61 Pounds Gone! 90 Days! Details Inside…

61 pounds gone that is an amazing amount of weight to have lost. The road here has not been an easy one and that is for sure. I have had problems with my weight for as long as I can remember. During my school aged years were terrible for me in fact I remember when students and adults  would make fun of me for instance when I was in head start my teacher then sent me home with a note for my mother instructing her to go and buy my clothing from JCpenny. Another instance when I was in elementary school and upon meeting my third grade teacher for the first time she directly told me that she was going to fail me and that she most certainly did. While in elementary school I was active in fact, I tried everything to lose weight.

I joined the soccer team and the basketball team and I made both teams unfortunately I left the basketball team due to the conflict of the scheduling of my soccer games. Upon graduating from elementary I then when to middle school and joined the marching band where again my mother was promised that I was going to lose weight. By this time in the 200 pound range. I stayed at that particular weight for years. Meanwhile in 2005 is when my weight really starting affecting me. I was in high school and looking at boys but unfortunately, they were not looking at me.

At this point in my life, I began looking into having the gastric bypass surgery however after getting to the halfway point my then doctor then pulled a fast one with my co-payment saying that my mother did not pay to see the doctor when she and I both know better. Fast forward to 2008 when I was diagnosed with Lymphedema, once again, I tried for the gastric bypass, and once again, my co-payment was an issue with the new doctor that diagnosed me with the edema condition.  I tried every diet and workout under the sun, as I am certain that many of you have done the same thing as well. I tried Slim Fast, South Beach, Atkins, AmazeRx and Opti-Fast programs. With the Atkins and South Beach programs, they were too expensive and included foods that I did not usually eat. Although with the Slim Fast, AmazeRx and the Opti-Fast program I managed to lose 50 pounds or more however when I transitioned from drinking the shakes to eating food again I gained the weight that loss back and then some.

Earlier this year I tried again to have the bypass surgery because my weight had me physically disabled. I could not walk far no could I stand for long periods of time hell I could not even bathe myself now that is embarrassing. Having said that I went to a new doctor and was told that I am 24 years old and if I continue at the rate of which I am going in then I will not make it to see the age of 40 therefore I had to do something because it was now or never. Therefore, I spent the rest of January trying to figuring out a plan on how to lose weight and get healthy. One day towards the last week of January, I noticed that one of my Facebook friends was talking about a 90-Day Challenge and in the mist of that, he was also posting other people pictures that were on the challenge and showing their amazing transformations. I could not believe my eyes. At first I did not believe what I was seeing it took me a couple of days before I decided okay whatever this 90-Day Challenge is I have to try it.

My friend agreed to send me box of products which arrived at my door via UPS on February 4th and I been on the challenge for a total of 90 days. All I do is drink delicious shakes for breakfast and lunch along with a sensible dinner. In fact, I did not change my eating habits or the foods that I eat. I just simply added these delicious shakes to my eating regimen and I must say that my favorite shake is the Peanut butter and banana one and I would like to try the Banana Pudding one. A couple of days ago I had the pleasure of enjoying a peanut butter and chocolate shake.

I am honestly enjoying delicious treats that are usually considered bad for weight loss but my weight is falling off me like butter. I am now down 61 pounds and counting. With that said, I am dying to get my hands on a chocolate chip or an oatmeal cookie right about now.

P.S. Listen I know this may seem too good to me true however I am living proof that this 90-Day Challenge works. What other program on this planet allows you to indulge in delicious tasty treats and still be able to lose weight and get the body of your dreams? Are you up for the Challenge?

P.P.S. Just for checking out the challenge get your Free 7 Slimming Secrets Report here!

Has Anyone Seen Daddy Yankee?

Man I tell you back in the day (2004) to be exact yep nine years ago there was this sexy Puerto Rican guy that had one of the hottest songs on the planet that year. Yes, I am speaking of the hit song Gasolina. The song was just as hot as Daddy Yankee. Unfortunately, after that I cannot recall any other song of his that was released or crossed over to America besides Gasolina. Honestly, in my book Yankee had become what is known as a one hit wonder.

