another 3 month check up

I saw the surgeon yesterday and I was able to see my lab results online this morning! I am so good. So normal. Awesome or what??? I had lost 80 pounds as of yesterday and that is awesome. Today I have lost 81 which means I am exactly half way to my first goal to be 180 pounds. The doctor doesn't set a goal weight for me. THe nutritionist is supposed to do that so 180 is close to 70 percent of my excess weight gone. So once get there, I can reevaluate. But I am so glad to be half way there. I had a goal to lose 80 pounds before classes started again and I did it....since they don't start until the 23rd. And my stomach is finally shrinking. It was the last part of my body to want to leave but it is shrinking. Rachael

That's excellent Rachael, well done. You must be so proud of yourself.

That is GREAT Rachael and you made your goal too! AWESOME!! Have you went down in sizes yet? Did you have to go get new closthes for school? I am still wearing my old ones but they fit looser now and I can wear some that were too tight before but as soon as I go down more - I will have to get some as I have no Size 18's except for a few tops that I am wearing now. Everything else is 22/24. I have had to put aside of a couple of outfits already that were just too big. I am going to try and find a pair of capris to wear tonight when I go to church and I have a feeling that they are also too big. Is that not a shame!!!! My stomach is also the LAST place to leave and it sure is taking it's time!!! GREAT JOB! Darlene

Way to go, Rachel!! 80lbs is one awesome number to have lost already. You're really doing well. Congrats to you!! How many clothes sizes have you dropped? I bet a ton. How are you feeling? When you go back to school no one will recognize you.

Clothes sizes...hmmm...that's a tricky subject. At the moment, I seem to have dropped one bra size. I wore 30 in jeans from Catherines. Now I am wearing 24's from Lane Bryant. I have one brand new pair of 22's from LB that I bought 2 summers ago on clearance. THey still have the tags on them. I am hoping to be in them in a month. I have seen most of my classmates over the summer. I counted 8 classmates that haven't seen me since before the surgery. We have a 'welcome back' party tonight. That should be exciting. Rachael