OMG!

Oct 29, 2009

Well things have definately not gone the way I wanted.  I'm now 10 months out from surgery (lapband) and I weigh 248.5 lbs.  By my calculations, this is a mere loss of 35 lbs in 10 months.  I sort of thought it would go a little faster than that. 

With this said, though, I need to state that until the last week or so, I haven't been able to do any exercise.  I blew my ACL out for a second time about this time last fall.  My WLS was 12/22.  Because I didn't want to miss any more school than I had already (I'm a teacher), I didn't schedule my ACL replacement until summer, 7/13.  Since this was my second surgery on that knee (and the second in 2 weeks this summer), the doc wanted to take things slow to make sure everything took hold.    Then once I finally get the ok to start exercising, I get a nickel size plantar wart on the ball of my foot, just where it starts curving in to the toe.  This wart is sitting right over top of the tendon to the 2nd toe.  I had it froze off but have been in pain since I had the freezing done.  The healing process is slow and painful.  I haven't even been able to go in for PT for my knee because I can't put full weight on that foot.  So for about a year, I haven't been able to exercise, which is driving my WLS surgeon nuts.  

Tonight, I got on the elliptical trainer at home for about 10 minutes.  Other than driving my new puppy crazy, it wasn't that eventful.  I'm just nervous about  doing too much because of the knee.

The nice thing is that even though I haven't lost much, things have been shifting for me.  I'm now down to a sizes 20-22 where I was 26-28.  So I know things are happening, just not like I had hoped.

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