Holy Shit: The 180s

I am in awe.  I finally hit the 60 lb mark -- 60.4 to be exact and I couldn't be more elated!  Of course I have to be specific and say that I have lost 60 lbs. from my highest weight of 250 in April 2014. If we're just talking surgery date, then it is 45.6 lbs....still not too shabby and I am happy with that!

My primary care physician informed me that my blood pressure is too low -- it was 100/something so he slashed my BP meds in half for three months and is going to re-evaluate me then.  My cholesterol skyrocketed, so I am stuck on my statin for now.  He was pretty happy with my weight loss though.

My 6 month post of appointment with Dr. Gatmaitan was this past Wednesday, 17 December.  I will say that in all of my appointments with him, my nurse Jenn, and my dietician Ashton, I have not lied one bit.  I always come clean with my diet/exercise/protein/water questions -- and this was no exception.  I admitted to drinking more coffee than water, not exercising much at all, signing up for aquaerobics and not going, maybe getting in 50g of protein a day.... and of course they encouraged me to turn all of that around, and I plan to!

My weight loss in the last two months has been VERY slow -- only about 7-8 lbs total and before I was losing about 10 lbs each month, so I am behind in my opinion.  They wanted me to be at 50% loss of excess weight at 6 months but I only hit 44.8%.  Check out my chart...

Despite not being where THEY want me to be, I gotta say I am pretty darned happy with where I am.  Not that I don't want to lose more -- I do -- but the slow loss has helped me save money because I've been in my 12s for a while LOL.  I do have a couple 10s lined up to "try on" for fun, but I'm no where near the next size down, so I'm enjoying things.

So my next "mini-goal" is of course to get to the 170s....and my "GOAL GOAL" is probably going to be 157.  I know it's an odd number, but first, I like the sound of the 150s and second, while maintaining my goal weight, if I hit 160 at any time, I know I need to re-focus and watch myself more closely.

Here's what I'm going to do to help myself get there:

1. First, I am going to try the Couch to 5K app again.  A while back I was on a walk with Samson and decided to jog and it came easier than I expected, so I think it is time to start running (jogging, really)...the first time I tried it I was a lot heavier and made it to 3 workouts before quitting.
2. AND I'm going to limit myself to one coffee a day for now -- and only after I've had at least half of my daily fluid intake (32 oz) first.
3. I am going to re-focus on getting 90-100g of protein each day, so this means having a protein shake and possibly a protein bar daily.

 I can't wait to report back on how I'm doing with these goals!

Coming up on 6 months & PCP Visit

I am still so surprised that I'm shopping for mediums and size 12s.  Size 12s, I have found, seem to be a pretty popular size.  On more than a few occasions, I have found a pair of pants or jeans that I absolutely ADORED and all the 12s were gone already.  Kind of funny to me.

Today I went to Kohl's to spend my Kohl's Cash and bring a return in.  That place was HOPPING crazy.  I think everyone else was spending their KC.  Anywhooooo I wandered around and found three scarves (can't grow out of those in either direction!) and a pair of size 10 jeans on clearance.

When I picked them up, I was thinking it would be nice to have a couple of size 10s ready to go once my 12s get too big.  I decided to try them on just to see how they fit now and I was able to get them on and button/zip....but they were super tight and not presentable to public.  LOL  I think they may have been on clearance because they were marked on the tag size 10 SHORT, but they were NOT short.  I had to roll them up a few inches to avoid tripping.  Anywho, they were practically free after my $40 KC plus 20% off.

My 6-month anniversary is coming up on December 16th -- my appointment is the 17th but I don't think I'm going to make their "goal" of 50% excess weight loss by then.  I think by my calculations it would be a weight of about 183 and I'm about 10 lbs. short of that.  I'm not that worried about it, actually.

One more thing about my Kohl's trip -- I found this off white v-neck sweater that had pink crystals all over the front -- so cute.  The only had one left on the model -- size small.  I held it up and it looked like it would fit me.  It did.  A small.  A SMALL fit me!  But I didn't buy it because it had a snag on the front.  Made me happy, though!

I had some labwork done last week and my 6-month primary care physician follow up Thursday. This was THE appointment I was hoping he'd tell me I will be off my high BP and high cholesterol medications.  My blood pressure was low -- 107/70 or something.  He said that is normal because BP generally lowers with weight loss; however, it was TOO low, so he is reducing my dosage and hopefully I will be off of it in 3 months...he didn't want to take me off cold turkey.

The cholesterol was the complete opposite -- it had gone from the high 80s/low 90s to over 140, so I am to remain on my cholesterol meds and will be rechecked in 3 months.  I admitted to him that I had been slacking pretty good on my meds so he wanted me to be more consistent with taking them daily.

That is all for now!  Happy holidays!