VSG Maintenance Group
03/19/19,. Tuesday
Thank you!!!!! 
Where is the LOVE button !? Such an expressive face !
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 !!
Where is the LOVE button !? Such an expressive face !
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 !!
147.2
Better with the carbs yesterday and today so far. For me, stringing successful days together is a good sign. Am cautiously optimistic- Plus restarting the detox process every other day or so is a true *****
Ahh the joys of calving. Many years ago we had a cow have her first in the middle of a near blizzard, and when she did, she dropped it slap into a large half frozen mud puddle. DH and I each picked up an end (DH got the wrong end and the calf shat all over him!) and carried it to the dry barn and a warm straw bed. We left the barn to mother and babe, confident in the knowledge that we had saved the newborn from certain frozen death. End of story is that the next early morning ther was no calf to be found in the barn- just the cows. Mother had taken that calf and hidden it buried almost totally in a snow drift up against the fence row. Go figure. Calf was perfectly fine, and that was the last time we ever stepped into the middle of calving business.
goal!!! August 20, 2013 age: 59 High weight: 345 (June, 2011) Consult weight: 293 (June, 2012) Pre-Op: 253 (Nov., 2012) Surgery weight: 235 (Dec. 12, 2012) Current weight: 145
TOTAL POUNDS LOST- 200 (110 pounds lost before surgery, 90 pounds lost Post Op.diabetes in remission-blood pressure normal-cholesterol and triglyceride levels normal! BMI from 55.6 supermorbidly obese to 23.6 normal!!!!
I have more calving stories than I care to remember, most of them involving 13 year old me, holding the big flashlight in some God forsaken pasture, while my Dad pulled the calf who was having a hard time being born. Don't even get me started on helping him do artificial insemination, my little teen self knew exactly what was in that long needle, it was mortifying!
Did I mention I grew up on an Iowa cattle farm? We are twinsies in calving. One additional story.....once I went down to the "big barn" where there was a visiting bull. I'm was 13 or so and knew about the birds and bees. There were a fair amount of people at the barn and I went down because it was festive. It quickly turned icky as men were ....I don't even know what....encouraging and narrating the bull's performance. I slinked off full of teenage yuckies.
Another memory as Iowa goes thru flooding that has threatened livestock. During some sort of extended snowstorm/cold snap, Dad brought multiple tiny baby calves into our basement! I remember feeding them and hanging out with them. The cement floor was covered with hay. As 4H kids, we were all experts at keeping things clean but STILL! It must have been a mess when they left. I also don't remember them being noisy but they must have been.
HW:361 SW:304 (VSG 12/04/2014)Mo 1:-32 Mo 2:-13.5 Mo 3: -13.5 Mo 4 -9.5 Mo 5: -15 Mo 6: -15 Mo 7: -13.5 Mo 8: -17 Mo 9: -13 Mo 10: -12.5 11/3/2015 Healthy BMI Reached! Mo 11: -9 Mo 12: -8 12/27/2015 Goal Weight Reached!
