Hello Team,

I finished my first week!

I've had food challenges as moving to full liquids gave me the runs. Hopefully this will get better. The big incision isn't causing me near as much pain as it was a few days ago! My fevers have subsided. My sore throat finally cleared up yesterday. Each day shows more improvement.

I started back to work yesterday. I'm working from home for a week.

I carefully count my carbs and I haven't felt a moments hunger this week.

Best of all...... a loss of 7.4 pounds this week. How cool is that? I don't know what's "normal" because I don't think there's a normal because we're all so different, but for me this rocks. I'm a slow loser but this week I feel like a champ. I can't believe that I'm almost out of the 220's! YAY!

Cajun, waiting for the poop to come sounds fabulous to me. I haven't been able to stop since Monday. I'm getting very wore out from the process. In, out, in out. There's no nutrition staying inside me.

This morning I woke up down another 2.8 pounds. I couldn't believe it. I'll never be in the 200's again! That is so exciting to me. For years my set weight was 222 and I would diet and lose, always to come back to that weight, until I surpassed it in 2007 and went up to 249. I'm glad those numbers are now in the rear view mirror!

199 is going to be such a celebration for you when it happens Cajun. We'll have to hold a big party, a testament to your patience.

24 hours late but still a HUGE CONGRATS!!!

Awww, never late PNW! Thanks for dropping by!