WOW I have lost more than weight I have lost a Super word..

I have been so upset over the slow weight loss after surgery and making sure to meet the weight I needed before surgery that I missed a very important WOW Moment.. 

The 13th of November I went below the BMI of 50 mark.. meaning I am no longer super morbidly obese.. I am now just morbidly obese.. So I lost a SUPER  word.

Listen to me JUST morbidly obese.. l bet a lot of people only start at morbidly obese.. I know you guys on here understand because we all started out Super Morbidly Obese..

I am so excited about a wow moment .. I needed that, I needed some good news....

The scale came out this morning and I did my weekly Monday morning weigh in and I am at 231.4 again.. man.. I get to 230.2 and back up and then back to 230.0 and now back to 231.4..  Oh well I did my weekly thing and I have hid the scale away again until next Monday.. I am still trying to follow it all to a T so I am hoping that maybe the one month out next Monday will be the day I finally start to loose.. I am going to have my mom help me measure tonight when she comes to pick up her dog.. (I dog sit for her).. maybe the numbers will be down there. I can only hope right..

Thanks for letting me share this wow moment with you...

Hey Teresa! You are doing GREAT, and I'd say that is a WOW moment, girl!

One day at a time... and hope you keep blogging! I know it is helping many including myself, to hear of the victories no matter what size

God bless you,
Susan

I am so thankfull to be able to share with you.. I am so very happy at this wow moment.. I realized that I have been so focused on the scale ( thanks to the insurance company) that I have fogotten that there are other things to be thankful for besides just seeing the numbers go down.. I have reached some of my goals and never even acknowledged them reached. It is too late tonight and I am barely holding my eyes open but tomorrow I am going to go in and look at the goals I have reached in the past few months.. I need to focus on the positive right now to wait out the healing for the weight loss to start..

One big goal reached is that I had not been able to drive in two years.. I am short and could not fit behind the wheel and reach the pedals too. I always had to be driven everywhere. dependant on others.. but back in September I drove myself to a support meeting.. A big wow.. I was proud I did it but did not realize that I was becoming independant again.. a really big WOW>.

I will list more tomorrow.. thanks for caring to hear my victories..

I am soooooooo happy to see you focusing on the positive!!!!!! that really did my heart good to read that...


CONGRATULATIONS on losing your "SUPER" status

I have my ups and down days.. I have not been able to take my depression meds since the surgery.. they make me throw up.. I have been trying to just deal. ..  then yesterday I could hear the words of my councelor.. focus on the positive not on the negative.. so that is the way I am going to try to do..

I have had a much better day today.. Great not being super anymore.. lol ..and thinking of all the things I am thankful for so far..

Congratulations, Theresa! My weight loss was very slow in the beginning, too. Please don't get discouraged! You lost a great deal before surgery. You are doing all the right things, and the weight will come off. Congrats on your new "MO" status. You are losing letters along with inches, pounds,pains, and regrets. You are gaining freedom, energy, health, and lots more WOW moments to come.

Thank you Pam...

I am learning that others had it slow like this at the beginning too.. I am not a freak.. well yes I am in that I am not normal anymore.. I have a reaaranged insides..  but I am not a freak in that I am not going to loose weight.. It is my biggest nightmare that I will fail at this.. But I am determined.. I was before surgery and I am now...

I am glad to be losing letters if not the numbers on the scale right now.. I am indeed gaining freedom and independence.. I am waiting for the energy.. haha.. the health has already started..
another wow praise.. I have been able to stop the three high blood pressure medications I was taking.. since the surgery my blood pressure is in the normal range with our the medications..
Also since last week I ahev been able to stop my blood sugar medications. 2 of them.. So that is 5 medications I am free from and two unhealthy diseases I have conquered.. Yippee..

I know there is a lot more to come.. patience patience patience..

Isn't it amazing?  I'm off all 3 of my diabetes meds and had the lowest A1C (blood sugar test) I've ever had since my diagnosis!  Yay!!!!

Thats so great Mary..  This is what it is all about.. getting healthy.. the numbers on the A1C is a lot more important than what the scale ever says.. We all say that the fat is going to kill us if we dont get it off.. well not really.. their are a lot of fat people that are healthy.. but we are not just fat, we were and are morbidly obese, many being super morbidly obese as I was.. .. the mortality rate is in the numbers alright but not the scales numbers..it is in the numbers for our blood pressure, the numbers for our blood sugar, the numbers for our cholestrol, the numbers for our cpap machines.. the numbers of our heart rate, the number of our oxygen levels.. it is these numbers that will and would finally do us in.. 
I have to try to remember that the scale numbers are not what it is all about.. I am in this not to look like a movie star or a model (good thing because that is an impossible goal, reality is a Shar Pei..lol). I am in this to be healthy. Yes I want to see a drop in the numbers on the scale and the numbers on the tags inside my cloths but I want more than anything to see a drop in numbers that are making me unhealthy and preventing the number of years I have left to spend with my family..

So once again Mary congratulations on the number drop on the A1C.. that is a life saver.. a fantastic accomplishment.. The real results of a life saving surgery..

Whew! Glad you posted something.

I think I got your e-mail by mistake then I forgot to send it to you after I got it in November. I cut and paste it because I don't know how to forward it.

Dear Teresa S.,

It has come to the company's attention that you no longer qualify for use of the word "super" when describing yourself as "morbidly obese."

Please return your chartreuse cape(s), sparkly tights and orange belt(s)  to the head office as soon as possible. (You may keep the purple leotard(s) because we cannot reuse them for hygiene purposes.) If we are not in receipt of these items by January 1, you may lose your security deposit in it's entirety.

We are forwarding your file to the Morbidly division in anticipation of your losing that adjective in the future.

Thank you for your cooperation.

Super Morbidly Obese Division
Fat Inc.