9 MONTH POST OP YESTERDAY

Mar 16, 2010

First of all... YAY FOR ME!!!

Last weekend I bought size 10 jeans... I haven't weighed myself in about two weeks because I knew the 9 month post-op appointment was coming up...

Yesterday I was 164.2... WHAT? CRAZZZY!!! I'm so Psyched!  I'm only 5 lbs from the 150's??? AMAZING!
I have lost 64% of the weight I should lose... I'm slightly ahead of normal still.. RN said at 12 mons most people have lost 74%.. so I'm ahead of the game.

We talked about weight goals too yesterday... She put me at 145ish... I'm thinking more like 135-140ish but I'll take whatever my body gives me. She said lower than 130 and my body fat would be too low for their liking... So 140 is my set goal for now.. and jeepers.. its only 25 lbs from where I am at.. totally attainable when I've already worked my tool and my body to lose the 75 I already lost!

My NUT says I'm doing fine.. I'm actually eating enough protein now to drop the protein shake if I want to (just extra calories at this point) unless I start working out for a longer period at night (say 2 hrs at night instead of 2 hrs spread out a few times during the day)... But diet wise I'm doing well.. I need to try and eat more protein at breakfast.. I've been doing yogurt with protein granola and its not even getting me to my morning protein snack... so back to cottage cheese and some fruit or some eggs with cheese and some meat in them.. hard to do eggs during the work week though... just not enough time!
Also, I should make sure I'm getting/keeping healthy fats (cheese, avacado, olive oil for examples) into my diet.... not everything needs to be "low" fat... so I'm going to whip up some homemade olive oil dressing this weekend (it also tastes better than alot of the store brands I buy)...

I can't boast enough about what RNY has done for me... I have a whole new outlook on life and a healthy lifestyle to boot. I like to get sweaty and feel my muscles burn now when I work out. I like to feel bones and muscles in places I forgot they were hidden by the ex fatty I was... I looked at old pix of myself this past weekend and I couldn't even believe that was me.. People I've ran into who I haven't seen in months or since surgery don't even recognize me.. they walk right past me w/o realizing its me.. until I flag them down!

RNY IS AWESOME 

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