Sunday, February 23, 2014

2 months - DONE

So today marks 2 months since surgery!! Its crazy how much has changed.
 
Last night me and William were talking, and he has been craving coke really bad. Since he gave up drinking soda, since I had to, he decided he would also. And he asked if I 've been craving soda. And to be totally honest, I haven't. Then he said something about McDonalds, and I haven't even wanted anything from there. Quite frankly, I feel like if I ate fast food like that, I would instantly want to throw up. It doesn't even sound appetizing anymore. I don't know if most people feel like this after surgery, but my whole outlook on food has basically changed. I want food that I know will keep me full for 4 hours and that will give me energy, not make me tired and weigh me down (literally) I guess I just know that all that crap won't help me get to where I want to be. Having a WAY smaller stomach also helps :)
 
Friday night Mom and I went for our usual walk. But Norma keeps escaping from her harness, and there were a lot of people out on the trail, and the dogs LOVE to just run, we let them off their leashes if nobody else is out there. So we went a different way (off the paved pathway) Basically just on a grass trail, it ended up being like a 3.72 mile walk or something. On this walk, I'm guessing because of the uneven ground, I found that my tennis shoes are giving me an ingrown toenail, least I'm pretty sure. So I went yesterday and got some new ones. The dogs were SUPER tired Friday night, thank god. We got home and they ate and passed out.
 
William wants to lose weight now also, so as long as the rain isn't bad, we are going to start going on walks Monday-Wednesday with the dogs. They will be very happy about this. Might have to get Norma a smaller harness though.
 
Today I've been cleaning the house. I don't feel like it looks any cleaner though!! I need to go through the house and get rid of stuff that we don't need/use. Maybe we can do that this week.
 
Anyways, all you care about it is my weigh in this morning! My total for the week, I'm down 4.4 lbs!! Holy mother! I haven't done measurements yet, waiting for mom to do that for me later. So I've lost a total of 37.2!!
 
Next week I'm not expecting to lose very much. Seems like one week I'll lose a big number, then the next its about 1 pound. Probably my body just trying to catch up with itself. But whatever, I'll take whatever loss I can get. Here's my 2 month pic
 
Left is morning of surgery, Right was yesterday morning (I've since got my hair colored and cut)

 
and No dog photo bomb!! And I know Aunt Linda, my bed isn't made. It never is
 
I went to the thrift store and tried on a pair of smaller jeans. Not quite there yet, but I bought them. Because I liked them and I figured, when I need new ones and I go, I probably won't beable to find any haha. And hey, for $7.99 I couldn't pass them up!


Thursday, February 20, 2014

quick thought

Just a quick thought. I couldn't keep it to myself anymore. If you know someone that has decided to do weight loss surgery, please support them. Don't be an asshole about it. If we share with you what we've lost, what we are able to eat or some new awesome thing we tried and love, do NOT roll your eyes or just say "ok" We are obviously sharing this info with you because #1 we are freaking excited about it, and #2 we think that you might want to share with us that excitement.

I just don't get how people can be rude about it. Not that anyone has just told me to "shut the hell up" but people do notice small little things you do. And a "shut the hell up" might actually be better than doing the eye rolls and ignoring all the time.

It did bother me, but I just finally said "fuck it, I have enough support from other people anyway". But not everyone has all the support I have. I am honestly still surprised all I support I get. And a lot of it is from people that I would have never thought would give two shits. So to everyone that has/does support me through this life change, THANK YOU! Because it means a ton to me!

Anyways, enough about that. I'm going to just do a blog post now. May as well, its half way through the week.

I'm still having my small tiny portions. Went to Korean food on Monday night for a late Valentines Dinner. It was AMAZING. Didn't eat near as much as I would've before, and we actually had leftovers!! What?!?! We never had leftovers before! So that was nice, because I got it again the next day for lunch :) Its my most favorite food, thank god I got with Will, he introduced me to Korean food!

I've been weighing myself a few days this week, and I won't spoil my Sunday post, but I think its going to be an awesome one!! Plus, I get to do measurements Sunday, for my 2 months. So get ready for some pictures! I need to print some out, so I can start making a picture book. I'd rather do it as the year goes, rather than all at one time.

