So a few things have happened. I am 6 1/2 weeks out down 25 pounds since surgery 73 total. First wow moment I realized that I am below the recommended weight limit on my home treadmill. The weight limit is 250 and I was way over that getting on the treadmill anyway. Second wow I weighed 235 this morning I haven't weighed this much since 2004. Third wow, I am in a size 20 pants, started at a 26. Fourth wow, I was able to buy a shirt out of the regular section of the store, the shirt was a 2x I'm sure I could have swung a 1x but didn't want to push it. My fifth and final wow is that while I was at the gym I noticed my knees, there starting to poke out, no longer hidden under massive flesh. I can't believe how fast things are changing. For me the clothes are getting bigger way faster than the weight coming off of the scale, while it may be bothersome that the weight isn't flying off like I expected it is good to go through sizes so fast despite the fact that clothes cost money, especially when you're buying new ones every couple of weeks.

So this morning I weighed in at 238 which means I've officially lost 70 big ones. I'm so so happy now I only have 73 to go to reach my surgeons goal. Wow hopefully that will melt off. My surgeon told me that I will see the biggest changes in the next 4-6 weeks, so I'm really looking forward to that. My first small goal is to reach onderland by September. i think it can be done, that's almost two months so I'll make it happen. I'm getting so excited now I'm just 30 pounds away from the century club, I can't believe this is happening, I can't wait for all that's in store.

So after two long weeks I finally broke my stall no more 243-245. In the last two days I've lost 3 pounds. I weighed in at 240 this morning so finally 20 pounds down since surgery. When I talked to my surgeon he said I may move slow since I lost 50 pounds before surgery and I only have 75 more until my surgeons goal. My surgeon actually thinks I can get to the lowest end of the healthy BMI chart. That would have me weighing as low as 118. Heck I haven't been that small since the 5th grade. I personally wouldn't want to get that small. I looked really thin at 165 in the past so I can't imagine 118. The odd thing is that my face loses first, so now I have this thin face with a big body, I guess my face was the last thing to get fat, maybe that's why I didn't realize I had gotten so fat. Anyway I'm truly excited that this stall has ended. I plan on being at goal by December, Merry Christmas to me, well hopefully anyway.

Wow its been five weeks and I haven't updated anything. Well lets see, I came home from surgery 7 pounds heavier than when I went in, it took me a week to shed that weight. In the next two weeks I lost 17 pounds, since then I have been in a stall. I go from 243- 245 everyday. It gets truly annoying to see the same thing everyday for two weeks. So today I had my first post-op appointment. Keep in mind that I only eat 1/4 cup of protein 3 times a day, no snacks, no protein shakes. Guess what my surgeons recommendation was to break my stall. EAT LESS. Wow eat less, I barely get 35g of protein as it is and less than 200 calories a day. He told me not to focus on protein or calories, but to eat less, so go from 1/4cup to 1/8 cup at 5 weeks out. It really confuses me how I see some post-ops who have to aim for at least 60g of protein and I'm being told to decrease my intake even more. 1/8c for 5 weeks out seems way to small to me. I will do as my surgeon suggested but it seems so odd when I see protein being stressed so much and I'm being told not to focus on protein, but to focus on eating less, very confusing.

So I made it home. I checked into Kaiser Richmond Yesterday at 12:00 p.m. I got taken back at about 12:15, got an I.V. put in and just sat in the back and waited and read a magazine. A little before 2p.m. the anestheologist came back and spoke to me, then Dr. Fisher came and spoke to me. I got taken into the O.R. at exactly 2p.m. I remember the anestheologist talking to me and that was it. The next thing I remember it was about 8:00 p.m. and my family was there. I couldn't even keep my eyes open for one minute, I kept passing out. I got up to walk and felt so sick. I wish someone would have told me how horrible the gas pain was. Now I've heard you have gas but it was worse than I imagined. I felt it all the way in the top of my chest and down to my lower back. The only thing that helped it was rotating the way I layed. Everytime I got up to use the bathroom I lay on a different side. Laying on my back was the worst, it kept all of the gas trapped.

So today I got up very early, actually I never really slept more than an hour kept having to pee. Well I got up and drank a little tea, it didn't sit well with me, I don't think anything with flavor sits well with me except for broth. It's so funny the way the fluid gushes through my "pouch". It makes a little noise and I burp, quite weird.

I saw my surgeon at about 8a.m., he told me everything went great but he found that I had a hernia that he had to repair. Very odd, I never felt any pain related to it, I think it may have came from when I had my C- section last year. Dr. Fisher said I may have some more pain due to the hernia repair.

I saw my nurse and was discharged at 10:45. I went home and just slept. I did get on the scale to see how much water weight I gained. When I went in I weighed 260, 12 pounds below my goal, this morning I weighed 267, so up 7 pounds from surgery. I think walking has paid off because this evening I am down to 263. Walking and peeing does pay off. I am also glad to say that the gas pain is almost gone. Thank God, that was unbearable, I swear the gas pain was worse than my c- section pain.

Anyway I am home just relaxing trying to adjust to my sipping and vitamins.