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Finally........
Apr 21, 2011
the scale has moved. Man oh man! That was a long 6 weeks! I had stopped weighing myself every Saturday, just walked right by it. Now I'm at 207, 27 lbs from goal. At least my surgeon's goal for me. I'd like to have room for the "bounce back" weight, so my personal goal is 175, which may be ridiculous b/c I haven't weighed that amount since I was in my twenties, and that's a looooonnnnnngggg time ago. My daughter keeps saying I'm starting to look crackhead skinny and that she cannot imagine what I'll look like losing almost 30 MORE lbs. I mean I can see that I've lost weight, and a lot of inches for sure, but I still don't think I'm skinny. Slimmer yes, but skinny, that's not what I see when I look in the mirror. A lady that used to come to the water aerobics class that I go to regularly, hadn't been there since Sept 2010. Well I had my surgery a month later, so she hasn't seen me. She walked right by me w/o speaking, so I walked behind her and tapped her on the shoulder, when she turned around I said, "HI Gerry, where have you been all this time?" And she looked like she was trying to figure out where she knew me from, then she looked at me closely and said, "I thought I was going crazy b/c I thought that was you, but then I told myself that it couldn't be you unless you'd lost like about 100 lbs! How did you lose all that weight? I want to get like you!" I steered the conversation in another direction like where had she been? Anyway, later on when there were only a few people left in the locker room she came over to me and I told her about the surgery, and not surprisingly she confided that she had been thinking about having a RNY also, but didn't know anyone who had been through it. Once we got the rest of our clothes on, we went out to lunch and I told her all about my surgery. So now, she's going to start the process, made her appointment with her primary care doctor to get the referral. Now she can't wait for the program to start.I've been going through my closet again, so far I've got five 33 gal bags full of clothes. I've got a lot of tops, sweaters, and blouses that I'm going to start trying on to see if they're too big, and if so they'll be going into the sixth bag. Pretty soon my wardrobe/closet is going to be really spacey, which is sad b/c I'll have to wear the same stuff over and over again until I can afford to start buying more clothes to fit! That's the downside/upside of WLS. Your happy that you're smaller, but then you have to come out of your pocket to buy more clothes to replace the ones you can't fit anymore. Some things that I love I'm going to try to have them altered.
On another note, my hubby and I are going on a cruise with another couple from NC on May 28th. We're going to drive to Wilson, NC on the Thursday before and then catch a plane from Raleigh/Durham airport to Miami, then catch the boat on the Saturday. It's a 7-day cruise to Half Moon Cay, St Thomas, & Puerto Rico. I can't wait! It's really a delayed honeymoon, I mean really delayed. We got married 3.29.08! So that's about it on this end, ready for the w/e, I'm tired and need to relax. Until next time,,,,,,,,,,, Have a nice Easter!
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About Me
Cleveland, OH
Location
30.0
BMI
Surgery
10/19/2010
Surgery Date
Jul 13, 2009
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