5 months on the 28th, officially overweight, no longer obese !!

Oct 24, 2010

Hello boys and girls,  i hope everyone is doing great.   My five month anniversary is on the 28th, however i started losing on 5/14 when i found out i won my appeal and started the liquid diet so i consider myself pretty much 5 months out.   I started out at 240 day of surgery 222 and i am now 180.  When i did the bmi calculator i realized i am no longer in the obese catagory now i am overweight,  yeah who would have thought that would make someone happy,  but i am.  i went to the surgeon on Monday and he said i should have lost more weight,  about 15 lbs more and that i probably won't lose anymore unless i really buckle down.. He says the best i can hope for is 160?  i picked 140 since that would be 100 lbs and at my smallest i was 132 but i was a lot younger and think 140 is more realistic.  Well at first i was really ticked off,  i think 60 lbs in 5 months is good, considering i have a bigger sleeve than a lot of you.  However, thinking about it rationally now i see that i do eat too much and probably could have lost more if i had made better choices so i am back on track and exercising more and plan on making much better food choices.  All the bad food is gone from my house and no more coming in.  I am also concentrating on getting a LOT more fluids than i have been and have been told that this will help greatly with the hunger.  For me it seems to be head hunger, at home at night i want to eat because that is what i have always done.  I am also now concentrating on exercising more and hope to see great results from this.   So i have gone from a 22/24 to a 16 and 3-4x tops to xl or large and have lost several inches from all parts of my body.  Sorry if this is too long but i wanted to share where i am at 5 months out.  I feel better than i have in years and i'm so happy that i was given this gift and need to take full advantage of it.  i want to say thank you to all of you who have supported me on this journey,  its been such a great help to me and i love you all so much.  I won't say i couldn't have done it without you( altho that may be true) but it certainly would have been a lot harder than it has been.  So onward and downward.   :o)  jeani

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