Hope everyone had a nice weekend! Love this time of year, makes it even more special to be off work with my family. Another perk of this surgery! I know it's only been 5 weeks since my surgery but I already feel like a new person! I'm 57 lbs down (since the beginning of Sept, lost 32 lbs prior to surgery) and I just feel so much more active, I think it's that whole "when you do something for yourself, you feel so much more confident" thing and it's great! We went out to eat for my first time since surgery, of course I shared my daughter's kids plate dinner with her and I only had about 7 or 8 (side note: I think it's so funny that my "new bites" are like a 5th of what my old bites use to be!) bites but we went out and I enjoyed it and didn't feel deprived! It was great!  Then we took my daughter to a local amusement park to see the Holiday Lights and we rode a little train that we've been on a few times and Emma actually sat BETWEEN Mommy and Daddy on the bench and not on our laps because my husband and I had room between each other for the first time!  That was a wonderful feeling!!!  And when we went on the Carousel, I got on a horse and didn't just stand next to Emme.  What a feeling, I can't wait for more things to come!  So happy I made this choice!  

Thank you for letting me share! :)

Amanda

Yep, yep, Joan 30 lbs is awesome.  Congratulations! That's what I keep chanting when I get discouraged when I'm only seeing the scale creep down! I'm starting to pick up losing more a little bit but it's still so hard to wrap my brain around the fact that I'm eating between 500-600 calories, burning about 400 calories at the gym and I'm going down a lb or so every other day.  But it'll work! Even if I "just lose" 2 to 3 lbs a week, that's like 65 lbs in 5 months and 130 in a year.... sounds good to me! 

Amanda

I am finally losing again - yeah!!!!!

thanks for the help. i can tell in just one day that things are healing. it doesnt hurt me to sit in the computer chair or to step over the doggy gate between the living room and kitchen... not the most comfortable things in the world but i can do them! bending down still scares me a little.. poor hubby has to help me pull up my pants after i use the bathroom... lol! im so glad he loves me.. sucha trooper! i still have a few leftovers from the hospital.. itchy crawly skin from the morphine and a swollen hand from an infiltrated i.v. when did yall stop wearing the abdominal binders? i know theyre helpful and all.. but mines really getting on my nerves more than anything.

Congrats on joining the LOSERS!
I hope your recovery is speedy!