AuntieMellie
3 month post op
Jun 12, 2009
So, I had my 3 month follow up on Tuesday and I have to say I’m feelin bummed. The day started great, I got on my scale and I had finally hit 250, 67 lbs gone forever, now I had lost 17 lbs 2weeks before surgery so since my surgery I had lost 50 lbs, I was super psyched. Thought I was doing great. So I get to the doctors and I get weighed, great 250 didn’t gain any on the drive over. Nurse says I’m lookin good, looks like I’m doing well, she leaves, I start reading all the things hanging on the doc’s wall to occupy my time, great there’s a chart and it gives the chart of how much you should be loosing if you weight this much and are this far along, so I find my starting weight, look under 3months out and wooohooo it says 35-55 lbs is the normal range. I’m pretty happy now. So Doc comes in, normal chit chat, blah, blah and then he says ‘you aren’t doing as well as you could be doing’,,what? Did he just say I’m slackin? He continues ‘I’d like to have had you loose atleast another 5lbs…blah, blah’ I’ve completely blocked him out now, he’s rambling on about how I’m eating to much that I should cut my portions in half, not going to support meetings, (insert Charlie Brown’s mom here) I wanted to cry. I didn’t even try to defend myself. I was pretty pissed. He shakes my hand and I’m off to see the nutritionist. So she also said I was a little slow on the weight loss(thinking in my head then they should really tear that chart off the wall) but she is asking what I’m doing, what I’m eating and not accusing me of anything. So all in all looks like my problem is I am not eating enough. I’ve only been getting in about 27 to 30gr of protein and I should be getting 60. So I’ve started eating breakfast and lunch again (before I’d only manage to get a cheese stick or 2 in throughout the day, then a good supper) and hopefully I will be up to par when I go back for my 6 month. The rest of this week has been a real downer, I’ve been feelin like a failure and the rain isn’t helping with depression! Hopefully next week will bring sunshine and happier feelings!
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About Me
Litchfield, NH
Location
25.6
BMI
Surgery
03/04/2009
Surgery Date
Feb 01, 2009
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