The women who changed my life

I forgot to post this too. These are the women who changed my life - me and my surgeon. Isn't she young? She's one of those Dougie Howser types. Amazing woman. My 3-month appointment was great - she was very happy with my progress and even thought I could eat a little more since I'm exercising so much. She also joked that I should talk with all her other patients about how much the exercise helps.  :)  Yeah, things were good. My blood work was all great (though still a little high on the cholesterol). I go back again at 6 months.

100 pounds!!!!!!!!!

100 pounds!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I think that is all I really need to say.

3 months

Today marks 3 months since surgery. All lingering risks of a blood clot have passed. My stomach is fully healed. I'm here. We're vacationing at the coast sans kids so I can't weigh in today, but yesterday I was 215. So that means I lost 16 pounds this month. Not bad! Last month it was 15, and the first month after surgery it was 21. So a total of 52 since surgery. I went for a run on the beach today, which was awesome. My follow-up with the surgeon is coming up on Tuesday when we will review my blood work. I'm so sooo glad to be here. I think this surgery was one of the best decisions I've ever made.

Purging

Last night I loaded 8 HUGE bags of clothes in the car to get out of my house forever. Wow...it feels so good! My pants fall down, I drown in my shirts...yeah, they had to go. I've dug out some of the clothes from circa 2004-5 and they are doing good for me. I'm a snug size 20 or baggy 22. Plus, I'm blessed with having a dear friend who has been losing weight just ahead of me, and she's passing her stuff on to me. Score! With new (to everyone around me) clothes that actually FIT, people are really noticing. In the last 4 days I've been stopped 5 times and complicated on how good I look.

At the same time as all this awesomeness, the rapid changes are giving me a bit of a mid-life crisis. I don't think I'm going to go out and buy a red convertible, but you never know...  :)

With these last few pounds I've lost, I also passed down into "regular" obesity too. No more qualified, extra bad obesity! Just plain old obese. I'm just a week or so away from losing 100 pounds too. I'm going to have to set some new goals for myself. I'd originally hoped to get under 200 pounds by my birthday (January 10), but now I think I could realistically shoot for 175. Wow. And maybe a 5K by then too.  Things are going well!