kalhoun
Century Club Member!
Oct 09, 2009
Yup, that's right I'm a century club member. I am now down 102.5 lbs as of this morning and I have just got to say..YAHOO!!!!I started this journey on January 8, 2009 with joining weight watchers as a way to prepare for surgery. I lost 15 lbs by the time my surgery date of March 16th arrived and had already made some big changes such as no more diet coke or fast food and had added exercise into my life for the first time in years.
On March 16th I had my surgery and came through with flying colours. No complications, very little pain and I recovered pretty quickly and was back to work by the first week of April. The next 3 to 4 months were challenging. I had many food issues and I needed to retrain the brain. The biggest thing I needed to learn was to slow down while eating and chew, chew and chew. If I remembered that I was good, but if not it was puke city.
During the 3rd or 4th month I lost a lot of hair. Handfuls and handfuls and was quite worried but by the 5th month it was growing back and I think I'm back to normal now.
I've gone from size 26/ 28 to 16/18 and have changed my entire wardrobe. Thank God for second hand stores and friends otherwise I would be in the poor house but I have to say I love clothes shopping.
And the very best thing about hitting the 100 lbs mark is the compliments. My self esteem is increased 10 fold and I walk taller and straighter and I must say I have a much happier out look for sure.
So, now that I've reached that "big" goal the next will be under the 200 mark and that should be pretty darn easy as I'm 200.5 now. Then it's onto focusing on the final goal which is 170 which I really hope to hit by January 2010 but my weight loss has slowed down some so it may be to high of a goal at this point but we are going to try anyway.
Thanks to my OH family for all their support. Without this website I would have been lost. Love you all!
Cheers
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About Me
AB
Location
29.6
BMI
Surgery
03/16/2009
Surgery Date
Aug 18, 2008
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