In addition to that, sources are now claiming that the Gasolina Rapper prefers people of the same-sex as himself. Sources are also saying that the Daddy Yankee was spotting kissing guy his supposedly boyfriend. However, of course once his team got wind of this storm brewing online both Yankee himself alongside his public representative were quick to defuse any gay rumors about him on the internet. Furthermore, the music industry has become very toxic to a point where it is damned if you do and damned if you do not.

If you are not a part of the click, that new world order take over the industry will do anything to take out any non-participants. This is why some fans favor underground recording artist over industry recording artist.Who cares about Daddy Yankee’s sexual orientation? Let us get back to the focus at hand the music.

Holiday Pranks & Weight Loss

april fools 2010 (Photo credit: Sean MacEntee)

Hi y’all I hope that everyone is having a swell April thus far. This is going to be a rather short post this week. This week so many good things have taken place. For one I am on break from school for about two more days. I have had an entire week of peace from school. Then on Sunday its back to business. Other than that, I really had fun on April Fool’s day. I really laughed my ass off at my mom calling the family and pranking everyone. There was on prank in particular that really made my day and that was when my mom called one of my aunts and told my aunt to tell her grandson that we had a package for him. Keep in my aunt tried telling my cousin that there was no package that it was an April Fool’s Day prank.  After that, we laughed at it and moved on. The next thing we know someone is at the front door knocking like the police. It is my little cousin and his grandma looking for his so-called “package.” His grandmother said that she told him that it was just a prank but for whatever reason he just did not want to believe it was a prank.

On to more exciting news, I went to the doctor on yesterday and received a shocker of my life. I now weigh 474. Keep in my before I was weighing in at 515 pounds and I went from 515 to 511 then from there I drop down to 497 and yesterday I dropped down to 474 therefore I have lost a total of 41 pounds. I was literally blown away. Therefore, today I will take pictures to update you all on my progress. Honestly I do not see or feel the weight loss yet but it’s showing up on the scales.

Have you had any success with weight loss this week? Let me know below.

 

To Breathe Or Not To Breathe

Well hello there I hope that you all had a wonderful and yet joyous Sunday because I sure enjoyed my Sunday. With that small piece of business being taken care of less tackle today’s business shall we. According to last Tuesday, which was March 19, 2013, that I was a part of a sleep study. Unfortunately there is a saying that there is nothing like having your own. In fact, whoever created that statement sure told the truth on that one. It took me what seemed like to me forever to fall asleep. How long do you think it will take you to fall asleep with several wires attached to your body? Hell when I did finally drift off to sleep a guy came into my room with the CPAP machine and put this old ugly-looking mask on my face. I liked to have died from feeling as if I was suffocating waiting for the machine to come on. With that being said the mask that I have I cannot breathe out of my mouth only through the machine. Hell I damn near have a hard time trying to talk with this damn thing on my face.

In my opinion, the study went well or so I thought. Friday evening a woman comes out to the house rolling this huge oxygen machine down my driveway and up to the front of my house. Now apparently according to my sleep study results of which came with this huge machine stated that I stopped breathing either one hundred and seventeen times or for one hundred and seventeen minutes. Not sure, which one it is but I will update you on that information later. Therefore, it has been established that I have a real bad case of sleep apnea.  According to the woman who came out that in so many words that if, I do not sleep with the machine that I will likely die in my sleep because I stop breathing too many times.

I have no idea why she was trying so hard to sell us this machine because my insurance company offered it on hundred percent. I eventually had to ask my mother to leave the room because of the comment that was made about me dying and what not. My mother and the young woman begin to get into what seemed to me as a heated conversation. Nevertheless, I was shown how to use and clean my CPAP machine. In addition to that, I will include some pictures of my machine and of me wearing this ugly mask.

Feeling Rather Awesome

Wow, I have tried to come in and write a new post to update everyone that I was finally feeling better after being in pain for an entire week. I was starting to think that I was going to have to go to the emergency room but thankful through the grace of the Heavenly Father I begin to feel better. However I again was trying to come on here and update you on my progress but for some reason I just could not log in. That is because I could not remember the password. Then lo and behold, the password suddenly came to me and here I am.

