My name is Amanda. I am a t y p i c a l f e m a l e. I am a 23 year old mother of one darling daughter; Sophia. I live in an apartment in PA with my daughter, husband and 2 cats; Prada and Guchbastian von taint (aka: the guch). Right now, I work at Target. You can find me in softlines; jewelry, infants, lingerie, men's, shoes... all that good stuff. You go in and mess those sections up and you are the jerk that makes my job harder. I'm kind of bitter. I have a degree in photography, but haven't found a job to put it to good use. I don't know what I want to do with my life. Hence the reason I've landed myself a job at Target. I say I'm an artist, but really I haven't done anything other than coding a couple websites and doodling in years. I have a tendency to like really bad TV drama series' such as nip/tuck, rescue me, and damages. I think I watch kids cartoons more than my daughter does, and I can tell you all the names of all the characters on spongebob, fairly oddparents, jimmy neutron...etc. I have no sense of style for myself, but I could dress a skinny girl to the nines. I love the 50's era. I am a typically boring person. Until 5 o'clock, I play with my daughter, surf the net while she naps, clean up house, read a book or watch television. Then at 5 most every day of the week, I go to work and get home at 11. I put the baby to bed and watch some TV with my husband and surf the 'net. I have a shopping problem, so I am trying to fix that. I am really bad with money and finances and can't balance a checkbook. Luckily, I own no credit cards.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. -Aristotle
Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity. -Buddha
I don't understand the sizes anymore. There's a size zero, which I didn't even know that they had. It must stand for: 'Ohhh my God, you're thin.' -Ellen DeGeneres
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. -dr. suess
Surgery story: I won't bore you with the sob story 'i am big boned, my whole family is fat, etc....' I am fat because I ate. I ate because it made me feel better. I needed to feel better during the non-medicated points in my life. And there were a lot of them. I ate when my parents got divorced, I ate when I was bored, I ate when I was sad, I ate when I was angry, I ate when I was stressed. Then I got angry at myself, and would diet. And I would starve, and I would do weight watchers or jenny craig or take the newest diet pill on the market. And I would crash and then gain it back and then some more. I gained 60 pounds in the course of a short half year; I lost a baby at 71/2 months in utero and a month to that day later, i had my gallbladder removed in an emergency surgery. I didn't want to feel like food controlled me or my emotions anymore. So I started to research weight loss surgery. Here I am now.
My original surgery was July 20, 2007 but I had port replacement surgery on 12/7/07 due to an ongoing infection. My First Goal: 275 by end of february (lose 12 pounds) I have 1 cc in a 4cc band.
