Throughout primary and junior high school, I was always chubby. During my highschool growth spurt, I leaned out, but was still 20-30 lbs over my ideal weight despite being a competitive swimmer. In college I ballooned from 220 to 320, and added another 66 lbs over the next 10 years. My primary care physician suggested I check out weight loss surgery around 2003. He'd had a family member go through the process with Dr. Fobi's RNY varient and had terrific results. I made the decision to look into it, and switched my insurance to a Blue Shield PPO plan at the end of 2004. In Jan 2005 got my initial consultation, but got bogged down in getting all the testing done through my PCP's office and medical group. Things got put on hold. In June 2005, my brother gave me 10 sessions of personal training at 24 Hour Fitness as a birthday present. That put me on a path to a more active lifestyle which really payed terrific dividends. In late spring 2006, I went back to Dr. Fobi's office to have them do all the insurance testing. I was approved within 4 days of insurance submission and had my surgery on July 24th, 2006 at 351 pounds. Goals: I really should have worked on some written goals when I was pre-op. I'm writing these when I'm already down 100 pounds, so they'll be different from pre-op goals. 1) Weight - I'll put down the BMI calculator weights even though I'm not concentrating on weight as much as I am health. 286 for "obese" (NOTE: Accomplished 10/9/2006) 215 for "overweight" (NOTE: Accomplished 5/14/2007) 179 for "normal" (with my frame, I'm not even sure if this is reasonable; perhaps after getting excess skin removed?) 2) Clothes - Not have to pay for extra-sized clothes (NOTE: Accomplished!!!) Rewards: 1) New Road Bike at 100 lbs lost (Done! 1/1/2007, bike bought and paid for, January 2007) 2) New Casual Clothes (as needed) 3) New Up-Ticket Clothes (blazer, dress pants, fashion tie) 4) Lasik vision-corrective surgery at 200 lb or 179 gross weight 5) New higher-fashion casual clothes ($60 jeans? $50 shirt?) (Begun! Bought those INC Jeans and blogged in October 2007)
Date Weight Lost Total Lost Week Day #
10/1/2007 208 2 143 63 435
9/24/2007 210 2 141 62 428
9/17/2007 212 3 139 61 421
9/10/2007 215 -3 136 60 414
9/3/2007 212 0 139 59 407
8/27/2007 212 -2 139 58 400
8/20/2007 210 -2 141 57 393
8/13/2007 208 -2 143 56 386
8/6/2007 206 0 145 55 379
7/30/2007 206 4 145 54 372
7/23/2007 210 2 141 53 365
7/16/2007 212 0 139 52 358
7/9/2007 212 1 139 51 351
7/2/2007 213 0 138 50 344
6/25/2007 213 1 138 49 337
6/18/2007 214 0 137 48 330
6/11/2007 214 0 137 47 323
6/4/2007 214 1 137 46 316
5/28/2007 215 0 136 45 309
5/21/2007 215 0 136 44 302
5/14/2007 215 1 136 43 295
5/7/2007 216 8 135 42 288
4/30/2007 224 -2 127 41 281
4/23/2007 222 0 129 40 274
4/16/2007 222 2 129 39 267
4/9/2007 224 1 127 38 260
4/2/2007 225 0 126 37 253
3/26/2007 225 2 126 36 246
3/19/2007 227 0 124 35 239
3/12/2007 227 3 124 34 232
3/5/2007 230 4 121 33 225
2/26/2007 234 -1 117 32 218
2/19/2007 233 3 118 31 211
2/12/2007 236 2 115 30 204
2/5/2007 238 6 113 29 197
1/29/2007 244 -4 107 28 190
1/22/2007 240 8 111 27 183
1/15/2007 248 1 103 26 176
1/8/2007 249 0 102 25 169
1/1/2007 249 3 102 24 162
12/25/2006 252 2 99 23 155
12/18/2006 254 4 97 22 148
12/11/2006 258 4 93 21 141
12/4/2006 262 0 89 20 134
11/27/2006 262 0 89 19 127
11/20/2006 262 7 89 18 120
11/13/2006 269 4 82 17 113
11/6/2006 273 1 78 16 106
10/30/2006 274 2 77 15 99
10/23/2006 276 1 75 14 92
10/16/2006 277 2 74 13 85
10/9/2006 279 8 72 12 78
10/2/2006 287 5 64 11 71
9/25/2006 292 9 59 10 64
9/18/2006 301 1 50 9 57
9/11/2006 302 1 49 8 50
9/4/2006 303 4 48 7 43
8/28/2006 307 3 44 6 36
8/21/2006 310 5 41 5 29
8/14/2006 315 6 36 4 22
8/7/2006 321 6 30 3 15
8/3/2006 327 24 24 3 11
7/24/2006 351 0 0 1 1
