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I finally did it! I am in the 100's.. it is so awesome.. I couldn't be happier.. less than three months and 86 lbs lost in total.. I am very happy. My goal is to hit 165 by May 2-4, so I've been kicking up my fitness.. we shall see!!!!

I promised myself I would update this more often.. but I don't.. that sucks

Well I am almost three weeks out of surgery and I feel great! Today is my first day back to work and I am EXHAUSTED.
The journey has been long and these past three weeks have been full of happiness and heartache.
Let's start with the happiness: I have lost 35 lbs since optifast, and 50 in total.. I can't believe it.. I feel like a new person. My clothes are falling off of me and I am having to physically restrain myself from shopping. I bought a shirt and then realized when I got it home I really should have bought the smaller size!  Deluding myself into thinking that I'll get bigger and will need to "grow into it" I guess 22 years of that being the truth has its way of ingraining itself into your mindset.
I moved into a new house and am finally getting my new room unpacked.. very awesome! I LOVE LOVE LOVE my new place!
I also have dark brown hair again.. fabulous.. I love winter hair.
Bad news: Two of my friends died last weekend. They were lovely people with a lot to offer the world and it's sad to see people so young die.. driving in Northern Ontario is a death trap.
My boyfriend also got a job in Toronto so he moved away and we decided to break up because it just didn't make sense to try and carry out a long distance relationship. I am sad about that one.. but oh well, life goes on.

I FEEL FABULOUS AND LOVE MY WLS.. I can't wait to see the numbers on the scale keep going down and down.. life is good!

I have my prescreening next weekend! I am so so so incredibly nervous! There are so many things that worry me about this. What if something goes wrong and I can't have surgery? bahhh.. so nervous!

SO... I'm only a few months away from surgery. It's getting so exciting. I am trying desperately to figure out how to work this stupid ticker thing, because I've already lost like 25 lbs, so I'm super excited!

It's so funny how I can't stop thinking about surgery. It is coming SO fast I can barely believe it!
I am now deciding what type of exercise I want to do. I am vbery competitive and love team sports but am super worried about the fact that I've been overwieght and "out of the game" for so long that I won't be good enough at any of the sports I want to try.. but I am going to give it my darndest and join some "beer leagues" next summer (minus the beer of course) in sports that I used to play like Baseball and Basketball. I am also going to have one of my friends teach me how to play Extreme Frisbee becasue I hear that is quite the workout!

Ok so, I am going to write the things I want to do, and the types of activities I like and want to like by season (I hate the gym.. well at least I hate it now,,, so I imagine most of my strength training will be done at home until I feel like everyone won't be staring at me)

Summer/Spring/Fall:
Swimming
Untimate Frisbee (learn how to play)
Beach Volleyball
Hiking
Basketball (find a team)
Softball (find a team)
Walking
Biking
Weight Training
Rollerblading
Flag Football
Running (my last weight loss accomplishment.. want to start running when I reach 150lbs, and then traing for a marathon.. perhaps a triathalon within a year)

Winter Sports (or all season sports):
Basketball
Figure Skating
Skiing
Tobogganing
Hiking
X-Country Skiing
Snowshoeing
Dance (Jazz Dancing, Belly Dance)
Yoga
Pilates
**going to the stupid gym... becasue by next winter will be my one year surgiversary and I may look NORMAL by then!!!!!!!!!!!!!**

So I found out just after starting the surgery process that one of my co-workers was also having the surgery done, and at the same hospital as I am. He is much larger than I am but is having the surgery in August. I am so ecited becasue I have someone who is in the same school as me to talk to me about what it was like, his experience and what to expect when I go into the hospital. 
Needless to say, the time keeps coming closer and closer.. only 4 months away and three months until I have my final doctors appointment to get the Optifast. I can't wait. I wish it was happening NOW! haha... but alas, I must wait

All I can think about is having my surgery, I'm already in stores looking at clothes that I would like to wear and thinking "wow.. someday I'll be able to shop in a regular store again.. " The last time I did that was when I was 13 and I remember growing out of the store's size 15 pants!

I've been reading other people's profiles and it's so amazing to see the transformation in their attitudes and in their looks!

I'm trying to drop weight right now before my surgery so I can be as healthy as possible going into it. It's been really hard and my body isn't totally cooperating. My knees scream after a bike ride and my back aches constantly, but I'm not one to give up.
My goal weight is 135-140lbs, but my doctor said that may be a bit ambitious. We'll see how it goes, I suppose.. It's going to take a lot of hard work which I am definitely willing to do!