 

I hope you are happy to see me In fact, I would not wish that pain that I was experiencing on my worst enemy. I stopped drinking my body by VI Shake for a week. Lord knows I did not want to do that but I did not know what was wrong with me. Hell I still to this day have no clue what was going on with me. In my last update, I informed everyone that even that doctor was confused about what was going on with me  therefore I was given a prescription for gas pills and for constipation. however I did not get either of the filled it was after 5pm when I was seen by the doctor. Well no sense in going back down that road again I just wanted to say that I am feeling better.

 

Well The Doctor Said That It’s Just…..

Well I am back with an update on my condition as promised on yesterday. My mother and I left home yesterday evening about 3pm it was after 4pm before my mother was called to the back. Keep in mind that over the years that whatever doctor that my mother and I go to we are always in the same room. Even when my mother and I were on the Opti-fast weight loss program at UAB Eat right we were in the same room. Until last night at our recent doctor office, they started tripping last night about some new rule and something to do with it being too many people and the students from UAB.

Anyway I went off I was already in pain and It was after five o’ clock before I was called to the back. To make matters even worse I hate it when these babies come out of the classroom and do not know a damn thing about what they are doing. What are these colleges teaching them? I got irate because they could not get the blood pressure machine to take my blood pressure.  Keep in mind I am already pissed off about the room situation plus being called to the back after 5pm and now you mean to tell me you cannot read my blood pressure. However, it gets stranger than that and I am getting more heated by the moment. I only went to see the doctor because I could no longer bare this pain. Anyway, I am sure that everyone reading this has come across some fat people, big people, and gross looking fat people, whatever your preference is. This old African woman had the nerve to ask me was my extra stomach you know the smaller one on top and the larger one on the bottom. She was stupid then she had the nerve to tell me that I had my toes amputated then I said what? she said show me your feet I said lady I got all ten of my toes then on top of that she could not speak English all that well.

Now I normally do not play the race card but I am going to do it today. I hate it with a passion when people refer to black people as African Americas. If you all could have seen that doctor and I in that room last night it was a difference between the two of us than night and day. I am not from Africa nor do I ever plan to go to the “Motherland” I have not lost a damn thing down there. I do not know the language that they speak because English has always been my native language. I would prefer black than “African-American”.  Let me pull myself together here when I finally saw the” real” doctor she told me that  I had  gas or that I was constipated and she wrote me a prescription for two medications. Of course, I could not go and get them filled because everything was closed. I was the last patient to be seen and I was bitching the entire damn time.

After leaving whatever that was my mother went to the store and bought me some Gas X. She wanted to get me some working medicine but I did not want to have a meeting with John all night long. Unfortunately as the saying goes that mother knows best because I should have gotten the working medicine instead. I am not in that much pain as I was in yesterday but the pain that I still have is rather mild. I hope that this working medicine with knock this pain out of the park.

Waiting For The UPS Man

Happy Friday and Happy March the first yes! Well I would like to start this post off by saying I literally do not like ordering things online. However sometimes you cannot help but to indulge in ordering products from online because whatever company you are doing your shopping with may not have a storefront locally in your area. Therefore, what else can you do besides ordered it? Oh, I know many of you are going to say to see if any stores around here may have a similar product to whatever it is you may be looking for in particular.

However, in my situation I did not have a choice but to order this scale that I have struggled to find since last month. I purchased a scale from Amazon it had a default in it so I had to ship it back. After that I spent days searching high and low for a scale that can weigh a person that weighing in at over five hundred pounds like myself. I happen to find yet another scale on the 25th. This new scale I purchased from Old Will Knott Scales. Mind you, I was supposed to have received this scale on late yesterday evening. UPS had me waiting on them all damn day before something told me to go back and track the package again. Lo and be fucking hold. (Excuse my French) UPS went and changed the delivery date to today. You all are my witness to this. If I do not get that scale today, the black of me is going to be unleashed. It is a shame that you have to get damn near have to scare people these days to get them to do their damn jobs.

P.S. I would like for  some friends that are serious about losing weight or gaining muscle mass to join me on this challenge. I can do it alone but success is so much sweeter when you have your friends along side of you to share in your success. Check out this video to find out how you can get your products for free for the challenge! See you on the other side of weight loss.

P.P.S. If you have your nutribullet or have already ordered your Nutribullet I have created a Facebook Group called Nutribullet Tips, Recipes , & Success Stories stop by there and check it out. I’ll be glad to have you become a member.