I am the same...

No weight loss or gain to report this week.  I am all better from my terrible cold/flu bug.  YAY! 

I hope you have a fabulous Easter weekend.

My ass is still parked at the same weight this week.

Yo All,

So I started my new fun job supporting computational Scientists in Discovery Biology at my NEW AWESOME START-Up JOB this week. Weee!  I work in the Dog Patch of San Francisco everyday from here on out.

I just spent $8.00 for 2 scrambled eggs and 1 sausage patty for breakfast.  I then spent $17.95 for a small bowl of soup and a thin sandwich for lunch. This was my first day on the job. WTF? Yea, I'm in THE BIG CITY.  :  )

How can a tiny tummy girl eat KETO in a fancy pants city on a small budget?  I will soon hopefully show you how.

I got on the scale this morning and nothing changed, thank Bob.   I did drink some serious Tre's Friday Night Indulgences (Low Brow Champagne & TJ Cherry Cider) after I found out our Landlord brought several unannounced rounds of "Investors" throughout the house without notice and the sold our house to them and didn't explain WHF was happening.  He is extra special that way.

When I called him on speaker with everyone renting the house present, he said nothing will change. Sounds shady, but like he somehow worked out his debt issue in a creative way.  We all haven't an ounce of faith in this guy, but we hope he is telling us the truth and that after just moving into this place, that we will not have to all to move again.  WE WILL SOON SEE.  At least one thing is stable in my life, my  income.

I looked around my place of work for cool lofts apartments, rooms for rent, studios etc. and they want $1899 for a walk in closet "Efficiency Studio" with a hot plate. HELL NO.  The Girls & I, live is a house that just sold for $999,000. and we all share the place happily.  United Airlines Attendants, Me & another diva in Biotech, an adorable Barista & a History Teacher/Nanny.

It has been a weird STRESSFUL week.  Amazingly, I did not dive face first into Bi-Rite Creamery.  That actually would be a good way to go.

I bought some nice Microwaveable Re-Sealable Bento Boxes and an Microwave Egg Poacher for work meals.  I have some HFCL meals planned everyday until my first pay check on the 15th.   I hope to have my Leopard Lounge VW Glamper Bus home soon!

Sunday I will pre-make yummy lunches for the week and hopefully will totally  enjoy them. 

AMAZING ICE CREAM!

Still stuck at 220 lbs.

Hi Everyone,

So basically for two months now I have been in a weight loss stall again. From everything I have read, this is pretty normal.  In the last 2 months I have been under some stress with the huge changes in my life.

January 1, 2016: I relocated after 5 years to a new larger nicer home closer to work.

February, 22, 2016: I was offered a really great direct hire position in a hot Biotech start-up.  I start on Leap Year Feb 29th!

March 2016 starts me on a solid path and better grasp on shaping myself in my own future. 

I think it's time to really start tracking my calories, carbs and proteins closer.  I don't eat much, but I need to make sure I'm not going higher in calories than I should be, or not eating enough calories either so my body thinks I'm starving and holds onto the weight.  I walk 3 to 4 times per week, but I think I need to start upping my exercise too. I need to  figure out how to get the scale moving down again. I bought a food scale to weigh my food.  I am tracking everything to make sure I know how and what I am consuming. 

I am now using My Fitness Pal to track my food intake and exercise to keep better track of what I am doing.  I will get to 219 lbs. soon, I swear to fucking God I will.

The day you read I have made it to 199 lb. will be the 

next happy dance you will see me do big time!

I will be singing  Happy, Happy, Joy Joy"

8 months Post-op VSG Today ~ 61 Pounds Lost Total So Far!

I lost one pound this week.  My weightloss has slowed down, but one pound is better than gaining one. : )  My measurements are the same.  It's 34 weeks, but I had my VSG surgery on May 29, 2015.  Today is my 8 month anniversary.

I found some old photos unpacking last night. Here is Doug Wendt and I in our 10 piece funk band "Soul Attraction" at a gig in SF - my mom took this photo. Great Memories!  What's totally sad is I thought I was fat back then.  So, THIS is what I look like when I'm thin!

Doug and I met when I auditioned for a blues band in 1992. Then we were in Soul Attraction for 5 years and then he and I started Dangerous Martini together back in 1999.  The music project came to a close in 2013.  This photo gives me great motivation!

It will feel good to be back to my old self again in my skin.

Sexy songs in my heart....

I'm still in a weight loss stall, at 223 lbs. but I feel smaller.  I have lost another inch measurement wise. I did just move up a long tall flight of stairs. That is a work out indeed!

