bigmetfan38
it's taking it's time . . . but it's definitely coming off!
Mar 09, 2011
well, the weight continues to come off, but it seems to me that it's happening slower than i thought it would. on 2/25 i think i had written that i was down 17 . . . well, it's 3/9 and now i'm down 22. so that's 5 pounds in about nearly 2 weeks. tomorrow is my 1 month surgiversary, and i believe 22 pounds is an awesome weight loss for 1 month post surgery - i guess i just compare myself to people in my support group. a woman i sat with through our 3 month class lost almost 50 pounds in her first month. she did have some complications, so i'm grateful that i didn't have any. but because i'm crazy (lol) all i look at is her weight loss and how much thinner she looks (her complications are completely healed and she's fine now). all in all, i am happy, i feel much better than i did. i'm not on any meds right now except for antibiotics and prilosec because they found an h-pyloric ulcer during my surgery.
i have been keeping track of my measurements since i was at my highest weight. here they are:
weight 280 weight 222
chest: 50 46
waist: 51.5 46
hips: 52 46
neck: 18 16
thighs: 25.5 24
calves: 18 15
arms: 15.5 14
forearms: 12 10
now that's incredible. that's since my heaviest, and i lost 27 before surgery, and so some of these inches are pre-surgical losses. a total of 25.5 inches of fat off of my body!
i totally acknowledge that this is working . . . of course it's working, i eat between 400 and 600 calories a day! how could you not lose weight? i guess it's like that saying something about the forest for the trees. i see the big picture of the total, but the daily or weekly advances seem so slow. i don't know.
i do know i'm going to keep doing what i'm doing! because i am moving in the right direction. i'm moving down, that's for sure. and without this sleeve, i would surely be moving in the opposite direction! and i know it's great to be able to get up and down off the floor without help and change jason's diaper. and i can bend down to pick up after him without feeling i'm going to have a heart attack.
we'll see what happens!