Last Saturday, we started attending a new church, which was started in June by the pastor of our old church, and we saw a lot of people we haven't seen in over a year. Several people commented on my weight loss and at the time I, of course, said, "thank you." After a few minutes I couldn't decide if I should tell each person that I just had gastric bypass surgery, or if I should just thank them, and leave it at that. So that is my dilemma right now. As people comment on my weight loss do I tell them how I'm losing weight, or do I keep it to myself and just thank them? What if they ask me how I'm losing - do I then tell them about the surgery? Even though I'm sharing this with the world on my blog I guess I still feel like it is personal information that I don't necessarily want to share with everyone. Does that even make sense? I don't want to lie, so if they ask me what I'm doing to lose weight I should probably tell them, but if they don't ask, and they just comment on how I look I don't think I really need to tell them, do I? Hmmmmmm, this is a pretty cool dilemma to have - I must say! :)
It feels so good to have people telling me that I look good! I also found out that a fellow dance mom at Abby's dance studio had gastric bypass nine years ago, and she is still small! That was so encouraging to see, and to be able to talk to her a little about it was great. She was only 21 at the time of her surgery, but was over 350 pounds, and had already had 2 kids. Since then she has had another child, but never gotten anywhere close to being that heavy again. I think there are more of us out there than we all realize! It is like a secret club that the members don't even know about!
Food stuff is getting a little better. I still have cravings especially when I'm hungry, so I need to work harder on making sure I get all my snacks in and that I'm eating at the right times. I am bad about letting myself go too long without eating, and then I'm just crabby and hungry. We were driving home from errands yesterday, and I was really hungry and did not have a snack with me and we passed a Five Guys Burgers, and I told Geoff that I was done with this stupid surgery business, and I want my old stomach back so I can have Five Guys. He just laughed. At the moment, I was extremely serious, but when we got home and I had something to eat I was fine. When my mom and sister were here they bought some Mango Salsa to eat, and I didn't think at the time that I could eat it, but I checked the ingredients and nutrition and I can, so I've become a little addicted to Newman's Mango Salsa. I can't eat chips, but I can eat Ritz crackers, so I've been having 3 or 4 crackers with salsa with my lunch. So yummy!!!! It is the little discoveries like that which make the Five Guys cravings tolerable!
Today is Monday, and you know what that means - weigh in time!!! (I heard a trumpet in my head when I typed that!) This morning when I got on the scale it said..................... drum roll please......... 225.0. Woohooooo! That is a total of 28.3 pounds lost in a little over 6 weeks. It just doesn't seem possible, but my saggy pants don't lie! Usually when I'm sitting down and I cross my legs I have to kind of hold the top leg on because my fat thighs won't allow it to stay by itself. Well, today when I crossed my legs I didn't have to hold it, and it went down pretty far - it was so cool! I can sit like a normal woman again! I am proud of myself. It has been extremely challenging to say the least, but I am so blessed to have been given this chance!
Doin' good, Kristi! I'd just answer questions as they come and not offer more info. than asked for. It is your business and most people won't pry. They just want to know you are losing weight for good reasons.
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