I say ti every week but I honestly cannot believe it's been 11 weeks since my RNY. The time was going to pass regardless of whether I was in recovery or still being miserable in my own skin - I'm so happy to have made my choice and be on this path!!
I've lost 60 pounds since the beginning of the liquid diet and 40 pounds since the day of surgery. That's a lot of weight!! I have my 3 month post-op check up next week...can't wait to see what the surgeon and nutritionist say. The one thing I continue to struggle with is the vitamins. I need to be more conscience about them and mindful to take them. However I feel great!!
A couple really fun things happened this past week -
First, we went to Mason's preschool Open House on Tuesday night and they took a family photo of use to keep on the wall for the first few weeks of school to help with separation anxiety (of which my 4 year old will have none but I understand why they do it for the kids who haven't been in daycare forever). Guess what? I'm not the largest person in the photo!!! I actually look relatively proportionate to my husband! This has always bothered me and I'm thrilled that it's not an issue anymore!!!
Next, I pulled on a dress for church on Sunday that I haven't been able to get on. I ordered it on Zulily thinking it'd be a great summer dress, and it is, but when it came, I couldn't get it over my chest and once I did, it was so tight across my mid-section I wouldn't dare wear it in front of anyone. On Sunday, I pulled it on and it fell perfectly. No embarrassing sausage casing.
THEN, when we got home from church, I took some time and went through my closet. The church is having the annual rummage sale and taking donations. I thought I may as well donate what I can't wear anymore.
Guys - it was amazing. I had 19 pairs of pants - 3 of which still had tags on them - that I will never wear again. WAY TOO BIG. 5 skirts. 6 sweaters. I packed them up and they're ready to go. This felt so empowering!!!! I also found 6 pairs of work pants that will fit for the time being but won't probably fit much past Thanksgiving...which is also cool because I won't have to scramble to find clothes for work for a while. I wanted to scream and jump up and down as I packed up the donations. Success!!!!!!!!!
Yesterday I hopped on the treadmill and did 45 minutes of good, fast walking with various incline followed by some kettlebell and dumbbell work since I couldn't get into 9Round (closed for Labor Day). I need to do that more. I felt much better after a good sweat.
Finally - completely unrelated to weight loss but fun nevertheless - I took a chance and called in to win Taylor Swift Concert tickets to the radio show I listen to daily. They wanted 4 random facts about both of the morning hosts for fourth row tickets. I've never called in to win anything on the radio and somehow, I got thru and somehow I was the first caller and I knew enough about each of them to win. Crazy!!!! So yeah, I have fun plans this weekend with my dear friend!!
Life is good...sometimes, it's hard to remember that but really, it's so so good.
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