Today is Christmas Day. I feel so blessed to have my family. This year I feel so blessed to have had my sleeve done. I am now 5 weeks out and feel great. I am almost at my Phase I goal. Hopefully I will be at 199 tomorrow or the next day. I never thought that I would get so excited to be at 199 but I am. I began soft foods this week and so far so good. No issues. It is hard for me to not drink with my meal but I am getting used to it. I had to go shopping for new jeans yesterday. My old ones wer
I had my surgery on 11/26 and I am doing well. I set some early goals and my first goal was to get to 199 pounds. I have not been below 200 since I was around 38 years old and that was 20 years ago. I am currently at 202.5 and if all goes well will be at that phase 1 goal this week. What a Christmas present . I went back to work last week and it went pretty well. I am definitely more tired easily. Have to work on building my stamina. One day I did not get enough protein and I was doing a lot of
I have never blogged before but I thought I would try this to help me stay on track and stay motivated. Like most of us on this site, I have struggled with weight for a long time. I was really proud of myself because I lost over 60 pounds on my own over a 5 year period but I got to a place where I could not get below 232 pounds. I finally decided to make a huge decision that will affect me the rest of my life and I feel so blessed that I finally made that decision. I spent the last 3 months goin