OT: I'm Back!!!

Good evening everyone :)

After talking with my good friends Jimbo and his girlfriend over the weekend, I realized how long it's been since I've been here!  I feel terrible, because that seems to be my pattern over the last several months lol... I promise to work on that!

I did want to come by and give everyone an update while I'm thinking about it... my husband is having his plastics tomorrow.  He's having an extended tummy tuck and doing some upper body contouring in the chest area.  He has now maintained his 200+ pound weight loss for over a year... for those who don't know, he had his surgery in December of 2010 and went from 420 to 215ish.  It'll be interesting to see what he weighs after his post op swelling goes down!

I'm still maintaining my loss... I started at 250 in March of 2012 (highest weight was 277) and got down to 125-130, which is where I have stayed for almost a year now.  I'm not gonna lie... I need to get back to tracking and exercising more vigorously, but with the stress of being between jobs, sometimes it's all I can do to keep from binging. 

Speaking of the job situation, here's an update on that front:  I worked as a long-term substitute teacher in the best system around for the beginning of the school year while the official teacher was on maternity leave.  The administration at that school loves me, but there's no permanent openings there right now, so I'm substitute teaching on a day-by-day basis and hoping that the situation will improve.  The subbing only pays about 1/4 of my usual salary, so that's a little tough... but it's better than nothing.  I also just started tutoring in the afternoons and am interviewing on Wednesday for a paraprofessional position in that same district... I would get paid even less doing that than I do subbing, but it would at least mean I would be an official employee in that district, which is very hard to wiggle into because it's so competitive. 

 

My husband and I went hiking this last weekend as a sort of final "hoorah" before he's out of commission for a little while... here's a couple of pics. 

 

And here's one from before our surgeries, for those who don't know me:

I miss you guys!  Let me know how you're doing :)

Courtney

Wow!  You guys both look great. Congrats on both of your success, and yay to the hubby getting plastics!

Thanks Sarah!  I remember you :)  I hope you're doing well!

Miss your posts.  Glad to hear you are doing well.

Thanks :)  I hope you're doing well!  Looks like you are from your ticker :)

You guys look amazing!!!

Thanks Jamie :)

Holy Moses! You guys look phenomenal! Good luck w/ the job search. I work in an AMAZING district so I understand how hard it is to get in and how important it is to stay in!
You guys rock!

Thanks Vanessa :)

Glad to see your back, congrats on your achievement!