8 month update...106 lbs lost

Sep 25, 2011

So much has happend in the last 8 months. We moved from VA to TX when I was 2 months post-op. I hated it. I missed my surgeon and my support group. I did jump in and find two support groups here that I could attend. I've met a lot of great supportive people through both of them. I've found that it is not only a challenge and roller coaster ride because of this surgery, but to also have to throw in the military life and deployments are an added factor that make this even more challenging....I love my new skinny self. I love the energy I have to go all day long without pain or being exhausted all the time. I learned early on how food and exercise effected my body and took advantage of it. My wonderful surgeon repeated several times that you will lose most of your weight at an increased rate within the first 3-4 months so I wanted to take advantage of that time as much as I could. I wasn't blessed with the "first 4 months of disappearing weight" like most of my peers have been. Thankfully I realized this early on and worked hard. I work out 3 times a day for a minimum of 3-4 hours a day 6 days a week. On Sunday I take it easy and just do one work out for a minimum of 60 minutes. I still keep a detailed food journal to help me figure out why the scale stalls for lo ng periods of time. For the first 6 months I was a scale whore. I weighed myself 6-7 times a day. I was obsessive. The scale ruled my day. It determined what I wore that day, how much and what type of work out I would do, what I would eat, and how much extra water I would take in that day. I finally put the scale away and now I just take my measurements every Sat. morning and weigh myself at the same time. I am still shrinking in all the right places :-)

SW at orientation: 264
CW: 158
Personal Goal Weight: 145
Surgeon's goal weight for me: 130

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