1st preop appt - 1/6/10

Jan 06, 2010

Here I am, 3 1/2 weeks after surgery, and I just had my first followup appointment today. I've been on only liquids/protein shakes ever since my surgery, so I was excited for this day to come because I knew I'd be given the green light for soft foods!!!

It was a great visit. Not only did I graduate to softies, but the clinic scale (aka official!) showed me weighing over 1lb less than mine showed. SCORE!! Total gone since surgery: 25.7. Total gone since preop started (11/28): 35.7. The 50lbs benchmark is just around the corner, as is my first major goal of 300lbs, then 299. I'm only 9.3 away from 300, it's so close I can "taste" it!!! And only another pound after that away from "tworiffic"! I can't begine to imagine when was the last time I weighed in the 200s. Once 299 hits my loss goal becomes double digits - I want to get down to 200. I realize this will still be obese or overweight but I'm not trying to be skinny, I'm trying to be thick & healthy ;)

Anyways, they seemed impressed with my weight loss, as am I, obviously! Another added bonus - my blood pressure was 127/81! That's NORMAL! OMG, it's been forever for that too...

As soon as my appointment was over I went & bought cottage cheese and a little piece of cheese. I went back to work, dished up my cc in my 3oz dish, took a bite...and was disappointed. It wasn't very good at all. Neither was the piece of cheese. Ok, it's not the end of the world, right? Right! So I hit the grocery store after I got off work to stock up on things I could now eat. Came home, surveyed the situation & decided on refried beans for dinner. YUM!!!!!!!! Those were really good. I even put a little pinch of ff shredded cheddar on top, and made sure that I not only ate with one of my baby spoons but put the spoon down in between each bite. I was kind of afraid to eat today, because it'd been so long and I was afraid I'd be on autopilot, that old habits would just come right back, but I managed to stay focused the entire time.

WOO HOO!!!!!! I'm kickin ass and takin names!!!! :)

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