Post X-mas Weigh-in

331.0:  all time high 3/10/08
321.0:  Surgery day 4/7/08
184.0:  GOAL!!  1/13/09
173.0:  1yr Surgiversary 4/7/09 and at 18 months 
165.2:  all time low 11/30/09
168.4:  Last week
167.4:  This week 

I hope Santa brought you everything you were after and if not hopefully you will find it on sale this week!

Looking back over the last year, other than the employment picture and having my gall bladder out, I can't complain - too loudly.  Weight loss wise I went below goal, 185, back in January and have been as much as 20 pounds below that for most of the year.  GF gave me a couple of size medium Polo type shirts shirts for X-mas and they FIT!  Hot diggity!

To the "thinking about its" and the newbies WLS is worth it!  The ride, as wild and as hellish as it can be at times, is something you have to prepare for both physically and mentally.  Newbies, hang it there!  You may have some tough sledding but the rewards will come!  If you are still in the thinking about it, reasearching stage and have decided that 2010 will be the year you want to take on and win your personal war with obesity - GET OFF YOUR ASS!  Fight the insurance companies, fight your family, fight the asshole naysayers or break into the kids piggy bank to self pay but GET IT DONE!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

up to 215 this morning from 213.2 a few days ago, but the medicine I'm on only allows to me **** once or twice a week so this is quite normal for me.  I'll be about 210 by wed or thurs. 

I'll weigh in after the skins whip on the cowboys.If that happens i'll pass 10lbs and post tomorrow LOL LOL
My 13mos post has been a real trip.  Weight loss was on target.Its all the other **** that hit the fan.I'd trade the last 20+ mos for any of my past 20+lifelong months without a blink

Go skins the spoilers

Hope you don't wind up getting an obstruction retaining that ten pounds and so much for the Skins being the spoiler!  We'll have to see what happens  next week when the Eagles come to town!

Knew this was coming.  I'am gonna weigh in this afternoon after a diet of  water and boiled eggs.
The whole organization is blown up from top down.

1 Oct 08-Time of Surgery = 315
27 Dec 08-Today = 239

How's that grab yah.....

That is awesome to hear, Chad. 

PS: Air Force is by far my favorite branch.  I think it's because I have always been fascinated by aviaton. lol.

I lost two pounds during Christmas week. The scale read 268 when I stepped on today. I'm actually farther along that I expected to be. When I had my surgery in September, I set a mental goal to be at 250 lbs by Easter, which would be one year from when I started losing weight to prepare for surgery. It would be a 200 pound loss since that date. More importantly, 250 is where I want to be before getting back on a bicycle, which sits waiting patiently in the garage for a lighter rider and better weather. So I'm only 18 pounds and four months from that goal.  God willing, I'll reach that and perhaps even go beyond.

361 : all time high 2008
311 : surgery day 5/18/09
215 : last week
211 : First goal met (100 pounds post op + 50 pounds pre op = 150 pounds gone) 12/26/09
211 : today

Finally hit that 100 pounds lost post op.  I was hoping i would have hit it by christmas day, but it happened the day after.  Regardless, i'll take it.  I still feel like it took forever to lose the 100 pounds post op, but considering that I also lost 50 pounds pre-op, i should'nt complain.  I'm still 150 pounds down from this time last year.  Simply amazing. 

Had a great christmas.  I wanted clothes from my wife, so I told her  to buy me clothes a size down from what i'm wearing now, to give me something to work towards.  Joke was on me.  She did as i instructed, but that damn clothes fit now!  Large shirts and size 34 jeans.  WTF!  Who would have ever thought?  Again, simply amazing.

Way to go on the 150 pound loss!

GF got me two medium shirts - MEDIUMS!