1 Month Surgiversary!

Sep 24, 2014

I have to say how surprised I am at how easy this first month was! God has blessed me and kept his protective hand over through this whole journey and I am VERY thankful! 

While physically everything has gone smooth, mentally not so much. After 1.5 week out of surgery I started to stall and after about a week of weighing every day I had to put away the scales so I would stop focusing on weight loss but on recovery and the program. I knew eventually everything would come full circle. During this time I started having problems sleeping well and couldn't concentrate but couldn't figure out why I was always exhausted and in a haze.  I had to do a blood test for my endocrinologist appointment coming up and to my surprise my TSH level had made a significant jump - from 1.06 pre op to 6.36 post op. So that explained all the symptoms I was having. It may even explain why I was stalling out. So hopefully my endo and I can get it figured out and back down to my preferred level of 1.

At my last weigh in on September 8 I weighed 213.4.

This morning I weighed 207! So looks like I finally broke through that stall! It may not be a lot but I'll take it! 

I also took pictures and I can see a smoothing and thinning out difference in my pictures.

So I'm happy that in a months time I lost 20 pounds from pre op (HW) to today. I know I'll lose slower and that's okay with me ...just as long as I keep losing!

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