Black Team - Part 19ish

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  • Marla64
    Marla64 Posts: 23,120 Member

    Goodness! I'm all about healthy self-perception and I'm feeling the love. :smile: Thanks Marla!!!!

    SpongeMarla sounds adorable. But non SpongeMarla is adorable too. :) How are you feeling?

    Much better, thanks-- almost back to normal. Took a couple small walks with the fam yesterday and will possibly try and run a couple steps this weekend.

    Biggest pain in the butt is waiting for the "drain" to stop oozing. I had so much infection, the doctor had put in a drain which, natch, he took out before I came home. But, the incision that was there for the tube he said would close up on its own once the draining stopped totally. And that I shouldn't shower until then. I'm about sponge bathed out-- I want a shower!!

    But, all in all-- not bad!!! Thanks for aksin!
  • Girlmom282109
    Girlmom282109 Posts: 2,643 Member
    Ok so here I am with hubs on our honeymoon cruise. We didn't sit out by the pool in our bathing suits because we both thought we were to fat. (he did gain 7 pounds in 3 days though)
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    Here is me at the start of my fat loss journey
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    And here is me today about 5 minutes ago.:laugh:
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    My mom and hubs are the only ones in the family that have seen me now so when we go up to NY in july I hope to be down 20 more pounds and they will all be amazed!
  • Marla64
    Marla64 Posts: 23,120 Member
    okay-- so two things--

    1) You look absolutely incredible-- congrats-- keep it going, fearless one! :smile:

    2) Your husband is a total cutiepie-- yum! :devil:
  • Girlmom282109
    Girlmom282109 Posts: 2,643 Member
    okay-- so two things--

    1) You look absolutely incredible-- congrats-- keep it going, fearless one! :smile:

    2) Your husband is a total cutiepie-- yum! :devil:

    Thanks on both and he looks even better now. He has lost about 42 pounds!
  • Marla64
    Marla64 Posts: 23,120 Member
    okay-- so two things--

    1) You look absolutely incredible-- congrats-- keep it going, fearless one! :smile:

    2) Your husband is a total cutiepie-- yum! :devil:

    Thanks on both and he looks even better now. He has lost about 42 pounds!

    You two must then be just a gorgeous couple-- so proud of you-- congrats to you both!!!!!!
  • loreeb18
    loreeb18 Posts: 1,221 Member
    Your husband is a total cutiepie-- yum! :devil:

    Man, you are all about checking out other people's husbands! :laugh:
  • loreeb18
    loreeb18 Posts: 1,221 Member
    Sam - You look great! You look so much younger now too! :flowerforyou:
  • Girlmom282109
    Girlmom282109 Posts: 2,643 Member
    okay-- so two things--

    1) You look absolutely incredible-- congrats-- keep it going, fearless one! :smile:

    2) Your husband is a total cutiepie-- yum! :devil:

    Thanks on both and he looks even better now. He has lost about 42 pounds!

    You two must then be just a gorgeous couple-- so proud of you-- congrats to you both!!!!!!

    There is a pic of us in my profile with him at his lightest I have ever seen him. and Thanks again.
  • Girlmom282109
    Girlmom282109 Posts: 2,643 Member
    Sam - You look great! You look so much younger now too! :flowerforyou:

    Thanks. You look great as well. I will never ever be in a bikini so congrats to you!!:smokin:
  • Marla64
    Marla64 Posts: 23,120 Member
    Your husband is a total cutiepie-- yum! :devil:

    Man, you are all about checking out other people's husbands! :laugh:

    I see a cutiepie, I call it thus-- I can look, as long as I don't touch. :wink:
  • Girlmom282109
    Girlmom282109 Posts: 2,643 Member
    Your husband is a total cutiepie-- yum! :devil:

    Man, you are all about checking out other people's husbands! :laugh:

    I see a cutiepie, I call it thus-- I can look, as long as I don't touch. :wink:

    That is what hubs says about the guy at work who wanted to see my boobs!:noway: :grumble: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
  • Marla64
    Marla64 Posts: 23,120 Member
    Your husband is a total cutiepie-- yum! :devil:

    Man, you are all about checking out other people's husbands! :laugh:

    I see a cutiepie, I call it thus-- I can look, as long as I don't touch. :wink:

    That is what hubs says about the guy at work who wanted to see my boobs!:noway: :grumble: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

    Well, I can assure you, I do not wish to see your husband's boobs. :wink: Or any other part of him for that matter!!
  • musicmom04
    musicmom04 Posts: 670 Member
    you guys all look AMAZING!!!
  • jimswmn
    jimswmn Posts: 1,350 Member
    Lori, You are a braver woman than I. Wowzer ! :flowerforyou: You look great.

