We had a HUGE HUGE lunch today. All of our family and a few friends came to join us and there was more food than we know what to do with. Looks like leftovers will be eaten the rest of the weekend. Not a problem at all! NO COOKING!!! We've done enough these last few days for sure!
Tomorrow is our traditional breakfast at Ma & Pas cafe. Trudy is looking forward to seeing Brenda for breakfast. She will FLIP out on her too with all her weight loss! Brenda had surgery 3 days after me and she had the gastric sleeve. She as of last update has lost 155 lbs. She looks fantastic! I am so proud of her! I am looking forward to my harold tomorrow... it's my tradition and I can't wait to dig in to it! Maybe I can have a half a harold?? ha ha ha!
I am down 185 lbs... not sure if I've posted that detail lately? I feel AMAZING. The holiday wasn't an issue. I ate a plate of food, a tiny plate of food, but a plate none the less. I had a bit of everything I wanted to try. It may have taken me all day long to get in a bit of everything, but I managed. I didn't over eat, I stopped when I was full and I even had a bite of pecan pie, a bite of pumpkin pie and lots of TURKEY!!!! I am a bit pissy because I was just at Walmart the other day and yesterday my scale battery DIED. No warning, it just died. So now I only have my OLD bathroom dial scale, not my digital one to weigh on, which sucks because I am steady and used to weighing in on my digital one. It's been the one I weigh in on since surgery. Okay so I guess I should post my main goal I have sailed past... I AM NOW SMALLER THAN BILL!!! Ha ha. To most people this wouldn't matter, but I've never been smaller than him. When we got together I was smaller, but so was he, he was like 160 lbs soaking wet! Now he's fluffier and I am SMALLER than he is. This excites me. I told Dr. Marshall I wanted to be smaller than my husband and he said I would be, I never thought it would be this fast!! WOW!!! I love the new me! I only have like 25-30 lbs to get to my goal, but Dr Marshall thinks I will get even lower than that? I have about 9 more months of weight loss left on this "window". I could bottom out at any point now, but they claim you will steadily lose for at least 18 mos after surgery if you follow the diet and exercise and I am doing all that, so I am continuing to lose. I am happy to be this close to my goal, but I NEVER thought I would be this small. I still don't recognize myself. I shock myself every time I walk past a mirror. I am wearing size 14 pants now, and they are getting too big. I am going to have to wear belts with them now, or bump down to a size 12. This is crazy. Just NUTS to me. SIZE 12... WHAT THE HELL!!!! I think I wore a 12 when I was like 10?? ha ha.. No really I don't know, but it's been years and years. I don't even really remember wearing 12's??? I can wear a size XL-Lg shirts now. I am in a Lg coat, and could wear a medium, but I don't like my coats that snug, I'd rather have a baggier coat. I am so thrilled with myself daily!
My hair is growing back. It's funny looking little wispy hairs behind my ears the nape of my neck and sprouting in my part line. It's great it's coming back in, but it's funny as hell looking where it's coming back in when I have my hair up in a pony tail! Strange for sure!
Well, we are so thankful for all that we have in our lives. We are truly blessed and I am so happy that we have each other and these dear family and friends to celebrate these holiday with. I love my life!!!!
You're such an inspiration with the weight loss. I read your blog every once in a while and always read your posts on the Peoria WLS yahoo group. I had my DS with Dr Marshall on 10/31/11 and had some complications but am down about 50 pounds. Now that the complications are better and I can eat normally, I always feel hungry and I never feel full. I'm soooo scared this isn't going to work for me like it has for you. I almost cried last week when a friend drank a Coke in front of me! :-(
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