Well, it’s been an absolutely amazing 3 months since my weight loss surgery. I have lost over 25kg, am under 100kg for the first time in nearly 15 years, and am fitter and stronger than I have ever been. Surgery has definitely been a life altering decision and one I am so glad I made. I am now wearing size 16 pants and 16/18 tops. Down from 22 pants and 22/24 top. WOW – just realized that’s 3 dress sizes.And here I am on the day of surgery and today for comparison.
Well, I was pretty excited this morning when I discovered my return to healthy eating and cutting out chocolate has yielded a loss of 2.8kg (6.2lbs) for the week. WOW!!! And the scales showed 100.0kg yesterday and 100.2kg today – so NEARLY under 100. I first started gaining LOTS of weight when I got married just over 15 years. I went from 88kg on my wedding day (5th Dec) to over 100kg by April. And I have never been back under 100kg since then so it’s very exciting territory I’m moving into. I still can’t believe. I’m almost like a “normal” person now :-).
Well, it was with much excitement that I shopped in the “normal size” section today. I’m down to a 16-18 in plus sizes so thought I might be shortly fitting into normal sizes. Well, not shortly, but RIGHT NOW!!!! I still can’t believe it. It has been a long, long time since I fell into the “normal” body range. In fact one pair of jeans I tried on were too tight in the legs (not suprising) but a bit too loose around the waist. I bought 2 pairs of pants for when we go away in April (since I’ll still want summer clothes but the shops will be full of winter clothes) and they already fit, albeit snuggly. Had quite a few compliments on my weight loss yesterday as most of the Mum’s hadn’t seen me for 5 weeks. I also bought a really purple nice jacket for winter – 20% off (since I have NO Winter clothes to wear). I bought the size 18 (in normal sizes) but it is too big. Will need to take it back and get a 16, or maybe even a 14, since I won’t be needing it for quite a few months.
Well, while our meals have remained pretty healthy we’ve started to slip into “holiday” mode with biscuits, chocolate, ice-cream, etc. Only a little bit (since that’s all that fits in our small stomachs) but still not the best things to be having for snacks. I’ve gone through the pantry/fridge and we’ve used up the last few “treat” foods over the last few days and I DID NOT buy any more today. I’ve got my dinner planned out and tomorrow will do some work on lunches – now that the girls will be back at school I can just have a salad or veggie stir-fry for lunch. I’m still losing weight and have restarted the Body for Life exercise program. I have LOADS more energy than I did before and still find I’ve got some left at the end of the day – which is a real novelty.
