6 1/2 months post-op

Apr 27, 2014

Wow. What an exciting ride this has really been so far!!! I've lost 128lbs since having my DS in October 2014. 128!!!!! It is just mind bogging!   I do have so much lose skin in my arms and my thighs, but my stomach and my butt seem to be doing well as far as no sagginess going on and still losing in those places  lol   When I started I was more than a size 28 in pants (I don't really know, since a few months before my surgery I just started wearing stretchy pants than I know were beyond a true size 28. My shirt size was a 3x-5x or 28 depending on the style & brand. My pant size now is a 22, jackets and shirts 18/20 or 1x/2x again depending on style. Even noticed my ring size went from a 7.5 to a 6 lol   MY feet don't hurt nearly as much, I don't have that fat hump on the back of my neck like I used to, and OMG what are these things called hip bones and collarbones? ;-) 

Only issues I seem to have are some hair loss (although my hair is so thick you wouldn't know it) and dealing with gas. omg. toxic, deadly, setting-off-my-CO2-detector kind of gas. It was so bad I was in the hospital for a night because the doctors thought I was having a heart attack. I am eating healthy, no soda, candy, more veggies and enough protein to choke a horse (not that I would ever subject poor horses to these protein shakes), I don't drink milk bc I know that will be bad news (Diamond Breeze Chocolate Almond milk is legit!), I just can't pinpoint what is causing my stanky flatulance other than maybe too much fat somewhere in my diet. I even feel like i get gas bubbles or like my stomach is turning over and rebelling against me. It gets quite embarrassing in quiet meetings lol

Other than that stinky issue, I don't regret having this surgery at all. Like most people say, I wish I had done it sooner!!  I do know that I need to start working out more, but with working 2 jobs almost both full-time, I am just exhausted! I feel good that I've cut coffee out, but omg some days it's tough and you just wanna grab that liquid energy...  Eventually I would like to run a half marathon - maybe this coming fall, I did sign up for my churches softball team, so we'll see how that goes lol   I'm planning on May 1st, going back to the gym to start swimming and taking it slow.  I worked out with a trainer before my surgery and he was amazing, but he's since left the gym I'm at to go back to school. So I signed up with another trainer back in January to get back into it (that was the first time back to the gym since my surgery) and I couldn't walk for a week and a half. I know good burn pain/pain and bad burn/pain and that was not a good burn. I guess my muscles have atrophied with the rapid weight-loss, and him not being versed in what was going on in my body didn't help either of us. So to say the least, I've been afraid to go back because it was such a horrible feeling not being able to walk, sit without looking stupid or get up out of a chair. Even trying to sit on the toilet was a challenge. The tops of my thighs were just hating me.

So anyway, all is going well, and excited to see where the next 6 months will bring me! Teachers at school that I don't really even talk to said that I was looking great! When I've told them how much I've lost since the beginning of the school year, they just respond, "Wow, we're not even going to recognize you come next school year!!"

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