Kathy L.

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Just a quick blog before I leave for work.  I have to travel today so it's a little after 6 am now and I'm almost ready to leave.  Just had to show off my weight this morning.  I'm 1 lb away from my goal for Sunday!!  Let's hope the rest of the week goes well.  Today will be rough traveling and I will be with an attorney all day so who knows what I will have to eat for lunch.  I'm packing a granola bar though so if all else fails, I can eat that on my way back home.  Have a great day!

That is exactly the comment I got today from someone that hadn't seen me in a while.  He was in our office for a meeting and when he saw me he said 'Wow, you look like a different person'.  Then others that hadn't seen me in a while chimed in.  Some of these people I have known for over 21 years that I have been at my job.  When I started working here, I weighed 130.  So, they have really seen me through thick and thin - LOL.  Anyway, that was a great compliment to get today and I loved every minute of it.

So are you starting to get scared that I've had so many posts recently ???

My goal for this week is to get into the 230's.  I'm at 242.6 right now.  I want to see at least 239.9 by the end of the week (Sunday).  What do you say people?  Can I do it??  WHAT?  I CAN'T HEAR YOU!  CAN I DO IT???  YES!!!  At least I hope so!  Stay tuned.....

......you no longer wear a size 3x pants......LOL!  I guess it's just ingrained in my brain that I need the biggest size.  I bought some new pj's a few weeks ago - flannel pants and a shirt because I get COLD now - hee hee - I love it.  Anyway, I automatically assumed I would need a 3x - didn't want my pajamas to be tight you know.  Well, I had to wash them in hot water and dry them on high heat to try to shrink them (now there's a twist for me too).  Anyway, I have them on now and they are WAAAY too big.  They have a drawstring though so I'll wear them for a while (don't want to waste my money).  I just need to THINK next time before I buy!

I was reading what someone else posted about starting to feel self conscious when telling someone how much you have lost so I thought you would all "enjoy" this comment.  Someone asked how much I lost the other day and when I said 106, a guy at work piped up and said "If I lost that much I'd be dead".

Well buddy, if looks and my thoughts could kill you then you'd be dead already. 

Hey, how do you like that - 2 posts from me in less than 1 day - hee hee! 

We took the day off work yesterday and took Jason to the NC State Fair.  We were there from 10 am until 9 pm!  We stayed there about the same amount of time last year but oh what a difference this year.  I didn't end up with the awful blisters I had last year.  I didn't get out of breath.  Oh sure, I got tired - come on people, I AM 40 WITH A 3 YEAR OLD - tired is a 'given' for me - lol - but, I could really tell a difference since losing almost 106 lbs!  Anyway, the day was magical.  The weather was great and we played games and rode rides and had fun.  I was actually able to ride some things with Jason this year.  What a change for me - I LOVED IT!  I posted on of the pics for you to see.  The food part of the fair didn't bother me.  I found a place that had grilled chicken skewers and ate those.  I also had a hotdog, an apple with caramel and a few bites of things that Ken and Jason ate.  This was definately a change from years past when it was just one big food fest for me.  I used to try any and everything they had out there.  It still smelled great this year but I focused more on playing games and riding rides. 

Ok, to all of my friends out there - sorry but I did not take 7 month pics!  What can I say except I leave my house at 6:45 am every week day and get home at 5:30 pm.  By the time I cook dinner, do laundry, give Jason a bath, clean the kitchen, yadda yadda yadda, it's bedtime and I never look at the computer.  In fact, right now it's 10:45 pm and I'm already thinking damn, in 7 hours I need to be awake and getting in the shower.  I thought people were supposed to get 8 hours of sleep a night - HA!  I'm lucky to get 6.

I will do better and get some more pics up soon!

Had a bit of a revelation this weekend.  I am now 7 months post op and between month 6 and 7, I only lost 5 lbs.  That has me concerned.  I'm trying not to dwell on it though.  I've been so focused on FINALLY getting to the big 100 lb mark, that I hadn't thought about the fact that at the 6 month mark, I was at 98.  I have decided that my next mini goal is 20 more lbs by Christmas.  I think that's totally doable so I'm focusing on that.  I tend to do better with things if I set smaller goals.

Wow, 7 months.  Sometimes it seems like 7 years.  It seems so long ago that I had surgery.  As you know from reading my others blogs, no food or drink (including carbonation) bothers me.  The one and only thing I hadn't tried was alcohol.  That changed this weekend.  We went out to dinner with friends and back to their place (there were 8 of us total).  I decided to try a drink.  I had a shot of black tequila (good stuff) mixed with Diet Mountain Dew.  I don't know how many oz of Diet MD but I would guess about 6.  With ice, it made a normal size drink in a regular glass.  Anyway, about 5 sips into it, I started to feel that warm buzz.  Ok, fast forward 2 hours and I've had FOUR drinks like that, buzz is very solid but not too much and I had such a great time.  I have never laughed so much in my life!  And no, that wasn't just because of alcohol, it was one person there who was telling her match.com horror stories (and is currently dating someone from match.com that worked out fine).  I always read that after surgery the buzz from alcohol comes quickly and then leaves quickly.  Well maybe it's because I kept pouring them into me, but mine didn't leave until about 3 hours later when I went to bed and slept it off.  The worst part of all of it is when I started peeing, I had to go about every 10 minutes!  Ok, TMI!  LOL!  I had no problems with the amount of liquid either.  That is another thing about me - I do not have to eat slowly, I can drink a small amount of liquid when I eat - and I don't do that often.  I try NOT to drink anything but sometimes if I am really thirsty I will have maybe 2 oz of water when I'm eating.  Or, the other thing I've noticed is that I can start drinking sooner than 30 minutes after I eat.  I try not to make those things a habit but sometimes I am just thirsty.

