What a Scary Thought...

Happy Halloween Everyone!!!

Well I thought I would share a picture of me a little early. Technically I'm not 6 months post op until November 2nd but it's Halloween and I'm dressed cute! :) This is me, down 101lbs, at 199 pounds!! I'm wearing size Large/X-Large/16 pants (depending on the type) and X-Large/18-20 shirts. It literally blows my mind to fit in such small clothing!! I also keep feeling more bones in my body that I have never felt... like my shoulder blades when I itch my back! Or my shoulders, period! It's amazing... amazing I tell you.

I dont know if I ever mentioned before about having to relearn how to bowl now that I am not a huge fat person. I'm finally starting to realize that I can swing the ball right next to my body and now swing it around my fat! :) My average is SLOWLY coming up and right now it's a 106 but last week I actually bowled a 189!!! I was in shock! It was awesome though! I've never bowled that good in my life.

I also started having a glass of wine here and there now and it's strange to get drunk off one glass of wine but, hey, I'm a cheap date! It costs a lot less so thats a good thing. I like that I can get quite buzzed and then because of my intestinal changes, it wears off a lot quicker. So like most people would be drunk for a couple hours... after about an hour or so I'm "losing my buzz." It's good though, I get to enjoy my wine, feel relaxed for a bit and then dont have to worry about stumbling all over!

So I realized, even though I'm a few inches shorter than Jon, I only weigh about 15lbs more than him right now! How weird is that? He has always been the skinny one... now we're so close in weight! I cant wait until I get to my goal and I'm skinnier than him! hehehe I looked at our wedding pictures and boy, did I gain a lot of weight in the 3 years from the time I met Jon until the time we got married. I was HUGE! I cant believe it because I dont FEEL any different... I mean, of course, until I feel some bones I havent felt on my body before, but still. So soon I'll be wearing Jons clothes!

I hope everyone had a good Halloween and all the kiddies had fun trick-or-treating. I wont be eating a ton of candy this year like I used to but looking at the 101 pounds I've lost... no piece of candy tastes as good as I feel or look!!

It's a ONEderful Life

I DID IT!!!!!!!!!!!!

The shuttle has landed! I finally made it to my biggest goal so far. I am IN ONEderland!! I weigh 199lbs! YIPEEEEE!!!!

Now it's time to celebrate, but how? Everyone celebrates every big accomplishment or birthday or other events with FOOD... thats just not worth it for me!

Let me pose a question to my lovely supporters out there: What would you do to celebrate that didn't involve food and didnt cost a fortune (I'm not rich here ya know!). Please post some ideas as a comment.

Look forward to hearing some of them! Thank you all so much for the support. 49lbs to go but since I made it to ONEderland, the rest is just icing on the cake, so to speak!

WOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

Next Stop: ONEderland!!

Just going to make this short and sweet... I weighed 200lbs this morning!!!!!!!!!! I've officially lost 100lbs since the day before surgery! 100lbs in less than 6 months!!!! woooooohooooooo!!!!!

One whole pound until I get to ONEderland... I'm guessing that will be shortly! :)

6 Month pics will be posted next week sometime!

Thats WAY Too Small For You!

Unless you have lost almost 100lbs in 5 months or had Gastric Bypass Surgery, you have no idea how incredibly weird it feels to look at an item of clothing and think to yourself there is no way in hell you will fit in that! Well, I did that this morning... and I was WRONG! I'm wearing the cutest pair of pants and they are a size XL!!!!!!!! Clothes that actually fit me feel so weird on me! I must say, though, my legs and butt look nice in these pants. hehehehe :) Anyway, I'm still trying to realize that I fit in smaller clothes and that I am smaller but it's hard to picture myself.

Jon and I started a bowling league a few weeks back and we are having a great time. You wouldnt think a person who lost a lot of weight would have issues with bowling, right? Well when you are fat for so long and you learned to bowl around the fat, so to speak, it's totally different when you're not fat anymore. Up until last night, I was working hard to relearn how to bowl minus the fat! Anyway, I'm not a bad bowler either. I have a low average (like 100ish) but sometimes I bowl really good and get 155's and stuff... I'm just not consistant with that. I think, though, throughout the season I'm sure I can raise my average. I definitely want to get new bowling shoes and a new ball because the finger holes in my ball are too big and I drop my ball sometimes. These are things you just dont think of when losing weight, I guess.

Well, when I come across more nutty things like this, I'll try to keep you updated! :)

5th Month Post-Op & Pics!

I figured I'd post now that I am 5 months out from my surgery. First off let me say that I will more than likely only be posting once a month from now on, unless I feel like posting inbetween for some reason! :)

So let me get to the good stuff, I've lost 94lbs since the day before surgery. I now weigh 206lbs and I can't believe it. It's pretty amazing and sometimes I still think someone should pinch me to wake me up! I finally HAD to go get a ring guard for my ring because it was basically falling off me and I was afraid I was going to lose it! We cant have that happen, now can we? When I went to get it the sales people at the store were all trying to persuede me into getting the ring sized. I kept explaining to them that I did not want to pay to get it sized twice since I still have about 60lbs to lose. Anyway, they are so hard-headed and want their commission so badly that they hardly listen to the needs of their customers... but don't let me get started on how I hate that stuff!

Speaking of shopping, seeing is I'm 7lbs from ONEderland, I promised myself if I made it to 199lbs by Christmas that I would go buy myself a few outfits. All of my clothes are way too big and I look kinda stupid walking around in them. It's kinda like when a little kid wears their parents clothing and it's all huge and hanging off them. I actually am wearing a size XL pants or size 18. Though some of the size 18's are getting loose. I wish they made a size inbetween 16 and 18. Anyway, I actually wore some shirts that are the right size (I have two someone gave me!) and I felt so uncomfortable. I know that sounds strange but the shirts look so small and I still feel like I'm 300lbs so it was so hard to get used to wearing such small clothing. After wearing them two days in a row, I am more used to it but it's still and odd feeling.

I also guess it's time to admit the fact that I am losing quite a bit of hair. I'm not losing clumps from one spot so there are no bald spots or anything but I used to have VERY thick hair and you could not see my scalp unless you parted my hair and flattened it out (you girls understand what I mean, right?). Well my hair has gotten quite thin and you can see my scalp all too well and even touching my hair feels so crazy because it's much much thinner than it was. It's kinda scary and makes me feel a little sad but I know that it will grow back. I even have some new hairs growing but when I look in the mirror and my white scalp is beaming back at me... I get kinda upset about it. I'll get over it, I know but it's still something to deal with. I guess in the grand scheme of things it is worth losing some of my hair to lose almost 100lbs in 5 months, huh?

I know a lot of you were asking me about a recent pic so here is a picture from about 4 1/2 months and I'll add the comparison picture in there too. It's just amazing to see the transformation in pictures because I dont really feel it yet myself.