Okay, well this was way longer than I had meant it to be, but I know you guys don't mind ;) Check back Sunday!!

Sunday, February 16, 2014

week 7, i think

So this week, I didn't get to walk the dog much. At all. Harnesses aren't fitting right and to honest, it pissed me off. haha. Anyways, Will thinks he can fix them or something. So we will see.

Last night we went to dinner and I was holding Addison after and I honestly don't know how the heck I walked around with that extra weight. She gets heavy!

I had my first "drink" since surgery. Just a glass of wine. It was awesome. A little more, and I'm sure I would've got drunk haha.  Kind of bummed because I found out my 2 favorite wines are carbonated. So I can't have them anymore :( boo

This week I lost 1.2 pounds. So that's a total of 32.8 since Dec 16th.

I had more to write, but I can't remember it all now, because I had it wrote and then this whole thing deleted. ANNOYING. So I'll end this here. If I remember what I was going to say, I'll post again!

Monday, February 10, 2014

1 month Dr check up

So today was my "one month" check up, and its actually been 1 1/2 months, but whatever.

Dr just asked how I was doing with food and exercise. I told her at a meal that I'm able to eat about 2oz and she said that is totally normal. The first 3 months, your stomach is still healing and is inflamed so you can't eat a lot. Makes sense.

I told her how I've started walking and how much, and she was really happy with that also.

She asked about taking my multi vitamin and I told her that I have tried but I have to basically gag them down. She said there is one, not sure if they sell it there, but its tablets and you take 3 a day, or I can just try to gag down the ones I have. I figured I may as well just try to gag these ones down, since we have them and we paid for them. DAMN IT! They are so nasty!

She said she is really happy with my weight loss, which in their books is 25 pounds. I don't know what all theirs is from, but whatever, from mine its 31.6! HAHA. Which, I was talking to Kelsey, and I've lost what Addison weighs! SOOO crazy. Addison is heavy lol, I can't believe I've basically lost an Addison!

Tonight is the support group. So now I am off to go make dinner and get ready to go to the meeting! Just thought I'd let ya all know how the appointment went today

Sunday, February 9, 2014

5 weeks- DONE

So today is the end of 5 weeks since my surgery! Tomorrow I have my "month" meeting with the dr, even though it'll be the start of week 6! Whatever, I'm anxious to hear what they say about my weight loss!
 
This week, I've been eating "more" of a variety of food. I never really had any cooked veggies before when I was able to, but this week I just tried some raw veggies and they went down and stayed down perfectly fine. Which I was happy, I LOVE raw veggies.
 
For some dinners this week we had, tortilla pizza's, sooo easy, some garlic shrimp and we went to blazing onion for dinner Friday night. Mom and I shared a buffalo burger in a lettuce wrap. I had about 1/3 of it, and was full. It was delish!
 
Tonight for family dinner we are having chili. I can't wait for that.
 
This week, I decided that I'm going to start walking everyday (since I should be anyways) and our dogs are fatties and need to lose a few pounds also. I walked everyday too!! The dogs LOVE it. They go nuts and get so excited that they barely will let me put on their harnesses!
 
So today was my weigh in day. I lost 3 pounds this week!! So I'm down a total of 31.6 pounds!!! That is freaking nuts! My boss at work and Will tell me all the time that I'm literally shrinking before their eyes. When I got to my moms on Friday she told me that I looked skinny. I don't know about "skinny" but I'm definitely smaller! So crazy to me :)
 
Here's a new pic of me, I post on facebook, so most of you probably saw it, but whatever,  I like it!
 
 
notice the photobomb again, Norma this time haha

Monday, February 3, 2014

superbowl

This week I lost 1 pound. Thank god, with getting to eat basically what I want, I haven't found anything that has made me sick. I had chicken salad...a few slices of chicken and a little lettuce. Went to taco time with mom and had part of a mini soft taco. For super bowl I had a few buffalo wings. So good. And I literally only had 2 and was full!
 
I can't even think of what else to write because all my head is saying to me is
SEAHAWKS WON THE FRICKING SUPERBOWL!!!
 
So, I'll end this post here, because my brain literally can't remember anything else from the week haha. Next weeks post should be better