My weight loss is slowing down, but I expected this.  It's going to take as long as it's gonna take to get to my goal weight of 145lbs. I'm half way to my goal.  It's been 33 weeks since my VSG surgery, and I feel great, but I sure want to get into the 100's on the scale. THAT WILL BE A HAPPY DAY WHEN I GET THERE.   I start my membership at the new gym today.  I get a free session with a personal trainer to start, that should help.

I am working on a new Jazz music project.  My old band was called DANGEROUS MARTINI.  I played the role of Femme Fatale Torch Singer.  In my new project, I portray something as classic yet, surprising in artistic expression.  My sound  is a sultry female Tom Waits, Dorothy Parker, Robbie Robertson meets Peggy Lee vibe that looks somewhere in between a James Bond Girl & one of the the Mad Men ladies ...still dangerous - but in a Libra Rising, Scorpio in Venus in the first house kind of way. : )   

I have this vision of me singing jazz on stage this year...

...wearing a long sexy form fitting black dress and feeling beautiful.

VSG Motivation 2016!

I finally unpacked everything and I found my scale.  I got on it this morning and I weighed 223lbs.  It looks like I gained a couple, but when I measured myself, I lost 2 more inches everywhere, so that helps.  I do feel smaller in my clothes.  The smaller stuff I bought that was tight on me fits perfectly now.  In time these same items will be too big on me. : )

40 inches lost total so far!

I realize I am still in the honeymoon phase of this VSG Post-op adventure.  I need to take advantage of this now.  I joined our company gym here at work and am coming into work a little earlier so I can get over to the gym before the rush weekdays.  I need to get into a new routine that is consisitant overtime.  I know this is the best way to tone up, reduce body fat and get to my goal weight of 145lbs. this year.

To get some motivation, I made myself a poster of some quotes that get me juiced and that inspire me...

Right click on this and save it to your computer if you want it for yourselves... : )

No changes still at 221 lbs.

I have relocated my homestead... busy unpacking, cleaning and organizing.  I have to still unpack my scale!  : )  I am getting rid of stuff.  This year I am lightening my load in many ways.  I am seeking to become more paperless and a minimalist.  Uncluttered my world. 

My new closet is a nice size, Yay!  No changes, still in a stall.  I will measure myself next week and give a report.  I love my new place!  There is room in the garage for a treadmill, but until I find a reasonable one, I have joined the gym at my place of work.  They have EVERYTHING THERE!  They have all kinds of classes too.  I have never tried Zumba or Power Pilates before, so I am going to give these a whirl.  I know me, if it's fun, I'll keep doing it.

It's time to get on the hamster wheel and get to my goal of 145 lbs.  My next mini goal 199 lbs. To break the 200's and get into the 100's on the scale! 

New treadmill and smaller ass coming soon!

A Very Happy New Year!

I got on the scale this morning and am at 221 lbs.  I gained a pound over the holidays.  I did eat some cookies and drank some Egg Nog.  I did have a totally fantastic birthday. Usually I do a big Crab Feed on my birthday every year, but this year Dungeness Crab Season was A BUST here in the San Francisco Bay area.  So I did a BIG Prime Rib Feast instead.  I smoked 1 full rack of Prime Rib and slow roasted another one in the oven.  I had a big birthday party for Doc Scott, my Sagittarius bro and myself.

For the past few years, I have been making fun crab horror movies with my friends on my birthday, so I made sure we made the most of the 2015 Crab Season.  Here is this years movie just completed:

I had a lovely Christmas, saw my family and it was very happy, sad, weird and emotional.  I did do some emotional eating and drinking.  New Years Eve was awesome (FYI: I drank Champagne without tummy troubles : o ) and today, I'M MOVING out of Pacifica, CA to a great big house closer to where I work in South San Francisco, CA.  I just picked up the keys today.  So I am getting my workout BIG TIME packing and moving this weekend.

I work in Biotech in the Biotech Bay.  I would love to live in San Francisco, but the rent prices are higher than ever before in history.  So I chose to share a big house with some young, fun ladies.  1 is a nannny, 1 is a flight attendant at SFO, 2 work at my same company.  I will be able to save some money, set-up a Treadmill to use daily in the garage and park my Classic Restored 1973 T2 VW Camper Bus there without it turning into a rust bucket by the sea.  It is a new year with bright new beginnings.

Once I get settled into my new digs, I will post this years Glamp-O-Rama event schedule for 2016.  Many adventures ahead! I hope to meet some new fun people this year!  STAY TUNED!

