Today was another crazy Wednesday. We did the nutrition class at the Senior Center where Joy teaches. We had Romaine lettuce leafs filled with pate’ from carrots and beets topped with Joynaisse dressing. Also, they had juiced beets for beet juice.

When I got up this morning and got weighed I was sort of discouraged. I wasn’t able to tell if I was still losing or not. Trying to get on the scale and have it weigh properly with me being so big can be discouraging. I so want to get below the 500 lb mark. I know that I should be happy considering (Read on …)

Today I got up at 5:45 am so that I could get ready to go walking. I didn’t sleep well since I had to get up and go to the bathroom 3 or 4 times because I drank water up until 9:00 or 10:00 pm. Besides all of that. . .my body was aching from the exercise that we did yesterday afternoon. This was a good thing, nevertheless, the aching stinks. I am looking forward to doing it again this afternoon even though I am aching. So, all that being said. . . I never made it to doing the walking this morning; however, I DID get up early with good intentions.

Today I met my friend Dean in person for the first time. What a wonderful time of fellowship we had. She is one fun and crazy girl!!! It was nice to finally (Read on …)

Today, I met with Deborah, the life coach. We had our meeting with just the two of us. Basically, we went over the technical stuff about who she is, what our goals are and our course of action. Again, I was overwhelmed at how BIG and in control God is. In our session today she shared a couple of scriptures with me and you guessed it. . . they were two of my favorite scriptures. The first one was Romans 8:28 and the second one was Philippians 4:8. She gave me some homework and this is not going to be easy. I have to write 100 things that I like about myself. I’m not too sure about that. I could tell you about someone else; however, trying to find that many things that I like about myself will be tough. Also, we had time to talk about something that I wanted to talk about which turned out to be a really good thing. I was starting to feel stressed out about (Read on …)

Tonight I finally met the magnificent, Dr. Leroy Russell. He brought a friend with him. Believe it or not, this man was ready to marry me while I was fat. He could then help me lose weight and once I was thin I would not be able to divorce him as marriage is forever. Strange things in life do happen I must say. He was a nice enough man and as flattered as I was I am definitely NOT ready to get married and mess up my journey at this point. Regina came by so we could do the measuring thing; however, we were having so much fun that we never seemed to get to the measuring. Barry came by and made a batch of collard greens, fish, and rice which we ended up having at about 10:30pm. This reminded me of the “last supper” that happened two weeks ago. Barry was here 2 weeks ago on the night I arrived. Tonight he said that he was able to visually notice my progress. This was encouraging for me to hear. I am liking to hear when people can see a visible difference in my progress.

We met with Deborah, the Life Coach today. This was a wonderful experience. She is such an inspiring woman and I really felt a real warmth with her. She is a wonderful Christian woman. We talked about things from my past and she made several good points for me to ponder. One thing that she told me in regard to my feelings with my mom was this. . . I can HATE the behavior; however, I can still LOVE the person. Also, she gave me a book to read as part of my homework the book is called “The Ancient Paths”. I am to read two chapters before I meet with her on Monday. I am looking forward to this meeting. She shared a scripture with me that we need to focus on and this just happened to be one of my favorite scriptures. The scripture that she used was 2Cor 10:4. . .the weapons of our warfare are not carnal . . . . .

Hashim came and started the video documentary

Today I met with Yvette, the personal trainer. She is a wonderful girl. Tomorrow we are starting our workout regime. We are going to do aerobic and weight training starting tomorrow, Thursday after she gets off from her job. She is a certified personal trainer. I am so excited to have someone do what she is going to do. She will come by every afternoon after she gets off of work and we are either going to go to Stone Mountain and walk the mountain or go over to some High School and walk the bleachers. I am excited and then again I’m not really looking forward to the beginning phases (Read on …)

Today I got up at 8:30 or 9:00 am. I went to sleep at about 1 or 2 then I had to get up 3 or 4 times to go to the bathroom. I had my morning bowel movement and then I got weighed. Amazingly enough I got on the scale and weighed in at 545. That makes 25 pounds lost since Monday morning April 10^th 2006. Five days!!! I lost 11 pounds alone yesterday; I’m sure that drinking all that water had something to do with it. Needless to say I was excited (Read on …)

Today was sort of a slow day. I stayed home while Joy went out and did her business. I spent about 3 hours on the phone with tech support for my wireless broadband provider to get the laptop set up to work properly. The gentleman that I ended up talking with was extremely helpful.

This morning I started out the day drinking my two ounces of FrequenSea and then Joy “lovingly” suggested that I eat 6 prunes so that I could have a good bowel movement. Well, as of yet (10:17 p.m.) (Read on …)

Today was a very interesting day. I got up and got dressed and ready to go. Joy said that I needed to be ready to leave by 10:00 am. I was ready and off we went. We ran errands until about 6:30pm. The biggest challenge for a person my size is to get in and out of the vehicle. Joy has a big Chevrolet Suburban and to get in and out of it can be quite a challenge. First of all I have to grab the handle up in the truck and pull myself up and then I have to hoist my fat body up into the seat and then hoist it over and get centered in the seat and get comfortable. This wouldn’t be too bad if I only had to do it once in and once out; however, (Read on …)

Today I got up at around 7ish. I think I slept better just not long enough. I am still waking up feeling exhausted after I have been up for awhile. I am not having enough bowel movements to satisfy Joy. She says that I need to have at least 2 to 3 per day to lose weight.

Tonight I was involved in a training meeting for Forever Green.

Tonight I spoke with a video person named Hashim of Bootstrap Productions about putting my story on video. He has a cable program called “Inner”view that he would like to put my story on.