A different sort of water

Apr 08, 2012

 I said I wasn't going to be weighing myself at home, at all.  I would know how I was doing doing based on my Dr's scale when I went in for my follow ups.  Yeah right.  I kept the scale in the car but I brought it in and pretty much had been weighing myself every day.  WTH?!?  Anyway I seemed stuck between 261 and 254 it was no surprise given how I'd been eating but still, I thought to myself, I'm eating alot less that I did prior to banding.  Well I quit weighing myself and put the scale back in the car.  I took some milk of mag because I was going on 4 days with nothing and I used to go everyday if not a few times a day and I figured I was retaining at least 3lbs of "back up."  I started reading a good book that addresses the spiritual side of weight loss and I re re re re re connected with God yet again.  

All in all I didn't weigh myself for a little while and when I got back on the scale (first thing in the morning, before taking my med or any water, after peeing and after 3 days of loose bowels the week before and totally naked) it said I was 245!!!  I broke the 250 mark!  I hadn't seen that number in a long time.  As far as I can remember I've weighed between 203 and 215lbs while I was single and quite active.  Then I had my first kid and my weight ballooned to 250lbs.  That was horrific for me.  I felt like a monster (I had alot of help from family helping with that) I held that weight pretty steady until I got divorced and had my 3rd child about the same time then I went up to 280+ it was sad.

Finally about 2 yrs ago my sister and I decided to hire a personal trainer and we worked out with him for about 2-3 months at which time I weighed in at 238lbs yahoo!  Then I stopped working out and eventually crept back up to 278lbs and there I was until I had my wls.  So to see 245lbs on the scale even with all the "cheating" is a really really big deal to me.  I felt inspired.

So inspired that I put in an application at the ymca and then I also signed up for a swim class.  I have to say that I love, love, love the water.  Since I was a kid I've loved the water but never really learned to swim until I was in my 20's.  I had my first class yesterday and I loved it.  It felt so good to move and stretch out so completely without the resistance of gravity and pain.  I was high all the rest of the day just from that one hour in the pool.  I hadn't been in a pool like that in over 2 years.  It was wonderful!  

 

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