Shrinky Inky

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Back before my RNY surgery in April, I posted all the time, and even through most of my surgery progress, but lately, it seems I HAVE A BUSY LIFE. That is so cool to write.

So, an update lest you feel I fell off the planet...

• Not much knitting going on, but it will always be there.
• My work load and schedule sucks lately and I have not been making it to Monday Knitting, but plan to today (whew!)
• We've been making new friends (Hi Darrin and Vette!) and doing lots of fun things.
• I've lost 107 pounds of fugly fat.
• I'm thinking of growing my hair long again.
• I need a new piercing. Need. hahahaha.
• Love walking more than ever and finding new beautiful spots on the coast for a hike.
• Spent a good bunch of time on a playground swinging high on a swing (and I wasn't feeling like it would break any minute).
• Sleep like the dead without waking up every time I roll over.
• Ready to buy smaller jeans.
• I feel more NORMAL than ever.
• Learning to love my body again.

I wish I had done this surgery years ago, I really do, but I am so grateful for having done it and getting back things I had not even realized I had lost.

I am blessed beyond belief and ecstatic that I am too busy to be bored. Yep. Not Bored At All.

Thanksgiving.  Turkey, taters, gravy, that crazy green bean casserole we hate to admit we love, PIE!  I loved food.  Loved it.  Thought about it.  Wanted to eat it all the time. 

See where it got me? 



Not a happy looking person, was I?  Last year, on Thanksgiving evening, I had eaten so much food that I got up, and while not actually sick, threw up because there was simply no more room in by extended belly. 

When it was over, I had already decided that gastric bypass surgery was for me.  I could never eat like that again because I never wanted to.

I am the happiest in my life I have ever been.  This surgery saved my life.  Last night I admitted to my parents that in January 2007, my blood pressure was 198/112 and I was going to die.  Die.  Dead.  Adios.  And that was ON blood pressure meds. 

In case you're new here, I had my surgery on April 26, 2007.  My re-birth day.  I am now 104 pounds lighter, but more importantly, after 10 days off my BP meds to see where I am, my BP was 140/90.  "Borderline." My dose has been cut in half and in two months we test again.  I am the happiest in my life I have ever been.  I am going to live.  A lot.  For a long time.  My labs were perfect and I am the healthiest I have ever been in my life.

This Thanksgiving my parents, my husband and I will start with a light breakfast (coffee and a fiber cake for me!), then go down to the beach and walk our 3-4 miles.  With my wonderful, loving family by my side, I can do that now.  Better yet, I want to do it every day.  I don't feel right if I don't do it.

This Thanksgiving, food is not the main course.  Family and love are.  Food is sustenance.  Food is no longer the issue.  I can face anything now without the food and I can face the food and it does not scare me anymore.

This Thanksgiving I am NORMAL. 

While I cannot thank any one person enough for that, I think, for a change, I will thank myself, because we don't do that enough as humans.  Thank you, Inky, for loving yourself enough to want to change everything so that you could continue to live and love those around you.  Ya done good, baby, keep it up.

Oh.My.Gosh. Today I Ran. Well, more precisely, jogged and walked hard. But it was actual jogging!!

I walk on the beach 3-5 miles a day, and today, walking on the boardwalk, my body said run. My mind said no, you can't do it. I told my mind to shut up. I told my legs to run. And I ran.

It was AMAZING! I don't even remember running in the last 30 years.

Today I ran. I love my surgery so much, it gave me my life back and then some.

And I have lost 100.5 pounds.  Live is rocking cool!!

Holy crap, I lost 6.5 lbs this week - thank my little fat cells for letting go of 6.5 lbs of ugly fat forever!!

98 down - I will make my 100 lbs by my follow up on the 19th!! 

I am so happy today I could burst!

finally out of the 230's!! 

I am seeing numbers on my scale that I can't even tell you when I saw them last. 

Yay!!

My major drive for having WLS was my uncontrollable blood pressure that even meds were not doing a good job with.

Today at the doc's my BP was 140/90, considered borderline by my PCP, but we were able to agree to cut me down to half the dose I currently take of my med, with follow up again in two months.  So, while today my goal was no more BP med, this at least is headed in the right direction.

And two of the nurses didn't even recognize me -woohoo!!

Here I am, six months after surgery, halfway to goal at 91.5 pounds down and 90.5 pounds to go, wearing primarily 16/18 or XL and some L) clothing, feeling great and happy!!  I see my PCP for six month blood work on Monday and hope for good news regarding getting off my blood pressure meds.  Cross your fingers for me!



