50 Pounds -- A Huge Scale Victory!!

Wow, since I last posted on August 19, I have lost 6.8 pounds in 11 days. YES!!!

Last Tuesday I went in to see my surgeon and because I have increased how much I can eat, we decided to add .3 cc to my band. I did talk to him about what I thought was acid reflux which was happening if I ate just before going to bed. On Tuesday, when I got home I decided to groom my poodle puppy and did not eat until 10:30 pm. Normally after an adjustment, you eat soft foods, and what did I do at 10:30 pm? I ate pot roast. I paid for it all night long. Every time, I started to doze off to sleep, I would feel like I was choking on stuff... I then would start coughing and would cough up stuff.... This happened all night! I now have a new rule: Do not eat after 8:30 pm. As long as I follow this rule life is good!

But in the mean time, the scale has moved. As of yesterday morning, I have lost a total of 50 pounds. The equivalent of 50 pounds is:

• A Costco size bag of Russet Potatoes
• 5 -- 10 pound bags of flour
• 200 cubes of butter
• 3 and 1/3 of 5 gallons buckets filled with laundry detergent
• 1.25 bags of wood pellets

Even though my band is a little on the tight side, it feels so good to be loosing this weight. I've decided I like it that way. I read about people who have lost 25 pounds in 6 months and I certainly don't want to be in that position. I figure if I keep in contact with my surgeon and keep the restriction tight that I will get to my goal sooner than later.

Life is good and it feels wonderful not to be lugging around 200 cubes of butter every day!!

It Moved!!

Finally after almost 2 weeks the scale moved. I hadn't blogged lately, because the scale wasn't moving, I've decided that I put way to much stock in the scale. When I weigh the non-scale victories against the scale victory, they far out weigh the scale victory.

Non-Scale Victories --

• We went out to Teatro ZanZinni's and I dressed up in a dress that I purchased several years ago and it looked great. Here is a picture of me from that night



• I am now wearing jeans that are a size 14 instead of a 18Womens!!!



• I saw family that I haven't seen for a year and some of them did not know abut the Lap-band surgery. My nephew, looked at me and said: "Something is different, is it your glasses?" "NO". "Is it your hair?" "No, it just grayer since the last time I saw you. It's 42 pounds!!!" "I knew it was something..." It just felt good to have someone look at me with a shocked look and standing there trying to figure it out.



• I feel so much better.



• I went to the Puget Sound Poodle Club meeting during the first part of July and then again in August. They didn't recognize me. Seeing that they had only met me once, and then again the second time and I had taken off over 10 pounds in the short time, I just didn't look the same.



• My watch is not staying put, because I have lost about 3/4 inch off my wrist and it now hangs loose.



• I am completely off my diabetic, high cholesterol and blood pressure medications. And my morning sugar levels average 100!!!

Scale Victory-- 43.20 Pounds

Even though this is a difficult journey, I have to say I am very glad I did it. Even though I might physically get sick from eating incorrectly, these victories far out weigh the difficult journey.