My WLS Journey
02/01/04 Well, I'm less than 2 pounds away from the Century Club and feel great. My weight loss has slowed somewhat so I guess I need to get out there and start walking more.
02/04/04 I have finally made it to the CENTURY CLUB. I have lost 100 pounds in 131 days. Yeah!
02/13/04 I got on a plane in Atlanta and wedged into my seat and put on the call bell for the Flight Attendant to get me a seat belt extender.
I was sitting next to a lady who was pretty hefty herself and she decided to move to another seat since there was an open row.
Anyway, as I was sitting there I pulled the seatbelt to it's maximum length just to see how much extra belt I'd need. Well, lo and behold! the darn thing fit!
Now I've told myself that's it is because the seats were moved, the belt was longer on that plane, and all sorts of other justifications but the fact reamins that I was able to put on my seatbelt on a plane without an extension for the first time in 6 1/2 years!
Wow! That's one of those eye-opener moments. The Flight Attendant thought I was nuts, especially when I started getting all misty-eyed. But she has no idea of the psychologocial head games I've gone through over the past decade when my weight started affecting my ADLs (medical term for "Activities of Daily Living"). I wedged into plane seats and blamed the Airlines, I was embarrassed and mortified when I first had to get an extender, and then it became second nature to ask for one since there was NO WAY I'd ever fit into a seat.
Well those days are over now. Even if I get on another plane tomorrow and I have to get an extender I KNOW that on 2/13/04 I flew on a plane without one-and that's worth rejoicing over and celebrating.
02/23/04 I went through my closet and tried on my pre-op pants and bathing suit. It's kind of scary to see how BIG I was...
09/09/03 444.1#
10/02/03 428.5#
11/07/03 398.3#
12/03/03 384.7#
01/01/04 359.0#
02/01/04 346.0#
02/04/04 344.0#
02/10/04 343.0#
02/16/04 342.0#
02/21/04 341.0#
02/23/04 339.0#
02/26/04 338.0#
Weight Lost to Date: 106.1 pounds in 21.9 weeks
BMI=53148 pounds left to go!
(89.1# down according to the scales at the WLS Center)
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