Hello.....my name is Mary :)

I know, I know.....I have been gone for way too long this time! I need a spanking! :)

No great excuses just a busy life in general!

I was talking to Amy @ http://babblesofabandster.blogspot.com/ and she said she missed my blog! Sweet isn't she!! She is also sending me some clothes!!!!!!!! I just love her! :)

I have really just been busy with work....church....church......home.....just everything!

I promise to start doing better! :)

On the weight loss front I am doing awesome I have lost 0 lbs!!!!!!!! Cool huh! Just joking...about it being awesome, I really have lost not one single lb :( Sad I know! I just have had to come to terms with the fact that I can just not loose weight on my own. It just doesn't happen for me :( I really don't know what to do about it, other thank just sit back and wait and pray really hard that when I do finally get this tool inside me I will succeed. Kinda depressing :( I need encouragement :) Maybe ya'll could help me with this.....hint hint ;) !!!

On the life front everything is going great just bust great! I am not sure if ya'll remember but my husband Anthony had hurt his foot while dancing at church the last time I posted! Well, praise God everything is fine! The first ortho we saw was here in Jasper was not really that good

:( Of course he wanted to do surgery like he does with every patient he sees :) Get my drift!!! Surgery was not in our vocabulary for a lot of reasons! So we went to see an ankle specialist in Birmingham at the Andrews clinic!!!!! Awesome experience! Guess what he said everything was fine :) Oh, and Eli Manning was in there the day we were! Pretty cool huh!!!!!!

On the Mary needs a vacation front everything is moving right along! Disney is less than a month away! Since I haven't managed to loose any weight :( I have just come to the terms that I am going to be doing Disney as a BIG GIRL!!!! But you know what, I am a hottie and you better believe that I am going to rock it big and beautiful style! :) I'll just have to squeeze in the rides!!!!! :) I have been doing a little shopping for my trip......here is some things I have bought!

Ok blogger is being weird and will not let up my upload my pictures :(

I'll try to post them later!!!

Now, ya'll get to leaving encouraging comments! :)

Thanks in advance! :)

Opossum

Well, what a beautiful weekend it was here in Alabama!

So, my husband and I came home from church last night to find our dog, Ellie Mae, laying beside a opossum in the yard! Oh my goodness! My husband went over to the opossum and kicked it because he thought it was dead. The opossum growled at him! He is so blessed the the stupid thing didn't attack him! He had to shoot the opossum! It was vicious! He had to shoot it 5 times! It was such a crazy night! I praise God that the thing didn't attack my dog or my husband! I have no idea why in the world my sweet Ellie Mae would be laying in the yard with a OPOSSUM!

Besides that crazy event we had a great weekend!

I WENT TO THE WEIGHT LOSS SEMINAR!

YAY!

It was really informative and I really learned a lot! I made my first appointment with the surgeon for March 15th! They could have seen me today, but I have to pay a $250.00 consultation fee :( I was not expecting that, but it is just a small hurdle. I also found out that my insurance company makes me do a 6 month supervised diet. So, I will not be able to have my surgery as soon as I would like. That is ok though! I can wait. I am thinking if everything goes to plan, I might be able to have the surgery in late August or early September.

I learned a lot about different surgery options. They talked a lot about the gastric sleeve operation. The surgeons that I choose like this surgery the best. I am still 100% lap band. They also talked about how they like the realize band the most, but do either one. Does anyone have a realize band? Anyone know anything about them?

Have a great Monday!

Thanks for reading!

Mary

Tomorrow is the day I go to seminar :)

Well, tomorrow is the day I go to my first seminar! I am really excited and ready to get this going! I am praying that this whole process does not take that long, but if it does I am prepared to wait. I live in Alabama! The Dr.'s I have chosen are with Alabama weight loss surgery. There are 2 Dr.'s in the practice and I have chosen Dr. Miles!

I am really excited!

Thanks for reading!

Mary

Daily Plate

Oh my!

So, yesterday I decided I would track how many calories I was eating in a day. I have read on many people's blogs that they use dailyplate.com. So, I thought I would give it a try! Wow, I did not realize how many calories I was eating. I never thought it would be that many. In all honesty I really didn't even think I ate that much!

How many calories did I eat yesterday, you ask?

2,789

I know, that is horrible!

I can at least tell you that today I am being very conscious of how many calories I am eating!

Thanks for reading!

Mary

Here comes some pictures!

Ok. So here are some pictures.

The first two are from our honeymoon.

The next one is from our one year anniversary trip - cruise.

The last one is from our beach trip in 2008.

I did not even take any pictures on our beach trip from 2009.

I wish I had, I guess I knew I wouldn't want to see them!

Anyway. I look back at those pictures from our honeymoon, and I think wow I really messed up. Look how much weight I have gained since then. Then I have to remind myself...you were on diet pills remember. Oh yeah I was on diet pills. Obviously those didn't work out :(

I have had a problem with diet pills MY WHOLE LIFE. Well atleast it seems like that to me!

I started taking diet pills when I was in the 6th grade! I wanted to be a majorette in high school and was told there was a weight limit. I lost 80 lbs. to be able to try out for majorette. I made it! The only problem was...I did it by taking diet pills. I struggled on and off with diet pills from 6th grade all the way to that first picture. The day I married was the last time I took a diet pill.

I am now the heavist I have ever been.

My weight has been a yo-yo my entire tennage/adult life.

I am ready to make a change.

I have tried every diet there is known to man.

I have seen doctor after doctor.

I am ready to banded!

I know it is the right decision!

Thanks for reading!