Almost 8 months Post Op!!!!

Oct 19, 2011

I know, I know I am awful and I should be ashamed of myself for not keeping up with my blog, pictures, and youtube videos but what can I say? I have been living life and I am happy. These last months I have been getting my life back, I have started to live the life that I had been wanting to live, getting the reactions, head turning and even envious stares that I had been craving. I will admit there have been hard, bad and amazing times. I have had to learn to say no, to cry over my emotions and say no to food. I have also have had to deal with nasty stares, remarks and inquires but i have stayed my ground and I have defended this procedure with the family that criticized me and lied thru my teeth to the people that had no business knowing about the life changing decision that I took. I can say that the vertical sleeve has been the best 10 G's I have ever spent..... I still have lots  to lose but I am on board until I reach 130 even if it means slow and steady.
Recap and stats

start weight 250
today's weight 169
Goal weight 130

yes that is 81 pounds in less than 8 months! damn I feel amazing and I look amazing no matter what others say!!!!!

If you are staring this journey: Get ready! you will have people that will encourage you, envy you, criticize you and even compete with you! For some reason all my friends including my husband( we will get to this later) has been tracking there weight, comparing and losing weight with me! Sometimes I feel good and OK with that but sometimes it gets to me because I can tell they are competitive about it.
Yes you will get the head turning looks and even you are getting too skinny and How much are you going to lose?

Oh and DO YOU REALLY THINK YOU CAN LOSE ALL THAT WEIGHT?
Excuse my language but FUCK YES I AM LOSING THIS DAMN WEIGHT, sit there shut up and watch me do it! 

But anyways on a happier note.....

I mentioned HUSBAND...... Yes until now I had been living with my fiance  but as of Aug tweentyseventh 2011 I am MRS. DE OLIVEIRA , YAY. I will say that I was torn with the fact of waiting to lose all my weight but at the end I decided it was better to go ahead and get married. But I wont lie there were dress issues but nothing major. it involved some sly remarks from the dress consultants and having to explain how I thought I was going to lose x amount by x date, eye rolling, crossing my fingers I lost enough and then ending up having to get the dress fitted a couple of days before the wedding due to it being big. But at the end of the day, It all worked out great and I am happy with the end results, married at goal or not! 

My weight lose has slowed down and these last 2 months it has slowed to about 5-6 pounds a month but I will take it and run with it.

Goals:
Next goal was 160 by my 26Th birthday which is the middle of December but I have decided to change that to 150 as it would mark -100 pounds and I don't think I could ask for a better Birthday gift! We shall see!!!!!!!

this is pretty much it for now, I will try to post more now that the wedding frenzy has passed.

Good luck to all the newbies and remember don't be scared'.Its a life changing decision and a good one at that! 


 Happy Losing! 

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