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A weight loss update.  I’m about 5 and a half months post-surgery, and today marks 1 year since my first visit to the surgeon. In the past year I’ve lost 175 pound, 130 of those since the surgery in February. Had a checkup with the surgeon on Monday and everything’s fine, all my vitamin levels are within their normal limits. Mowing the lawn’s been a lot easier this year, and I’m biking straight up hills I couldn’t handle when I first got the bike. I’m so glad I made this decision.

Spent the last 2 weeks stuck at 442, finally moved down to 439 this morning, which puts me at 101 pounds down since my first surgeon's visit, and 56 pounds down since surgery. Tolerating all foods pretty well. Ordered a bike from Worksman last month, looking forward to both it and the nice spring weather getting here.

Had my two week follow-up visit with the surgeon today. Pretty boring really, no pain, no nausea, no vomiting. He said it was a perfect textbook example of the surgery and he was glad his resident was in the OR to see it. My vitamin D level was low in my preop test, so they put me on a weekly D vitamin. Next follow-up is in a month. I'm down 26 pounds since the surgery and down 71 pounds since my first surgeon's visit in August.

So good that sometimes I wonder if the surgeon actually took the stomach out. No nausea at all. Haven't really felt any restriction, mostly just gurgling, but I'm sure the restriction will come along once I start eating real foods.  I've never really felt like I needed to eat though so I've just been focusing on getting 60+ grams of protein. (Haven't had any problems getting the liquids in.) Getting pretty tired of protein shakes though, looking forward to being able to eat cottage cheese instead.  (There's a phrase I never thought I'd say.) Pain has mostly been similar to a sprained stomach muscle and I barely even notice it at this point. My first steristrip over my incisions fell off this morning and during the day I've stopped wearing the elastic chest binding they gave me to wear.

The 3 week stall may be ahead of schedule though. Lost 19 pounds in the first 6 days then I've been stuck at the same number for the past 3 days. (Yeah, the perils of unwise daily scale checkery.) Just have to keep working it and I know it will get started again.