t’s been a while since I’ve given an update or progress report. The last one was actually at the 9 week point, so….here goes it. As of today I’m 143 days post op, 5 weeks, 3 days and have hit the big
100 lbs. lost club!!!!
. That’s including the 13 lbs pre-op which equates to .6 lbs per day or
4.2 lbs per week as a post-op average WL.
80% of my EWL according to the books would have me losing around 30 lbs more which would put me at 220. I would prefer 230-240, but, we’ll see I guess?
IF you look at those numbers, you can see that I can actually see the finish line on the horizon, 4-6 wks. Again, I NEVER thought I would be saying this, being
MR. SELF PROCLAIMED SUPER ABSORBER, BUT……I AM starting to get a teeny, tiny bit concerned about that rate of WL and what I may do to experiment with slowing it down some?? Thus my mention of it in the other thread from
@DSRIGGS.
More good news is a significant amount of my food aversions have been reduced and or diminished. Some examples are:
1) I can eat chicken breasts again now, (still working up to thigh meat).
2) For the last week or so, I’ve been able to get most all of my protein from real food and am losing the GD protein drink for the last week!!!!! YAAAYY!!!
3) I can eat most pork except ham, I eat fish, shrimp, any seafood and Rib-eye Steaks of course.
4) I can drink milk again ok.
The things I still can’t bear the thought of eating are:
1) Bacon, (which I used to love), sausage, ham
2) GARLIC!! is probably the worst (I used to use HEAVY garlic in everything)
3) Can’t really do hamburgers yet, a little, it is getting better.
4) Most soft yellow cheeses. I eat mostly fresh parmesan which has almost twice the protein anyway and use it on everything.
So, as you can see, my list of food I can eat is growing and I’m a pretty happy camper right about now and I feel great!!!
Also, I flew on a plane recently and could actually jam my not as fat ass into the seat and actually buckle the belt!!!
I can finally see all of my Willy (and my feet) again,..without looking in the mirror
and my “Moobs” are down to a much more manageable (yet perky) and manly “A” cup
. I’m down to a size 40-42 pants size from a 52-54!!! And, don’t have to shop in the “Fat guy” section anymore!
So, it’s ALL good! And I have just met my first original minimum WL goal by
losing 100 Lbs!!