4 Months Out

Feb 14, 2013

Wow!  These last 4 months have been crazy!  It's been 2 months since I last updated!!!  Time really flies!

I made my New Year's goal and hit 299 on New Year's Eve!  My reward was a hair make-over!  Bye bye black and HELLO RED! 

As of today, my weight is 287.  That's a loss of 66 lb's!  My rate of loss is slightly faster than when I was sleeved.  I've lost about 31% of my excess weight since the DS.  By 4 months out with the sleeve, I was down 30%.  I'm really hoping I can keep up this pace.  I'm very pleased with 10 lb's a month.  I managed to pull off 10 lb's a month for the first 11 months post-sleeve.  If I can mirror that, then that would be fantastic!!!

Because of the gluten intolerance, I don't think I'll fall back into the same bad habits that caused me to begin gaining with the sleeve.  I avoid those foods like the plague now and cannot make exceptions for any reason!  I'm loving the negative reinforcement that I get and really wish I'd done the DS back in 07!!!  But like I've said before...  I learned a lot of lessons about myself and my body after the sleeve.  I needed to be in a better place to be able to comprehend everything that I need to do to make sure I'm successful this time around.  I'm definitely in a much better place now!!!

I'm looking forward to see what the next few months will bring.  I'm so ready to get back down to my lowest weight and hopefully not have to fight and struggle to get lower.  236 is the magic number...  I never got lower than that with the sleeve and I really fought to stay there...  but it just didn't happen.   Only 51 lb's away...  Hopefully I'll be there by July! 

Taking things one day at a time, though...  Working on the little things, setting goals and making changes each week!  The momentum is inspiring!!!

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