Kelly B.
5 lbs to Goal! WOW!
Oct 02, 2011
I can almost taste it! LOL! I am so excited and I think that I can lose this within the next month. Ok, so here are the stats:
Surgery 12/15/2010
Start weight: 260 lbs
Height: 5'4
Weight today: 145 lbs
Goal weight: 140 lbs
Goal BMI: 24
Clothing size -- I started in a size 22 bottoms and 3x tops. I am now a size 6 bottom and medium tops. I have rediscovered my amazingly big rib cage which will prohibit me from ever wearing a small top! I forgot how big my ribs were. Crazy things. I have been shopping in everyone I know closet. I was so excited this week because a longtime friend invited me to her house for closet shopping. She gave me 13 pairs of jeans, jackets, blouses, suits for work, and a very sexy red dress. My mother in law and sister in law have been continuously looking through their closets and have given me jackets, dresses, and my new favorite Lucky jeans!
Shrink update -- well I am still going to the shrinkage. He did say that he was very proud of me for the progress I have made and he is not so much worried that I will turn to food as he is worried that I will continue to lose weight after reaching goal. He knows that I am very goal oriented. So to reassure him and me, I made an appointment with my surgeons office for blood work and to meet with the nutritionist. I am averaging 5 to 6 lbs of weight lost per month and I will need to figure out how to maintain. I do plan on doing strength training and weights once I reach goal to firm things up a bit.
The Hubby update -- hmmm....where do I begin? I thought everything had been going well and we were on the right path...but jealousy and insecurity is coming up more and more. The hubby is having trust issues and it's impacting our relationship. At the same time, I am having adjustment issues with a new body. Here's a little TMI -- sex is different when you are skinnier. I won't go into the details but it's weird. So, you have a husband who is not so sure of his "new" wife, a wife who is not so sure of her "new" body, and insecurity abounds between the both. Possible recipe for disaster. We are talking to each other and really trying to figure stuff out. It's just hard when I am traveling so much and he is in nursing school and between all of our schedules and the kids, the house, the bills, the whatever, we don't have a lot of time to work on the relationship. The good thing is that both of us agree we have an issue and we want it to be better.
That's where I am today folks -- I will update after I get the results from my surgeon and the nutritionist. Hope you guys are doing great out there! God bless you and keep losing!
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Surgery 12/15/2010
Start weight: 260 lbs
Height: 5'4
Weight today: 145 lbs
Goal weight: 140 lbs
Goal BMI: 24
Clothing size -- I started in a size 22 bottoms and 3x tops. I am now a size 6 bottom and medium tops. I have rediscovered my amazingly big rib cage which will prohibit me from ever wearing a small top! I forgot how big my ribs were. Crazy things. I have been shopping in everyone I know closet. I was so excited this week because a longtime friend invited me to her house for closet shopping. She gave me 13 pairs of jeans, jackets, blouses, suits for work, and a very sexy red dress. My mother in law and sister in law have been continuously looking through their closets and have given me jackets, dresses, and my new favorite Lucky jeans!
Shrink update -- well I am still going to the shrinkage. He did say that he was very proud of me for the progress I have made and he is not so much worried that I will turn to food as he is worried that I will continue to lose weight after reaching goal. He knows that I am very goal oriented. So to reassure him and me, I made an appointment with my surgeons office for blood work and to meet with the nutritionist. I am averaging 5 to 6 lbs of weight lost per month and I will need to figure out how to maintain. I do plan on doing strength training and weights once I reach goal to firm things up a bit.
The Hubby update -- hmmm....where do I begin? I thought everything had been going well and we were on the right path...but jealousy and insecurity is coming up more and more. The hubby is having trust issues and it's impacting our relationship. At the same time, I am having adjustment issues with a new body. Here's a little TMI -- sex is different when you are skinnier. I won't go into the details but it's weird. So, you have a husband who is not so sure of his "new" wife, a wife who is not so sure of her "new" body, and insecurity abounds between the both. Possible recipe for disaster. We are talking to each other and really trying to figure stuff out. It's just hard when I am traveling so much and he is in nursing school and between all of our schedules and the kids, the house, the bills, the whatever, we don't have a lot of time to work on the relationship. The good thing is that both of us agree we have an issue and we want it to be better.
That's where I am today folks -- I will update after I get the results from my surgeon and the nutritionist. Hope you guys are doing great out there! God bless you and keep losing!
