Gizmo Update! Traveling Clothes.

184.2 this morning...... working it!

Went to see my favorite lap band doctor this morning. He was dressed a little strange. Guessing the x-ray garb is for the protection of all, well everyone but the patient that is, LOL. He did a little tweak of a fill this morning under the flora thing x-ray ma bob (maybe I should google the technical name but does it really matter?!) Fact is he could see the port, the tube, the gizmo, the pouch that was created for me and we watched the fluid go in and down, a little tweak, more fluid in and down, interesting, wishing I could see a little better. Anyways his report was something like this "everything looks like it did the day I put it in". That is a good thing cuz my lap band brain often worries "did I eat too much that meal and stretch out my itty bitty pouch?!" He assured me my pouch looked great, keep up the good work, continue to eat good proteins, etc. Oh, and by the way, today....liquids, tomorrow next stage of foods, and the next day is the next stage of foods and back to normal after that.

Now my recent delima since last weeks visit has been trying to find a lap band doctor in the area I am moving to. The office that is the closest to my new home wants 500 bucks non refundable, goes nothing towards any of my care, just a flat 500 bucks to see my smiling face! (my face is really not worth that amount of money!) So I called the next one on the list...first visit 300-400 dollars, no fills, then upper GI, then a fill and each fill 111.00 ~ so I'm thinking "forget it, just give me a needle to have on hand incase of an emergency unfill". Dr Minkin set me straight on those thoughts and he is right, I need a local doctor, a local support system, etc. The lap band rep was on hand, gave me some info on where to go to and what to do and they will do all they can to help find me a new doctor in my new location.

On another note I made a trip to MI this past weekend and my Aunt Vivian has been cleaning out her closet and had the mother load of size 14s, 12s, 10s and etc etc etc! So I went through 2 totes of clothes, took capri pants that are very near being able to be worn by me and left jeans since I have so many already (and we are moving and I don't want to take more than I will use) ~ how exciting to enjoy the benefits of others losing weight before and faster than you!! I love having clothes travel to me, even if I have to pick them up!

onward and downward........

Here's a shot of the new to me clothes:

Week In Review And A Little Recap Of Things..

197.4

Official weigh in this morning! Down 1.4 pounds from last week.

That's minus 34.8 pounds since day 1 of liquid Pre Op diet.

Surgery date was 6/18/09 so I am Post Op 147 days. It will be 5 months next week? So rounding off that makes it about 7 pounds per month. I should be doing better than that I think. I am sure when I go see Dr Minkin on Monday if my weight loss is not up to par he will let me know. :-(

Week of food in review:
The WW point system didn't work so well for me this week ~ why?! Because I keep going "over" daily! Calorie counting hasn't worked either ~ why?! Because I go over 1,200 daily. And let me just say my "journal" is not up to par. I seem to focus more on the amount of food @ any given meal rather than the calorie content. Am I doing this wrong? I think I will attend the "Weigh2Success" class tonight @ the My New Self Bariactrics place. The classes are open to weight loss surgery patients who are 3 months post-op or beyond. The classes focus on long term nutrition lifestyle management. Yeppers, I need to know how to manage this gizmo! On a good note ~ no big girl drinks since Sunday night!

Week of exercise in review: 5 days out of 7 isn't bad!
Fri = hike @ Castlewood (steps x2)
Sun = weighted ball workout DVD (squats/lunges are not my friend)
Mon = 2 mile walk in the neighborhood (hurry up before it gets dark!)
Tues = weighted ball workout DVD (squats/lunges are still not my friend)
Wed = hike @ Castlewood (Riverview trail ~ steps only once and then it was downward!)

If I make it to the class tonight I'll post any good 411 I obtain from it!!

Onward and downward I go.......... ;-)

Note To Self

197.6
Post Op Day 110
Good day yesterday ~ must focus on only eating when hungry or I will quickly & easily fall back into my old eating habits ~ go figure ~ just when I thought it was ALL about the band!! (like I didn't know it would require work on my part ... you know eating right and exercising!!)

Weight History...from various sources

11/02/01 238 1/2
11/12/01 231 3/4
11/19/01 233
11/26/01 234 3/4
12/11/01 283 1/2

01/28/02 242
02/12/02 239
02/18/02 231 1/2
02/28/02 229
03/14/02 230
03/20/02 227
07/08/02 232
10/15/02 238 1/2
10/22/02 236 1/2
10/29/02 238
11/05/02 238 1/2
11/12/02 240 1/4
11/19/02 240
11/26/02 241
12/03/02 242
12/17/02 240

01/07/03 246
01/13/03 244
01/27/03 247 1/2
02/09/03 245 1/2
03/19/03 250
03/27/03 247 1/2
04/07/03 247 1/2

09/29/03 240
06/08/05 249
04/24/06 226
09/12/06 216
11/29/06 226
11/30/07 229
12/20/07 233
12/18/08 234
03/25/09 228

WW weight history ~ just an overview from 4/22/08 to 3/31/09 ~ you'll see the point of this...up and down, down and up, up and down ~ what a weight loss roller coaster!

04/22/08 230
05/20/08 230
06/24/09 228.6
07/22/08 229
08/26/08 230
09/30/08 232.2
11/25/08 236
12/30/08 231.2
02/24/09 232.8
03/21/09 224

I actually started WW in December of 2005 ~ here's a little recap of the beginning...

12/06/05 starting weight 258.2

I had a minus in weight all the way until 3/20/06 and was down to 233.6

by 5/30/06 I was down to 218.0

I spent the month of June/July/Aug 2006 going back and forth with the same few pounds lost and gained.

08/01/06 I was @ my lowest weight since 1995 or 1996 (I can't remember as I blog but I'm sure I have it recorded ~ my whole life has been a record of dieting weights!)
Anyways I was @ 211.4 my eyes were focused on ONEderland!! However, my mouth, stomach and exercise status were not focused on ONEderland and off went climbing the scale up and down and up and down until 12/12/06 when I was @ 219.8 this was about the time I was totally frustrated and stopped going to WW ~ why spend 40 bucks a month to ride the weight loss roller coaster? ;-)