Five months out

Sep 05, 2010

Tomorrow I will be five months out from surgery and I've lost 116 pounds as of this morning. My second goal was to loose 115 by October 7th which would be 50% of my EWL. I managed to smash that goal a month early so I feel I must be doing something right. I'm working on getting my protein consistently up to 100g a day and I bought a new blender so hopefully I can get it up there with a few dreadful shakes a day. I've been able to get up to 90 with food on some days but not everyday since I still have days when I don't feel like eating much.
The weird part is that in my head I don't think I've lost 116 pounds. I mean I know my clothes are huge on me and I can tell a difference sometimes but I don't see it when I look in the mirror. Maybe it will take awhile for my head to catch up to all this stuff. I'm still having some issues with memory since the surgery and I'm not sure what that is from. I just don't "feel" as mentally sharp. I'm having my labs done in a week so we'll see if I'm low somewhere and maybe that is causing it or if it's still lingering from the anesthesia since I had two surgeries within two months. I know the second time they gave me different anesthesia because when I came out I was shaking incredibly bad like I did the first time I had an epidural so who knows.
Today I'm spending the day without any kids around which is nice - very quiet and low stress. I'm going to head to Hobby Lobby and get some new picture frames, work on some scrapbooking and study for my classes that I'm taking - Anatomy and Physiology and for fun - an intro to early childhood education class. I'm hoping the memory issue resolves due to the huge amount of memorization needed for A&P.
Here is to another month down and getting closer to my eventual goal weight. I've set a new goal for this month so we'll see if I an hit it - I want to be at 130 lost by my six month. Of course I hope I don't jinx myself and have a month long stall - that would be a bummer.

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