6 weeks out from VSG and the 5 months leading up also.

Feb 18, 2013

I keep posting bits and pieces of this... I am just going to put it on my blog so it is all in one place. *chuckle*

I often tell people to measure and not be so scale focused. It isn't doing them ANY good in some cases... And without the measurements we are not seeing the overall picture... The scale wasn't our friend before and I am not sure why everyone wants it to be their be all and end all after. *shrug* To each their own.

Since surgery in exactly 6 weeks I have lost:

.5 inches off my neck
4 inches around the shoulders
1.5 inches off my rib measurement
.5 inches off each wrist
.5 inches off each forearm
2 inches off each bicep
3 inches off each thigh
1.75 inches off each calf
3.5 inches off my hips
1.5 inches off my waist as of exactly 6 weeks out. (took me till 4 weeks out to be .5 inches less here as I was up 8 inches 3 days out from surgery)

I also lost 20 lbs for those that the scale matters (ok... 19.9 lbs if you want to nit pick) before I hit the 3 week stall and while I have lost inches since I am waiting for the scale to move... And I lost 0.16% body fat... And had to give away all the jeans I could wear the day of surgery, and half the clothing I could wear at Christmas (pre-op diet of 3 weeks plus the 6 weeks post op I have lost 35 lbs and I am OK with that because I think that's "good" even if someone else tries to tell me I am "not good enough").

26.5 inches lost... I am loving that!

If I go waaaay back to July 26th it increases to 45 lbs lost and the following:

1 inch off my neck
8 inches around the shoulders
5.5 inches off my rib measurement
2 inches off my bust measurement
1 inch off each wrist
1.5 inches off each forearm
4 inches off each bicep
8.5 inches off each thigh
3.5 inches off each calf
12.5 inches off my hips
9 inches off my waist

75 inches lost overall since July. My inches lost always far out do the pounds on the scale and I am OK with that because my body fat percentage is dropping a lot... 2% since July. *grin*

At the end of the day... how 48.5 inches = 10lbs but then 26.5 = 35 will never make sense to me. I am just happy to have lost all 45 lbs.

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