Get healthy and stop living in fear of having a heart attack!

Well I just got off the scale & I'm in tears, tears of joy!  I'm at 199.8!!!!!  I'm down 36 pounds in 8 weeks.  I guess that's an average of 4.5 pounds per week.  If I keep up that average I should be at my goal of 130 by the end of 6 more months, which would be right around Christmas time.  What a great present to myself that would be!!!!!  It's really hard to imagine that I could actually get to my goal.  This still all seems so very surreal.

Wow, below 200.  I'm in shock.  As some others have said in their posts, my body does not look or feel like it did the last time I was around this weight.  Granted that was about 5 years ago, but the clothes I have from that time don't fit like they did back then.  I'm not complaining by any means, but it's really quite different.  I still feel so squishy all over.  I hope that will resolve itself as time passes & my body adjusts itself.  Maybe once I get to goal & have been there for a while things will firm up.  At least that's what I'm counting on!!!!!

So far nothing I've eaten since being given the green light has bothered me at all.  And, yes, I know how lucky I am in this regard.  Just in the last couple of weeks I've started to feel some hunger.  But I know without a doubt it's not head hunger & that's a very good thing.  I was hoping that I would be lucky enough to never feel hunger again, but looks like that won't happen.  But I can certainly handle a little hunger, & it's definitely just a little.  And only if I haven't eaten in a very long time.  Maybe that's a good thing in itself - reminding me I need to consume nutrition!!!

I'm trying really hard to make sure I get all my protein in each day & I'm doing great at it.  Most of my meals consist of 1-2 ounces of a meat or other protein & a couple of tablespoons of a veggie or fruit.  Once in a while I throw in a little pasta or whole wheat bread.  And of course I still have my Lean Dessert protein shake every day.  YUMMY!  I'm keeping a log of all my meals & vitamins.  This has helped me stay on track, I'm sure.  I'm walking 2 miles in 40 minutes M-F but I still haven't added in any resistance training.  Not sure what I'm waiting on!!

Life is good!  I'm feeling so, so, so much better.  Praise God for these blessings!!!!!!!

Well, the nut said I could possibly lose 30 pounds in the first 6 weeks & I just laughed at her.  I couldn't imagine such a thing happening to me.  But it did!!!!  30 pounds gone in 6 weeks.  Sounds like one of those ads for some magic weight loss pill or potion on late night TV.  I never dreamed it would actually be MY reality.

I'm feeling better & better every day.  The tiredness is finally starting to subside, just this week actually.  I'm getting in about 4-5 days of walking each week, depending on how my right hip cooperates.  The nut said I need to start adding in resistance training now.  I'm already starting to see the "bat wings" on my arms.  That's kind of scary because I've never had that when I've lost weight before.  And the rest of me feels quite squishy!!!  Like all the fat is just loose in there.  I hope with time it will all firm up.  I really, really, really don't want another surgery!!!!

I have been so very blessed through this process so far.  I've yet to throw up & still only a couple of bouts of nausea.  I see so many posts from folks that are having such a hard time & I just feel so bad for them.  It surely makes me realize how lucky I've been.  Of course I have followed the docs directions to the "T" & I'm sure this has helped.

Today I tried on some jeans that I bought a couple of years ago to motivate me during one of my many diets - they're a regular size 18 - and they fit perfectly!!!!  I could even sit down in them comfortably.  I was so stunned I nearly cried.  I knew I was down a couple of sizes, but that was just so unexpected.  I was just going to see how far up my big butt they'd go & then whammo they were on & buttoned.  What a great feeling that was.  I can't wait to do that with a size 6!!!!!!!!!!  I just wish my top half was the same size but I guess it'll even out eventually.

I'm really starting to look forward to what's to come.  My next big goal is to be below 200 of course, & then the next big milestone will be 185.  That's what I weighed when we got married in 1986 & Greg has never seen me below that weight.  I wonder how he'll respond?  He's been very happy for me so far & very supportive.  What a big difference from before the surgery!!!!!

I gotta go & get something accomplished today.