Finally 50 Pounds Down!!!

May 12, 2012

Ok, so I'm at just over 3 months post op, and I've finally lost 50 lbs from my date of surgery, which puts me at 230 lbs!  Yay me (doing a mini-victory dance..disco fever style   ).

Once I tip that scale into the 220s (I don't care if it's 229.4), I'll feel like Onederland is just on the horizon, so that will be some extra motivation for me.

Hmmm, what's been going on...Well, I had my first set of labs done.  Everything looks good.  The only flag for an abnormal value that I got was that my good cholesterol is a little low....soooo, I've gotta raise my cholesterol .  I was looking up ways to do that.  There are some foods one can eat, which will have a minimal impact during the best of times...I'm not sure that I could get in significant quantities to really make a difference, so I think that ramping up the exercise might be my best bet (I read that exercise increases good cholesterol...who knew?).

I had been doing really well with keeping in the foods that I put in (I haven't had a problem with making bad choices, protein is always the goal), but over this past week, I've been vomiting and nauseous more often.  It's odd, because I have these periods where everything that I eat stays down comfortably, and then I have periods where the same foods just decide that they they would rather not reside in my tummy....It's definitely not a stricture, because again, some foods sit still...others don't.  Oh well, this is life right now.  Sometimes I am able to get up and move around, and that helps the food stay put.  I do get in my greek yogurt everyday.  If I've had a particularly low protein day, or if I feel like too much of my protein has come up, I'll have a shake, but I mostly get in good amounts of protein from food.  When I pack my breakfast/lunch in the morning, I count the protein.  I was thinking the other day about just how different something as little as packing lunch is now...it's a numbers game for me, lol.

None of my clothes fit properly, so I've made my first trip to goodwill.  Can't say that I particularly enjoyed the experience, especially at my size (16s and 18s mostly), because there's still so much that I can't fit.  I was just mostly looking at size tags, and going ok, this will fit, I'll take it...it served a purpose though.  Can't wait to enjoy real shopping at a regular store...

I'm getting in much more fluid.  I don't know why, but I'm really enjoying taking my bottles of water, adding my sugar free flavor of choice (usually pink lemonade), sticking it in the freezer until it gets halfway frozen, and then I take it out and eat/drink it....it's odd for me, because I usually don't like really cold things.  I have really sensitive teeth, but this works for me, and I'm getting closer and closer to the 64 oz mark with it....

Life is good...that's all for now.

~elle

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