Today is my 9 month anniversary. I was sleeved on 10/17/18. I am down over 110 pounds (100 from surgery date) and have met my doctor's weight goal for me (165). At 163.8 this morning, actually, and I'm now on to my first personal goal of 150 (I'm 5'5" and this weight puts me at a healthy BMI), which was my original "ultimate" goal but has now shifted to be stopping point to my new "ultimate" goal of 135.

I've changed my eating habits entirely and I battle my binge eating disorder regularly, but I did it. I'm doing it! I've recently finally started working out as the weight loss has slowed significantly, but I can't believe I'm here. This seemed so far away and impossible in those first post-op weeks, as well as during every stall, including the 2 week one I just broke earlier this week.

9 months from now I plan to be maintaining my goal weight of 135 and researching plastic surgery options.

Where will you be?

On 7/18/2019 at 7:50 AM, GradyCat said:

I hope to have met goal in 9 months and be healthier and wiser and have learned my lessons on how to eat healthier for the rest of my life.

This struck me HARD. I am SO much healthier and wiser in how I feel physically, in what the numbers say at the doctor's office, and how I feel mentally. I finally (FINALLY!!) understand what a healthy, sustainable diet looks like. I finally know how to make good choices. I've always known that candy bars were bad and chicken breast was good, but I didn't know how to make that right choice. Now, I get it. I worked my plan hard these last 9 months and the good habits are ingrained, and I've found that when I stray from proper eating to something junky, I don't feel very good and it's almost always not worth it.

I'm most certainly not perfect, but I feel normal now... and definitely healthier and wiser!

^^^^love this!!

22 minutes ago, KT1981 said:

and I've found that when I stray from proper eating to something junky, I don't feel very good and it's almost always not worth it.

Sooooooooooooooo true.

I physically feel like crap when I eat "off-plan" stuff (though not sure if its purely physical...its likely combined with something mental going on). The icky feelings I get from eating more than just a teeny bit of sugar/fried stuff have "pavlov-ed" me into a much better eater.

31 minutes ago, KT1981 said:

I'm most certainly not perfect, but I feel normal now... and definitely healthier and wiser!

♥️ Yay! ♥️