MeliT
its a slooowwwww process
Jul 06, 2014
one thing thats hard for me to wrap my head around is how long this weightloss takes when done the old fashioned way. i think all of us are used to how quickly it happened after surgery. but that was after 6 weeks (2 before and 4 after) of liquid diet not to mention the shock the surgery on the body AND the new pouch. of course you're gonna drop weight like crazy. but thats why they say you have a 6 month grace period. after that everything sort of evens out. makes it easier to maintain, but if you gain again (like i did with pregnancy) it makes it really hard to lose it again.
my last post was months ago and i've only lost 3 additional lbs. which i put on after 4th of july. but fuck the scale. the scale is a fucker. i've seen pictures. the thing that fucks with me is that my body shape is staying exactly the same. after pregnancy my stomach sticks way out. and it still does. BUT i look at side to side comparisons and i do see the difference. same shape, just less of it. more muscle. smaller tighter upper arms, my back is thinner, little things like that. i'm slowly chizzling away at this mountain of a body. and guess what? its gonna take a LONG time. so i might not get to pre pregnancy weight till the end of the year...if i'm lucky. but is that gonna stop me?? HELL NO. i have goals to reach. even if they take me longer to reach. i'm still working at it. gotta have faith and trust the process. you don't see changes every day, or week, or even month. but after a few months you'll take a picture and go wow, look at that improvement! so i'm not gonna get bogged down on semantics. i'm gonna just keep swimming. just keep swimming. here we go....
