Happy As A Clam In Garlic Sauce!
Buon Giorno OH Friends!
Today is my 4 month "Surgy" and I'm delighted to say I still love Myrtle and she still is being kind to me! No foamies, slimies, ickies or urpies! She gives me a hiccup or two when she's had enough. I don't know what "FULL" feels like anymore and that makes me happy. I can still honestly say I have not once gone off plan. I'm still so delighted with how great I feel that I don't want to "cheat" -- don't like that word, but you all know what I mean.
Losing is slow -- given that I was warned that we "seniors" tend to lose a little (a LOT sometimes) slower than younger folks, I'm okay with that intellectually. Emotionally, not so much. I want the weight gone NOW. However, I do remind myself, in my saner moments, that I didn't get this surgery with weight loss as my primary goal............I had it to save my life. Well, at least extend it to what I hope will be a normal life span. My last labs gave me a great report........next Tuesday, I have more labs done to see if my comorbs are still improving and/or in total remission. Never, in my wildest thoughts, did I expect to look forward to having blood drawn! Now I do!
I am still measuring once a month.............in 4 months, a total of 55 pounds are gone and so are about 48 inches. My clothes are looser but I don't know what size I wear. I'm walking out of most of my shoes, so that's another size I don't know. I think a shopping trip might be a good idea! I made a mistake in having my pix taken each month....I wore the same (or very similar) clothes thinking that would show progress better than wearing different clothes. Well, since I wore my clothes a little loose anyway, now they just look looser and you can't tell that I've lost any weight. Next month, I'll try different clothes! I have started taking in/remodeling some of my clothes. Lots have been given away, but things I love, I'm "fixing" to fit better.
I love working out now...........I still don't like getting out of the house before 5 a.m. though! Once I'm at the fitness center, though, sometimes I forget to go home LOL Every physical activity is easier, more fun, just DOABLE! Maybe, with more weight lost, I'll get some better relief from the arthritis in my back.............it won't ever go away, but any improvement will be gratefully accepted.
I've discovered I have ribs! And shin bones! And semi-sorta-bony knees! The nicks I get shaving my legs didn't used to happen..........now it's almost a badge of acknowledgement that I'm losing weight! It's these little things that make up some of the joy I feel about life now!
No, there's no improvement around here with any support or encouragement...........but I have all the wonderful people here *****spond/reply to my posts, and the amazing and wonderful people on MFP who prop me up every day! To all of you, thank you so much........grazie molto.
Anyone who questions getting sleeved can know that it is the best thing you can ever do for yourself. I would do this again and again -- it's a life changer................and for some of us, a life saver!
I wish you all a joyous day..........a joyous life. Live in gratitude for what this surgery gives us.............and try, in whatever way you can, to pay forward what you've been given. You never know who will benefit down the road.
Ree
LOL OMG...........I hadn't thought of 48 inches as anything more than a few off the hips, waist, etc........but FOUR FLIPPIN' FEET? I think I'm glad you pointed that out! LOL LOL LOL Holy CRAP! That's scary..............and I have quiet a ways to go!
Thanks so much -- and YOU are doing an amazing job! Keep it up 
I'm doing it, I guess...it still doesn't feel real! It's amazing how everything just starts working together...better eating = weight loss = more energy = more weight loss!! Now if I can just get my arms to play along...I am entering Batwing City - population ME!!OMG You crack me up! I'm barging in to Batwing City, too! Hope you don't mind. The "apron" I can hide, the neck issue/turkey wattle I can cover with a scarf, the thighs......well, let's not go there.......UGH. But the BATWINGS.............cripes, they get any longer they are going to scrape the floor! And I still have fat in them. They will DRAPE on the floor once that fat is gone! I'll take the sagging skin, boobs, etc., over the fat, though!
Maybe the excess skin fairy will visit us some night? Okay, I'm dreaming, yeah LOL
Girl, I so wish!! I am in my brother's wedding in February, if you recall all my crap about the dress, yadda, yadda, yadda. Of course it's strapless (my choice...better than sleeveless!), and the bride is fashioning us with faux fur shoulder wraps...thank God for that, or else I'd have a meaty arm wrap showing instead!
I'm thinking total body lift after all this is said and done...and depending on when/if we have more kids. I cannot wait to have normal looking arms! I think the last time they looked 'normal' was in 5th grade or so...srsly!! Regardless, feel free to join me anytime in the City!! LOL!
