fatoldbat
23 weeks post-op!
Nov 28, 2010
here we are again! i'm now 23 weeks post op! celebrated my 5 month surgiversary last week but was on vacation and was unable to post! i've officially lost 82.2 pounds! woohoo!!! weight loss has certainly slowed down. thinking i might not be eating enough due to exercise. my iphone app says i'm averaging a net of about 400 calories per day since my exercise burns about 300 calories. so might try increasing the intake. but i knew the loss would slow down as my goal weight gets closer.....i guess you could say i'm getting down to the "hard lard"!i'll be completing week 9 of the couch to 5k program this week! woohoo! i don't run 3.1 miles in that 30 minutes of running but i'm running! oh my gosh! i'm running for 30 minutes without stopping! oh my gosh! i would have never dreamed a year ago that i'd be doing this! i attended my WLS seminar on 12/6/09. i look back and think of how miserable i was. how very unhappy with myself. was being smothered by the self loathing and it was all because of my weight. i was so very sick. thank You, Lord, for my RNY! i'm actually living again.
still losing hair! UGH!!! as i state in previous posts....my hair was already thin due to a vitamin "d" deficiency diagnosed several months before my RNY so......my hair was already extremely thin and now......oh my! it's super, super thin! hoping and praying the hair loss ends soon. been losing lots of hair for over a month now. i know it won't last much longer because i'll be bald and won't have any to lose! oh well....it is what it is. praying that the Lord will give me the strength and courage to accept the hair loss and praying that the new growth will take off pretty soon!
was a wonderful Thanksgiving. saw lots of family that i haven't seen since before surgery. of course, i didn't share my decision to have the surgery with anyone in my family. so....there were lots of comments about the weight loss. i might share the surgery info one day. not sure. it's such a personal decision and i'm very private....especially since a very close friend of mine (one that i thought would support me!) chose to not support my decision. i love her dearly but she'll never know how badly she hurt me with her remarks.
oh well.....til next time............
