My WLS Journey
12/03/03
Well I went to my 6 week nutrition class tonight. Boy is Carrie ever smart! I learn something new everytime I talk to her. I only lost 1.8# last week but when you consider that it was over Thanksgiving that's not bad at all. When was the last time you lost weight during a 10 day vacation and a major holiday? Not only that but my BMI is now down to 60.
12/14/03
The WLS Open House was really nice. It was fun seeing the old timers all jolly and the newbies all joyous about their successes and the pre-ops excited to be part of the whole thing. The buffet was sumptious but alas I did not partake. Food isn't my focus any longer and I know if I make it so, then I'll fall into old habits.
I had been planning on weighing at the center and had been joking that there would be a longer line for the scale than for the food. The good folks at the center hid the scales! Can you believe it? Anyway, I came back to weigh the next day and the scales were broken! The company had to come out and calibrate them and rebalance them. I think the act of moving and hiding the scales was what did it in.
I try not to obsess about my weight and don't really worry about it till Fridays when I go in for my weekly weigh session but after the scale fiasco on Friday I haven't been able to think of anything else. The scales on 11Roberts are out of whack and my home scales aren't accurate above 300 pounds. I need to find a butcher shop or freight shipper that can help me out... I'll be glad when I hit 299 and can weigh myself in the bathroom like normal folks...
12/27/03
Well, I broke down and bought a new scale today. It is accurate up to 400 pounds and is pretty close to what the center's scale said I weigh. I weighed and recorded what the scale says, even though it is probably off by 5#'s or so. Next week I'll weigh again and that will give me a good indication of how my weight loss is going, even if it isn't exactly the same weight as the WLS Center's scale.
12/28/03
I weighed again today (I like owning an accurate scale...) but this time without clothes. Shoes and pants and a shirt weighed 5 pounds. Again, this is all "non-official" weight loss but I'm trying to get to a consistant point by weighing on the same scale, at the same time, in the same clothes (or in my case, no clothes at all) so that I can get an accurate picture of what's going on with my weight loss. At this rate the office scales are about 10 pounds heavier due to clothes, etc, but if I keep weighing consistantly on mine then it'll give me a good indication of where I'm headed.
09/09/03 444.1#
10/02/03 428.5#
11/07/03 398.3#
12/03/03 384.7#
12/05/03 383.1#
12/16/03 375.8#
12/23/03 372.1#
12/27/03 366.0# New Scale
12/28/03 361.0# without clothes
Weight Lost to Date: 83.1 pounds in 93 days
BMI=57171 pounds left to go!
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