The last big thing to mark my one-year post-op was the follow up with the surgeon, the nutritionist and the exercise physiologist. I met with the doctor and the nutritionist last week but couldn't meet with physio until today.
Everything is great for the most part. My weight loss by the numbers is about what they expected me to lose in one year. My labs came back good - my good cholesterol is high (meaning it's good), my bad cholesterol is low (also good) and my overall is at a very good 180. My vitamin levels look decent but I need to work on getting my D in every day. The concern was for my calcium level, which was OK but not stellar so I have to be super-vigilant about taking it. Of all the things I was supposed to do post-op, taking my calcium has been at the bottom of the list so it's being moved closer to the top now that I've wrapped my brain around this new lifestyle.
I met with physio today and she was much more encouraging. Her numbers are based on actual body make-up so they're not averages, they're true to MY body. First of all, measurements. Hard to argue with those. I've lost 20 inches from my waist. 20. Inches. Like the length of my newborns. JUST. FROM. MY. WAIST. I've lost 17 from my hips. That's a total of 37 inches and doesn't account for thigh or arm measurements. Holy crap.
My favorite part about meeting with Physio is that she hooks an electrode up to my foot and one up to my hand and it measures what my muscle mass is. My personal BMI. Not some equation for my height and weight but truly what MY skeleton and muscles weigh. Since I started this RNY journey, I've lost 103 pounds of pure fat. I have also lost some muscle but not a ton and I have a strategy to get that back. I'm no longer considered "obese" as my BMI is below 30% (it's 28% so I'm still "overweight" but not 'obese').
The hard work is paying off...however I still need to work hard. I need to get back into 9Round for some muscle-building action. This will become infinitely easier once baseball/t-ball is over in a couple weeks. I also need to do resistance training on the nights when I don't do cardio. I need to put in at least 15-20 minutes to my muscles. If I commit to doing those two things, I should kick-start the weight loss again AND build some muscle. Both positive things.
Life is still good. So so very good.
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