…Heart On Her Sleeve…

one day, i’m gonna run out of rhymes for these titles…   one day.

i’ve been a terrible poster.  my life is a bit upside down right now as i’m moving at the end of the week.. but things on the weight loss front are still going full steam ahead!  i’ve been feeling great, full of energy, getting out and about, playing softball, riding my bike.  life is good!  once i’m in my new digs and all settled in, i will focus more on taking pictures and posting recipes and all that fun stuff.  i promise!

in the mean time, here are my 8 week pictures.  i lost 12 lbs in the last 4 weeks.  not as dramatic a loss as in the first four weeks, but hey.. i’m not complaining!  as long as the scale is moving, i’m a happy camper.

not so great with the photoshop skills, but there you go!  what i’m most excited about this month is the introduction of a waist!

well i am VERY happy to report that the stall i was worried about last week has been broken!  i lost another 5 lbs this week! hurraaaaaaaaaaay!

i didn’t really change anything, just making extra special sure that i was getting all my protein and water.

i’ve been making sure to eat at least a serving of fruit and veggies per day.  i haven’t tried really crunchy or citrus fruit yet, but i’m enjoying berries, watermelon, nectarines, and cherries.  they add some fibre to the ole’ diet too, which comes in handy.  i’ve been making sure to eat slowly and stop at the first sign of fullness.  very happy with the results.  i’ve been feeling GREAT!

i’m down 6 sizes since surgery.  i’m swimming in some of the shirts i used to wear.  it’s so nice to slip into a pair of pants you haven’t worn in years and button them up no problem.  i am officially 9 lbs away from being the lowest weight i’ve been since.. well.. i don’t even know. at least 10 years.  i LOVE my sleeve

well, i hit my first “stall” in that the scale did not move this week.  i weigh in on wed’s, and the scale blinked the same 252 at me as it did last week.  i squinted my eyes and asked the scale if it was sure about that, and it said yes, now get off me.

i’ve been reading the obesity help ontario forum religiously for months and months, and from what i’ve read, many people experience a small stall around the 3 week mark.  just your body catching up with the huge shock of surgery and rapid weight loss.  understandable.  but still, frustrating because i am an instant gratification junkie and want GREAT RESULTS EVERY WEEK GODDAMNIT.  sure, this is totally unreasonable, but so am i, dear readers.

i will wait till next week and see what the scale says before i think about changing anything i’ve been doing.  i do eat carbs, though i do try to keep them below 50-70 gm/day.  i figure i like them, and i can eat them without binging thanks to my new tiny banana-shaped tummy, so if i can continue losing, they stay.  if i see that they’re causing the scale to stop moving, i’ll cut them down.  i hope i don’t have to though, cause i loves them.   fwiw, i try to keep my carbs in the “good” or complex category with fruits and whole grains, but i have been known to respond to frozen yogurt’s sweet siren song from time to time