittle get reaquaited time
The next day of our vaccation we actually had to go on a journey to the nearest mall. And it wasnt near LOL. We were in search of a glasses repare shop since someone accidently broke his glasses the night before... wonder how that happened LOL... we got them fixed and we were enjoying the mall and having something to eat and then on the way back to the hotel he says to me. How about after we get rested up we go back out to the pier since i loved it so much... ofcourse i said yes.
What a beautiful night it was. The ocean breaze and the sunset were spectacular. We were sitting on the edge of the pier, and Grant turns to me and says he brought me out to the peir tonight for a different reason. I asked what the reason was. He says that he wants to ask me a question. And just like it was planned (but wasnt) the group of 4 locals that happen to be on the pier started playing there island music. Then he asked his question. He asked if I would marry him. It was so awsome and so magical. I felt like i was living in a romance movie. Ofcourse i said yes.
The third time we met.....
We both go back to our home lands and now we have planning to do. We both know it will be a long time before we can actually get to be together forever. I have kids here that have a dad and i really didnt want to drag them thru any kind of court crap with custody issues... And Grant was committed to some personal obligations as well. But one day not long after we got home i got a message from him saying that we dont have to wait for a long time because his obligations have fallen thru. Its like God just shut the door and opened a window. Our opportunity was at hand...
So just about 6 months latter in Oct 2001 I flew to Australia and we got married. It was awsome. Altho none of my family was there or my kids i still felt that they were all with me. His family and friends were great to me and made me feel as if i was part of the family forever.
Remember this is only Grant and my 3rd time meeting, and all his friends and families first time meeting me...
It could have been really awkward but it wasnt at all...
Well the wedding was beautiful and the honeymoon week (altho very very packed with things to do) went by so quick. It was now time for me to leave. Yes leave. I had to leave my new husband and come back to the states for a whole YEAR... infact it was almost a year to the date of our wedding when he was finally able to come. The reason for the long wait was because of the INS paper work and red tape and dr visits and all kinds of crap that goes on when you actually try to come to the states legally. And there was no way we were going to do anything wrong with this.... i didnt want to have him deported as soon as he got here LOL...
so the 4th time we met was when he finally came to live here with us. A full year after we were married.
We have now been married for about 5 1/2 years and i would call this a very successfull online romance story...
My story oddly enough begins with me in a chat room. Who would have figured? LOL. I lonly lived in the chat room day and night for as long as possible. I had split from my husband and was waiting for the divorce to come thru. I had alot of friends online and a family in the chat room. Everyone cared for everyone and if you had a problem there was always someone there to lean on.
One day I was in the chat room and a new screen name came on and it was one i definitly wanted to check out. The reasom it was so intreging to me was because it was my real first name. So i looked up the profile and found out that we were the same age and she lived California and that made us neighbors. I instant messaged her and we started to chat and we became good friends. She told me about this man she was seeing/chatting with on the internet with hopes of more in the future. His name is Grant and he lives in Australia. She told me alot about him and i told her he sounds like a wonderful man and i truely wanted the best for both of them. At one point she even tried to set me up with her brother which bombed big time. Well we became good friends over the next few months, chatting everyday and we even spoke on the phone a few times.
One day i was online killing some time when i got an instant message from Grant. I was suprised to see this from him because i knew he was seeing my friend. He said "hi how are you?" and i replied "good thanks." Then he asked if i knew who this was and i said yes we have a mutual friend. He told me that he never has ever initiated the first instant message before but felt he wanted to get to know me. He explained that our friend would send out emails to all the friends on her contact list and he saw my screen name on the list a few times and thought it was one of the cutes he had ever seen and looked up my profile. At the time my screen name was xshellybeanx, and my profile was all jelly bean related. Example... im 32 jellybeans old, i have 2 jellybeans at home and im looking for my one true jellybean LOL. He told me he made a note to himself that he must talk to me after reading my profile...
