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Height:	5 feet   1 inches
Weight:	155 pounds

You have a BMI of 29.2.
This shows that you are moderately overweight.
Your BMI is not high enough to qualify you for bariatric surgery.
All I can say is wow!!

Now I am 7 months out and have hit a real plateau.  I have been in the low 180's for weeks and it is really frustrating.  I'm not sure what I should do to jump start the weightloss again.  I have been having problems with motivation to go to the gym but have done the eliptical machine for the last two days.  So I am hopeful that I can keep it up.  I have been extremely hungry recently but I think it is head hunger, well I hope it is head hunger because it will be really hard to control if its not.  I know I have been slacking off on meals and protein shakes, so maybe getting back on schedule will help.  I have an appointment with Dr. Bertha tomorrow, so I can ask him some of these questions.  I wonder if my excessive coffee drinking is making me dehydrated and thus stunting my weightloss, this is something to explore with the doctor.  I also have had problems with eating too quickly, I think it is because of the excessive hunger.  I t feels as if I am going to binge again which scares me alot.  I don't want to stretch out my pouch and I don't seem to care when I am eating quickly.  I seem to just be rambling but these are my fears.  Hopefully I can get the encouragement to hold on through this plateau.

Well I only have 60 more pounds to go before my goal weight of 133.  I have lost a total of 133 lbs thus far, which is crazy...thats more than my sister weighs total!  I have been losing about 10lbs every 2 1/2 weeks...so in that estimate I should be at goal weight in the next 3 months or so! I am so psyched.  Just have to remember this to keep the spirits up:)

Well I finally reached a big goal for me.  As of today I am 199 lbs, I finally made it out of the 200's.  I am so excited!!  I haven't been this weight since high school!!  I am so happy I decided to have this surgery, It really has changed my life!

Over the weekend I got up the courage to try the standing elliptical machine, as I have been doing 30-45mins on the recumbent elliptical at least five days a week.  I was able to do 5 mins, which is much more than I could ever do before.  So today I decided I would focus my workout on the standing elliptical and was able to do 30mins on it!  My legs were cramping but I just kept saying five more mins, you can do it, and I did.  I am so happy that I can do this, it means that I am getting more fit with all the exercising I do.  This definitely helps with the motivation to keep it up.  I feel that with these workouts, I definitely am contributing to my over all weight loss.  I am just so happy to achieve this goal!

Tonight I went to an office party.  I had alot of fun but  was always self conscious.  I really noticed how I felt when it was time for pictures.  I was bigger than everyone! I posed next to "normal" size people and just looked huge.  I feel that my weight is what is making me shy and uncomfortable around others.  I really did have a good time, but ended up crying on the way home.  I have come a long way, 84 pounds to be exact, but still feel so big.  I really can't image a time when I will be "ok" with my body, and that makes me sad :(

I just had my first WOW moment this morning.  I was swimming at the Y and decided to try and pull myself out of the pool, rather than use the ladder.  I was nervous that if I attempted and couldn't do it that the life guards and other swimmers would see me struggling, flopping around on the side of the pool!  But with a little encouragement from my mom, I tried it and did it!!!!!  It was amazing that it was so easy and I didn't struggle at all.  I never would have been able to do this a few months ago.  Weight loss surgery has really changed my life for the better.  I can't wait for my next WOW moment!