do you remember how much you have lost??

I hear ya. I don't really forget how much I have lost. I mean, I know I have lost 185 lbs. so far and I think about that number all the time. What happens for me is I forget how to wrap my head around how much weight that really is. I have to constantly keep telling myself I have literally lost my husband, he weighs exactly 185 lbs. So everytime I struggle to grasp just how much 185 lbs. really is, I think about how much my husband weighs.

Funny man he is too. He tells me all the time...."Whenever you want to be reminded just how far you've come, let me hop on your back and you can carry me around for a day. That'll remind ya really quick. "



OK funny man.

LOL

Hijack!!  Mary, where were you last week?  We missed you!!

Laura

Look at you.....hijacking this thread. You masked bandit you!   LOL

I had every intention of being at the meeting. All the way up until my son tells me that afternoon he had a school function he had to attend that evening. So much for advance notice. LOL

But I will be there next month....promise!

mary you know what my tim is 210-215 pounds - I forget that he is as much as I have lost I just consintrate on weighing less than him - killed me when he came home on leave last month and was 203  - I spent 2 weeks feeding him and he was 214 or so when he left LOL

I have a 185 pound kid - I can try and carry the teen around for a while and see - good visual. - I have for the last couple of years had my husband point out woman to me that are the size I am - have issues with figuring that out too - and woman that are the size I used to be - those are harder to find - mostly he says see her, shes smaller than you used to be -good thing he loves me so much

You know when I remember???  It's when I go clothes shopping and it hits me, holy cow... I wear a size M top, sometimes small and size 12, freaking 12!!! in pants.  At my highest, I was wearing a size 34 pants and 4-5x tops...  I NEVER thought I'd see these sizes again.   Today, I was shopping and had one of those moments in the dressing room where I'm ever so grateful to have had this surgery.  It has been worth the pain of recovery, learning to eat again and changing my life - I wouldn't trade the last 2 1/2 years for anything AND I'd gladly do it all over again...  I passed by a lady sitting on a bench in the mall and thought - That was Me a few years ago.  Going shopping was exhausting and I was that size.   Never again!

As for weight lost... somewhere in the neighborhood of 160 lbs...  I weight less than I've lost at this point and hovering at goal for the last 6+ months with no effort.

Chin up my friend - sometimes you just have to glad at where you are :)  It's unlikely I'll ever hit a size 6 or smaller, but if I make it into a 10 with little effort to remain there, that would be a huge success for me.   All along, I've told myself that if I could hit a size 14 it would be a success - now I've even surpassed that.   So, take stock of where you are, where you would like to be and decide if it's realistic for you.

I can't lift 300 lbs, I don't know how I carried an extra 300 lbs around with me everyday.

Scott

On February 14, 2010 at 5:55 PM Pacific Time, Beam me up Scottie wrote: I can't lift 300 lbs, I don't know how I carried an extra 300 lbs around with me everyday.

Scott Being the sarcastic engineer that I am, I could tell ya how you did it...........  you know, weight distribution and pounds per square inch and all.........

And then I could calculate the force on your joints with every step you take - now THAT amazes me - that our bodies can take so much punishment with the same basic design as a thin person........... 

But I see the effects every day and I notice them because that was how I lived my life prior to WLS.  Shifting your weight from foot to foot while standing in line because your feet were killing you.  Popping the Advil so you could sleep at night w/o your knees screaming at you.  Resting often in the middle of long walks.  Your body can shoulder the load for short bursts, but has to have time to "recover".  I don't need to recover anymore because I ain't toting all that extra baggage.  I am thankful every day for my surgery!