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!