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I cant believe that a year has gone by already....A year ago I made the committment to change and transform my life and I give God all the Glory for the miracle worked in my life. It is truly a miracle to be living the life I am living right now.  At first I didn't understand why people who posted daily and monthly sometimes trailed off and you hardly heard from them. I know understand....it's because I am now LIVING my life and my focus is not consumed on my weight ...I had such an epiphany over the summer while on vacation with my family, I was swimming in the pool in Florida with my kids and my seventeen year old daughter looks at me and says, "mom, I didn't know you could swim"...it struck me than that I had never swam with my children or played around at the beach frolicking in the water...I was hiding from my life and cheating myself and my family...Well, folks...I am no longer hiding but truly living my life.  Since I began on this journey, I have lost 105Ibs.....WOW..I feel AWESOME at 150Ibs. between size 6 and 8. I am Loving it and Loving Life.....     

It is definitely time to update. I actually feel pretty normal again, which is quite scary for me because I don't dump.  I was counting on that to keep me in line, but I guess God is saying I have to trust him and the knowledge and the tool he has given me to succeed.  I am at 175 pounds, closer and closer to my goal. Next month me and my sisters are going on a cruise and I want to look Right! This is definitely a process and I am enjoying every minute of it.

What a year! I am so thankful to God for his blessings. I thank him for good health, blessing my family and just allowing me this opportunity to have this weight loss tool.  I am currently hovering between 178 and 180 and I can't complain.  I will try to do better and update more often.  This year it feels sooooo good not to have a weight loss goal as my focus for the year. I do need to work on exercise and making it a regular part of my life.  That part is so very difficult for me.  Well for anyone reading, Be Blessed in this new year!!! 

Peace and Love   

Praise God in the Highest.  Today we truly know what victory looks like.  President Obama sounds so good today.  I know that we can do ALL THINGS  through CHRIST that gives us strength. 

Keep our President in your prayers. 

Praise God .....Praise God.....Praise God.  

I am trying not to be a slave to the scale (really because I don't have a good one)but I have been so EXCITED to see that it presently reads 198.  That number looks so good to me. It tells me that I will keep moving forward and reminds that I only look back to see where God has brought me from.  I feel good in my body.  I know that I still have much work to do but I finally feel comfortable in my skin. I look in the mirror and love who I see, I remember her. 

I feel my weight loss is moving slow at times but I am thankful for every pound that I lose becuase I know that with every pound  I am shedding some of the issues that was keeping me bound. I can be more effective in ministry to my husband, children, job and church when I allow God to fill me with his goodness instead of filling myself with tempral pleasure.  And, yes it was only tempral pleasure, never fully lasting and satisfying.  I know have to do the work of filling myself with things that are pleasing to God.  

This journey is really a trip for me.  People are constantly telling me to stop losing weight  now so I don't look sick, but I feel it is coming off slowly and people will just have to get used to what LaDell looks like Healthy.  I don't hate them for it, I know that they care but I have to do what is best for me and my body.                 

I feel the weight coming off slowly but surely.  Sometimes I get a little frustrated that I am not losing faster and then I remember that I have never lost this amount of weight in this short of time.  I am proud of my progress and the inches I am losing.  I can definitely see the changes now.  My linebacker shoulders have disappeared and a more feminine body is starting to emerge.  I am wearing a size 16-18 in clothes, more of a 16 in most things. I can buy tops in a Large,  I am still getting used to this.

I met with the surgeon's PA today and he seems to feel I am right on target.  I was cleared to begin a regular exercise program.  I am very excited about starting at a gym. I feel the workout will make a huge difference in my weight loss and my health.  

I don't have any regrets about the surgery the only thing that I absolutely hate right now is when I eat too fast and get that nasty "stuck" feeling.  The only way I can relieve it is too vomit , which makes me feel even more terrible.  I have to make myself slow down and take my time eating.

Well, until next time.        

  Yeah!!!!!!!!  I am really starting to feel the difference more than I can see it.  Others tell me they can see it in my face and in my body.  I am very excited and happy with how my weight loss is coming along.  I am looking forward to joining a gym and really kicking the loss into high gear.  Everyday continues to be a struggle with food.  I am being good and responsible to my new pouch but I can't stop the old feelings and cravings that come up when I see some of my old favorites.   This is truly a lifelong committment and I know that healthy will feel much better than fat ever did so thatis what keeps me on the right track.  

here are my stats: (I have waited forever to say this)
Pre-op  250ish
day of surgery 239
Current weight  218    

Hello OH Family.  i am home from the hospital today. Tired sore, trying to figure out how to get in all the liquids. Thank you all for your prayers.

talk to you soon.

I have one more day before surgery.  I am anxious, excited and somewhat terrified.  I keep thinking that I will be the one and only person that this surgery doesn't work for.  I am in week two of my liquid diet and still struggling with my head hunger.  You know, habits are extremely hard to break.  I was hoping to have lost at least ten more pounds but so far I am at 238.  Not bad..... not bad.... but this is usually the point in my diet when I give up because I feel like my body goes into starvation mode and does a standstill instead of continuing to lose. 

This will not defeat me.  I believe that I am already victorious.  The Lord spoke to me last week while a was preparing a message for a program at my church.  He let me know that he still performs miracles and he still answers prayers but sometimes he is waiting for us to pour out our worries, anxieties and stress to him and he will perform a miracle on our marriage, health, finances, children, jobs and whatever our needs are.  We have to trust him enough to let go and act in faith and he will turn our water into wine and be like a well springing up in our soul.  

I thank God for his faithfulness and for still being the same prayer answering God.           

Day 5 of my liquid diet. I am struggling with my cravings for REAL food.  I would just love to have a salad right now with tons of vegetables and chicken. I know that I need to hang in there and I will, but the head hunger is killing me. On a positive note, I have lost five pounds.  Yeaaaahhh! That brings me to 240lbs. 10pounds lost altogether since I have started this process. I hope to lose another 5-10 before the surgery and I believe that I can do it. 

Peace and Love