11 month post op just rambling

June 10, 2000

I just picked up my favorite magazine, Woman's World and there is a story about

a lady who had WLS and lost 185 pound and 29 sizes. I am so thankful that

" they " are making this information more available to everyone even if they

didn't list the surgery. The depressing thing to me is that she went from 315

to 145 in one year. She weighed exactly what I did on the day of surgery and is

the same height. I sure am not going to be there in one year, maybe not ever.

I said when I started this journey I would be happy if I could get in a size 16,

(which happened quite awhile ago,) but if I am honest I am not happy about my

size and I am still in a size 16, 18 or even a 20 in some things. I told a

friend recently that I get to about this point where everyone is starting to

make positive comments and this is normally where the weight starts to come back

on. I have thought about unsubbing to the list because I don't post very often

and everyone else seems to have so much more to offer but...here I still am. As

I think about this I think a lot of it is for about two months I have thought I

was going to go below the 200 mark and I am still not there yet. Of course as

my DH pointed out it has only been the last month and one half that I have

really even had any regular exercise and that has been in the form of bike

riding several miles 5-7 times a week so I probably have no one to blame but

myself. On the upside I went back over my weight loss journal and I have

successfully lost every month since Dec. although it hasn't always shown up on

my scales. I get weighed monthly at the dietician and hers has always shown a

loss and for this I am eternally grateful because had I not chosen to have WLS I

would probably be many pounds heavier rather than be almost 115 pound lighter at

11 months.

We're all in here together!

in Minnesota

June 10, 2000

,

You have lost 115 pounds in only 11 months? Think back have you ever done

this before? I can't wait to be down 115 pounds. My last Weight Watchers

attempt got me 20 pounds in 6 months. I am new to post-op so take this with a

grain of salt, but think back to all the things you could not do and can do now.

As others have said this is not a race. You will get there. We are all

individuals and although there is an average, have you ever been average?

Sorry, bad joke. Stay with us. I will try to pump you up now and you can help

me later. Did you say you can wear a 16, oh but to put a 1 in front of that 6

instead of a 2. You know we are never satisfied. I was dreaming of having the

MGB and now that I have I want something else.

Darlene

wwmohler wrote:

> I just picked up my favorite magazine, Woman's World and there is a story

about a lady who had WLS and lost 185 pound and 29 sizes. I am so thankful that