Inspirational Quotes

"Being content is mostly a learned discipline. First you must decide to be happy. Then you must practice being happy. It takes about 30 days to make a habit stick. But once you've accomplished it, things can shake you but won't knock you off. Start now. Being content is being in a state of peaceful happiness and you'll be surprised at all you CAN accomplish when you're at peace."


Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and sorrow, come and go like the wind. To be happy, rest like a giant tree, in the midst of them all.
__ The Budha

My Weight Bucket List

I guess this list will grow and change but I figured why not start it right?!!!!


1. I want to be picked up and twirled around
2. I want to wear a size small
3. I want to be a size 6
5. I want to get my belly button pierced( at 45 is that weird?)
6. I want to wear a belt that you can see and not covered up by a shirt
7. I want to wear a bikini
8. I want to run again without my body hurting
9. I want to climb stairs and not be out of breath
10. I want to feel younger than my age not older
11. I want weight not to be an issue anymore. I want to live my life without counting calories, points, dieting,etc.

Yippee New Milestone For Me

I am a diet cokeaholic. I drink a lot of diet coke. At least a 2 liter a day or more. Yes that was not a typo!
I have been addicted to diet coke for the last 20 years or so. When Hurricane Katrina hit, I said that I will be okay as long as I have my diet coke and good ice(a post for another day).
You will all be happy to know that I have been diet coke free since January 24th. Go me! 3 days and counting! First time that I haven't had diet coke in over 20 years. It feels good to beat another addiction. I quit smoking on July 19,2010.Hopefully, I will beat the food addiction as well!

February 15th

My surgery is scheduled for February 15th. My life will begin again.I am so excited but nervous too.

The AHA Moment

I wonder if many of us had one or many aha moments leading up to VSG. I know one in particular that stands out to me. I decided to start making a list so this post may be edited many times:
1. My Aunt had gastric bypass surgery and you will never guess who she gives all of her fat clothes to. Yeah that's right...ME. I get the fat clothes that she doesn't fit into anymore. You know what the saddest part is.... they fit me!! That sucks!

Get some Mio today!

So my first step is to wean myself off of diet coke. I drink tons of diet coke. At least a 2 liter a day. I know that isn't good but it is what it is. This morning I had a glass of diet coke.For the rest of today(it's 4:30p.m.), I drank water and iced tea. When I was at the store I picked up a bottle of mango/peach Mio. There were several flavors but this sounded good to me. I came home and tried it out. You put a squirt or two in a glass of water. It is really good. It is a water enhancer made by Kraft foods. I am really excited! It will definitely help when drinking water. Have you tried this? If so, what is your favorite flavor?

Nutrition Info on High Protein Foods

Food	Serving	Calories	Protein	Fat
Boars Honey Turkey& Oven Gold	2oz	60	13	1
Boars Havarti	1oz.	110	6	10
Boars Mozerella	1oz.	90	6	7
Boars Cheddar	1oz	110	6	9
Boars Turkey Pepperoni	1oz	70	10	3.5
Mini Baby Bell	1oz	50	6	3
Fage Yogurt	1cp	130	23	0
Chicken Breast Tenders	4oz	100	23	.5
Egg	1	70	6	5
Danactive Vanilla Probiotic	1 bottle	80	3	1.5
Best Part Skim Ricotta	¼ cp.	90	6	6
Banana	1 lg	121	1.48	.45
Sugar free popsicle	1bar	25	0	0
Cherries	1cp/1	90/3	1/0.1	0/0
Hummus	2 Tbsp	70	1	6
Fatfree milk	1cp	90	8	0
Muscle Milk Light	1	100	15	2.5
2% Lowfat Cottage Cheese	1cont.	90	10	2
Italian cheese	1oz (2Tbsp)	110	9	8