It's Day 40 post-op and I just had my six-week follow up with my surgeon - I am down
64 pounds since my surgery!
Not only have I lost over 1.5 pounds per day on average, but I have also dropped to a BMI of 49.4. This may not sound like a "wow" moment, but it is - 49.4 puts me in the Morbidly Obese category, rather than the Super Obese category! Yippee for Morbid Obesity! I was once well into the Super-Super Obese category when my BMI was 65+, so this was really great news!
I had ANOTHER @#%$&* gout attack last week that laid me up for days (I had to get another Prednisone shot from the rheumatologist on Tuesday), but today my surgeon took me off of my Coumadin (Warfarin) blood thinner and gave me another Rx for Celebrex (I had a VSG, not an RNY, so I can take anti-inflammatories without risking an ulcer), so hopefully I can start managing the pain and inflammation as I resume my Allopurinol (anti-gout) regimen soon...
Size-wise, I've dropped from a 6X to a 4XLT in shirts, which means I can wear tall shirts again that actually fit my long arms and torso! That's right, no more fighting to keep my shirt tucked in and dealing with the dreaded "t-shirted belly display" (let alone the "bare hairy belly display", which is PG13) because there aren't enough buttons on the front of the shirt to go all the way down to my pant line! Woo hoo! Speaking of pants, my waist is now 60 (it was 68 the night before surgery), so I can start buying pants off the rack in Big&Tall stores instead of having to order online.
I had an adventuresome Easter, eating-wise. I've been doing fine with my evening meal of lowfat cottage cheese, or yogurt, or fat free refried beans, or lowfat string cheese, or chicken breast morsels, so I thought, "go for it - try some fun Easter proteins!" - it was an interesting experience.
I had my usual protein shake (35 g each) for breakfast and lunch, and then went to an Easter gathering at a friend's in the afternoon. The host is an amazing cook and there were also lots of dishes that the guests had brought, so there was a big selection. For my dinner, which I spread out as grazing over 3 hours (even though I'm supposed to do a single 20-minute sitting for each meal), I tried a tiny amount of corned beef (hated it), a bite each of two types of ham (
really hated them both, including the Honeybaked Ham, which I used to love and look forward to at holidays), bites of the fillings of several different types of quiche (the ones with ham were naaaaassssty, but there was a veggie quiche with feta that I loved), a teensy bit of sausage with a drop of white gravy (from the biscuits and gravy portion of the buffet) that everyone else was raving about but that tasted so foul to me that I had to spit it into my napkin rather than swallow it, and a miniscule morsel (less than a teaspoon) of garlic cheese biscuit, which did nothing for me but at least wasn't unpleasant. The clear winner was the veggie quiche, and I learned that I now hate ham!
This Wednesday, when I will begin my Week Seven meal plan, I get to broaden my eating horizons and try tuna fish with a little fat free mayo, as well as some other, denser proteins, and also get to start testing out steamed vegetables after I've gotten in my proteins. I'll keep you all posted!
Day 40 - Down 64 pounds and a Wow Moment!
- 24 September 2007 - Lap RNY
I can cross my legs!
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