150 pounds since November
Hi folks -
Tuesday is my "official" weigh in day - whatever I weigh on Tuesday mornings counts. Today, the scale read 321 pounds.
For me this is a milestone - 150 pounds lost since my surgery in November, 220 pounds lost since my largest size in January, 2008.
I just realized that it puts me just 40 pounds away from my "largest" weight goal (the doctors say that for my height, frame and musculature they'd be happy for me to be somewhere between 250 and 280).
I'm wearing size XL underwear. Not 3XL, not 2XL - XL. 10 months ago I was wearing 5XL. I have 2XL shirts in my closet, down from 5XL.
I'm just really happy today.
Tuesday is my "official" weigh in day - whatever I weigh on Tuesday mornings counts. Today, the scale read 321 pounds.
For me this is a milestone - 150 pounds lost since my surgery in November, 220 pounds lost since my largest size in January, 2008.
I just realized that it puts me just 40 pounds away from my "largest" weight goal (the doctors say that for my height, frame and musculature they'd be happy for me to be somewhere between 250 and 280).
I'm wearing size XL underwear. Not 3XL, not 2XL - XL. 10 months ago I was wearing 5XL. I have 2XL shirts in my closet, down from 5XL.
I'm just really happy today.
7-09
What a milestone Don! Congrats and you look super good too.
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Congratulations on a major milestone. 
You have every reason to be happy. 
I do the same thing -- weigh myself only once a week -- except my day is Monday. I've found my weight can fluctuate a couple of pounds day-to-day. It's the weekly trend that matters.
I meet with my surgeon in 3 weeks to get my surgery date which will probably be right around Thanksgiving (figures I'd have bariatric surgery around the most food-oriented holiday on the calendar!). I'll also have a November surgiversary. I'm getting excited as I approach the end of this 6-month waiting period.
I'm in kind of a weird situation in that I have to maintain my current weight so my BMI stays above 35 or else BC/BS won't pay for the surgery. It dropped as low as 35.7 in July but I've got it back up to 36.8. I'm having a band instead of a bypass so my weight loss will be more gradual than yours -- but I'm anxious to get started. If I can average a 2 pound loss each week I'll be below 200 by my first surgiversary. I'd love to be able to wear XL again. My shirts are 3XL but I have a whole wardrobe of L/XL clothes from a 100 pound weight loss 5 years ago (it all came back, of course). It will be nice to wear them again.
Again, mazel tov on the 150-pound loss. Happy! Happy! Joy! Joy!
You have every reason to be happy. I do the same thing -- weigh myself only once a week -- except my day is Monday. I've found my weight can fluctuate a couple of pounds day-to-day. It's the weekly trend that matters.
I meet with my surgeon in 3 weeks to get my surgery date which will probably be right around Thanksgiving (figures I'd have bariatric surgery around the most food-oriented holiday on the calendar!). I'll also have a November surgiversary. I'm getting excited as I approach the end of this 6-month waiting period.
I'm in kind of a weird situation in that I have to maintain my current weight so my BMI stays above 35 or else BC/BS won't pay for the surgery. It dropped as low as 35.7 in July but I've got it back up to 36.8. I'm having a band instead of a bypass so my weight loss will be more gradual than yours -- but I'm anxious to get started. If I can average a 2 pound loss each week I'll be below 200 by my first surgiversary. I'd love to be able to wear XL again. My shirts are 3XL but I have a whole wardrobe of L/XL clothes from a 100 pound weight loss 5 years ago (it all came back, of course). It will be nice to wear them again.
Again, mazel tov on the 150-pound loss. Happy! Happy! Joy! Joy!
Rich -- "One Day at a Time, One Pound at a Time"
(Start: 292.6 / surgery weight: 265.0 / current: 205.6 / goal: 175.0)
(Start: 292.6 / surgery weight: 265.0 / current: 205.6 / goal: 175.0)
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