1 Watermellon + 1 Gallon of milk + 5 bags of sugar + a 19 inch flat screen tv

Day 125, 285.8 lbs, that's 69.2 lbs so far. I am sorry I haven't blogged in a while. When I first decided to blog about my journey, I promised myself that I would stay up to date with my blogging, even if the stuff that was going on wasn't positive. Well as you can see, I haven't blogged in exactly 3 weeks. That's because I haven't lost anything in 3 weeks. It has been a rough 3 weeks and I would like to say that it is 100% related to hitting a plateau, but while that might be partially true, I also haven't been making the best decisions with my diet. The thing with this Lap-Band is, yes my somach capacity is reduced and it acts like an appetite suppressant, but I still have to make healthy eating choices and if I'm eating crap, I am still not going to lose weight. Now it's not like I have gone off the deep end and just been eating whatever the hell I feel like, but I haven't been making all the right choices. snacking and drinking the froo-froo coffees. Popcorn. Wonderful, amazing, life-altering, popcorn. So I decided this week was "Kick my butt back into gear week". I started to change up my work-out routine, I am only drinking plain coffee with splenda and skim milk, and I have layed off the popcorn. (although I will tell you this right now, I will never give up popcorn completely because I love it too much and I truly believe that when you deprive yourself of every joy in your life you will begin to resent it. I dont' ever want to hate my journey.) With that being said, everything in moderation. Anyway, so I have been kicking butt this week and I am proud to say I have jumped over the hump. I have also met my next goal: Lose 66 lbs (The most weight I have every lost during any attemp to lose weight) Go me! I am still so happy with my decision to take this step and go on this journey and I believe that I can accomplish this. I have added a new goal to my list. This is a big one, and I am going to have to work really hard to accomplish it. It's the first one I have set that has the potential to not get met, but I am going to try my hardest to accomplish it. I want to lose at total of 100 lbs by July 5th. This is the day I leave for Peru. That means I will need to lose 30 more lbs in a little less than 3 months. Which would be a 100 lb weight loss in exactly 7 months. I know its a big one, but I am really going to try to make it happen. I need evryone's support and encouragement though. I am going to Peru on a humanitatian mission with the Hope Alliance. I am so excited but we are going to be doing a lot of standing, walking and even hiking and how great would it be to be able to do all of those things 100 lbs lighter? So, please help keep me in check. Thank you to everyone that has been there for me during this and encouraged me and loved me. Thank you for all the kind words and praise. Thank you for sticking by me and pushing me every day. I couldn't do this without you. And just to clarify, my weight loss is roughly that of 1 watermelon + 1 gallon of milk + 5 bags of sugar + a 19 inch flat screen tv. Can you even imagine carrying that much extra weight around on you every day?