    Sam, Our fearless leader, I have to agree you not only look younger but happier. And as for the hubs, have to agree with Marla...yums.:smile:
  • Marla64
    Marla64 Posts: 23,120 Member
    Lori, You are a braver woman than I. Wowzer ! :flowerforyou: You look great.

    Sam, Our fearless leader, I have to agree you not only look younger but happier. And as for the hubs, have to agree with Marla...yums.:smile:

    See? We ain't too old to look and appreciate, Lori-- :wink:
  • loreeb18
    loreeb18 Posts: 1,221 Member
    Lori, You are a braver woman than I. Wowzer ! :flowerforyou: You look great.

    Sam, Our fearless leader, I have to agree you not only look younger but happier. And as for the hubs, have to agree with Marla...yums.:smile:

    See? We ain't too old to look and appreciate, Lori-- :wink:

    :laugh:
  • loreeb18
    loreeb18 Posts: 1,221 Member
    I don't know if this is quite the kind of letter you meant Sara but here goes:


    Dear Lori,

    Step away from the mirror. If you are going to look in the mirror, look at yourself as a whole. Don't pick on every little flaw and flub that you see wrong about yourself. Think of what you've done. In the past year, you've made a human, lost all the weight that went along with that growing process. You have also lost additional weight that puts you lower than you were when you were 18! (Psst, that's 9 years ago.) When you graduated, you wore size 8's. Now size 8's are getting big on you - even jeans right out of the dryer!

    Besides now being in good enough shape to be willing to post bikini pics of youself to your cyber peeps, you are healthier. You now *almost* like working out. You kind of enjoy eating healthy -- at least some of it. Your goal after having Harley was to look good in a string bikini. You've accomplished that! (No pics of that one yet.) So when your weight goes up by a pound or 2, quit giving youself such a hard time! Your husband thinks you look great, your friends think you look great, your mom thinks you're too thin. :ohwell:

    Every year one of your New Year's Resolutions is to lose weight/get healthy/get in shape. You've lost the weight, you've gotten healthier. So for the next year, your "resolution" is to work on the getting in better shape. Start lifting weights more often. (I don't think once a month really does much, now does it, Lori. :huh: ) Start doing those ab workouts. :grumble: And APPRECIATE youself. Be glad about what you've done and enjoy it! You'll only be 27 once.

    :heart: Lori
  • 3babybeans
    3babybeans Posts: 8,268 Member
    Lori, thanks perfect. :heart: I am so proud of you!
  • loreeb18
    loreeb18 Posts: 1,221 Member
    Lori, thanks perfect. :heart: I am so proud of you!

    Do I get an A? :bigsmile:
  • 3babybeans
    3babybeans Posts: 8,268 Member
    Lori, thanks perfect. :heart: I am so proud of you!

    Do I get an A? :bigsmile:

    Ummm...A-. There was some poor sentence structure in there.

    *whispers* not really, I just didn't want to give the first one an A. :laugh:
  • loreeb18
    loreeb18 Posts: 1,221 Member
    Lori, thanks perfect. :heart: I am so proud of you!

    Do I get an A? :bigsmile:

    Ummm...A-. There was some poor sentence structure in there.

    *whispers* not really, I just didn't want to give the first one an A. :laugh:

    :huh: :grumble:
  • SatelliteCrush80
    SatelliteCrush80 Posts: 3,575 Member
    Holy crap, look at us! I am so proud of all of us for taking charge of our lives and our health in such a huge way. We are one hot group! :heart:

    Well, here are mine...

    July 2003, at my heaviest (at least 250)

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    Dec 2006, halfway there (about 200)

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    June 2008, just after joining MFP (about 165)

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    Feb 2009, at 153...don't have anything more recent other than the av.

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  • Girlmom282109
    Girlmom282109 Posts: 2,643 Member
    Your husband is a total cutiepie-- yum! :devil:

    Man, you are all about checking out other people's husbands! :laugh:

    I see a cutiepie, I call it thus-- I can look, as long as I don't touch. :wink:

    That is what hubs says about the guy at work who wanted to see my boobs!:noway: :grumble: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

    Well, I can assure you, I do not wish to see your husband's boobs. :wink: Or any other part of him for that matter!!

