Three weeks?

[Guest guest]

I don't believe I haven't posted here for three weeks! I'm not sure

how that happened, but I guess I've been busy. And I've just spent a

LONG time trying get caught up.

My condolences to those who have lost someone. And especially to

those who were acquainted with all of these people. Too much to deal

with all at once.

I'm moving right along...but eating junk. I'm 4.75 months post-op and

down about 68-69 pounds. I think if Trader Joe's didn't have so much

wheat-free or almost wheat-free junk food, my weight loss might be a

little greater. Depending on what number we pull out of the air,

that's about 50% of a very idealistic excess weight figure.

I'm still shaped like an apple, just a smaller apple. With some saggy

bits. This means that at age 59, I now haunt the maternity department

of my favorite department stores. They're nice to me while they think

I'm shopping for someone else. Once I go to try something on, they

gather 'round, point and look dismayed.

Outside the maternity department, I had a pair of 24WP (short inseam,

go figure) pants that were too snug pre-op. I had tried to wear them

recently and they hung, so I went to buy some 20WP's. But THEY were

too big. So I got the 18WP's...which were also too big. I brought

home the 16WP's. Who knew?

My weight loss has been:

Month 1--32 lbs.

Month 2--22 lbs.

Month 3--4 lbs.

Month 4--6 lbs.

Last three weeks-- +/- 5 lbs.

I'm hoping that at the six month check-up, in late May, I have lost a

little more. I'm pretty much on target with the OH weight loss

planner, which indicates that 75 pounds for six months would be a good

place for me to be. So that's six pounds over the next five weeks.

I've MOSTLY been going to the gym five days a week. But on bad weeks,

when I have one of those revenge-of-the-high-carb diet days (or

sometimes two days...yes, Fern, I forgot the probiotics, but I

remember now) I end up with four days of cardio and two days of

circuit. It's a small (three sites) local chain, with

Curves-type-stuff downstairs and cardio stuff upstairs.

I was just about to call Dee and ask what labs I needed and shouldn't

I do them in advance, so that doctor would have them in hand when we

meet again...when I got the letter. The letter said, essentially, get

these labs done so doctor can have them in hand when we meet again.

So, there.

I wish I could schedule appointments so that I might be able to hang

with y'all after a support-group meeting...but so far, that has not

worked out.

Sue