After the first chat i wasnt sure what to do because i knew that Grant and i would only be friends because i knew he was spoken for by my friend and i would never ever ever step on anyones toes like that. But he was someone i wanted to keep as a friend. So I decided to copy and paste the chat and send it to my friend so she wouldnt think anything bad was going on between us. Well this move on my part backfired big time. She got so jelouse and gave Grant so much grief for it. He basically told her that he was going to keep chatting with me and she needs to get over it. (not those words exactly because Grant would never talk to any woman like that). Needless to say me and my friend went our seperate ways. I did keep speaking to Grant tho. And he would keep me informed if she was doing ok or not because i really did care about her.
Grant kept seeing her for awhile. Love those LDR's (long distance relationships). But she kept playing head games with him and Grants not into all that. We kept talking and our friendship grew strong. But i must say he did have my heart from the start but i knew it couldnt happen because he was already spoken for plus the long distance thing was a big issue for me. So i held my place and was satisfied with having him as my friend. We would chat on the phone quite often and he would listen to my issues and i would do the same for him. Infact i think he saw me thru 3 different boyfriends LOL. Im sure glad those guys didnt last LOL. He was always there to back me up and give me his opinions. We had a great friendship and our mutual friend kept pushing him away. So one day he suprises me and says he is planning a trip to the states and would like to know if I would like to meet him in person. I ofcourse said no, LOL... yeah right.. ofcourse i said yes. So the trip was in the works and he at this time had decided to not see her anymore with hopes of any kind in the future for them, but still stayed friends. I remember telling him once that I would back off and not talk to him anymore if thats what needed to be done. Because i dont want to keep anyone from being together. But he always assured me that i did the right thing and not to worry.
Infact before Grant made the decision not to see her anymore i was going thru my own delema. Because i had such strong feelings for him not only as a friend but i wanted more. It was eating me up inside. I had to tell someone and who better but my best friend. It took me awhile to tell him tho because i didnt want to ruin the friendship that we had arleady started. So finally one day i was talking to Grant on the phone and I just told him. I told him that i was having major feelings for him and i knew it was wrong because he wasnt mine to feel this way over. He told me he was so flattered about the feelings i have and that the friendship will not be hurt at all for my confessing my feelings to him. I was so happy because i didnt have to keep my feeling bottled up anymore. And he understood . In fact he thought it was awsome That i could be so honest with my feelings.... what a man! No wonder i was falling in love with him.
Well the day gets closer to when he was to arrive and can you believe i lost my job. How great is that. But Grant was right there to back me and support me and to keep telling me that the right job is out there ect. Me losing my job was a good thing anyways, because this ment i could spend every minute with him when he came to visit instead of only after work.
I recall the day he was to leave Australia to start he journey thru the states is the first time i ever told him i love you. We were talking on the phone and about to hang up and i just said it. I love you. I couldnt think of him going on a plane and God forbid something bad happened and i never said it to him. I had such butterflies in my tummy. And the funny thing is that to this day i dont remember his responce. Ill have to ask him one day what his responce to my first I love you was LOL.
The day come and my roomate and I got to pick Grant up from the airport. He will be staying with us for three days and im so excited to finally have him come. My poor roomate had to deal with me. I feel for her i really do because i think i would have smacked me if i were her LOL. Imagine a teenager all giddy. that was me for days before.
We were standing by the doors to unboard the plane when i saw Grant for the first time. I was so excited to finally meet him for real. He sure was cuter in person LOL. I knew that this was gonna be a great 3 days even tho he was here just as "friends". I got my first hug when he got off the airplane. We walked to the baggage area and thats where i gave him a gift. my first gift to him was a little leather keychain with a cactus stamped onto it. It was actually a symbolic gift. Grant and I have another mutual friend named Curtis D Cactus and this was to represent him. Actually Gurtis is a fictonal charecter that Grant came up with one day while i was chatting with him. He would say we dont have watch dogs in Phoenix, we have watch cactus. So this is where Curtis D Cactus came into being. Its more of an inside thing between us, I guess its one of those, "you had to be there" things.
