Starting Weight: 298.2 pounds
Last Week’s Weight: 203.0 pounds
Today’s Weight: 202.0 pounds
Down one pound. I’m kind of disappointed; I weighed 201.0 on SATURDAY. Not sure what’s up with this; my eating sure hasn’t been out of control! I think it might be due to a lack of sleep over the last few weeks; more and more studies lately are showing the importance of getting enough rest.
Starting Weight: 298.2 pounds
November 18: 203.0 pounds
Today’s Weight: 203.0 pounds
No change!
Okay, there’s been lots of change. I weighed 202.4 on Sunday. I weighed 205.? last Wednesday.
But hey, I got a fill! I have a good feeling about it :)
Starting Weight: 298.2 pounds
Last Week’s Weight: 205.2 pounds
Today’s Weight: 203.0 pounds
I lost 2.2 pounds. WOO! Think I can lose 4.8 pounds this week to reach 100 pounds down at 18 months?
Yeah, me neither. But that’s okay. I’m close :)
Starting Weight: 298.2 pounds
Last Week’s Weight: 204.8 pounds
Today’s Weight: 203.8 pounds
I’ll take a pound! Of course, this means that I have to lose 1.87 pounds per week for the next three weeks if I want to get to 100 pounds down by 18 months out. Hrm.
In party time news, I am now just “obese” and not “morbidly obese” or “super morbidly obese” like I was when I started my banded journey!!
Starting Weight: 298.2 pounds
Last Week’s Weight: 206.4 pounds
Today’s Weight: 204.8 pounds
1.6 pounds lost. Would like to be at 198.2 or lower on my last weigh-in of November, which would mean 100 pounds down in the 18 months since I started my pre-op diet. That gives me four weeks to lose at least 6.6 pounds (1.65 pound per week). Seems doable :)
I’m worn out and really behind on my blog reading. Let me know if anything’s happened that I need to know about!
Please send good surgery and healthy healing thoughts out to one of my good friends, who is having her band removed tomorrow and revising to a VSG.
Hope to update for realz soon!
Starting Weight: 298.2 pounds
Last Week’s Weight: 206.6 pounds
Today’s Weight: 206.4 pounds
Down .2 pounds. Considering the way I ate on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday, I’ll take it. Also, I was 208.2 yesterday morning.
Starting Weight: 298.2 pounds
Last Week’s Weight: 209.4 pounds
Today’s Weight: 206.6 pounds
Down 2.8 pounds. Holy cow! When I got up this morning at 5:45 (yay insomnia!), the scale said 206.4! I’m going to use the weight I got at my normal weigh-in time, though :)
My BMI is 35.4 today, which means I’m getting painfully close to two goals: under 200 pounds and being just plain ol’ “Obese” instead of “Morbidly Obese” according to the BMI table.
I’m a mere 6.8 pounds from the weight I wanted to reach today (199.8). I’m slightly disappointed, but not really let down. It’s been obvious for weeks that I wasn’t going to get to 199 by today!
In other news, I’m exhausted. Tired of not sleeping. Today’s going to be a blast!
Starting Weight: 298.2 pounds
Last Week’s Weight: 211.0 pounds
Today’s Weight: 209.4 pounds
A 1.6 pound loss. I’m oddly disappointed–I was 208.6 on Monday and was really hoping I’d get to 208.2 (90 pounds lost) today. AND, when I stepped on the scale at 6:30, I was at 209.0. I laid down for another 45 minutes, went pee again, and weighed again because I thought it would go down some. NOPE! Repeated efforts to make the number smaller by moving my scale around the bathroom didn’t work.
At the same time, I’m relieved. I was really afraid that I was going to be battling 211 for a while. Downward progress is excellent :)
Do you think I can lose 9.6 pounds this week??
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I know, I know. I don’t call, I don’t write. I had a huge project dumped in my lap earlier this week and I’ve been kind of panicked about it. It’s taking a lot of time and energy. But exercise is going really well (with one exception, I’ve been on the treadmill at least every other day for an hour for the past three or four weeks). I finally worked my way up to 60 consecutive seconds of jogging–I did W1D3 of C25k last night and am trying to decide if I should repeat the first week again or if I should give the second week a go.
Also, I was half-heartedly hoping that I’d see some huge weight decreases for a couple of weeks because of the amount of cardio I’ve been doing. I’m not eating a ton of extra calories to make up for my energy expenditure, but my losses have been pretty normal. Shucks.
Starting Weight: 298.2 pounds
Last Week’s Weight: 211.0 pounds
Today’s Weight: 211.0 pounds
Same. I’m trying hard to not feel battered, bruised, and betrayed by my body. I’ve exercised hard and put a lot of thought into my food choices over the last week, but…. Even though I knew I probably wasn’t going to see a lower number today, I’m still struggling.
Honestly though, I don’t think that today’s number is the reason for my upsetedness. I found out last night that a friend’s cancer has probably returned and I’m really having a hard time with it. I’m just tired of watching people around me deal with the disease and its aftermath. I’ve watched as friends struggled through chemo. I was there when my grandmother was being treated. Cancer was a contributor to my grandfather’s death. I know two families who have lost their young daughters to the disease. I wish I knew why such a horrible, horrible thing existed.
*shrugs* As far as weight loss goes, I’ll be okay as long as I don’t plateau. I don’t know if I’d be able to deal well with a plateau right now.
Edit: Oh yeah, totally forgot…. Two weeks to lose 11.2 pounds. Hahahahahaha!!!! *sigh*
I’d bet that if I did a count the word “ramble” or some variation thereof would be the most frequently used word in my post titles. Because that’s what I’m good at and, as I always say, one should go with one’s talents.
I had a counseling session last night, which was (as you may expect) full of ramblings. We talked about my goal weight and putting a number on it. As I told my counselor, it’s not that I’m going to get bent out of shape if I never see the number, but I want to know that there’s light at the end of the tunnel. Saying “We’ll see how it goes” just doesn’t work for me in this case. If I do that, I’m going to feel like being in the weight loss stage is never going to end; I already feel like it’s been entirely too long and I should have been at goal (whatever that is) long ago.
We both agreed that 145 (putting me at a “normal” BMI) would be WAY too skinny and unrealistic for me as my pre-plastic surgery goal. But since I don’t have any reference as to what I look like at different weights, it’s hard to know if 160 is even reasonable. So, I’m changing everything to reflect a goal of 180 pounds. When I get there, I’m going to take it five pounds at a time until I’m at a weight that’s sustainable for me. If that means staying at 180, I’m okay with that. I look at pictures on the blogs of other bandsters who are my height (5’4″), and 170-180 looks great on them. I have the same hope for me.
And really, the thought of losing 30 more pounds sounds a lot more doable than another 50. When I think that I have 50 pounds left, I just want to give up. When I think of losing 30, I’m ready to take it on!
So–new goal: 180, then 5 pounds at a time until I’m satisfied and at a weight I can maintain.
I’m not sure how my weigh-in’s going to go tomorrow. I was at 209.2 over the weekend, but today the scale read 211.2! It’s pretty typical–I’ll see a number that I think is unrealistically low (like this weekend’s, which would have meant that I lost two pounds in two or three days), and then the number goes up and up and up. BOUNCE! So it’ll be interesting. I might wake up and see 215 tomorrow!