jazzygirlnc
Weeks 9 & 10
Jun 23, 2016
Two months post vsg under my belt as of June 14th.
Week 9: 224.6#
Week 10: 222.6#
Honestly I expected to gain some weight between weeks 9 and 10 since we went out of town and I couldn't bring my things I usually eat at home and my eating schedule was completely obliterated. So I was hopng my weight would at least stay the same, with no gain. Well wasnt I surprised when I stepped n the scale June 16th and I had lost 2# !!!!! I dont remember the last time I weighed 222#. Finally I am down 50 pounds, never would've been possible on my own before.
My mom is so impressed with the results I have been having that she said she wants to look into surgery for herself. I'm not sure though that she understands all the changes she will have to make in the way she eats and her relationship with food, and I don't want to overwhelm her with everything, so I just give her little tid-bts of information whenever we talk about it. My dad on the other hand is the world's greatest skeptic and while he congratulates me on my weight loss he follows the compliment up with "you might lose the weight, but you're going to gain all of it back." So discouraging, he always has to be a nay-sayer, I try not to take it to heart though 
. But I am determined to prove him wrong. Not just for the satisfaction of proving him wrong but most importantly because I want to be successful and that means losing 100% of my excess weight and keepind it off as I eventually enter into maintenance.
I'm trying to keep my calories between 600-700 a day. Most days this is difficult since I try to eat 1 serving of fruit and veggies a day cause it helps with keeping things moving in the bathroom and I feel better when I eat them. My surgeon says calories need to stay between 600-800 per day while losing until goal weight is reached, I usually eat more in that range, but try to stay on the lower side. Since I track my food on MFP I notice that I dont eat many calories during the day, but when night comes I consume most of my calories between dinner and my bedtime snack. So i have been trying to set a cut-off time for eating of 8pm. Noticed that if I eat after 8pm I don't eant to eat the following morning, which puts me behind for getting in my protein.
Don't want to jinx myself but I haven't had any stalls! The weight loss has been consistent. Hopefully it will continue especially since I started going to the gym to lift weights this week. I do some cardio too, but I really want to focus on lifting to change the shape of my body. Can't wait to see what the next month holds!
