Mar 08 2008, 10:45 pm / Other
TO ALL MY FRIENDS!!! I NEED SOME HELP GETTING THRU THIS LAST PUSH!! My weight loss story so far. I have hit a wall and I am asking for my friends support and helping me get over this last push to the end. Some of you already know the whole story and some only know parts of it. So here it is. By the summer of 2006 at 223lbs I had just about of enough of being overweight. Not only was it clearing affecting the fact that I was having trouble getting pregnant. I was having digestive problems and pain in my feet. Not to mention I was severely depressed and having social and general anxiety. I had literally tucked myself away in my fat. I was not me at all. Having said all of that I had to start taking anti-depression/anti-anxiety medications. Jason had seen this sign about a weight loss place and I was like here we go again. I had already done quick weight loss a few years before. I lost like 16lbs and gained it back plus. I also think it had something to do with my digestive problems. But, after going through a lot of tests at the ob/gyn and her telling me I had to lose weight because I didn’t have a lot of time to waste with having the difficulties. We were going to have to go through fertility treatments I was going to have surgery and my body needed to be healthy. So Jason and I went and talked to the great folks at Physician’s Choice on Cherokee Street in Marietta, GA. Small office pretty must family run you feel like family everytime you walk in. We first spoke with Judy she is the doctor’s wife and obviously an RN. Just to see what the program was about when she started talking about the injections and medications. My first question was if I am trying to get my body ready to have a baby is this going to harm me. She said no definitely not. So I was like I am going for it. The next time I got to see Dr. Shuman he has a great resume very old fashioned and very funny. Here are some of his stats he is board certified by the American Board of Bariatric Medicine. He began providing nutrition counseling over 30 years ago. In 1996 he founded Physician’s Choice, focusing his full attention on the growing epidemic of obesity and the degenerative diseases caused by this tragic, chronic disease. What is Bariatrics you ask? It is the art and science of nutrition and medical weight management. Bariatricians are skilled in knowing when and how to prescribe medication to ensure safer and more effective results. So I have my exam they take my blood pressure, draw some blood for labwork and they even do an EKG. Then the fun part the weigh in and measuring. Some people might not understand this entire breakdown so I am only going to put the basic stuff. 10-17-2006 my measurements were:
Bust-50” Waist-45” Hips-56.5” Size 22/24 I even owned a pair of 26 jeans My Body Composition Analysis was: Height 5’0” Weight 223lbs BMI 43.6 Fat% 50.4% Fat Mass 112.5lbs
So I started receiving the metabolic Injections to increase energy to lose more fat and inches. Taking Chromemate GTF Supplement to promote fat loss, protect muscle and reduce sugar cravings. Taking Phentermine HCL 30mg appetite suppressant and boost energy. My eating habits changed I cut out junk foods, cut back on fast food and I noticed that I simply could not eat AS MUCH as I used to. Dr Shuman told me to stay AWAY from processed foods. Eat like you were back in time anything you could hunt, fish, gather, grow or pick. It makes sense natural foods are better for you anyway. WATER, WATER, WATER!!! Now I haven’t totally given everything up I still on occasion will have something that would not be considered good, but in moderation. Yes, even fast food but instead of a combo meal I will get a kids meal it is a smaller portion. A funny thing for me is I am not really a veggie person I really never wanted to even try broccoli. Well I tried it I thought it tasted like dirt. Dr Shuman told me that I only needed to eat about 2 or 3 of them and I would get everything that I needed out of them. So I eat them now I can ONLY eat them raw with veggie dip or salad dressing though. Here is something else pretty cool since February 2007 I have not eaten or set foot in a McDonald’s or smoked a cigarette. That’s right I quit smoking during this AND I did NOT gain a pound. Thanks to Judy increasing my Phentermine the appetite suppressant to 37.5mg. Now let me tell you my McDonald’s story and yes Super size me had a hand in it. But, this is the ultimate reason why I stopped eating McDonald’s food. In February 2007 Judy at Dr. Shuman’s office invited me to go down to the Galleria to see a speaker. The speaker was Julia Havey she wrote the book The Vice Busting Diet she lost 130lbs and was telling her story. Well she had this one presentation where she had a McDonald’s bag of food. She said that it was 2years old the receipt was stapled to the outside of the bag. She had someone from the audience go up there and read the receipt which was greasy understandably. It was 2 years old she pulled out the hamburger and let the girl look at it. It looked fine she touched it and even smelled it and she said that it just had that old grease smell. The fries still looked fine and everything. So imagine that being in your body no wonder people get colon cancer. Think about how many times you have found a McDonald’s fry in the floor board of your