VSG Maintenance Group
Saturday September 2
BB.... pink or blue ? So excited to hear !!
Age: 64; 5' 5"; High weight: 345; Start weight: 271 (01/05/15); Surgery weight: 218 (05/27/15); Pre-Op (-53); M 1 (-18); M 2 (-1.5); M 3 (-13.5 ); M 4 (-13); M 5 (- 8); M 6 (-12) M 7 (-5, Xmas); M 8 (- 9) Under surgeon's goal and REACHED HEALTHY BMI 12/07/15!! (Six months and one week.) AT GOAL month 8. Maintaining at goal range (139- 144) ~ four (4) years !!
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Sorry this is so fuzzy, but it was taken from a video!!! :D
It's a....
GIRL!!!!
I'm so stinking happy! 
WOOT! BB, you could NOT possibly look happier than you look in this photo. Congratulations to you and your husband and the baby girl's siblings. I know the baby girl will be very loved. So exciting!
ANN 5'5", AGE 74, HW 235.6 (BMI 39.2), SW 216, GW 150, CW 132, BMI 22
POUNDS LOST: Pre-op -20, M1 -10, M2 -11, M3 -10, M4 -10, M5 -7, M6 -5, M7 -6, M8 -4, M9 -4,
NEXT 10 MOS. -12, TOTAL -100 LBS.
Congratulations!
Yeah !!!! I didn't read through the Saturday posts far enough !!! Congratulations !
Age: 64; 5' 5"; High weight: 345; Start weight: 271 (01/05/15); Surgery weight: 218 (05/27/15); Pre-Op (-53); M 1 (-18); M 2 (-1.5); M 3 (-13.5 ); M 4 (-13); M 5 (- 8); M 6 (-12) M 7 (-5, Xmas); M 8 (- 9) Under surgeon's goal and REACHED HEALTHY BMI 12/07/15!! (Six months and one week.) AT GOAL month 8. Maintaining at goal range (139- 144) ~ four (4) years !!
So funny, I had gotten up, taken all the Airedale pups outside before it gets too hot (going to be another scorcher today with an expected high of 113!!!!!), fed them, made coffee and sat down to read our board. I took a sip of coffee, started reading Liz's post and realized I hadn't yet weighed myself. So, I got up, went to the bedroom, on my way had a fleeting thought of, "I may regret this.", which must have been an old tape popping up..., got to the bedroom and stripped back down and got on the scale.
Weight is just fine. Still 2 pounds over where I would like to be right now, but 2 pounds is an amount with which I can live!
Liz, I have a cousin who has battled alcoholism for several years now. For 25-30 years he was perfectly content to be a heavy drinker. Now at 60 he has been in and out of rehab God only knows how many times. My aunt finally told my cousin to either choose to get better or drink a lot and get it done quickly because his dad (my uncle) couldn't take the stress that each "bottom" before rehab caused my uncle. Sadly, denial runs deep in the minds of alcoholics. Your BIL's bottom will most likely come well after his wife kicks him out. Clearly he's still trying to convince himself that his drinking won't interfere with his marriage.
I have given some thought to Ann's posting that stemmed from her 3 year post op check up. I have said many times before that I don't believe there is any one correct way to eat. If you are happy eating a super high protein diet with limited carbs and your body seems to like it, fantastic for you. If you are a person who does well using a high carb, vegetarian or vegan type of eating style, hallelujah! If you are a person that does well somewhere in the middle, more power to you. This is not a one size fits all process.
That said, I know I am a somewhere in the middle person. I don't do extreme eating well for an extended period of time. I have written that my post op eating was akin to a diet. I had a very specific goal in mind, the VSG made eating very little and having an extremely limited food selection easy. I sailed on down to my goal in short order. Looking back, I can see that about 6 months in my resources and will power for maintaining that limited eating style were waning. I'm sure that if I had stayed "true" to the post op eating plan with 100% integrity I would have shaved 3-4 weeks of my weight loss phase.
Why I bring that up is because had I truly viewed my WL phase as a transition to a lifelong eating plan (which I clearly did not - even though I believed I did) I may have had a far easier time maintaining my total weight loss. 2.5 years of therapy, getting on meds, having gained and lost close to a weight that I could have lived with only to head right back up has changed my perspective on some issues.
First, I hate dieting. I simply don't want to do it any more. That is a choice. Second, when I look at what I really enjoy eating vegetables do not rate high on the list. I prefer meat, starch type carbs, and fruit. I do like salad and some select vegetables, but I will never sit down and eat a serving of ratatouille! So, I need to eat what I enjoy IF I am going to manage to maintain a long term healthy eating style. Third, I enjoy pooping like a regular being. I stopped taking softeners sometime ago because I no longer need them because I EAT CARBS - fruit, salad, (bite my knuckle) breads and grains!
Finally, if I were to remain this weight for the rest of my life, I could deal with it. It's not ideal, but it does not inhibit me from doing what I want to do on a daily basis. I would prefer to be 30-40 pounds lighter, but it is what it is. I no longer feel the desperate need "to be thin". Being thin used to mean I was fixed - like an alcoholic who is convinced that geographical relocation will right all that is wrong with his life. It doesn't anymore. My goal is to one day be a truly satisfactory weight for myself. My goal is to change my thinking from "I am thin, so therefore I am fixed," to "I am 'fixed', so therefore I am thin." Here "fixed" would represent "in recovery". See the difference?
Enough deep thought for the day! Happy Saturday, friends!
