As you may have noticed I started participating in a great little project Shoot and Edit and today is all about the edit.
The above picture is the original photo. I went through all of Ashley’s tutorials and learned some great new things to do with photoshop. Which I’m very excited about because I have had photoshop for a year now and I know I’m not using it to it’s full potential. I even only used 1 action, Florida by Everyday Elements, which as Ashley suggests is an awesome action!
I’ve been debating if I should blog about this new step in my life. The fact is it is going to be a new part in my life and going to change my life forever. There is no reason not to share it.
Last November after talking to TJ for a long while we decided to start looking into weight loss surgery for me. We have a lot of money in our Health Savings Account, so it wouldn’t be a detriment to our income and so I started considering it.
My First Diet
I have been overweight since third grade. I also just have a larger frame (big boned really is true). But I definitely have extra padding too.
In middle school I made a mad dash to try and loose weight. I pretty much starved myself. I would drink a carnation breakfast drink (usually one spoonful in a glass of milk) for breakfast. I would have baked french fries with ranch for lunch, sharing them with my table (I know healthy choice right, I was 12), and I would pick at my dinner which I was required to eat because my step father made me. When I got down to 140lbs (still 10lbs overweight) my mom took me to Disneyland for the first time.
But Not My Last
After that first diet I still continued to gain weight consistently. Through high school, as hard as I tried not to, through college, and into my marriage. I was at least lucky enough to gain very little at my pregnancies, but after a year after Zarek’s birth I started gaining again. I’m on a new medication and I think that this made the weight gain even worse last year, gaining 50lbs in 6 months.
I’m now at my heaviest I’ve ever been and even now I cannot share the number, yet. I’ve tried diets and diets and diets, with no true success. I can lose 7lbs consistently each time I diet to only turn around and gain even more.
My Last Attempt
I’m down to my last attempt to try and turn my body around. I’ve been praying about this and thinking about it for months.
I also considered trying a treatment that dealt with injections. But after a little reading I decided this was not for me. There was too much worries about hormone issues (and I may want one more baby someday in the future) and I try not to mess with my hormones too much. Plus it sounds like once you are done with the shots it’s really hard to maintain the diet loss.
After researching that option I started researching the Lap Band. This is the direction I believe I will be going with.
To Be Continued
Next week I will be talking more about this so if you would like to see where this leads me I hope you will subscribe to my feed. If you have questions feel free and ask them in the comments.
I’m soo excited! As I have mentioned I have decided to do Project 52: Self Portraits with Lynda from DailyWindow.
What’s interesting is that we both are a little hesitant about taking pictures of ourselves. Ironically, and even Lynda doesn’t know this, but we both are hoping to lose weight this year and are hoping this project to watch the changes!
If you want to join in but your own pictures are not your favorite and you are afraid to share them don’t let that stop you! Let’s get past this fear together!
This is the beginning of what I think may be a really fun project and I can’t wait to see the outcome.
Join in the Fun!
Every Monday Lynda or I will be hosting a link up on our site. I hope you will join in the fun and really challenge yourselves. To help you along the way we will be having weekly themes to help you in your creativity!
Here’s what’s coming up for February:
1/31: Silly Faces
2/7: Reflections
2/14: Love
2/21: Favorite Feature
You’ll have a full week to link up with us. There are only two rules:
You should share a recently taken self-portrait
The link should be the absolute URL of your photo or entry, not a link to your homepage.
I have made up a cute little graphic you can use to link up if you wish. You don’t have to do every week but if you have a great photo you want to share we hope you will jump in and link up.
Silly Faces
This week’s challenge is Silly Faces. I had so much fun with my boys taking photos I couldn’t just choose one so I did a collage. What is fun about these photos is seeing Zane stick his tongue out because he used to not be able to. And to watch Zarek stick his tongue out as this is something new and fun to him. If you want to see all the photos click the image and you can see them on flickr.
I suddenly feel free! I can now look at my blog and feel excitement, not dread.
As I was browsing around at themes I found this little beauty. As I was reading about this special kind of blog (a tumblog) I felt a kind of light bulb go off. This is what I really want. I want something that if I want to share a quick pic I can, if I want to just share a quote it looks great, I want something that can be quick and easy, or I can share a long post too.
I’m just too busy with my business, work and my family to be able to sit down and write a full post and edited it every day. And now I won’t feel like I have to spend 3-4 hours on just one blog post. Now I’m free to post small clips also. (And maybe, hopefully more vlogs!)
I know I was gone the whole month of December, did you miss me? I have missed you, but December was a hard month for me. I was working a lot and I was having a lull in my business and I was incredibly stressed over Christmas. All of this added in to just needing …
As you may have noticed I started participating in a great little project Shoot and Edit and today is all about the edit.
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