Positive out of my cancer experience
You guys know me pretty well. It's been almost two weeks since my cancer surgery, so its time for me to find the silver lining in the cloud, right? Well I guess I have found it.
In a lot of ways the surgery "reset" my stomach. Pushing me back to the puree stage almost. Lots of liquid food, wet foods, and while I didn't actually puree anything, it cut back on my intake because I just wasn't hungry. Forced eating again.
For the past two weeks I've chalked up big weight loss numbers. 9 pounds both weeks. I'm now at 285 pounds, which is just stunning to me. 285? I'm 35 pounds from flight lessons. I'm only 65 pounds to goal! I'm over 68.6% of the way there! Wow! Who'da thunk it in only 23 weeks? I'm estatic. I know people years out from weight loss who never did lose the 142 pounds that I've lost so far. And I never in a million years would have thought that I had it in me to lose 165 pounds from my heighest weight ever. 165 pounds? That more than many of my peer's goal weights!
Anyway, thats the good I've come away from this. The Cancer surgery was a complete success. I'm now, supposedly, cancer free. I'm rapidly returning to pre-op energy and ability, although I'm not gonna push things like I did after WLS. I'm going to do my job recovering correctly. And it didn't interfere, and if anything it helped, my weight loss goals. 285 pounds. Man, that makes me pretty darn happy.
WE WANT PICTURES!!!
Hey it's so great to see you're doing well and kicking butt in the weight loss percentages, I too am estatic for your loss for two reasons, one because you are closer to doing so many things that you've looked forward to doing and two because your extreme loss is going to make our weekly averages look AMAZING! So, keep up the good work and if you happen to find yourself in front of a digital camera.... take a pic. We want to see how far you've come.
Carla
285 wow that is so awesome. It seemed like yestarday that you were looking to get over the 300 (your onederland) goal. Not only are you over it but you smashed it to smitherens...You mention flight lessons are you going to learn to fly??? that is so cool. When we were in "group" before all I could think about was all the great things that I would now be able to do. I want to jump out of a plane. Now I just have to get the courage up,. I am afraid of heights. haha..I did learn to ride a motorcycle before I lost weight, I sometimes feel a little foolish but now can hardly wait for riding season to start up.
285 again wow and congrats.
It is great to see you back. There seems to be a good group of us that have that silver lining look at things and you are our king.
donna
Yea.. I'd really like to learn to fly. I've already jumped out of an airplane, so I don't need to do that again. 
But I'd love to learn how to fly one. I really wanna fly ultralights, which have a maximum payload capacity of 250 pounds... including fuel. In reality, I'll need to be under 240 fully clothed to fly one.
So 45 pounds from Ultralight training, and 65 pounds from goal... although losing 25 pounds in three weeks isn't good. I'm so weak... that's just too fast this far out.
I need someone to come take pictures of me. I often don't recognize myself anymore.
But I'd love to learn how to fly one. I really wanna fly ultralights, which have a maximum payload capacity of 250 pounds... including fuel. In reality, I'll need to be under 240 fully clothed to fly one.
So 45 pounds from Ultralight training, and 65 pounds from goal... although losing 25 pounds in three weeks isn't good. I'm so weak... that's just too fast this far out.
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