Sunday Morning 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:  1 yr Surgiversary 4/7/09 and at 18 months 
171.5:  2 yr Surgiversary! (Dr. scales)
175.5:  3 rd Surgiversary (his scales in shorts and t-shirt)
173.2:  Last week
172.4:  This week (Monday)

Weekend in Tyler seemed to help.  Wedding was nice but not to elaborate.  To all of you who have daughters yet to be married - offer enough cash and pray that they will elope!

Maybe your daughter was just trying to help in your weight loss by reducing the weight of your wallet! Thank goodness my daughter opted for the small ceremony in a judges's office.

Negative, Houston. (old NASA speak)  Not my "daughter"!  My "daughter" did lighten my wallet last week though when she spent a week at the "critter condo" getting her teeth cleaned etc!  It was my GF's niece who tied the knot in Tyler.

So I have posted in this thread much for the lack of a scale, guessing probaly would be good and it would be more wishful thinking anyhow.  But anyhow just got back from the Dr.
start weight 373, bmi of 52
current weight 278 bmi of 38
Surgery was on June 1st 

256.0  Up a lb from last week, but still working on it.  40 miles on the bike yesterday.  Reigning in my 'freebies" with junk food.  Surprising how well a KitKat bar will stay down but not a glass of milk....  Thank you/curse you lactose intolerance.

411 - Starting weight (10/01/10)
377 - 11/02/10 (RNY Surgery - 34 lbs during pre-op phase)
350 - 11/28/10 (1 month surgiversary - 61 lbs, 27 for the month)
331 - 01/02/11 (2 month surgiversary - 80 lbs, 19 for the month)
319 - 02/02/11 (3 month surgiversary - 92 lbs, 12 for the month)
302 - 03/02/11 (4 month surgiversary - 109 lbs, 17 for the month)
294 - 04/02/11 (5 month surgiversary - 117 lbs, 8 for the month)
288 - 05/01/11 (6 month surgiversary - 123 lbs, 6 for the month)
278 - 06/02/11 (7 month surgiversary - 133 lbs, 10 for the month)
275 - 07/02/11 (8 month surgiversary - 136 lbs, 3 for the month)
273 - 07/24/11 (down 138 lbs)

No change - again.  It would be easy to get a bit discouraged at this point.  Instead, I'm going back over my food log to see what I can learn.  I've gotten a bit sloppy about carbs - started sneaking a few in here and there, but it adds up.  It also looks like I've dropped my protein intake a bit - gotta work on that.  But in general, I'm doing OK.  With that, I'll make a few minor corrections, and see where it takes me.  I've upped my workouts a good bit lately (more weight, elliptical trainer, and now swimming in addition to water-jogging) so that may have something to do with it.  Just trust the program and keep doing what I'm supposed to do...  It will work out.

Overall, I feel great.  In talking to someone recently, it occurred to me that since I started doing the strength training, I haven't had a single back-ache - a daily occurrance before WLS.  I just started using the elliptical machine at the gym, and I was able to stay on it for the full 30 minutes at a pretty good pace...  According to the machine, I burned 450 calories in that 1/2 hour...  And it felt like it.  When I got off, my legs were rubbery, and I could not even conceive of how I would be able to complete my leg presses later in the workout.  And yet when the time came, I did it.  Feels good to push myself physically - and succeed!

Went flying again this week, and am now ready to fly on my own - where the learning really starts - LOL.  It's always more "immediate" when there's not an instructor there to provide the "comfort factor"...  Flew from Addison (Dallas area) down to Georgetown, TX (outside of Austin) with an instructor to learn the route and get the air traffic control routine down.  It was 104 degrees on the ground, but only 78 up at 5,000 feet -- almost chilly up there!  Everything went really well, despite a stronger-than-expected headwind that slowed us on the trip down, then sped us up on the return leg.  Made it back in one piece, and had a great time.  This is fun!

Jim, as the politicians say, "stay the course." these stalls are frustrating, but in the grand scheme of things they are only an issue if you allow them to become an excuse for changing your new routine. As we've heard many times, just continue to do things right and your results will catch up.

Thought I should join this weekly ritual.  They say accountability is a key to weight loss.

Almost three weeks post surgery.  Back to work.

Stats below.

You will probably find that you come to enjoy the weigh ins on Sunday. It's a good way to keep on track.

Good idea.  Keeps you grounded and accountable.  Be sure to share your non scale victories (or FARTs) as they are referred to here in the men's forum.  Hope your first week back to work is going well!!