Mountain Mama
Update from last month's blog
Oct 28, 2010
It's now been 2 months since I hit my goal weight. I'm finding it really, really difficult to meet my daily caloric requirements now to maintain that weight and end up having to supplement with a protein shake when I don't hit the minimum 1200 calories from food. Even working to maintain is a lot of work, and as of now, I'm still losing an average of 1/2 - 1 pound a week and am 8 pounds below my goal. In fact, I just bought a couple pair of size 8 jeans because my 10's were looking like clown pants -- big and baggy. And now, the 8's are also sagging in the butt -- not after wearing them for a few hours, but right when I put them on.
I don't remember EVER being in anything smaller than a 7/8 or 9/10 -- and that was when I was in 7th or 8th grade!! And I haven't weighed 140 pounds since my Freshman year in college -- during the inevitable "Freshman 15".The bad news is that my thighs remind me of that old Legg's commercial where the little boy points at the woman with the saggy pantyhose and says to his mom "Look, mom. She has 'elephant legs'.
The good news is that it seems like the "sharpei belly" is dwindling somewhat and I can actually see the abs developing that I've been working on with the weight training. 
Oh, it's still there -- just not to the extent that it was even a month ago. Maybe my body is finally starting to settle in and redistribute. I hope that loose belly skin finds its way to my behiney where I'm now sitting on my bones. YEEEOUCH!! Sitting on anything that's not padded is pure misery.I got the article done for the local Bariatric Center's newsletter that they asked me to do. I was told after submitting it that it will be in the Jan/Feb 2011 issue as the Nov/Dec issue had already been submitted for publication. I'm going to be a "published author". LOL!! I submitted the pictures of me walking up the steps from the WVU stadium to my parking lot and they took some more pictures as my "after" picture when I submitted the article -- all of which are in my photo album. That was a BIG goal accomplishment for me that I wanted to realize from having the GB/RNY almost 11 months' ago.
I stay constantly amazed at some of the little things that I used to not be able to do that I can now do -- and even big things that come along that I can now do that I couldn't do in the past. The biggest hurdle I still have ahead of me is the self image issue. I KNOW I've lost weight. . . I get that . . . I can see it in the mirror AND in my clothes AND in pictures. It's the bare, naked skin that's been damamged by years of abuse that I have to deal with. I know about plastics. But insurance doesn't cover it and I can't even think about saving enough to cover it until I get my youngest son through college. So, it will be another 2 years before I can even start my plastics nest egg -- and by the time I could save up enough, I would be 60 years old, and who would really care except for me what I look like at 60?!?!? So, I'm struggling with either accepting what I've been dealt or if it's worth spending that kind of money to take 20 years' abuse off my body at that age. Decisions. . . decisions. . .
That. is. all . . . for now. . .
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About Me
Evansville, IN
Location
23.0
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Surgery
12/10/2009
Surgery Date
Jul 04, 2009
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