9 months POST op....

May 23, 2012

 So I am in the 180's now.  I KNOW its been 20 years since ihave been here at this spot in my life.  I feel really good.  My body is not that of an 18 year old but i don't care about that.  I still have my tummy and my legs are not thin.  But I never want to wear a bikini anyways and my size 14 pants are starting to get "roomy".   My legs were chunky when i was 8 so i will never have nice muscular legs but they are much thinner than they were 9 months ago.  

My goals everyday are still to get my liquids in....eat my proteins..try to stay away from refined carbs as much as possible but in reality, if i have some carbs i don't sweat it cause in real life i might have 1/2 cup pasta sometimes or a muffin or a candy bar. I just don't want to do this everyday all day long.  If you start telling yourself you can never have a muffin or a candy bar again, then you will crave and cave much more than just giving in once in awhile.  Moderation is the key.  

At 9 months out i am not losing nearly as fast as i was before.  I seem to be losing like 3 lbs...then nothing for a couple weeks or longer.  Then another 2 lbs drops off..then nothing for weeks...But the scale is still moving downward and it still needs to do this for another 35 or so lbs.  I am eating around 1000 - 1200 calories a day.  Sometimes a bit more.  I bought a Fitbit to see how i do daily.  On my work days i do awesome..on my none work days not so much.  But i work 5 or 6 days a week so this is good.  Most of the time i get upwards of 10,000 steps a day which is the recommendation.  I am not doing much more for exercise and shame on me.  But when you spend 6,7, 8 hours standing and moving who wants to go exercise.  Its summer in MN now so my plans are to start getting out and walking more and get on the bikes. 

All in all, i feel darn good.  My body feels good...my mind feels good...my health is good.  

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