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I can't call it a stall.  It was really me not staying on plan.  My weight fluctuated up two or three pounds, then back down, then back up.  I wasn't bingeing or anything, but I definitely wasn't sticking to my calorie goals.

Finally, back on track.  I lost 1/2 pound this morning--first weight loss since 9/14/12.

Yay!  I have two weeks until my six month post op and my goal is to be below 165. That's only 1.5 pounds away so I feel confident that I can do it.

At 165 I will have lost 70 pounds. 

I've been dilly-dallying around and it's time to get serious again!

I stopped using my Fitbit because it wasn't synching.  First it wasn't synching via wifi (which it's supposed to do) and I was having to hook it up every time to find out how I was doing.  Then it wouldn't even sync then.

Bah.  Humbug.  I decided to return it and get my money back.  Since I bought it from Amazon that would have been easy to do.  Except it got buried under a bunch of stuff when our house was undergoing construction work.

So a couple of days ago I uncovered it and thought I'd give it another chance. And hey, it works!  Sometimes by wifi.  Sometimes only if I hook it up via USB.  But so far it's working, and just because it's working and I could see how many steps I'd taken today, I decided to walk the dog tonight and build up more steps.

Still haven't hit 10,000, yet, but I got almost 7,000 and that's just doing stuff around the house and going to the supermarket, and finally, walking the dog.

I am so glad the heat broke and I could get out and walk the dog without suffering heatstroke!

Forgot to say--now MFP is telling me that I've "earned" 232 extra calories today.

NO THAT IS NOT THE POINT.

Sheeesh!

I'm reading to drop into the 160s. And I'm very very close.  So I'm going to kick this thing into gear and get back on track with exericise.  Now, to find my Wii Fit...

My surgery was 4/27 and today is 4/29.  That's two months, two days.

Or, calendar-wise, nine weeks ago today.

I was in Hawaii last week, and when I got home Monday afternoon (the 25th) I weighed the same as I weighed when I left.  Can't argue with that, considering I was only half-on-plan.  I kept cottage cheese and greek yogurt (fage 2%) in the fridge, and had cheese sticks and protein bars in my backpack for emergencies, but also ordered at restaurants and ate some things that weren't on plan--in small portions.

But since I've been back, I've lost 3 1/2 pounds.  That's in four days!

I have no explanation for that, but I'm very happy about it.

What I'm not as happy about--several photos from the trip that show my belly is still fat, even though I have lost a lot of weight.  Not a surprise, just a rude reminder!

But I feel great.  Fabulous!  Life is wonderful.

I am still fat.

I have lost 30 pounds, put on a dress that I might wear to a luau in Hawaii and felt really great.  But I took  a pic of myself to send a friend and you know how seeing a picture is always a rude awakening?

Well, this camera was REALLY RUDE.

What can I say?  It won't last long.  (The fat, not the camera!)

I've lost 5 1/2 pounds since my last post two weeks ago.  I think I expected to have lost more by now, but that's okay. Really, it is.  Either these 5 1/2 pounds made a huge difference, or my body has somehow caught up with the scale, because my body is much different.  I'm wearing size XL shirts that I couldn't wear at ALL before.  One in particular is a Lands End man-style shirt that I actually tried to put on shortly before surgery and it wouldn't close.  Now it is loose except for across the biggest part of my belly and even that isn't "tight."  HUGE difference with not a lot of pounds difference.  So, it's okay.

Although I would like the scale to shift a little faster, I haven't been walking much.  I sabotaged myself by staying in the shower too long when I was miserable and suffering from nausea.  My incisions clearly got too wet and didn't dry well.  (The adhesive?  Maybe it held moisture in?)  And I broke out with a yeast infection which is going away but still present.  If I get hot and sweaty it flares up more.  So I'm staying cool.

Walking will probably help with the scale, and I guess I should start going to a mall or something, huh?  Anywhere that I can walk and walk and walk.  Hmm, or maybe the art museum downtown.  Or... or...

I guess I need to make myself do this.  Okay, that's a plan.  (Only today I have a bit of a headache and now that I've gotten down breakfast and protein I may go back to bed for a bit and try to shake it off.)

ANYWAY.  The other fun, good thing is that I have been sorting through clothes and my bags of clothes to go to the Salvation Army are growing!  My closet is thinning out!  I really don't have much in the way of small clothes.  Only a handful of XL and nothing smaller.  But this will hold me for awhile.

Life is great!!!!

My first NSGs!  (Is that the right acronym? I forget.)

Anyway.

This morning, six days after surgery, I put on a pair of shorts that I could not snap comfortably before surgery.  They are very light weight hiking shorts, microfiber, and I haven't had them on in years.  Even though they might have barely snapped closed last week, they wouldn't have stayed snapped unless I figured out how to suck in my breath and never breathe again.

This feels... good. Really good.

I am still sore.  My insicions are red and I'm keeping an eye on them.  I am still barely scratching the surface of learning how to manage my fluids and such.

But so far, the good progress is:

As of Day Four I was finally feeling well enough to log my intake and to take in protein drinks.

Day Five I had 79 grams of protein, mostly through shakes and unflavored added to broth, but still.

I have lost a total of 23 pounds including pre-op diet.  I think I may have lost 9 pounds since surgery, but I can't remember exactly what my surgery weight was so will double-check on that.

I haven't fought queasiness since Sunday, and that's the big win. It's what turned the corner for me.

So, all things told, today is good.  Really good.