8 Month Update/Reflection w/ pictures (a tad late)
So it has been 8 months and 1 week and I have been doing a lot of thinking lately. I am SOOO glad I did this and feel better than I have in years.
-Have the energy to play with my kids
-I am the mother I wanted to be but couldn't be
-I am a better more attentive wife. We have always had a great relatinoship but I feel like I'm a better wife now.
-I enjoy my job more and am better at it. I am a home child care provider and it is so much easier to do my job now and I enjoy crawling araound with the kids and playing.
-I sleep way better. I used to need 10 hours of sleep to feel like I slept and now 7-8 and I feel great.
-Exercising is so much easier now. I actually like it.
-I am rarely hungry and am completel satisfied with the smaller amounts I eat now.
-I am so used to eating smaller amounts that I rarely miss eating more. Every once in awhile when something is deilcious I wish I could eat more but I just save it and eat it the next day again!
-I feel completely normal about my eating. I et when I'm hungry and stop when I'm full. I eat what I want but make healthy choices most of the time. I do not feel guilty when I splurge on something.
-I get all my protien from food and have since pretty early out. It does take planning though.
-I can eat more than some other people but that doesn't freak me out. It is not anywhere like it was before.
-I am cold a lot now. I wear a sweater inside sometimes and find myself cranking the heat up a lot more than last year.
-I remember my vitamins most of the time but forget my calcium more than I should.
-I need to increase my water intake and decrease my sweet tea intake for sure. Water just sits heavy in my tummy sometimes. I can chug fluids like pre-op though.
-I "forget" I had surgery sometimes because I feel NORMAL now.
-I love shopping for new clothes but my budget hates it!
-The loss has slowed way down but I am still losing and if I drank less sweet tea and more water I am sure it would be faster and I am working on that.
-I can run and just completed my first 5K.
So now I am 19 pounds from goal but it feels like it should be more like 50. I can't imagine being at goal and feeling like I'm done. I can't imagine that 19 pounds will feel like enough.
I power walk, and I mean a for real power walk, 5 nights a week and have started running. I can easily run 1.5 miles non stop and am working on increasing that. I am planning on a 1/2 marathon in April and a full marathon in June. I would like to run most if not all of the 1/2. So that is my training goal.
So here is my pictures. The first is the morning of surgery(size 22/24 and 3X), the second is 8 months post op taken last week(size 12 and medium).
Best of luck to all of you on your journey!
-Have the energy to play with my kids
-I am the mother I wanted to be but couldn't be
-I am a better more attentive wife. We have always had a great relatinoship but I feel like I'm a better wife now.
-I enjoy my job more and am better at it. I am a home child care provider and it is so much easier to do my job now and I enjoy crawling araound with the kids and playing.
-I sleep way better. I used to need 10 hours of sleep to feel like I slept and now 7-8 and I feel great.
-Exercising is so much easier now. I actually like it.
-I am rarely hungry and am completel satisfied with the smaller amounts I eat now.
-I am so used to eating smaller amounts that I rarely miss eating more. Every once in awhile when something is deilcious I wish I could eat more but I just save it and eat it the next day again!
-I feel completely normal about my eating. I et when I'm hungry and stop when I'm full. I eat what I want but make healthy choices most of the time. I do not feel guilty when I splurge on something.
-I get all my protien from food and have since pretty early out. It does take planning though.
-I can eat more than some other people but that doesn't freak me out. It is not anywhere like it was before.
-I am cold a lot now. I wear a sweater inside sometimes and find myself cranking the heat up a lot more than last year.
-I remember my vitamins most of the time but forget my calcium more than I should.
-I need to increase my water intake and decrease my sweet tea intake for sure. Water just sits heavy in my tummy sometimes. I can chug fluids like pre-op though.
-I "forget" I had surgery sometimes because I feel NORMAL now.
-I love shopping for new clothes but my budget hates it!
-The loss has slowed way down but I am still losing and if I drank less sweet tea and more water I am sure it would be faster and I am working on that.
-I can run and just completed my first 5K.
So now I am 19 pounds from goal but it feels like it should be more like 50. I can't imagine being at goal and feeling like I'm done. I can't imagine that 19 pounds will feel like enough.
I power walk, and I mean a for real power walk, 5 nights a week and have started running. I can easily run 1.5 miles non stop and am working on increasing that. I am planning on a 1/2 marathon in April and a full marathon in June. I would like to run most if not all of the 1/2. So that is my training goal.
So here is my pictures. The first is the morning of surgery(size 22/24 and 3X), the second is 8 months post op taken last week(size 12 and medium).
Best of luck to all of you on your journey!
I am 5'4" HW 273 SW 255 CW 162.4
First Goal(s): Weigh less than hubby(DONE) and One-derland(DONE)!!!
Second Goal: Weigh 170 (what I weighed when hubby and I dated and got married) (DONE)!!!
Third Goal: Reach a normal BMI (145 lbs)
Tami, you look great. WoW what a difference. I love your 164lbs....I dont want to look any smaller that you are in this pic....bit here's the thing..at 164 I will still be over weight. I am afraid that for me to reach my goal I will have to sacrafice all my 'curves". I have already moved my goal from 135 to 145 and now I am not so sure that is reasonable.
m1=23, M2=11, M3=4(had stall for 3wks), M4=6 M5=6 M6=6 M7=4 M8=3
I am a VSG to DS revison!
Soon2loseit
WOW...you are one HOT MAMA!!!!! Great job!! You are rocking those jeans!! 
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