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i still can't find my camera, so no pics yet. i am still looking :)

ouch!

so my back is still hurting, however my good friend brittany gave me an amazing massage last night! she is really good and knows just where it hurts! it's kinda weird! she was like, "man rachael, the last time i gave you a massage it was much different." meaning my body! LOL

so i am doing really well. weight loss wise and food wise. still stay away from most chicken and steak...it tends to be too dry. then it gets that stuck feeling and i am so over that! so many good things go down easy and i would much prefer that over eating chicken and steak! i have discovered an amazing thing lately. many of you probably know that i have been squeezing oranges by the dozens to make orange juice! i can't eat most store brands because they have added sugar that i like to avoid and the kinds that are freshly squeezed at whole foods and such are not so tasty! so the other day i was in front of the fridge trying to find something and i saw tropicana OJ. not surprising, my dad love's OJ. however, upon closer examination i discovered my dad purchased tropicana light and healthy with no sugar and splenda. what?????? are you serious??? i drank the whole thing in 2 days. i friggin loved it. i called him today and was like, "can u bring home more OJ and make sure it's the light and healthy kind." he had no clue what he bought before and it was by accident that it was light and healthy with splenda. he is awesome though!

76 lbs gone forever! wooohooooo!

more weight biatches...

to date i am down 76 lbs. i am officially a size 24 or 2x in women's clothing. i feel great. however i have hurt my back really bad and i am on vacation. how sucky is it that i have to spend my vacation with a hurt back. sucky! i will write more when it stops hurting so darn bad!

hmmm....

i am so glad that i went to chicago 3 weeks ago to visit laura and amy. i love these girls!

so i am entering into my 3rd week back to work and i feel like i have been back forever! like nothing has happened! obviously it has, having my insides ripped apart a little more than 9 weeks ago. however, i feel great and other than a few small scars i look great. the weight is melting off and i am almost to my college weight. i was at a certain size and weight in college and i am very close to meeting that. it will probably coast by though, it seems like most milestones i fly by and almost miss. i am pissed at myself for gaining so much weight after college. i thought i was a beast in college! and then i gain 100 pounds more in the 7 years since. well, i am glad that i am almost back to it. i would kill to be that "skinny" again. LOL.

my doctor suggested drinking more water and adding some salt to my foods to keep some weight. i was like, "what??" are you serious? the weight is coming off. apparently it's coming off a little fast and because i am so tall and have a lot to lose, they want it to come off slower. SORRY! i like it this way! haha.

i don't have an exact weight loss for you today. i got "yelled" at for looking at the scale so much by my nutritionist...again! hahaha. so i will just let you know it's somewhere around 65lbs +

until next time...

more weight.

so i have lost more weight. i am now down to 65 pounds lost. the size 24 jeans that i bought before surgery in preparation for losing weight are sort of big. 2 weeks ago i couldn't get them on. i am definitely in a losing stretch, and weight is moving around because my waist is much smaller :) i am going to take some pics this week and post them because i think that i have changed a lot!

howdee

i have lost more weight. i am down to almost 60 lbs lost. i feel great and my jeans are way too big for me now! LOL i wish the weight would come off faster (it seems slow :) but i don't think it's possible. i think that i am doing really well so far. i feel well, i stopped taking vitamins for about a week and felt like shit, so now i am feel better. none of that :)

and just so you know...i don't agree well with aspargus!!