The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

I've said several times I was going to start adding pictures. So here goes a few.

This first one is when I was a little girl. Before I ever had to think of weight. Or even clothes for that matter lol.

This next one is when I discovered I was fat. I mentioned in my first blog that when I was in the sixth grade I was made fun of by two of the most popular boys in our school, when the "regular" sized girls and I were exercising at recess.

Then it just kept getting worse from there. I graduated high school and went to a jr. college in my hometown. After I graduated from there I started work and packed on the pounds. Luckily my boyfriend never made me feel bad about it. This next picture was at my highest non-pregnant weight 220 lbs.

After we broke up, I managed to lose a little weight and started dating my future husband. On our wedding day, I got down to 207.

I've fluctuated up and down a few lbs. I was 219 the day I found out I was pregnant 21 years ago and was 233 the day my daughter was born. This next picture is the day she was born.

It is now almost 21 years later and I'm finally on the downward spiral. I left the 200's several years ago and hope to never see them again. I'm still no where near where I need to be but seeing how far I've come so far I will eventually get there.

Starting New

It's been nearly 2 years since I posted last. A lot has happened since then, except for my low carbbing. I don't know what happened to me. When we last spoke, I had gone to the dr. and had good results with y blood sugar and all my other tests. So instead of being smart and staying with what I was doing, I let my low carbbing fall by the wayside. I have not been doing well with my medicine either.

In the fall of 2010, I started back to college to finish my degree I had started 27 years ago. I want to get my degree in teaching middle school mathematics and English. I've had a good slow start so far by only taking 9-10 hours each semester. That has helped me to get a 4.0 average the last 3 semesters. This next semester, I am going full time (12 hours) as well as working full time at the middle school. We'll see how my grade point average holds up.

I had gallbladder surgery the week of Thanksgiving which probably helped me not gain much weight during this past holiday season. Still having some issues with digestion but everybody says it can take your body up to 6 months to a year to get used to working without a gallbladder.

So now here it is a new year. 2012. I've decided I've lollygagged around long enough and as of Jan 1, 2012 I'm back on the low carb bandwagon. I am now on my 5th day and have done surprisingly well considering I haven't cooked a lot. I know the weight doesn't come off me fast like it does other people but my doctor attributed that to my diabetes, so I'm going to try not to weigh myself too often.

One thing I have done this week that I haven't done the times before that I've started, is that I haven't gone to the sugar free candy yet. I don't usually eat much candy anyway but when I think I can't have any, I want it all the more. I'm going to try to stay away from it the total first two weeks, but I'm sure I'll go back to it.

I'll just list a few of the things I've been eating. I've only had bacon & eggs on Sunday. Got a bit of a stomach ache after I ate it so I've shied away from it since. But I've had a few other things I'm surprised didn't bother me. Sunday night and Monday for lunch I had fried cabbage with polish sausage. We didn't have school on Tuesday so it was pretty easy to eat right. I've taken a Atkins Daybreak cranberry bar to school each day for breakfast. Tuesday night for dinner we had a Walmart rotisserie chicken & I cut up leftovers and put in a salad for Wednesday's lunch.

I had a ham sandwich on oopsie rolls that I flattened out to resemble bread a couple of times and made some cheese chips. Last night I read a recipe with 3 tbs of cocoa, 1 egg, a little baking powder, vanilla, and sweetener. I made this and put it into 2 cupcake papers & it came out just like a brownie. I'm not much for chocolate and I didn't quite get it sweetened enough but it was pretty darn good.

I'm going to try to start doing like I did before and post new things I've made with pictures when I can. Loved everything I made before so I'm sure I will go back to my old posts and remake more of them. Walmart was out of jicama the last time I was there so I can't wait till they get some more to try more ideas I've found.

Been going through some old pictures so I might post some of them to give you an idea of where I've been (with weight) and where I am now.

My college classes will be starting back on Monday night Jan 9. It will be interesting to see how I will be able handle it all this semester.

Thank you for reading and.............

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