My next weight loss goal is to get to 199 lbs. ~ out of the 200's and into the 100's on the scale. (Technically - 181lbs. is a limestone goal for me because that will be a loss of 100 pounds.)  I will get to my goal weight of 145 lbs., hopefully around this time next year.  It will take as long as it takes, but I will get there.

I HOPE YOU HAD A 

FABULOUS HOLIDAY SEASON 

AND WISH YOU A 
TOTALLY EXCELLENT NEW YEAR!

A Very Happy Birthday ~ 60 pounds lost so far!

I threw a huge birthday party for my pal Doc Scott and myself this weekend!  The scale said 221 lbs.  That is 60 pounds lost so far, a fine birthday gift.

Tré Taylor 60 pounds lost so far!  Happy Birthday 2015!

I have another 76 more pounds until I make it to my goal weight of 145lbs.  I have the energy I need to cook a dinner for 30 people and film this years Crab Horror Short Film 2015.  Celebrating my birthday with amazingly talented musical friends all weekend!  Crooning some tunes and Live Musical Jams.  I am a year older, but feel so much younger and lighter on my feet.  People really noticed my weight loss.  I feel great.  A Very Happy Birthday this year.

Holy Crap! I have hip bones...

I worked 64 hours this week.  This is not something I am used to doing.  There was no time for lunch breaks or for exercise.  I still lost one more pound, yay!  The new discovery in my body changes are, I HAVE HIP BONES!  My fat is melting away and my hip bones are beginning to show.  FAROUT.

58 pounds lost so far!

My body is becoming more refined and lean, and it's starting to really show.  I still have a long way to go, but I can see and feel a huge change happening. 

57 pounds Lost so far!

I did it!  I broke my 4 week weight-loss stall!  FINALLY.  I weighed myself this morning and I am 224lbs. A loss of 57 lbs. total so far.  But I got to say, I feel much smaller now.  I have lost one more inch total. 1/2 on my hips and thighs.  I had my doctor check up this week and...

My blood pressure is normal 
for the first time in 20 years!

I'm doing some big cooking soon.  Thanksgiving I am Deep Frying a 17 lb. Turkey. For my birthday, I am throwing my own party and making dinner for 30 and Smoking a 22 lb. Prime Rib Roast, filming the crab horror movie sequel followed by an epic house MUSIC JAM PARTY, with some amazingly talented friends from La Honda, CA!

Christmas Eve, it's Pennsylvania Dutch & Polish appetizers and New Years Day - It's Cafe Du Monde Beignets, Cafe au Lait's & Champagne Cocktails.  I really love the holidays.  This will be my first one with a new tiny tummy.  As long as I stick to Protein first, Veggies second and Carbs 3rd, I am solid.

I remember looking at the calendar before I had this VSG surgery.  I asked myself, "How much weight will I lose before my birthday?"  "How will I feel if I am 60 pounds lighter by December 13, 2015?"  Well friends, I am 3 pounds from that goal, and it's only November 13th.  In one more month, I hope to be able to say I lost 60 pounds - my first goal achievement.   

I FEEL FANTASTIC!  It feels even better when I bump into people I haven't seen in years and they drop their jaw in amazement at my change.  It feels better then I imagined it would.  

I can't tell you the last time 

I felt this much JOY!

That is what weight-loss and getting my body back in balance again means to me.  Joy, Happiness and allowing myself to be free to do all the things I was too big or in pain to do in the past.  My weight-loss goal is REALLY about getting out there and doing things and seeing and exploring THE WORLD in all of it's beauty and richness!  Beside fitting on a roller-coaster ride, I want to SCUBA DIVE!  I was too fat to do that before.

Being able to open my heart and drink in all of the beauty and joy that each lucky moment I get to still have on the planet. Improving the quality of life EVERYDAY because I can now sleep again without Sleep Apnea.  I can walk up stairs without feeling like I am going to collapse.  

I feel lovable!  

This hard work and success is allowing me to forgive myself and let go of my past failures and move forward into a lighter and brighter future.  It's more than hope, it's LOVE and finally accepting myself. I am giving myself the nurturing and care I have needed and neglected for so very long.  I once felt like a lost cause.  WELL I AM NOT LOST ANYMORE. 

I have only 79 more to lose 

until my goal weight of 145 lbs.

I once had to lose 136 pounds.... that sounded daunting.  But 79 more?  

Just a little bit at a time consistently and I will be there soon.

 I'M HAPPY!

IF I CAN DO THIS, I CAN DO ANYTHING!