The Fight: 100 POUNDS!!!!!!!!!!!

Friday, May 8, 2009

100 POUNDS!!!!!!!!!!!

I DID IT... 100 POUNDS LOST!!!!!!!!!! Finally, over the last few days I have been getting closer and closer and closer but not there yet..... until today. The scale this morning read 287.6. Wow, it feels great to reach a milestone like that. It has been a lot of work, the lap band has enabled me to get there but I am not doen yet. 220 is the unltimate goal but my next mini goal is 279. The last time I lost a lot of wieght, about 7 years ago, I got down to 279 and that has been the lowest I have been since college when I was a bicycle messenger in downtown Bellevue. I will keep you "posted" a long the way. Thank you all for your encouragement and your prayers.

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SarahMay 8, 2009 at 10:59 AM
That is fabulous! Way to go. You must feel great :)
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Katharine WarmerdamMay 8, 2009 at 11:34 AM
Congrats on joining the Century Club Pat! (100 lbs lost) I heard you had the lap band. That's so awesome. I had gastric bypass almost 3 years ago and have lost 254lbs. Life is so awesome. Keep up the good work. Remember the protein, vitamins and water!
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Robin (King) WebberleyMay 9, 2009 at 11:38 PM
Wow! What a great accomplishment. You are inspiring...hopefully my dad will jump on in and join the journey. I was wondering a couple things though. For the rest of your life, will you only be able to eat small portions?...is the lap band a permanant fixture? Are you working out, or just dieting alone? Do you watch Biggest Loser? I do, and the episode to me that struck a cord in me was the episode where they visited Dr. H and he informed them of their progress after just a few weeks and the amount of meds they had each been weaned off due to the diet/exercise. The clincher was the confession that it takes hundreds of thousands of dollars in healthcare per year per person....all because of the food we choose to eat (I am not including the hereditary aspcects/reasoning someone may need medication). It was a crazy and astonishing fact. I am really inspired to take care of myself for this reason alone. I am so proud of you. Keep up the good work, inside and out! I am so glad you are publishing this part of your life and that God is at your core to guide you along! God bless you.

P.S. Sorry to hear you threw up...I don't like to do it either, and when I do, I feel disgusting for a while afterwards. Sorry if you had to re-join the meeting too?!
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UnknownMay 10, 2009 at 7:58 AM
Heard you were looking good Pat. Hope I run into you again around City Hall, I might not recognze you now, it has been since February. Congrats on the 100 lb milestone!
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Your encouraging words mean the world to me. Thank you for sharing your heart. ~ Pat

My Story

Here is what I have come to finally admit, I am addicted to food. I am starting this journey weighing more then I ever had before, 391. Yep three hundred and ninty one pounds. You can check out my best Biggest Loser pose in the pictures. I alway knew I was big but like some people who look in the mirror and say, "I am fat." I can look in the mirror and not see how big I really am. I have dieted off and on so many time. I have lost 50 pounds, 60 pounds, 80 pounds, 30 and 40 pounds and just like most everyone I gained it all back and more. For the last year or so with the help of my wife Lisa, I have been considering getting the lap band surgery. I remember the free seminar we went to, "No way!". Surgery was to drastic and not for me. But I was challenged about my weight and lost 70 pounds with Isagenix. I gained 80 or so back. A couple of months ago Lisa and I decided it was time to do something drastic. Something had to change. I was diagnosed with diabetes, I have to use a C-PAP machine at night because I have sever sleep apnea, and I am taking medicine to control my cholesterol. I started talking to people I know who have had the Lap Band surgery. It worked and they loved it. More research and I decided that this was something that I needed to do. Something has to change.

The process. Two weeks before the surgery you start a liquid diet. The liquid diet continues for four weeks after to let your system adapt to the change that has been made. After the surgery my stomach will be the size of an egg. This means that my whole outlook on food has to change. As I said, I am addicted to food. My liquid diet is actually a fast and my prayer is that God will break the addiction in my life. When thus fast period is over I will not see food as the center of all that I do but a peripheral in my life. I won't stop at fast food places just because I can and want to. I don't want to ever have to fight that desire again. After the four week liquid diet I can start soft foods and then regular foods but my meal size will be 2 to 4oz. But with a new outlook on food, eating that little won't be a big deal.

The Fight

Friday, May 8, 2009

100 POUNDS!!!!!!!!!!!

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