Goal weight is within reach!!!!

[liveaboard15 1,294]

Started at 317lb before surgery. Its been almost a year and 1 month since. Weighed myself today and i am at 189lb. Only 9 more pounds to go to reach my intended goal weight tho if i loose more then awesome!! I actually gained weight about a month or 2 ago and that was my fault do to eating poorly... donuts and donuts and donuts... Its hard because they get delivered fresh to my job everyday and they just taunt me in the display case... lol So i think i will be loosing a lot more weight soon next month because i am moving to a place in the pacific northwest with tons of outdoor trails and hiking which i love to do but here in Florida its too hot to do outside stuff most of the year like that haha. I will be doing the van life thing so planet fitness membership for showers and of course working out everyday which i have not done much of this past year. So i will be resetting my goal weight to 160lb. and i reach that that will blow my mind. I had my 1 year follow up last week. Doctor was like "did you forget to take your Vitamins? i told her yes... for about a month or so. She was like SEEEE thats proof they work because my Vitamin labs were low. so yea i gotta take it everyday. They are referring me to a GI doctor due to my climbing Biliruben levels. Surgeon does not know why it keeps going up. I had a nuclear scan of my gall bladder and its working just fine without any blockage.

[catwoman7 11,273]

I don't know about bilirubin specifically, but it's not unusual for liver enzymes (such as AST and ALT) to be high the first year or so after surgery. Evidently rapid weight loss is pretty hard on livers. My (as well as a few others' whom I know) had high readings the first year, but then they normalized during year 2, when weight loss slowed to a crawl. I'm not sure if that's true of bilirubin levels or not, though (although that's also produced by the liver). It's good they're checking it out just to be sure there's nothing weird going on.

[liveaboard15 1,294]

So that is the issue my surgeon is curious about because all other liver including AST and ALT are all perfect. But biliruben is climbing and its at its highest ever. I go back again in 2 days for another biliruben test

[Tomo 1,196]

I had high AST and ALT as@catwoman7 mentioned above but my bilrubin was normal. As far as bilrubin, if it isn't liver problems, I think high bilrubin can be caused by gallbladder problems and other causes not liver related. I hope it's just a temporary elevation.

Congrats on your success .

[liveaboard15 1,294]

So i saw the GI doctor today. He thinks i have something called Gilberts disease. which is harmless. They sent me for some blood work tomorrow to confirm i guess.

[liveaboard15 1,294]

Also apparently my scale is off because at the doctors office i had to get weighed and i weighed 186 not 189. and i was wearing clothing so maybe a pound off of that haha

[liveaboard15 1,294]

21 hours ago, Tomo said:

I had high AST and ALT as@catwoman7 mentioned above but my bilrubin was normal. As far as bilrubin, if it isn't liver problems, I think high bilrubin can be caused by gallbladder problems and other causes not liver related. I hope it's just a temporary elevation.

Congrats on your success .

So they had me checked for gallbladder problems because that is what they thought too. So i had a HIDA scan which is a nuclear type test. and they saw my gallbladder working perfectly, No issues, no blockages, no stones.