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on January 26, 2008 5:22 pm
Wow, life has been busy. No excuse for not updating the blog, just an explaination. I'm at 166. One hundred and one pounds lost in 14 months. I can't believe it.
My personal goal is to get to 150 but my surgeon suggested at the beginning of this journey I should aim for 140 to 145. At 5'3" I still would be considered overweight for my small bone frame.
Icing on the cake. Anything after this is icing on the cake. I'm wearing a 12 petite pant and a large top. I don't like my 'muffin top' so a bigger top is in order. The muffin isn't from wearing a pant too tight but from years of having a big hernia between my belly button and my boobs. My doctor fixed the hernia when I had DS surgery but the skin was stretched for so long, it has deflated to an intertube like flap above my waist. Friends tell me it doesn't show, but they're lying. That is why they are friends.
Eating at 14 months. I eat what I want. But the want has changed from pre to post. I love desserts so I have them everyday. But instead of eating on a pie all day until it is gone. I eat a piece and enjoy it and that is it. If I wanted it, I would eat it. There isn't anything I can't have. But again, this is choice. I try to always eat protein first, eggs, meats, cheeses, nuts. But I also have potatoes, pasta, rice, vegetables, salad. Life is good. Very good.
Just as a reference here was todays menu:
(This is a Saturday. If it was during the week, my lunch would have been bigger because I would have eaten breakfast earlier)
Breakfast: Two eggs fried in butter, served on toast, buttered with plum jam.
Snack: Grilled cheese sandwich and a couple of Hershey's kisses with Almonds and a couple of Hershey's kisses Cherry cordial.
Lunch: Crispy Chicken Sandwich from Sonic, half the bun discarded (bread not that good, so chose to discard) extra large diet Coke.
Snack: half a can of whole cashews
Dinner: Large hamburger steak with cheese and half a baked potato with butter, sour cream, cheese. Peach pie with a scoop of ice cream for dessert.
Ate what I wanted. No limits on food put on me by my surgery. Surgery requires me to infuse the body with 2 multi vitamins, a dry ADEK, and calcium chews. And eat lots and lots, which is not a problem for me.
Last year at this time I was 3 months out from surgery and just beginning to appreciate my DS. In a couple of months we will be going on a cruise and my number one priority isn't buying clothes that will make me look slimmer or hide the sweat spots. And I'm not worrying about what I can eat but how to smuggle food back to my room for late night snacks. And snorkeling, we are going snorkeling!!! Never, ever, in a million years would I have considered appearing in a swimsuit in public. Now, I'll not be a playboy bunny in that swimsuit, but I'll just look like the majority of other almost 50 year old women.
Life is good.
Be the first to leave a comment.My personal goal is to get to 150 but my surgeon suggested at the beginning of this journey I should aim for 140 to 145. At 5'3" I still would be considered overweight for my small bone frame.
Icing on the cake. Anything after this is icing on the cake. I'm wearing a 12 petite pant and a large top. I don't like my 'muffin top' so a bigger top is in order. The muffin isn't from wearing a pant too tight but from years of having a big hernia between my belly button and my boobs. My doctor fixed the hernia when I had DS surgery but the skin was stretched for so long, it has deflated to an intertube like flap above my waist. Friends tell me it doesn't show, but they're lying. That is why they are friends.
Eating at 14 months. I eat what I want. But the want has changed from pre to post. I love desserts so I have them everyday. But instead of eating on a pie all day until it is gone. I eat a piece and enjoy it and that is it. If I wanted it, I would eat it. There isn't anything I can't have. But again, this is choice. I try to always eat protein first, eggs, meats, cheeses, nuts. But I also have potatoes, pasta, rice, vegetables, salad. Life is good. Very good.
Just as a reference here was todays menu:
(This is a Saturday. If it was during the week, my lunch would have been bigger because I would have eaten breakfast earlier)
Breakfast: Two eggs fried in butter, served on toast, buttered with plum jam.
Snack: Grilled cheese sandwich and a couple of Hershey's kisses with Almonds and a couple of Hershey's kisses Cherry cordial.
Lunch: Crispy Chicken Sandwich from Sonic, half the bun discarded (bread not that good, so chose to discard) extra large diet Coke.
Snack: half a can of whole cashews
Dinner: Large hamburger steak with cheese and half a baked potato with butter, sour cream, cheese. Peach pie with a scoop of ice cream for dessert.
Ate what I wanted. No limits on food put on me by my surgery. Surgery requires me to infuse the body with 2 multi vitamins, a dry ADEK, and calcium chews. And eat lots and lots, which is not a problem for me.
Last year at this time I was 3 months out from surgery and just beginning to appreciate my DS. In a couple of months we will be going on a cruise and my number one priority isn't buying clothes that will make me look slimmer or hide the sweat spots. And I'm not worrying about what I can eat but how to smuggle food back to my room for late night snacks. And snorkeling, we are going snorkeling!!! Never, ever, in a million years would I have considered appearing in a swimsuit in public. Now, I'll not be a playboy bunny in that swimsuit, but I'll just look like the majority of other almost 50 year old women.
Life is good.
