OMG Time Sure Does Fly By...

Ok so today is my 3 month surgi-versary! I can't believe it's been 3 months already. This last month has been super busy that I didn't as well as I had hoped - but a loss is a loss. I weighed myself this morning for the first time in a long while and I am about 264. 2-6-4!!! That is so eff-ing nutso!

I can't even remember the last time I weighed 264 lbs. Actually that is lie, I used to work with a guy that was 6'5" and he weighed about 270 and I remember thinking to myself then - geez this guy is almost a foot taller than me and I weigh the same as him. That was 8 years ago!

This last month I have launched the start of a new business, moved out to my own place again I feel so liberated! It's amazing that I feel so good and I'm finally moving forward with my life. It has been like I was stuck in limbo for so long while everyone was taking these steps forward and I was stagnant.

I know I haven't been doing well with my food/supplements/exercise and now that I'm living on my own and I can maintain a better schedule I think I can finally get this under control. Plus I have a gym in my condo's so that will be nice, just pop downstairs for a workout or walk to the gym down the street. I'm also by work now so I can walk to work.

My new business selling jewelry is going to be amazing and so much fun getting paid to party. I hope to build it big enough to do it full time someday soon. I feel so totally amazing like anything is possible now!

Total Lost since my highest weight = 72 lbs

Weight = 264 lbs

HW 336 \ SW 315 \ CW 264 \ GW 150

Seeing numbers but struggling and good Lord I need to read more!

Ok so I'm still losing weight which is good b/c that was the whole point of having surgery. I'm the lowest I've been in 7 years. However, I still have a hard time getting in enough food, water, supplements. I don't know why this is so hard for me. It's frustrating.

I can pretty much eat every meat - so I'm thankful for those type of things. I still have not "dumped" or thrown up from eating so that is an accomplishment in itself. But I know I will not survive this unless I get on some sort of schedule.

I need suggestions that work and are easy to follow, being extremely busy and running around everywhere I need to be prepared.

I wonder if anyone else experiences this? Is it just me? I am never hungry, I forget to eat constantly. I feel like it's been forever since I've seen my nutritionist. I need to see her soon. She always puts me back on track.Does anyone else get cold when they lose weight. I'm always freezing now. Maybe it's all the blubber I've lost!

I feel great most of the time but I can definitely experience a sluggish day. Might be the lack of iron I know I'm supposed to take it. But they all taste so horrible. I need an alternative quick!

I have finally come up with my list of books I'm going to attempt to read in 1001 Days. Sheesh, I never knew how many books most college bound people should have read before Freshman year. Sadly I've only read a few. Oh well, that's the whole point of this right? I will catch up on readings I should have done long ago. The way I figure is a book a week, so if my little sister can read Twilight in less than a week I should be able to keep up. I will have to set a page goal for each day based on the length of each book.

I'm kind of excited - I've been saying forever that I should read more. Now I have incentive! I told my friend Heather I can use some of the money I put away from this list to go to Ireland with her for her 30th birthday. How exciting!

On America's Next Top Model (ANTM for us followers) there was a girl auditioning who is a Harvard Grad with a major in English Literature. When Tyra asked her who her favorite female heroine was from English Literature you would have thought she was speaking Greek. Then she asked her to give poses based on Jack London's White Fang, or Pearl S. Buck and the girl was like I don't know those ones. How embarrassing! Anyway, here is my list. I have a couple holes that need filling so if any suggestions please let me know.

COLLEGE BOUND
1 Maya Angelou – And Still I Rise
2 EE Cummings – Complete Poems, 1904-1962
3 Emily Dickinson – The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
4 John Donne – The Complete Poetry of John Donne
5 TS Eliot – The Waste Land
6 Robert Frost – The Poetry of Robert Frost
7 Allen Ginsberg – Howl and Other Poems
8 Langston Hughes – Selected Poems
9 William Butler Yeats – The Poems
10 Dylan Thomas – Poems of Dylan Thomas
11 William Wordsworth – Poems
12 Samuel Beckett – Waiting for Godot
13 Henrik Ibsen – A Doll’s House
14 Christopher Marlowe – Doctor Faustus
15 Arthur Miller – Death of a Salesman
16 Jean Paul Sarte – No Exit
17 William Shakespeare – Hamlet, Macbeth
18 Bernard Shaw – Man and Superman, Saint Joan and Pygmalion
19 Sophocles – Oedipus Rex
20 Oscar Wilde – The Importance of Being Earnest
21 Joseph Campbell – The Power of Myth
22 Edith Hamilton – Mythology
23 Jonathan Kozol – Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools
24 Jacob Bronowski – The Ascent of Man
25 Charles Darwin – The Origin of Species
26 Stephen Hawking – A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes
27 John Hersey – Hiroshima
28 Carol Karlsen – The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England
29 Niccolo Machiavelli – The Prince
30 Karl Marx – The Communist Manifesto
31 Plato – The Republic
32 Jane Yolen – Favorite Folktales From Around the World
33 Michael Berenbaum – The World Must Know: The History of the Holocaust
34 Leo Tolstoy – Anna Karenina
35 Amy Tan- The Joy Luck Club
36 Jonathan Swift – Gulliver’s Travels
37 Mary W. Shelley – Frankenstein
38 Sir Walter Scott – Ivanhoe
39 Erich Maria Remarque – All Quiet on the Western Front
40 Boris Pasternak – Doctor Zhivago
41 George Orwell – Animal Farm
42 Franz Kafka – The Trial
43 James Joyce – A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
44 Kurt Vonnegut – Slaughterhouse-Five
45 Mark Twain – The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
46 Harriet Beecher Stowe – Uncle Tom’s Cabin
47 Edgar Allan Poe – Great Tales and Poems
48 Sylvia Plath – The Bell Jar
49 Herman Melville – Moby-Dick
50 Ken Kesey – One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

