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STARMADE711

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Forget one day at a time, I'm working on this minute

My weight loss journey began some time in high school. When I started high school I weighed about 125 and ballooned to 160-170 by graduation. In college I grew into the 200's and after I had kids I reached my heaviest, 269. Along the way I've tried diet after diet and finally was scraed enough that I turned to lap band surgery. I am so glad that I did it. It has made me face this weight loss journey head on and pretty much saved my life as I was facing high blood pressure and Diabetes. Although lap band took place in 5/07, I have struggled along the way and continue to struggle today. I originally joined spark in 11/08 and it has provided the accountabilty, motivation and support that I needed to continue this journey. I joined a couple of great teams and they truly give me the inspiration to log in everyday. In addition to the motivation I get online I also have three beautiful girls and a supportive husband who help provide the visual images as to why this journey is so important. I also have an incredible extended support system in my family. I will do this THIS time! I am so DONE!

Starting weight: 269
Sparkpeople starting weight:
11/12/2008 218 (TWL -51)
11/19/2008 214 (-55)
11/26/2008 214 (-55) GRRRRR!!
12/03/2008 212 (-57)
12/10/2008 211 (-58) Can you say SSSSSSLLLLOOWWWWWW?
12/17/2008 210 (-59)
12/24/2008 212 (-57) Celebrating early. Need to refocus!
12/31/2008 Too scared to get on the scale!
01/07/2009 213 (-56) CRAP!!
01/14/2009 212 (-57)
01/21/2009 211 (-58)
01/28/2009 209 (-60) WOO HOO!!! BMI=39.5
02/04/2009 208 (-61)
02/11/2009 207 (-62)
02/18/2009 211 (-58) THE ONLY DOWN SIDE TO VACATION!
02/25/2009 207 (-62) YEAH, BABY! We're r back in business
03/04/2009
03/11/2009
03/18/2009
03/25/2009
04/01/2009
04/08/2009 205 (managed to stay on track...proud of me!!)
04/15/2009 205
04/22/2009 207 (oops)
04/29/2009

2009 GOALS: (Not in order)

(1) ONEDERLAND
(2) RUN A 5K
(3) GET MY BMI OUT OF OBESE RANGE (30)
(4) START 529 PLANS FOR MY DAUGHTERS
(5) TAKE SALSA LESSONS WITH MY HUSBAND

�There's a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in doing something, you do it only when it's convenient. When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses; only results.�

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current weight: 195.0

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Member Since: 11/12/2008

SparkPoints: 2,411

Fitness Minutes: 528

My Goals:
(1) Focus on weight loss by counting calories, weighing food and cooking healthier.
(2) Use my supports
(3) Be more active
(4) Focus on me more

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SHELLE13
7/16/2012 5:13:51 PM

Happy Belated Birthday, Done Girl!

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JIBBIE49
7/14/2012 5:39:23 PM

Happy BELATED Birthday, DONE GIRL

The Cancer girl can be the "LITTLE RED HEN" and do all the work as she has perseverance, but she needs to learn to delegate her work to others. She can get very angry when she does it all and they benefit. She gets along with Scorpio (who must control any relationship he is in but Cancer just lets him THINK he does with her, and with Pisces the Dreamer as she can make dreams come true, Virgo, Capricorn, and Leo the Lion, as she can make him the KING and be his supportive Queen.

Sun in Cancer: You live though your emotions and feelings and can't be reasoned with when you're upset. It's hard for you to separate your feelings from your thoughts. You're mothering, sustaining and nurturing, with a strong attachment to your mother and your home. You have a highly developed protective and defensive instinct about material and domestic security. You feel complete when you're able to lavish protectiveness on your family and you'll do whatever is necessary to establish and maintain that security. You tend to retreat inside yourself when you feel threatened in any way. You're often at the mercy of your moods, which are subject to change due to the atmosphere around you, which you absorb without realizing it. You need to control the tendency to moodiness, intolerance and excessive emotions. You suffer from emotional insecurity until you center yourself beyond your ego/ personality. Everything you do is latent and hidden: no issue is clear or direct, not action is forthright or direct. You are extremely intuitive and psychic and your first instincts are usually right. You're extraordinarily sensitive and fear ridicule. When you're hurt, you may behave in a nonsensical manner and, at times, you can be extremely childish and stubborn. You seek sympathy from others and don't realize how self-centered and selfish you can be. You appear gentle and tranquil, but your inner thoughts are difficult to understand, even for you. You're well intentioned, but emotionally vacillating. You have a deep sense of responsibility to others. Physically, slow energy flow can make you lazy and you'll have poor circulation later in life. Due to your powerful imagination, all thoughts of illness may manifest as illness. You'll suffer from ulcers and digestive problems if you don't discuss things that worry you. You must be first with those you love or you're unhappy, and you keep a tenacious hold on loved ones. You're concerned about what others think of you and can have a great deal of personal vanity about your appearance. You can be quite egotistical and won't joke about yourself. You're neat and clean and dislike any activity that creates a mess. You seek to avoid any type of discomfort at all costs. You're diplomatic, have an excellent memory and love to roam. You seldom fail to achieve your goals even if you have to be manipulative. At times, you may shun responsibility but can be punctual, exact, and efficient as required. You're a master of passive resistance and hate being told what to do or how to do it. You tend to live in "the good old days." As a parent, you're warm and loving, but can be smothering and refuse to let your child grow up. Your effort to keep your family together may actually drive them apart. As a child, you're tender, sweet, loving, helpful, extremely affectionate and easily hurt. It's better to discipline a Cancer child by appealing to the home-loving instinct. Sensationalism can hurt your sex life. You need to add reason and discrimination to your life and cultivate courage to say "Yes" and "No" at appropriate times.
KEYWORDS: protectively, sensitively, emotionally
KEY PHRASE: I feel.

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7/14/2012 8:40:17 AM