And here I am in my pre op clothes - six months later!!

Weighed in today - 231, another  half pound gone.  Maybe this jerky abstinence is a really good thing, it has jump started my weight loss again.  Iwill not be at 100 pounds down by my six months (10-26-2007), but I could see it happening by my 7th month and frankly, that's good enough for me.  When Dr. Felix told me 100 lbs by 6 months, I was so stressed, and attaching these numerical goals is what gets us in trouble so phooey on that!

In clothing news, I had a pair of size 24 jeans I've still been wearing all this time and over the weekend hubby said now they looked like mom pants because they were so tightly belted, the pockets were down to my thighs and everything was baggy!  These were 24 Paris Blues from Torrid, several years ago. 

Last night we hit Lame Giant (aka Lane Bryant) outlet and I decided to cave in and buy some jeans.  I probably could have gone to a "regular" store but I knew the prices would be good at LG and they do cut their clothes for curves, and they have petite jeans for the vertically challenged.

I started with a 20, thinking okay, these 24's are way to big so I'll skip 22.  hahahah 20 was big....I tried 18, good through the butt and tummy, a tiny bit tight in the waist and a little loose in the legs.  My body is changing strangely and i'm sure there is more to come.  I did try on 16's - and they fit great in the leg and through the butt, but were about 4 inches too small across the tummy, no zipping for those, unless I cut off my panni, lol.

So new size 18 jeans, that will hopefully get me through a couple months - I'll wear 'em baggie for a bit, i hate spending money on temporary clothing!!  And 3 pairs of size 14 bikini underpants, sooo cute!!  I haven't worn bikini underwear in decades, lol.

I will miss LG, really I will, for a little bit anyway, it's been my comfort shopping zone for so many years.  But I think next time - a regular store with petite jeans will do just fine *wink*

My loss this week - 4 lbs from last Sunday to yesterday and another 1.5 overnight -  and...taadaaa...i am "just" obese.  Gone are my morbid super obese and extreme obese days.  Just plain old, ordinary, run of the mill obese :) 

I made some changes this week, primarily walking longer and harder (3 miles a day, 4x a week), using the pool on the 5th day and two days off.  I also eliminated a very favorite food, both pre and post surgery, my beef jerky.  I admitted before I love it, it is easy for me to digest, heavy in protein, but after adding my sodium intake to sparkpeople, i realized just how much sodium i was taking in (and not even using table salt).  So beef jerky went bye-bye for now until I can make my own, and suddenly the weight started sliding off.  I know a stall will come soon, but i'm happy to have reached the following goals:

231.5 today, bmi  of 39.7 (from 55.3!!!!!)

90.5 lbs loss (greatest loss ever in my entire life) and 91.5 to go - I am almost halfway.

Even when you do not lose pounds, you WILL lose inches!!

	05/12/07	06/15/07	07/12/07	08/12/07	09/12/07	10/12/07	Difference
Neck	16.000	15.5	15.250	15.250	15.250	15.000	1.000	Neck
Shoulder	50.250	49.75	48.875	44.250	44.000	43.500	6.750	Shoulder
Upper Arm	19.750	19	17.750	17.000	16.750	16.500	3.250	Upper Arm
Lower Arm	14.000	13.5	12.875	12.500	12.500	12.500	1.500	Lower Arm
Wrist	7.500	7.375	7.125	7.000	7.000	7.000	0.500	Wrist
Midriff	46.000	44	43.125	42.000	42.000	41.875	4.125	Midriff
Bust	52.500	51	50.750	49.250	48.500	47.750	4.750	Bust
Waist	46.000	43.5	43.500	42.750	42.000	41.500	4.500	Waist
Hip	59.000	55.75	55.500	54.500	53.000	52.000	7.000	Hip
Upper Thigh	30.000	29.5	28.500	26.500	26.000	25.750	4.250	Upper Thigh
Knee	20.500	20.5	19.500	19.000	19.000	19.000	1.500	Knee
Calf	21.500	21.5	21.500	20.250	20.250	20.250	1.250	Calf
Ankle	12.000	12.000	12.000	11.500	11.500	11.500	0.500	Ankle
Foot	10.750	10.625	10.250	10.000	10.000	10.000	0.750	Foot
							41.625	TOTAL INCHES LOST
322	289.75	273	265.000	250.5	243.000	236.500	85.500	TOTAL WEIGHT LOSS