Hello positive attitude, goodbye bulge!!

So I had a vent last week on my mood and then quickly turned it around.

I'm back to salads, lots of water and careful caloire counting and I feel SUPER!!!
I am now 239.6 lbs and only 1.5 away from 90lbs . Tuesday June 1st is my son's FIRST Birthday and I was 328 this time last yr. I feel amazing and I'm so proud that I lost this all on my own!!

Still awaiting my suregery call and with my birthday on Thursday- what would be a better gift??
( besides the new bathroom scale I bought yesterday ?? LOL)

Hope everyone is thawed out from the cold front we had ( we got 30+cms of snow over Friday and Saturday-- thankfully it's quickly disappearing).

Happy Victoria Day and here's to another GREAT week!!!

Good for you it always feels better when the pounds start disappearing.  You have done amazing with your journey on your own.  Do you ever think that you won't need the surgery especially since you have done so good on your own.
Also have you been told you won't make it all the way on your own and that even with surgery you will still be in the obese catagory.
I am greatful for the weight wise clinic and their program but find them frustrating at times and so slow with getting appointments etc.  This is my vent I guess, I find some days I am so frustrated with how every thing is going and when i think I should have lost the scale tells me different.  Oh well tomorrow is another day.
Hope you get the birthday present you are looking for but if not have a great day anyway.
Karen

Yeah I have often thought that I'd not be approved for surgery but never that I don't need it.Others around me surely have though and some don't mind letting me know what they think.
The odds , even though I have done this fantastic on my own, are against me. Its proven that some people who lose weight will gain some if not all of it back. I don't know how strong I'd be without the tool. I guess I'm done proving myself and the decisions I have made.

It's funny to think about the BMI scale and super obese, obese, overweight, normal etc.
Since we're not given a numbered goal in the clinic it's easy to think that we'll lose all this weight and be in the normal range and all will be fine but you are right! Surgery is a tool that will not work for everyone the same way . Some will succeed in getting to a healiher weight or bmi but the majority will not get to as low as they would like. Dr. Sharma himself reconfirmed this to me in October. It's alot to take when you first start out but as you advance you undestand this more and it becomes more realistic . I was told that with the sleeve my odds are 60-80% of my excess weight which as of right now is 100lbs. 60-80% of that is 60-80lbs. That would put me in my personal self set goal range and I'd be soooo thrilled. In the yr following surgery, my rd said 50% is the clinics goal.

I'm still not anywhere near a healthy bmi and vsg is the tool I have chosen to get me closer to putting a gap between me and any future weight related health issues. :)

As for the clinic frustration...I hear ya LOL but for me it was more the travel than anything. I think that all the pre-requistes should be outlined on the first visit and for us to get it all done and out of the way - ( sleep test, bloodtests, body scan) . Mine weren't all together and the 2.5 hr travel kinda sucks ALOT but it's all in the past now. I'm back there for pre-op classes on June 11 & 22 and in the meantime just waiting for booking to call .