workingsahm
Update
Oct 04, 2009
Well it appears that it's been 3 months since my last post! How easily time slips away from us! Since my journey began I have lost 48.5 pounds. I'm pleased with the success thus far but admit that there is still something missing....I have not found the motivation to exercise routinely.At my last visit with Dr. Mecenas we discussed this. He said that I could break up the exercise into 10 minute intervals to help make it easier. I guess I was sort of doing that all along. I have added significantly more activity to my lifestyle over all, but still feel that I should be out hiking, bike riding or at least walking on the treadmill or lifting weights at home. I suppose you could say that I work in a total of 30 minutes or so on most days of "exercise"... but I don't feel that it's enough. I'm sure that my weight loss would be more successful if I added more activity but I haven't gotten there yet. I will not bore any reader with excuses as to why. I don't really know why....just haven't found the motivation.
What I HAVE found, however is that my life is becoming easier because of the weight loss. Of course, since I had gastric bypass surgery I no longer have to take medicine for GERD. I also have not needed to use my asthma medicine in MONTHS. I can easily climb the stairs and hills on the Cornell campus. I can even do it in a rush without gasping for breath.
I'm down to a size 14, which I haven't worn since before my first child was born. People make comments daily about how good I look....before the weight loss I knew that I would get that kind of attention if I lost a significant amount and I have to admit I was a little scared about it....but I have found that it NEVER gets old!!
My breasts have shrunk, which believe it or not is a good thing...I'm wearing a smaller bra and my shoulder pain is gone! I guess all that extra weight in my breasts was causing that pain. For that matter, I have no more lower back pain....which I assume was associated with the belly fat.
For the first time in ages, I can actually fit a regular-sized bath towel around myself and not have body parts sticking out! Ahhhh...it's the little things in life....
For a while after the surgery I had pains in my abdomen. The scars were tender. The belly was tender. I had some difficulty swallowing and eating meat. All these "problems" seem to have solved themselves and I feel completely back to normal. Nevertheless, I have learned the hard way to read labels for sugar content and to chew, chew, chew.
The lingering problem now is that my hair is falling out. It did not start until a couple of months after the surgery but consistently for the past 3 months I get at least two good handfuls of hair ever morning after my shower. And I find hair all over my house. For the first time yesterday, my husband asked me when it was going to stop. I asked him where he found it (because I painstakingly try to keep it cleaned up) and he said it wasn't that....it was that my hair is visibly thinner. I'm a little worried about this but it is my understanding that it is a temporary side effect of the surgery.
So anyway, that's the latest with me. I'm glad to have had the surgery and would recommend it for others in my same situation.
Now, I have a question to anyone who really knows how to work the Health Tracker...somehow, when I last updated the Health Tracker and logged back in, it recorded my weight at 1 lb. I've corrected it but I don't know if there's any way to go back and take that recording out. The graph has a HUGE dip down all the way to the bottom then it comew WAY back up. I would like it to be accurate. Any suggestions?
Well, that's it for now. It is always nice to hear how things are going for everyone else.
Please keep me up to date.
God Bless,
Julie
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About Me
Berkshire, NY
Location
34.8
BMI
Surgery
05/12/2009
Surgery Date
Feb 29, 2008
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