I need to take 7 month pics and measurements.  I will probably do that tomorrow or Tuesday. 

I'm not dwelling on the "only" 5 lbs lost this month but I will keep it in the back of my mind as I eat things in the next month.  I'll use it as a reminder to make good choices and not eat junk!

Not only did I make to to 100, I BLEW PAST IT and I'm at 101.4 lost!!!!  What a wonderful treat that was for me this morning when I stepped on the scale!  In fact, I stepped on it 3 times before I could believe it.  Ken finally said - ok, just BELIEVE IT - IT'S RIGHT!  LOL!

I can't even tell you how excited I am!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you to everyone that always takes the time to comment and cheer me up and offer words of encouragement.  Those comments help me through the rough patches more than you'll ever know!

I am so happy today!!

Not much going on lately.  The scale is stuck - again.  That's a reoccurring theme in my journey.  It's stuck on 98 right now.  I am truly happy that my friends are doing well but I have to admit that sometimes I just get freaking jealous over some of you!  I want to be doing as well as you are!!!!  I get the dreaded "why not me" whiny feeling that I hate getting!!    It makes me just want to smack myself.    Anyway, enough of that.  I am really and truly happy to hear that everyone is doing well.  I'm hoping to meet a few people face to face at the beginning of next year when I travel to Charlotte!

I got some great compliments today.  I had on a new sweater that was more form fitting and I got alot of "you look so skinny today" comments.  I have such a hard time wearing tighter clothes.  It's not that I think I'm still as heavy as I was before surgery, it's just that most of the time I think the tighter clothes make me look bigger because of the sagging skin areas.  My good friend Christy always breaks out in a big smile and just says "GIIRRRLLL you are looking so skinny".  It makes me smile every time.  I also saw someone today that I hadn't seen since May.  He did a double take.  (I love that).  He said Hey Kathy (then he stopped) and said You look great.  I just smiled and thanked him.  This was while we were standing out in the middle of the office.  Later he came over to my desk and said - I mean it, you look great. 

Those are the kind of moments I love.

Not much else going on.  I'm traveling to Hickory tomorrow to do an audit.  I'm going to walk on the treadmill while I'm there since I'll miss my regular gym day. 

Take care and I hope everyone has a great week!

LIFE IS GOOD!

I am late blogging my 6 month "surgery-versary" - or whatever people call it - lol(!) because I've just been too darn busy lately!!!

I am down 97 lbs and 55 inches.  I had my 6 month checkup last week and all was well.  Again, I think the checkups are really a waste of time but I won't go there (read my 3 month blog entry to see what I mean).  However, I do enjoy seeing everyone again - especially Ken (bluedog) who cracks me up.  Hey Ken, if you're reading this, 'get out the pole' (that still makes me laugh out loud if I think about it).  

Not really much new to report.  Life is chugging along and I'm trying to keep up.  My weight loss keeps starting and stopping and it's my fault.  I'm eating more junk than I should.  Not dumping is a bad thing for me.  But, I am conscious of what I am doing, so the scale is moving in the right direction again.  Plus, I have discovered that this weight loss is hormonal driven for me too.  I lose good for 2 weeks and not any for 2 other weeks of the month.  I'm going to try to add a Saturday gym day (I went this past Saturday) because hubby's overtime at work is cut out right now so he's home on the weekends.  That's good exercise-wise, bad money-wise!!  Anyway, I'm sure the extra exercise will help.

I was kind shocked when I was putting these comparison pics together.  Wow, I can't believe I was ever that big.  WOW. 

I still hate hate hate hate hate my arms!!!  I think I need to get that plastic surgery done first.  Then the stomach and then who knows   I guess I should start saving my money and buying some lottery tickets - ha!

Like I said at the beginning, life is good.  This surgery is giving me my life back.  I am able to do all kinds of small things that I took for granted before - just normal things like bending over, crossing my legs, sitting normally in a booth/chair.  I feel so much better.  I'm not out of breath all of the time.  I do not sweat all of the time - I even get COLD - haha!  I haven't had any problems eating at all.  I can eat everything I ate before surgery but in smaller portions.  This does present it's challenges but I'd take those challenges any day over the ones faced by people who are still getting sick after 6 months.  I need to email my doctor and thank him for everything he did and tell him how great I feel!

I'll try to update more often - if I can slow down enough