Almost 8 months...its harder now,and easier!

Oct 29, 2012

My surgery was March 13,2012.This has been a great journey so far. Forgive me if there is errors in my typing as I find this format with the tiny column to type in and not being able to see what I have typed hard...lol For the first 7 months I have lost weight in the "stair step" way which I found very frustraring.I would stall for long periods of time (several weeks) and then drop 10 pounds in a few days.Time has made me patient and because I am under 200 now,192 pounds,I have come to accept the way I lose.I do not freak out every day when I get on the scale anymore. It does seem that I can eat a little more but I usually dont.I keep the carbs as low as possible,but I like tea with milk.The carbs in milk can be quite high when you drink 5 cups a day but I have reduced my cup size and only do 2oz of milk per cup.Some days more.The total carbs do come to 30 sometimes just for the milk per day which usually takes my daily carbs to about 50.It is actually too high as I lose faster when I am lower carb but I am not going to change this. As far as exercise are concerned I am not consistent in that I would go on a mad program of running,squash,gygm work and then I would drop most things and only play squash twice a week.At the moment I can see why I should do a lot more toning and am planning to get a personal trainer very soon. Now I can eat most foods but dont and I dont eat fruit,tomato,pickles,olivesor drink too much coffe as it gives me stomach ache and I develop gastritis very often. My clothes size is a 16 and I have set a goal for myself to lose 15 pounds by the 17th of December before I go on holiday to SA. Coping with the amount of eccess skin,everywhere is mentally difficult.My arms makes me depressed..lol.But,what can I do at this point but see it as battle scars?Plastics will definitely be on the cards when I get to goal and when I can have the courage to do it.I hate having surgery and the idea scares me. Well,I will update regularly to keep an organized track record of how the weight and inches are coming off.I keep going back to a friends blog.She had her surgery exactly 2 years before me and kept a very good blog the whole time she was losing until she was finished with plastics.I must confess I do compare us as she exercised like crazy and where as she was a size smaller than me at this point I weigh about 10 pounds lighter.Our stats were exactly the same except I am one inch taller than her.Good reference point for me. November will be the month for exercise and a 10 pound loss!

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