    It's ok if you did I like em!!! :laugh: :laugh: :bigsmile: :bigsmile: :bigsmile:
  • Girlmom282109
    Girlmom282109 Posts: 2,643 Member
    Holy crap, look at us! I am so proud of all of us for taking charge of our lives and our health in such a huge way. We are one hot group! :heart:

    Well, here are mine...

    July 2003, at my heaviest (at least 250)

    010_7-1.jpg

    Dec 2006, halfway there (about 200)

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    June 2008, just after joining MFP (about 165)

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    Feb 2009, at 153...don't have anything more recent other than the av.

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    You look fabulous!!!!!
  • Marla64
    Marla64 Posts: 23,120 Member
    Shuntae-- you look just wonderful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Well, gee, Sam-- if I have your permission-- hmmmmm-- hee. :wink: :devil:

    I may head out to run-- decisions, decisions. I jumped up and down a couple times to see if there's any sensitivity and I'm feeling pretty good-- I may try a mile later. We'll see-- I won't be stupid, but I'm itching to get out there.
  • SatelliteCrush80
    SatelliteCrush80 Posts: 3,575 Member
    Shuntae-- you look just wonderful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Well, gee, Sam-- if I have your permission-- hmmmmm-- hee. :wink: :devil:

    I may head out to run-- decisions, decisions. I jumped up and down a couple times to see if there's any sensitivity and I'm feeling pretty good-- I may try a mile later. We'll see-- I won't be stupid, but I'm itching to get out there.

    Thanks, lady! Sometimes I still have to do double takes when I see my reflection in windows because it doesn't seem real. But judging by the pants I wore to work today, it is most definitely the case!

    Be careful if you go out, it may just be good for you to get out and move a little. :bigsmile:
  • SatelliteCrush80
    SatelliteCrush80 Posts: 3,575 Member
    Holy crap, look at us! I am so proud of all of us for taking charge of our lives and our health in such a huge way. We are one hot group! :heart:

    Well, here are mine...

    July 2003, at my heaviest (at least 250)

    010_7-1.jpg

    Dec 2006, halfway there (about 200)

    untitled-1.jpg

    June 2008, just after joining MFP (about 165)

    006-1.jpg

    Feb 2009, at 153...don't have anything more recent other than the av.

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    You look fabulous!!!!!

    Thanks, Sam...you (and the hubs) are looking great too!
  • Marla64
    Marla64 Posts: 23,120 Member
    Shuntae-- you look just wonderful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Well, gee, Sam-- if I have your permission-- hmmmmm-- hee. :wink: :devil:

    I may head out to run-- decisions, decisions. I jumped up and down a couple times to see if there's any sensitivity and I'm feeling pretty good-- I may try a mile later. We'll see-- I won't be stupid, but I'm itching to get out there.

    Thanks, lady! Sometimes I still have to do double takes when I see my reflection in windows because it doesn't seem real. But judging by the pants I wore to work today, it is most definitely the case!

    Be careful if you go out, it may just be good for you to get out and move a little. :bigsmile:

    Nah-- not going tonight-- too late. Maybe tomorrow-- :ohwell:
  • lynniejones
    lynniejones Posts: 1,291 Member
    Okay...here is me and my sister at Virginia beach last year:

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    here we are today: (my sister has lost 75 lbs and the dress she is wearing is one of my dresses that I gave her. I'm so proud of her!)
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  • 3babybeans
    3babybeans Posts: 8,268 Member
    Sam - You look amazing! I'm sure you'll be lookin' smokin' for your trip in July! You & hubby need to go sit poolside! *hugs* :heart:

    Shuntae - What a journey!!! You are so inspiring. PLUS, you have a gorgeous smile! :heart:

    Lynnie - Look at you & little sister! You both look aaaaamazing! How nice to have each other to support through the weight loss journey. Am I jealous that you photograph so well? yes. yes, I am. :wink: Beautiful! :heart:

    Lori - I couldn't give you an A b/c what if someone else wrote a better essay? Hmmm? What am I supposed to give THEM?! :wink: (I heard that excuse in high school so I thought I'd apply it here.). :laugh: I have since revised my policies & have given you a gold star & a smiley face sticker. Enjoy. LOL :heart:

    Marla - Did you decide to try it out & go for a run?
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