Scale Victory #1

Jan 24, 2015

Today is the day I have been looking forward to for a very long time.  I have finally made it out of the 300's and into the 200's for the first time in many, many years!  I weighed in at 299!  I'll take it!  That was my first goal of this journey and I made it!  Woo Hoo!!!  Next goal will be to get under 250 - that is the weight limit on my bouncer.  (mini trampoline?  exerciser?  Not sure the actual name of it)

I saw my surgeon for my two week follow up, which actually was a three week due to the timing.  It's not very often you hear your doctor tell you that you are doing really good!  That was so good to hear!  He took my hand in his and said my new stomach is about the same size as my ring finger -  about six inches.  I laughed because my fingers are NOT even close to being that long!  But it was a nice comparason to know about how big it is at this point.  I don't go back for another month and then it will be to see the nurse practitioner from here out.  I will miss being able to see him, but I'm sure it's not the last I'll actually see of him.  Still on liquid diet and I really want to eat...  chew...  taste...  Getting really tired of drinking water and protein.  I still have to let my tummy heal though.  We did go to dinner for Bianca's birthday on Wednesday and I ordered eggs, hashbrowns and toast.  I mixed one egg with some of the hashbrowns and was able to eat only a couple of bites of them and some of the bacon, but it sure tasted good! 

Today I came to work and saw a co-worker that I haven't seen in a while and when she saw me, she gave me this really funny look.  A while later, I weighed myself and she was just staring at me.  When I came off the scale, she was still staring at me then finally said, "You are losing weight, aren't you?  I was trying to figure out what was different, and couldn't figure it out!"   Today it's a total of 56# gone.  So nice to know that people are starting to notice. 

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