4.5 months out

Apr 21, 2009

So I am a little behind on posting... SORRY!!  I'm bad @ this.   Things/life just gets going so fast that it is hard to slow down and take a few to post... I'll work on that!

updates....
so here we go, I'm back @ work now since March 11, just a tad more than a month now.  It has brought many challenges with eating and bowel issues.  If u don't know I'm an ER nurse,  with this brings many obstacles that I have found when it comes to being a DS'er, or any wt loss approach as a matter of fact. ....... TIME!!  I have no guaranteed lunch break or any break for that matter, I work 12 hr shifts, and when it's busy you just hit the floor running and stop when it's time to go home.  my first week back I couldn't get my protein in for nothing!!  I didn't have time to eat.  the second week I made it a point to say, I'm eating!!  I am still finding it hard to get all that I need in....I feel guilty sometimes when I know I've stepped into the break room for the 3rd or 4th time for a little 4 or 5 minute shove food down my throat break and knowing my co-workers haven't even gotten a 1st time food slamming break...  i have to get past that... My hair started falling out this past month and I know it's suppose to happen, but dang, that freeks me alittle.  I even found myself crying over it one day.... that is not like me!!  but, I'm better with this now, i have just told myself it's just a part of it and if i look like a freek before it's all done with and returns back... then so be it!!  This is my journey and i am proud of it.. freeky or not!!
This morning i stepped on the scale and it said 319!!  It's hard to believe that in another 19lbs I'll be saying goodbye to the 300's for good!!  forever!!  Todd and I just feel so blessed to know that we are on this journey..  we are gaining so much in life by loosing!! 

THINGS I'VE NOTICED SO FAR WITH 87lbs GONE:

I fit in my recliner without feeling like I'm sitting on the arms

My jeans that I wore preop that were tight, I have graduated to the never-gonna- wear-again pile (after they literally fell off me while I was walking across my living room)

Loose fitting underwear really can be just as uncomfortable as tight!!  who would have thought!!!

I have cheek bones!!  LOL!!

Foot pain--  now this is a big one already!!  my 12 hr shifts aren't killing my feet nearly as bad as they were!!  yes they still hurt, but walking out to my car @ the end of a long night hasn't brought me to tears because it hurts to walk... I literally had gotten to the point of crying because it hurt so bad right before surg!!

I raked leaves, worked in the yard and planted veggies all day last Saturday--- this would have worn me out and bending over would have been alot harder, sure it still was a chore but I was able to do it for the whole day!!  And had energy to grill chicken!!

I sat in my father-in-laws car last week and the seat-belt buckle didn't dig into my side like it wanted to kill me or something!!

and last... i've lost 87, todd is now down75 .... so the two of us together.... has got to save on gas milage!!  that's a whole person less in the car!!  lol!!

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