After 7 long months and 1 day .....I did it.  I hit 199!!!  Words can't describe it.  Its so surreal.  I have not seen the number on my scale since high school nearly 15 years ago.  And just this week I put on a size 12 skirt and a size 12 capri pants.  WOW.  I am so happy and feel so blessed to have gotten this opportunity.  I dont ever remember being this small.  Even in high school I remember just feeling so much bigger then the other kids.  In actuallity,  looking back I was fairly small and carried my weight well.  Now I feel normal sized for the first time in a very long time. 

Issues im dealing with.... Dizziness and hypoglycemia.  I determined through talking to the ladies here on the boards, that the dizziness is most likely due to me not drinking nearly enough.  I am sip, sip, siping still and have started using a straw.  Seems this helps me get more in.  My blood pressure is running around 110/65  So I am also guessing when I get up from a sitting position that my bp is dipping.  Mind you , before surgery I was on bp meds .  When managed, my numbers were at 140/84.  So the weight has made such a difference.

I plan to go forward, lose another 25lbs and then be done (maybe).  I hear about the bounce back that everyone talks about and I feel like I should try to get down as small as my body wants to go while I can.  That way when I do bounce back , I will bounce back to where I want to be which is around the 175 mark.    SEE PICS BELOW

Thats all for now, my next post will be when I hit the century mark.  Hopefully I will hit it by sometime in July.


Tanya


** I just realized that I hit 199 a full year  to the date (yesterday) after joining this site and begining my investigation. AWESOME!









 

Just a quick post of my new pics.  I am a total of 78lbs down since surgery.  So far so good and things are well.  Number one complaint I have is that my hands are always cold when I am at work.  Other then that I am good!


                                        

I am still dropping weight, however my weight loss has slowed pretty dramatically.   I have lost another 10lbs since my last post so its roughly about 10lbs in the last 4-6 weeks.  Thats not alot but I am still dropping inches and I am only 40lbs to my original goal.  Alot of the slow loss is my fault, not eating enough and getting enough protein in.  I have been excercising 2 to 3 days a week and it gives me alot of energy but I have to do all these things to speed the weight loss up.  I caught a glimpse of myself in the gym locker room mirror and it dawned on me how small I have really gotten.  I am no longer huge, I no longer stand out because of my size.  Thats very hard to imagine and because my mind has not caught up to my body I still view myself as morbidly obese.
My goals for the summer is to get out of the house more.  I have been such a homebody most of my adult life.  Now I would like to get out some time and enjoy myself with friends and socialize more. 

Things I need to work on
I have GOT to start taking smaller bites and eating slower.  I will ruin my stomah if I dont
I have got to stop taking small sips of fluid during meals.   (swallowing food is just so uncomfortable  feels like intergestion) And I hate that feeling,  Neverthe less I am quitting that now before I do damage I can't undo,

I have revised my goals.  I would like to lose another 10lbs in April & 10 in May.  I am being told by alot of people that I should stop with those 20 additional pounds but that just not enough for me I dont think.  So my goal is going to adjust to losing 20 more pounds for now and then toning and losing 5lbs a month after that until I feel I have lost enough.

Until next time. .


So far so good.