Happy October 26th! Today is my 14 month surg-aversary since gastric bypass. In the last three years I have lost 146 pounds and yesterday I celebrated by taking 144 pounds of food to the Weight Watcher’s Lose for Good Campaign. That’s a lot of food! It filled my trunk. It took two of us four trips to haul it all in. It made a stack almost as tall as me. Do you know how good that feels? To know that I LOST that much weight? To be able to give to a great cause and celebrate my victory over obesity.
Today I am indulging myself with my favorite past time: measurements! I started out by comparing the measurements from last month and there was some slight gain there:
Compare: | 26-Sep | 26-Oct |
Weight: | 171.5 | 174.7 |
Waist: | 32.5 | 33 |
Hips: | 38 | 39 |
Arms: | 13 | 12.5 |
Thighs: | 23 | 23 |
Calf: | 17 | 16 |
Bust: | “35/40” | “35/40” |
So that wasn’t making me very happy. But then I decided that was not very positive, so I decided to take a friends advice and look at where I am today, with where I started in August last year:
Compare: | Oct-10 | Aug-09 | May-07 |
Weight: | 175 | 279 | 321 |
Waist: | 33 | 50 | 59 |
Hips: | 38 | 58 | 64 |
Arms: | 13 | 17 | 18 |
Thighs: | 23 | 33 | 34 |
Calf: | 17 | 20 | 21 |
Bust: | “35/40” | “44/50” | “48/54” |
So that’s what I’m going to focus on – those changes and improvements. I can run a mile, I can swim a mile, I can lift weights and kickbox and do yoga and ride my bike for 23 miles.
For next month, and until January 9, 2011, my goal is to maintain where I am. Once I’ve mastered the art of maintenance, I can set a new goal to lose another 5% – which is less than 10 pounds. Then another 5% and another until I get to my ultimate goal. I will get there. I just have to get the fear of maintaining that goal out of my head first, so I don’t keep sabotaging myself with negative thoughts like: “What’s the point? I’m just going to regain it all.”
Because I’m not. I’m losing for good.
Wow!!!! So much to celebrate there….it is the long-term success that counts. You should be so proud of that!