Century is for ME!

Today, I made it into the Century Club. I could have lied and said that I had made it last week -- here's my logic. When I had my INITIAL CONSULT (this is what I'm basing this on; my sister told me weight lost is weight lost, whether you did it yourself or whether it was postop) the SURGEON'S scale said 399. When I was running around to all of the preop testing, I weighed in the hospital. It told me I had lost quite a bit in only a few days, I was skeptical. I went back to the surgeon's office and sure enough, his scale was 5 lbs heavier than the hospital one. I was mad, because I did not LOSE 3 pounds, I had gained 2. (because I wasn't drinking enough water -- word to the wise) So last week I had my 3 month visit. My scale was telling me 301. I wasn't fazed by this, I KNEW for a fact that the surgeon's scale would weigh heavier. Before this point, I was telling people what I had lost based on my initial consult minus what MY scale said, which was inaccurate. So, when I had my appointment, sure enough, the surgeon's scale was reading 306. Really, no surprise there. This is all setup to explain how I came about my numbers. Since I had not weighed in literally about 15 years before the consult, I had NO IDEA what I weighed. My first reference was the surgeon's scale, which is what I have to go by. Now, you could subtract 5 from that and get 394 as my initial weight, or you could add 5 to what I am now, and have 299 as my current weight. Either way, I don't care. 399 (surgeon): March 2, 2006 294 (my scale, adding 5 would be 299 on the surgeon's scale): July 29, 2006 And I wore the same clothes that I usually wore to the surgeon's office (though now they're way too big, and the differential is only about a pound) and I made sure it was 294.0. It had been 294 point something (+/-) since Wednesday, but that was not good enough for me. Yay! Out of the 300s and into the Century Club! Julie 399(s)/371(s)/294(mine)/160

Congratulations Julie - no matter how you count it 100 lbs lost is awsome I'm getting close myself these days - about 6 lbs off from my highest weight not my surgery weight. You can be proud of every single pound that you have lost - and lets face facts that those before surgery were harder than those after. Not that after is a piece of cake but you know what I mean. Congrats Carolyn

Thanks Carolyn! You're right, the pounds beforehand were harder than those after, though not by much. I'm sure you'll be right there with me in no time at all! Julie

:woohoo: I am so proud of you!

Thanks, Stacey! Me too! Hope you're doing great, too! Julie

Whoohooo! 100 pounds... that's incredible! Lizzie

Congratulations....WOW I never thought of it that way....so I am also a member of this club....I started at 366 and now I am 278......The great part is I was wearing size 30 shirts when I first went to the surgeon...I bought two shirts Saturday...........size 18 and they FIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey, that's great! I have a big problem with clothes -- I hate to give up clothes until they're so obviously huge on me that I have to keep pushing up sleeves, etc to keep them on. Then you go out and try on that shirt that you think is way too small and voila! it fits. That's the best. Keep up the good work! Julie

Thanks! Now I'm working on the second hundred! (hopefully by the end of the year? that would be fantastic! ) From there it's only a hop, skip and a jump to goal, which STILL seems impossible.

Congrats Julie! I'm going to go grab my water bottle, thanks for the reminder!