Weekly Weigh in 6-16-08

Hello All, Sorry I am a bit late with this. I was up at 4am ... but buzzing around doing stuff and before I knew it it was 8 am, time to bring Victoria to school (10 days and counting!) Had to stop a few stores and in 15 minutes i'll be back in the car to get her! Jeesh I know I have to really get back to basics ... I've been slacking and it shows. NO MORE EXCUSES! I * AM * DOING * THIS * TODAY * This is *short and sweet* weigh in post! Highest weight - 250.5 Lowest weight - 139 Goal weight - 142 Current weight - 152 Up / down from previous weigh in - + 10 A step in the wrong direction for me Hope all of you had a better week than I did with the scale. Hugs, Britt keep your eye on the prize HUGS, britt

Hello November buddies, Well, it's been a fabulous week for me. After going over into the 200s again by not taking my diuretics on vacation (imagine that!), I have come back into ONEderland big time!! I got back on my diuretics religiously, and decided to monitor EVERYTHING I have been eating. My plan was to stick to a low-carb, low-fat food program (notice I did not say DIET!) and plan my meals everyday. Well, I have done fantastic on this!! It makes me wonder why I ever stopped!?!? I feel great (also, thanks to some steroids - contact dermatitis from DW) and although I haven't gone to the gym since I"ve been back, I have been working my tail off in my house. In fact, yesterday, I handwashed three vehicles and vacuumed two of them!! With all that being said, here are my stats for this week: Weight, day of surgery: 312.4 Last week: 202.8 This week: 187.6 Loss: 15.2 lbs (can you believe it?????) (actually about 10 lbs of this was fluid) Total: 124.8 Current BMI: 31.1 Hope everyone has a great week ahead!! Hugs, Deidrah

DEIDRAH- you my dear ROCK! "....plan my meals everyday. Well, I have done fantastic on this!! It makes me wonder why I ever stopped!?!? I feel great" GO FIGURE! terrific Job! 15.2 pounds

WOW! Deidrah, those diuretics sure did their job but don't discount the work YOU did! Fantastic! You're back and you are STRONG! You are an inspiration to me to keep better track of my intake! CeCe

Wow!!!! WTG Deidrah!!!! You go girl!!!!!! HUGS, Shawn M.

WTG! This is great news, fluid or no fluid, 15.2 lbs is amazing! I am so jealous. Hugs, Valorie

Good Morning Everyone!! Hope you all had a wonderful weekend. We finally had sunny weather in the PNW and it's still sunny and beautiful today. It's days like this that make living here totally worth it because it is just so stunningly gorgeous!! I had an interesting week. I ended up going to my first consult for PS. I wasn't supposed to go until this week but they had a cancellation and got me in unexpectedly. I had been kind of ambivalent about the whole thing but now am totally excited. Of course I have to figure out how in the world I'm going to pay for it...but one step at a time. I have another consult in July. I want to get at least two opinions as this Doc said he recommended a LBL for me to be truely happy with the results and I had thought I could get away with just doing a TT. Anyway, I'll go ask the other Doc the same thing I asked this one and see what he says. I really like this one, he made me feel really comfortable, was very straight forward with his recommendations and why he was making them. Didn't blow off my concern about being able to sing and how long it would take before I could really sing after surgery. It was great. Unfortunately I did not have a better week than you Britt. *sigh* But I"m not at all surprised. Both David and I went off the low carb thing yesterday for Father's day. And while I didn't pig out (I was very proud of myself for that) I did have a lot more carbs than normal and I know when I do that my weight shoots up. Sure enough it did. Back to 155 today. But I know that will drop off again quickly being back on low carb. On Thursday I was at 152 (which was a loss from last Monday) though so low carb is working, slowly but surely. At this point I don't think I can expect to drop the last 10 pounds in a week, darn it all This week I'm going to hit the low carb again. I'm already finding it difficult since I got off of it for a day. I'm not going to let the excuses creep in!! I want to hit the water intake big time this week too. Keeping up with exercise and am looking at changing up my workouts a little bit. The pool at my apartment complex opened this weekend so I think I'll add at least one swimming session into my routine for cardio. I think that's it for me. Everyone have a wonderful week!!! Corinna Q

Hi Corinna - Isn't it AMAZING? I am like you I eat carbs (the bad ones) and gain - gain - gain! You sound like you mean business. Let's see how SERIOUS we are when we hit the scale next week! I want to see a LOWER # -- I know I will if I stick to my plan. Congrats on your PS consult. I had one scheduled for today but canceled it .... $$$$$ let us know what the next Dr says. have a great week!!! Hugs, Britt

Corinna, Isn't it crazy how eating the less than complex carbs can reverberate for days making it hard to get back on track? You can do it. You have been doing super fantastic on low carbs and losing like crazy so do what works!! Congrats on the PS consult. I've seen your posts on the PS site and there's a load of info on that site. Read it all but remember not everyone has the crazy complications! You might even see 3 surgeons before deciding but go with the one you feel most comfortable with (as long as they have a lot of experience!). I''m thrilled with my results and so glad that my surgeon had so much experience with WLS patients. In fact, prior to becoming a PS, my surgeon performed weight loss surgeries. CeCe

CeCe, Don't I know it. Those carbs are just monsters! I had to MAKE myself walk past the amazing bulk foods with the yummiest trail mixes ever aisle at Whole Foods this morning and move on to the veggies. Thankfully Whole Foods has the most amazing veggies too So I'm sitting here munching on snap peas trying to ignore the "give me sugar" urges nailing me every two minutes or so. Ug! this is going to be a tough day. And we are having our quarterly office meeting in five minutes with TONS of bad-for-you food laid out. Including three dozen Top Pot Doughnuts (another favorite). Wish me luck! Corinna