MORNING NAKED WEIGH IN - WEEK 16

This was a pretty bad week, weight loss wise, but I still came away with a loss. All week the scale has not budged, and then finally this morning it was down 1.2 pounds.  T.O.M (Time Of Month) showed up yesterday, so that may be why it is so low this week.   This week marked the end of another month. Monthly total loss: 7.2 pounds.  Total loss so far: 52.8 pounds!

NSV - NON SCALE VICTORY

Yesterday I finally bought a new pair of jeans since having the surgery in October! I've been wearing the same jeans I had before surgery, but they look really bad now, way too baggy.  They aren't falling off yet, but the legs and rear end just sag.  I bought a size 20 Jeans! And they fit great! At my highest weight I was in a size 28 and they were tight....  I have to admit, the thrill of fitting into a size 20 yesterday was greatly dimmed looking at myself in that full length mirror.  Seeing my clothes sag on me felt great, it showed progress!  But seeing myself in a pair of jeans that fit, really showed me how far I still have to go.... not just to goal but to just looking decent in a pair of jeans.  And I've got a belly roll above my jeans line that is still there, that really bothers me.  I put on my saggy jeans again after trying on the 20's and noticed that in those jeans too, the roll is there, I just chose to ignore it.   I was a little down last night...... but I'm feeling much more optimistic today.   I'm not going to get there over night.  And while..... 51 pounds is a lot to lose, when I have THIS Much excess weight, it's not going to have as great an impact on me as it would on someone with less to lose. My husband suggested taking pictures each month so I can compare, which I really should have been doing all along. 

MORNING NAKED WEIGH IN - WEEK 15

Weigh In results for Week 15:  248.4 lbs.

Total loss for the Week:  3.6 pounds

Total loss so far:  51.6 Pounds!

Fitspiration

Head Hunger

Tonight, I'm dealing with Head Hunger.  You know that feeling that you want to eat a snack?  Even though you've had dinner, you still just want ...."something" but can't figure out just what that "something" is.  Something sweet? Something Salty? Something Snacky.   I've got that now.  I know that it is head hunger and not actual hunger.   While I'm very tempted to start trying various things to fill that craving,  I will not let myself cave in.  I am strong.  I am determined.  I will find something else to do instead....  and as soon as my phone finishes charging,  I will go to the gym and distract myself.   It is finding and maintaining the power to make THESE kind of choices EVERYDAY that will see me to my GOAL WEIGHT and keep me there. 

What An AWESOME Day!

What an AWESOME Day!!

We surprised our oldest daughter with a new car today.  She had NO IDEA she was getting one.  It was fabulous!!  I am one HAPPY Momma right now!!  And she is one happy kid!!!

NOT JUST FOR ME, BUT ALSO FOR THEM

This rings so true!  My children are a big reason why I ultimately decided on Weight Loss Surgery.  I can preach to them all day long about eating right and exercising, but if they see me making poor choices, not exercising, and always being unhappy with myself, who am I teaching them to become?

Welcome To OPERATION: GOAL WEIGHT

I've been on many diets throughout out my life time.  I've managed to lose weight before, but have always gained it right back plus some, winding up weighing more than before starting my diet.  My struggle with weight began when I was 19,  fresh out of high school, finally on my "own", and a newlywed.  I've been fat ever since.  I am now one year shy of 40.  The most weight I have ever managed to lose was 85 pounds, and that was on the Medifast diet.  I stayed on the diet for 8 months, and was able to maintain my weight for a few months, but eventually the weight started to creep back on, picking up speed over the past year and half, until I catapulted myself to my highest weight ever recorded:  300 pounds.   

Notice I stated, the highest weight EVER RECORDED?  That's because, I honestly do not know what my highest weight was.  I avoided scales like they were the freaking Plague.   In August of 2013 I made the decision to have Weight Loss Surgery (RNY Gastric Bypass).  At my initial consultation I weighed in at 297 pounds.   After that visit, and the two months leading up to my actual surgery, I went on an eating spree, eating all the things I knew I would be giving up, polishing off each night with a big 'ol bowl of ICE CREAM! I know without a doubt that I gained weight during that time.  Twice I attempted to weigh myself, just to see, but my digital scale would not settle on a weight, it was all over the place before giving me an error message.  Once I started my pre-op diet and was back to 300 pounds, it finally gave me a weight.  I realized then, the reason for the wonky scale and the error, was because 300 was the highest weight my scale could register.  I was getting weird results because I was too fat for my scale to read my weight!   So 300 pounds is the starting weight that I use for my Beginning weight, even though I KNOW it was higher.  

I had my Roux-En-Y Gastric Bypass Surgery on October 28, 2013. So far, I have lost 48 pounds. I wish I had started blogging right away about all that I experienced.  I tried a few times in another blog, but was unhappy with the blog host.  I was unable to access the blog at all for a couple of weeks, and finally gave up on that site.   I had an old blog, www.shrinking-jeans.blogspot.com, and began blogging there again.  I'd been thinking about starting a fresh new blog to document my weight loss after having my surgery, and then found out recently there is another blog with a very similar name to my old blog, so I decided to start this one.  A fresh start to a new blog for the fresh start to a new me.   I hope you visit often and keep up with my progress.  I'll be very grateful for the support, and  accountability it will provide.  Please feel free to comment and message me anytime with any questions you may have.