XPOST: 9 mo. progress report and breaking the 200# mark
A year ago today, I started filling out the paperwork to have WLS at Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. I looked back at that form today: I was 315 pounds (I'm only 5'3"!)
9 months ago today, I had RNY surgery @ 290 pounds.
And today, I *finally* got below 200 pounds: 199.8 !! I'm not even sure how long it's been since I've weighed so little; probably the early 1980s! Whoo-hoo!!!
Sometimes I think the past few months have been like watching paint dry; on a day-to-day basis, the weight loss has been slow, constantly interrupted by stalls and fluctuations, and I've only recently been able to acknowledge the results when I look in the mirror.
As short as I am, I am still approx. 65 pounds away from achieving a "normal" BMI; whether I reach that isn't clear (30-odd years ago, when I hit 130 pounds -- for about a millisecond -- I looked skeletal), but I hope and expect that I'll continue to lose at least 30-40 more pounds, and then strive to maintain it.
For those of you who are recently post-op and discouraged by comparing your progress against others, who wonder whether you'll be the first exception to the success promised by these procedures: I was just like you. Be patient! Even modest progress, seemingly invisible as you're living it, accumulates as time passes, until one day you look back and can't refute how far you've come. Keep this in mind along the way!
/Steve
9 months ago today, I had RNY surgery @ 290 pounds.
And today, I *finally* got below 200 pounds: 199.8 !! I'm not even sure how long it's been since I've weighed so little; probably the early 1980s! Whoo-hoo!!!
Sometimes I think the past few months have been like watching paint dry; on a day-to-day basis, the weight loss has been slow, constantly interrupted by stalls and fluctuations, and I've only recently been able to acknowledge the results when I look in the mirror.
As short as I am, I am still approx. 65 pounds away from achieving a "normal" BMI; whether I reach that isn't clear (30-odd years ago, when I hit 130 pounds -- for about a millisecond -- I looked skeletal), but I hope and expect that I'll continue to lose at least 30-40 more pounds, and then strive to maintain it.
For those of you who are recently post-op and discouraged by comparing your progress against others, who wonder whether you'll be the first exception to the success promised by these procedures: I was just like you. Be patient! Even modest progress, seemingly invisible as you're living it, accumulates as time passes, until one day you look back and can't refute how far you've come. Keep this in mind along the way!
/Steve
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