It was so great to finally have Grant here, talking to him face to face was so much better. The plan was that he would take me out to dinner the first night to show his thanks for the hospitality of letting him stay with us. So we go to Black Angus for dinner and we had an awsome time. Sitting across from him and talking to him was amazing. There was never any of that embarrasing pauses in the conversations and we never seem to run out of things to say. That was our very first date. I love to listen to him talk, his accent makes me melt... The best part is that he is a Christian and very firm in his faith, i admire that. And he knows how to treat a woman the way she should be treated. Well after eating and chatting for a few hours we decided to get some wine and head back home.
We talked more at home and got to know each other alot better. Its funny because to Grant and me, the presidential debate will be one thing we will never forget. Its during the debate that we shared our first kiss.
We had a wonderful time. We went to see a movie and went to the state fair while he was here. We had a wonderful time. And my kids love him to. Which was the most important thing to me. But unfortunatly he had to leave. I was very pleased that the visit went this way because he may have come as a friend but he left as my boyfriend.
His next destination, believe it or not was to our mutual friends home in California. I didnt mind tho, because i knew the status of there friendship and I knew i had won his heart. I trust him and will trust him till the day i die. Plus i knew if he didnt take the opportunity to meet her while he was so close, that it would be something he would regret in the future. So its all good.
the second time we met....
Grant now being back home for a few days sends me an instant message. He tells me he wants to see me again but this time we should each go half way and meet in Hawaii. This way it is more like a vaccation for us both.
So 6 months and 3 flights latter i get to see my man again.
We got to the hotel and its not 2 mins from the beach. So i wanted to go to the beach right away. I havent spent much time that i can recall in my past at the ocean, but i do now know that i have fallen in love with the ocean. There was a pier right out the hotel door. Its called The Wall. I didnt want to leave the pier. But Being we just arrived from long flights we decided to head back to the hotel for alittle get reaquaited time
The next day of our vaccation we actually had to go on a journey to the nearest mall. And it wasnt near LOL. We were in search of a glasses repare shop since someone accidently broke his glasses the night before... wonder how that happened LOL... we got them fixed and we were enjoying the mall and having something to eat and then on the way back to the hotel he says to me. How about after we get rested up we go back out to the pier since i loved it so much... ofcourse i said yes.
What a beautiful night it was. The ocean breaze and the sunset were spectacular. We were sitting on the edge of the pier, and Grant turns to me and says he brought me out to the peir tonight for a different reason. I asked what the reason was. He says that he wants to ask me a question. And just like it was planned (but wasnt) the group of 4 locals that happen to be on the pier started playing there island music. Then he asked his question. He asked if I would marry him. It was so awsome and so magical. I felt like i was living in a romance movie. Ofcourse i said yes.
The third time we met.....
We both go back to our home lands and now we have planning to do. We both know it will be a long time before we can actually get to be together forever. I have kids here that have a dad and i really didnt want to drag them thru any kind of court crap with custody issues... And Grant was committed to some personal obligations as well. But one day not long after we got home i got a message from him saying that we dont have to wait for a long time because his obligations have fallen thru. Its like God just shut the door and opened a window. Our opportunity was at hand...
So just about 6 months latter in Oct 2001 I flew to Australia and we got married. It was awsome. Altho none of my family was there or my kids i still felt that they were all with me. His family and friends were great to me and made me feel as if i was part of the family forever.
Remember this is only Grant and my 3rd time meeting, and all his friends and families first time meeting me...
It could have been really awkward but it wasnt at all...
Well the wedding was beautiful and the honeymoon week (altho very very packed with things to do) went by so quick. It was now time for me to leave. Yes leave. I had to leave my new husband and come back to the states for a whole YEAR... infact it was almost a year to the date of our wedding when he was finally able to come. The reason for the long wait was because of the INS paper work and red tape and dr visits and all kinds of crap that goes on when you actually try to come to the states legally. And there was no way we were going to do anything wrong with this.... i didnt want to have him deported as soon as he got here LOL...
so the 4th time we met was when he finally came to live here with us. A full year after we were married.
We have now been married for about 5 1/2 years and i would call this a very successfull online romance story...
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