Today was a lazy day...
We did leave the house, although it was only to go grocery shopping (Costco, fun!!). Didn't do a whole lot else, not even the dreaded laundry. I figure I will get that done this week, maybe!
Tomorrow starts a new month, and I will be getting back on the exercise path. I have only exercised once in this past week. I guess it has been more like lazy week instead of lazy day!!
Anyway, tomorrow I have to get back on the path to get the next Nutrisystem bear...
working on 50 pound little guy...
I will keep you updated on my progress, thought, feelings and just general everyday life.
See you tomorrow!
So, now, we are 4 1/2 months into this weight loss journey. I am so grateful to not be in pain all the time. I am happier and can enjoy life. I have lost 46 pounds, hubby has lost 58 pounds and we are well on our way...but, it has been really hard. I realized that we were eating WAY to much food before. I used to think nothing of the amount that we would eat, but, now, I will open a Nutrisystem package and look at it and think "where's the rest of it?" But, you know what...it works! I am usually not hungry (find myself bored and wanting to eat, but usually not actually, real live hungry). We have more energy, I have started exercising, mostly just walking, but its a start. I have so much that I want to do with the rest of my life and now I can start doing it.
So, a little more about me... I grew up in Florida, where I never went to the beach and when I did, it would turn the color of a lobster. I am an only child of a single mom (and I love it that way!) We moved to Nevada when I was 28 years old, after going through 2 hurricanes in 3 weeks (with 1 that missed us, barely, before; and 1 that missed us, barely, after). I said "enough" and got the hell out of there...Moved to Northern Nevada first, gave it 8 years and just could not handle the winters (although, now that I am in Las Vegas I do kinda miss them).
Met my hubby in 2007, on MySpace (remember that, is it still around???). Got married a year later, got two dogs and settled in. Got screwed in the housing fiasco and then decided to move to Las Vegas, where there was more stuff to do than the little city where we lived in Northern Nevada. So, we moved, and we still don't really do anything! But we are going to start now that we are getting healthy...
This will be the place were I can share all those adventures, along with my weight loss and fitness journey. And, anything else that comes up along the way. Stick around and join me!
So, I guess an introduction would be helpful...
I am 37 years old. I am married to my best friend and have 2 puppies (they are not really puppies...but they are my babies, so...)I have lives in Las Vegas for about 2 1/2 years and I am a social worker.
I love to read and watch movies (although, my hubby would say that I am kinda boring with the movies I want to watch). I also love food, which is sometimes a problem and how I find myself in the current situation.
You see, I have always been a big girl.
But when we got married in 2008, I weighed 305 pounds. I don't even like to look at my wedding picture because of how big I was. I have lost some (not enough). At the beginning of 2015 I was 280 pounds. I had just gone through the worst year of my life. I had been having medical issues since April 2014. It started out with waking up in the middle of the night with the worst pain I had ever felt. I went to urgent care the next day and was told that they did not find anything that would have caused the pain. However, they did find a mass on the CT scan. That was the beginning. First, they had to do a needle biopsy, however, they could not get it all so they told me I needed laproscopic surgery to get a sample. However, getting this surgery done took 4 months. Finally in August, I went in to have the outpatient, laproscopic procedure. When I woke up, I had a surgical incision in the shape of a T on my stomach, the first incision was about 10 inches long and the other was about 6 inches. I was in the hospital for 6 days and Did not go back to work for 2 months.
But they got the sample...actually, they got the whole thing. They sent it off for biopsy and I was in the clear...
But wait, it turns out it was cancer. Hodgkin's Lymphoma, to be exact. I got lucky though, it was a rare type and early so I only had to do radiation. I was done by Christmas. Yay!!!
Did I mention that at the same time that I was having the surgery to remove the mass, I also had a cyst on my ovary and they removed the ovary during the same surgery... Well, right after Christmas, I found out that the other ovary also has a cyst... But my doctor just wants to watch it at this point.
Oh, then there was the urinary issues that were going on for the past few years (all my life, really). I would have symptoms of a UTI but they would never find anything when they did testing. It turns out that I had a ureterocele, which was since birth. And that pain that started it all...I started to get kidney stones... And one of the kidney stones got stuck in the ureterocele and caused me to not be able to pee...I ended up with a catheter for a week before, guess what, I had to have another surgery in January 2015.
But, then, it was done...(well, mostly, I still have to monitor the cyst and the cancer for now) but, I HAVE NO PAIN!!!!
So, when I started to feel better, I decided that I needed to get healthy, figuring it would be easier to manage any other health issues if I was not 280 pounds. So, hubby and I started talking about it and decided that we would do it together (he is also a big guy). So we decided that Nutrisystem in the way to go...
I should have started this MONTHS ago...
Hi, my name is Annie and I started my weight loss journey (well, at least this time) on January 10, 2015. I had finally had enough and wanted to get healthy. I have been through lots of medical issues in the last year and was finally through it enough to breathe and decide that I had to change.
I have been thinking about a blog, or online journal, or, whatever you want to call this thing, for a while now and decided that I would go ahead and do it.
So, this will be for my life, some weight loss journey including some fitness and exercise. But, really, just life in general. So stay tuned and we will get to know each other...