CLASSICS
1 Aldous Huxley – Brave New World
2 William Golding – Lord of the Flies
3 Gustave Flaubert – Madame Bovary
4 Feodor Dostoevski – Crime and Punishment
5 Charles Dickens – Great Expectations
6 Daniel Defoe – Robinson Crusoe
7 Miguel de Cervantes – Don Quixote
8 Lewis Carroll – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
9 Albert Camus – The Stranger
10 Joseph Heller – Catch-22
11 Nathaniel Hawthorne – The Scarlett Letter
12 William Faulkner – As I Lay Dying
13 Ray Bradbury – Fahrenheit 451
14 Alexander Dumas – The Three Musketeers
15 Alexander Dumas – The Count of Monte Cristo
16 Howard Pyle – Robin Hood
17 Victor Hugo – Les Miserables
18 Washington Irving – The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
19 Robert Louis Stevenson – Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
20 Victor Hugo – The Hunchback of Notre Dame
21 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – Sherlock Holmes
22 Charlotte Bronte – Jane Eyre
23 Johann Wyss – Swiss Family Robinson
24 Charles Dickens – A Christmas Carol
25 Homer – The Iliad
26 Frederick Schiller – Joan of Arc
27 Edmond Rostand – Cyrano de Bergerac
28 Homer – The Odyssey
29 Kate Chopin - The Awakening
30 Pierre Choderlos de Laclos - Dangerous Liasons
31 Upton Sinclair - The Jungle
32 F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
33 Ernest Hemingway - The Sun Also Rises
34 Toni Morrison - Beloved
35 J.R.R. Tolken - The Hobbit
36 Jules Verne - Around the World in Eighty Days
37 HG Wells - The Invisible Man
38 Pearl S. Buck - The Good Earth
39 Jane Austen - Pride & Prejudice
40 Bram Stoker - Dracula
41 Voltaire - Candide
42 Alighieri Dante - Divine Comedy
43 Aesop - Aesop's Fables
44 Alighieri Dante - Inferno
45 Daniel Defoe - Moll Flanders
46 Sun Tzu - The Art of War
47 Confucius - The Teachings of Confucius
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Biography
1 Maya Angelou – I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
2 Henry David Thoreau – Walden
3 Martin Luther King Jr. – A Testament of Hope
4 Eve Curie – Madame Curie
5 Benjamin Franklin – The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
6 Malcom X – The Autobiography of Malcom X
7 Ishmael Beah - A Long Way Gone
8 Vincent Van Gogh - The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh
9 Andy Warhol - The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
10 Dalai Lama - Freedom in Exile
11 Frida Kahlo - The Diary of Frida Kahlo

My Choice
1 Steven D. Levitt - Freakonomics
2 Bill Bryson - A Short History of Nearly Everything
3 Will Bowen - A Complaint Free World
4 Eric Schlosser - Fast Food Nation
5 David Sedaris - Me Talk Pretty One Day
6 Charles Martiqnette - Gil Elvgren: All His Glamourous American Pin-ups
7 Reid Stewart Austin - Alberto Vargas : Works from the Max Vargas Collection
8 Leonardo Da Vinci - Leonardo's Notebooks

Other's Choice
1 Wally Lamb - She's Come Undone
2 Dan Brown - The Da Vinci Code
3 Thomas L. Friedman - The World is Flat
4 Eckhart Tolle - A New Earth
5 Ken Follet - The Pillars of the Earth
6 Jon Krakauer - Into the Wild
7 James Frey - A Million Little Pieces

Weight = 275 lbs

HW 336 \ SW 315 \ CW 275 \ GW 150

Here it comes a better version of me...

Hello and welcome to my very first blog. I feel so hip and cutting edge - even though they have been around for a long time. I know I'm just jumping on the bandwagon and putting a little piece of me out there for the world to see and it's not that big of a deal. But I must say this is pretty exciting.

So my lovely little friend Leslie has inspired me to follow in her footsteps and do the 101 Things in 1001 Days challenge that she is partaking in. I thought it was an amazing experience and a great way to get things done. I have always had a "bucket list" of things to do before I die and it's a fabulous way to incorporate some of them into this project. So, thank you Leslie.

Also there is a lot happening in my life right now and I think documenting it is a good way to stay organized and keep track of everything going on in one spot. Along with the 101 in 1001, I also had Gastric Bypass 2 months ago, so it will be nice to track my progress, I'm moving out FINALLY in about a month to Capitol Hill and I'm starting a new business or two.

I want to start this around October 1st. I will update this at least once a week and try to follow my list of 101 Things and hope to complete it by July 1, 2011. Enjoy!