70 lbs gone....REALLY!!!

I am still not sure where it is going.  I have lost 70 lbs total and 50 lbs since Oct 6th 2010.  My clothes fit differently on almost a daily basis.  My blood sugar and pressure is doing great so far.  Today i actually climbed 5 flights of stairs without dieing even once, the elevator was broke.  I did however call someone to fix the elevator.

This past Sunday as I was getting ready for church I thought "I will just see if these tiny 48 jeans fit yet".  Guess what they did. They even fit good enough that I wore them to church!

Note to self: no more grape juice even at church!!!

Well thats all for now, cause I am getting kinda tired.

Blogging between Bites. Sounds like a race or something....Prizes for the right answer

Ok so i am supposed to take 20-30 min to eat a meal. that meal is no more than 1/2 cup by volume. By the way there are 3 T in 1/4 cup and 3 t in one T so the amount that I am eating is super super small.  Don't misunderstand I get full but the Lord blessed me with a HUGE mouth for consuming large quantities of food in a short period of time.  Eating so slowly is BORING to say the least so I am blogging to between bites.

I have lost 47 pounds since surgery and 67 total, again if you have found it, you know what they say "finders keepers", you keep it. I don't want it back.

I am selling all of my work Carhartts on ebay because they no longer fit and I need some new ones.  Right now I am wearing a pair of Carhartt bibs that I last wore when Sarah was 2 now 12, Emily was just born the last time I had these on. Holy cow batman!!!!

Just kinda a random question that I hope someone can answer for me.  I have been pondering this for a long time and have no answers yet.  So here it is:  The need to urinate (pee) increases exponentially as the distance to the bathroom decreases lineally.  I will translate this for you non mathematically inclined peeps. When I have to pee it starts as just a slight urge, the closer I get to the bathroom the stronger the urge. By the time I am preparing for business I am about to burst!!! Why??? That is my question for you today.

The first person with the correct answer wins---some pocket lint from the Carhartts that I am selling.

Have a great day!!!!

I am done with lunch,  2.3 oz of tuna.  I have to go back to work, wiring door alarms.

1 month 4 days post op

A good friend reminded me that I was supposed to be blogging, I forgot about it a little. Or maybe I was just being lazy and didn't have anything smart to say.

So here I am a little over 1 month post op and I feel great.  I no longer get up 7-8 times in 6-7 hours to pee so I am sleeping more.  I am no longer taking high blood pressure meds, I do need to watch that very closely though.   Today at my dietitian appointment I weighed in at 332 lbs, only 4 lbs in the last week and 10 in the last 2 weeks.  I need to lose 3.2 lbs per week to meet my goal weight of 210 at 9 months post op or by 4th of July, 2011.  Milestones for me:

1. Off of my meds related to weight. This is huge both mentally and financially.
2. I started the process wearing a 5X jacket, a few days ago I bought a  2X and it fits!!! I still however cannot fit into 4X work shirts, whats up with that?
3. My Carhartts are 56 and HUGE on me now, but that extra looseness will help keep them from rubbing on my belly, I do have a pair of 52s that fit ok.
4. I bought a pair of sweats and some underoos (superman) from normal people stores, whoohoo. This means that I spent $18.00 instead of $80.00 for the same quantity of clothing.
5. Eating is no longer expensive, $1.50 for lunch and I am good to go. Who wants to buy me lunch??
6. This is BIG, BIG, BIG...unless you are or have been heavy you won't get it.  I fit in a booth at Subway and it was comfortable to eat while in said booth!!!
7. I have been riding my bike or walking nearly everyday. My highest mileage so far is 6 miles on my bike (today) and 4 miles walking.  The best part, is that I am still alive and can move after words and don't hurt for days after such stupidity. 

This surgery is in the best thing I could have ever done for me.  I know that there are peeps out there that say "You took the easy way out".  My response is this "Maybe, but this way just WORKS. By the way how is that 'will power and exercise thing working for you?'"  If anyone thinks this is "easy" we need to chat.

About 2.5 weeks out

Hello my friends,
Well I am about 2.5 weeks out and doing well.  Last night I went with the youth group to a haunted corn maze in  the Eugene area. It was about a 2 mile walk through the maze and it was a BLAST.  Previously when going through a maze I would be hurting and winded about 1/2 way through, last night was pretty easy.  I had some pepperoni yesterday and I think it may be causing me some "issues" today.  I am having some pain from two of the incisions above my belly button, I am pretty sure that it is just healing and stretching that I am feeling.  I feel like I am getting more of my energy back, so thats a good thing.

Have a GREAT DAY!!!

1st Post op appointment

Well I am about 12 days post op right now.  I feel great, many of the aches and pains that I had pre-op are gone.  I had this problem called "fatty liver" it made my chest hurt so bad I thought I was having a heart attack, gone. Today I weighed 341 lbs or something like that. Stefanie has the exact number. 341 is close though and it makes for easy math. 30 lost since 10/6, yeah thats like 2.5 lbs per day, holy catfish batman!!!! 50 lbs lost since starting this adventure.  If you have found the lbs I have lost, I DON"T WANT THEM BACK. Consider them a gift from me to you, Merry Christmas.  There are 3500 calories in 1 lb of human fat. That means in order for me to gain weight pre op I was eating close to a whopping 9000 calories a day!!!!! Mylanta 9000 calories, thats a big number. So anyhow I have been walking a lot and done some biking.  It feels like I am starting to regain some of my stamina, where did that go btw??  I also got some pretty gross pics, drop me a line if you want to see em'.

Day 5 whew. So much better.

Today was a great day. I am feeling good. I am growing tired of liquids. I need something to wrap my gums around. I have been driving rather than riding...driving is much, much softer. We went to Albany this afternoon, and that was a long trip it seemed.

See ya tomorrow.

Day 4......GRRRRRR

Today has been miserable!! I have vomed twice for reasons that I can only speculate about.  Did I put the wrong stuff in my mouth, everything was on the approved list.  Consume to fast or too much at once, who knows.  I know that since I have not had any Jello or Popsicles, bummer, I love those things. Just so you know puking really hurts and there is no trying to go easy. It is just heaving until my pouch feels like it wants to be done.  After the first time this morning I slept for like 4 hours it just sapped my energy levels.  I went to Wal-mart with the fam this afternoon and while it was good to get out the ride to and from was less than pleasant to say the least. On a positive note my BG levels are the lowest I have seen them in recent years at about 115 and falling. Hopefully they will stabilize soon.

See ya all tomorrow sometime. Hopefully it will be a better day