car. Wonder how long it has been there??? Cut up a REAL POTATO fry it and see how long it last. PRESERVATIVES ARE PICKLING OUR BODIES!!! I know I probably sound like I am a hypocrite because I just said I eat a kid’s meal every now and then. Well Wendy’s is a little better they have the onion rings now or you can get fruit instead or side salad. The hamburgers are BEEF and not SOY or whatever. So moving along pretty good continue to lose everytime I go in and get weighed or maintain. I start getting the Lipo-injections with lipotropic nutrients. These aid in enhancing the loss of fat pounds and inches, safely increase energy and stamina, enhance the metabolism of fats & carbs, counteract stress, promote healthy liver function, reduce late afternoon fatigue, increase alterness and concentration and promote restful normal sleep pattern. Lipotropic Nutrients are: Choline, Methione, Inositol, Adenosine 5 Monophosphate (AMP-MYODEN) and Vitamin B12. If you want specifics on what each of these do. Message me or you can probably google them. Judy also started me on Topomax 25mg 2 twice a day. This is a medications used for treating migraines and to control seizures. One of the major side effects in weight loss. They have had great success at Physician’s Choice with the combination of Phentermine and Topomax. In fact Judy told me that a University, I think she said Duke was studying the combination as a weight loss drug for the Bariatric industry. Before the holidays this year 11-13-2007 my Body Composition Analysis was: Weight: 181lbs BMI: 35.3 Fat%: 42.8% Fat Mass: 77.5lbs During the holidays I gained like 5 to 7 lbs. I wouldn’t go back to them until I got back down to as close to that as I thought I could. As of 12-15-2007 when I signed up with OneModelPlace.com my measurements were: Bust: 38 Weight: 35 Hips: 45
Size:16/18 I even have a pair of juniors 15 shorts I can wear. So my last Body Composition Analysis on 2-21-2008 was: Weight: 182lbs BMI: 35.5 Fat%: 44.9% Fat Mass: 81.5lbs NO EXERCISE DURING THIS WHOLE THING!!!!! I am pretty sure I just need to get off of my butt and start exercising. HELP ME GET BACK ON TRACK YA’LL!!!! What the weight loss has done for me positively: For the first time I can ever remember in my life my Mom told me I was beautiful. That was very emotional for me. I am becoming myself again. I am starting to feel sexy again. I have men noticing me again. Jason says he is getting the woman he married back he isn’t so much talking about my body then is he talking about my personality and confidence. I am confident something I have not been since before we got married and probably the first year of marriage. I don’t just sit around and not want to go anywhere and stay coped up like I did for the last 11 ½ years. I am not locked away in my shell of FAT anymore. I want to go out dance and have fun. I am happy again!!!! The REAL me is coming out. I was voted September 2007 Stangette of the Month on Stangette.com. I am trying to start a modeling career (pinup modeling). When I sat down this past time to talk with Judy she was telling her step son Mack who also work there that I am a completely different person. He said how. She said when Angela first started coming here she couldn’t even look you in the eye her head was always down and she could not get out of here fast enough. Now she comes in here smiling, laughing, head held high and she will hang around and chat with everyone. I asked for my measurements from the beginning. She wrote them down I glanced at them. I said if I remember right look at this you see my waist 45” here right she said yeah. I said yeah that is my hips now. She almost fell out of her chair. I told her about the modeling website because that is where I had put my measurements up and that is where I was remembering them from. She was jumping up and down happy she thinks it is wonderful. Her and Mack were like you can do anything you are beautiful and you are only going to get more beautiful. They are so great there. Oh yeah I almost forgot Jason started going there with me around I guess March 2007 so we are really in this together. He is doing great, too. I am very proud of him. What the weight loss has done negatively to me: I have lost my best friend. She said that since I lost weight and became “Stangette of the Month” I changed. She said that I developed an attitude. Jason and I have been struggling with the male attention that have been receiving and my flirting. It is really hard for him to remember me. I had to remind him of how I was when we met. I was flirty and aggressive. I was confident and I always had male attention then. I used to walk around at the race track in daisy ducks and a string bikini top and he was fine with it. So I am like what is your problem now. It will take him awhile to get used to it again. It has been over 10 years since he has seen that me. He only knows me as the fat girl shelled up and depressed all the time. PLEASE SEND ME COMMENTS AND ENCOURAGEMENT!!!!! I LOVE ALL MY FRIENDS!!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH IN ADVANCE. I AM GOING TO TRY AND PUT A BEFORE PIC UP AND A RECENT PIC UP ON HERE IF I CAN’T I WILL BE GLAD TO E-MAIL THEM TO ANYONE WHO WOULD LIKE TO SEE THEM... SUMMER OF 2006 @ 223LBS : 
January 2008 most recent full body pic: 
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