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So I am almost one month out and getting ready to take my one month photos.  I had been trying to hang in there and the scale wasn't really budging in the past week.  Of course, my life has been erratic with two dear friends dying within the past four days and running back and forth to the hospital.  I was drinking as I should but didn't get my protein in every day.  Anyway, yesterday I had a minor victory... my friend gave me her too big size 20 jeans and I could fit them!!! In my experience jeans often run tighter than slacks so that is great. 

Today I hit an even bigger landmark as I weighed in at 249.8 lbs!!! It feels so good to weigh under 250 pounds for the first time in years.  Then the next wonderful landmark came this evening when I went to pick up my tshirt for an organization I volunteer with and I had to switch the 2X I ordered for an XL!!! 

I am finally cleared for vigorous exercise and I have begun working with resistence bands and will ramp up the walking and restart the pilates tomorrow. 

I am learning the difference between that good sensation of fullness and that one bite too much.  What a gift that hunger is not a big issue after this surgery.  And to top it off, due to my positive experience another dear friend has started her prep for VSG and will likely have it in 2 months. She can barely walk right now due to her weight and arthritis so I am so happy for her. 

Will figure out how to post pictures and finally get my avatar and before and one month photos up.  It's fun to uncover the prettier me underneath all that flab. 

For the past week I have increased my activity level and gotten off the pain medications.  My bariatric medical physician took me off my high blood pressure pills and is happy with my weight loss of about 10 pounds.  I am frustrated because my side is still sore and that makes it hard to move as much as I want.  I'm dealing with constipation too so that may be why my weight loss stopped about a week ago.  My clothes are getting looser every day so I am wondering if one day I'll wake up and it will show on the scale.  Still feel like I have to take naps at times and I keep praying for my stamina to bounce back.  But I am so happy I have done this WLS and I trust that my body will figure it out in time and start losing again.  I have another week before I am cleared to exercise vigorously so I have to be patient. 

I'm starting my third day home and I am getting stronger and better every day.  Thanking God for the wonderful nurses who knew alot about my surgery and gave me lots of mouth swabs to stay moist until I could drink after my leak test, ice packs for my sore tummy and taught me ways to get out of bed. 

It's so great to take a shower and I already take one less medication than I did last week.  No more diuretics and no more "cankles"!  Yeay!

My kids are figuring out what I actually do around here now that I am not able to do it.  They are appreciative and it's great to have time to read, watch a movie or two and goof off while I heal.  Walking again but I don't think anyone would call it a workout yet, but that's coming along each day as my stomach muscles heal. 

It's pretty amazing how I am not hungry or wishing I could eat, thank you God and Dr. Wong again. 
Still not seeing any big weight change but my doctors told me not to expect that for a week to 10 days due to all the IV's and changes my body is going through.  So this should be interesting, haven't had even 500 calories a day for the past 6 days so it'll be good to see that pay off on the scale.