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October 14, 2007
It's A Beautiful Sunday
In case you didn’t catch everything from yesterday’s You Tube video, I will tell you again.
Kevin went from 250 pounds to 169 pounds. That’s a total weight loss of 81 pounds. I went from 214 pounds to 143 pounds. That’s a total weight loss of 71 pounds.
It still is hard for this to sink in my head though. 71 pounds is a lot of weight. This morning before church I tried on about five skirts. Each one fell to the floor when I put them on, so I figured I could get away with wearing a pair of dress pants. No such luck. Kevin said they looked more like lounging pants because the legs were so baggy. I honestly never thought my legs were big before, but I guess they were because those pants used to be kind of tight in the legs.
It’s odd when you lose weight in places where you didn’t know you had it to lose. Does that make sense? My fingers, the backs of my arms, my shoulders, legs, feet; FEET for crying out loud! This morning I had to walk carefully in my shoes so they wouldn’t slip off! Who thinks of their feet getting smaller with weight loss?!
Now comes the hard part: the maintenance. I will let you know every so often how we are doing with the weight loss, but if you have any questions I will try to answer them.
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We visited with mom again today while she was receiving her chemo. She seemed a little tired (Don’t we all love naps – and it was afternoon!), but other than that, she looks and sounds great. She has a very positive outlook.
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Just a friendly warning: If some of you haven’t blogged in the next few days, I will be removing you from my blog list. No offense is intended, but I want my blog list to be a roll of current bloggers. The way I feel about it is, it would be nice to just come right out and say, “This blog will be removed.” Or “I lost interest and there will be no new entries.” When months and months have passed, it may be time to throw in the towel. We can still keep in touch with cards and email though :)
I do hate it when someone quits blogging. I feel I have built a relationship of sorts, but I don’t think I should have to keep begging for entries either. If you find your name missing from my list, know that I checked every day and you never blogged.
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From the comments on yesterday’s post, it sounds as if congratulations are due to Ellice and Brad! I believe they have successfully made a baby in spite of always being in the movie theatre. Ha! Ha! I wish you both the very best and will continue to pray for you and your family.
Posted by tami at October 14, 2007 5:25 PM
Comments
I don't blame you for taking blogs off your page that no one posts to anymore. There's no sense in keeping them on and taking up space on your own blog if they are not keeping up with theirs.
I know what you mean about clothes not fitting anymore when you lose weight. You usually expect to lose weight in the obvious places, but when I lost weight a couple of years ago, I noticed that my face was slimmer and my rings were loose on my fingers. It is a nice feeling though, huh? Of course, I've gained quite a bit of weight back so I'm wearing clothes now that were too big before and can't fit into the smaller clothes I had bought:( That's not such a nice feeling. Congratulations to you and Kevin!
Posted by: Stacey at October 14, 2007 8:02 PM
Just rememebr I only blog about once a week but don't take me off I haven't lost interest.. I just get busy and then do a recap.. :).. besides you will want to hear all the baby news.
Posted by: ellice at October 15, 2007 5:56 AM
Ellice: I know you blog once a week and that is fine with me. I was referring to those who haven't blogged in months; literally months.
Stacey: You were SO thin the last time I saw you that I cannot imagine you getting any thinner. Good gracious!
Posted by: Tami at October 15, 2007 6:41 AM
Wow! Great job with the weight loss. You look fabulous in your talky blog! I guess it's time to go shopping! I remove stale blogs from my links too. Don't feel bad about it at all. I hope your Mom made it home today!
Posted by: Tammy at October 15, 2007 9:56 AM
I'm posting a blog entry. I was going to, anyway, but your post nudged me to do it sooner! I have to work an opening shift tomorrow (get up at 4am, ugh), so it's a short entry. LOL I'm going to bed in a little while.
Posted by: Kimberley at October 15, 2007 8:04 PM