Coming up on 5 months out!

Jul 03, 2011

I'll be taking my measurements in about 6 days and I expect it will indicate I'm still on an average of 2.5 lb per week decline.  That works for me.  My skin has not turned extremely flabby... I'm using food grade virgin coconut oil for a nighttime moisturizer and I think it's helping the elasticity.  Plus, the slower loss than I have seen in some other folks is a contributing factor, in my opinion.  I don't want to have to consider plastic surgery later so, even though a few things my droop, I'm hoping there won't be much sagging skin to worry about. 

At any rate, I'm feeling great even though energy comes and goes, but isn't that normal?  With 67 lbs gone, I no longer have hip pain, I can climb up and down things as long as I have something to hang on to.  I'm horseback riding regularly.  I'm quad riding regularly, on challenging terrain, which is an upper body workout all its own.  I have a large container garden for the first time in probably 30 years, my house is decluttered and relatively clean, my paperwork is more manageable than it has been in many years, and so on an so forth.  Everything has gotten better because of my weight loss.  I still have no regrets. :-)

I find I'm not as focused on my intake of protein, supplements, water, and food as I was at first... and have vowed to be more in tune an habitual.  The malabsorption factor is too important to ignore and it just could be the reason behind my energy fluctuations.   I'm also busy enough during the daytime that I have not been conscientiously using my Wii Fit Plus program like I want to be.  That also must change, especially because it will not be long before I lose enough that I'm down to that last 10 or 20 lbs. that they say are hard to get off.  When I finish losing weight is when I will start focusing strongly on weight training.  I do some now, but not enough to think I'm going into a stall because I'm retaining muscle rather than losing.  I want the fat gone first... right or wrong, that's how I feel.  I'll continue to do yoga, balance, aerobics and some weight training with my Wii.

I am not in the percentile of people who've had RNY surgery who dump on sugar.  I feel very blessed that the compulsion to binge on sugar was lifted immediately and also am glad that, if I have a bite of sugar, it does not put me down.  I'm hoping to go back to work within the next couple of months and I can't be incapacited at the fast and furious type of work I do in a construction office... especially not with the boss I have to keep up with (or ahead of!)  LOL

So, all is well and we'll see what the new numbers show next week!

Cya!

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