Weight loss update!

Okay, so it has been 8 weeks and some change since my Gastric Bypass surgery, and my running total is .......

Drumroll please . . . . . . .

61 lbs lost forever!!! Woot!

I'm currently weighing in at 369 lbs, less than I have been in a few years for sure!

I've decided I want to start losing weight just a touch faster, more in the 5-6 lbs a week range if I can, so I've started going to the gym and have been swimming every day this week so far! I must say, I'm allready feeling a big difference in my energy levels. I'm also feeling a little bit more hungry too as a result, but I'm having a fairly easy time not giving in to eating in between meals.


I gotta tell ya though, 10 more lbs and I am going to hit a HUGE milestone. I'll give you a little bit of history to explain:

When I was 20 going on 21, I was able to briefly lose over 100 lbs. It was the first time that I'd ever achieved any significant weight loss. The downside? I did it on the Atkins diet, and like SOOO many others that I've talked to, as soon as I got off of that wretched diet, I ballooned back up in half the time I'd lost the weight. I'm the first to admit that it was due to my own binge eating, but the root cause was that the Atkins diet did nothing to change the way I ate or my lifestyle.

Now let me paint a picture of the next 6 or 7 years:
I eventually hit a plateau of about 380-386, bouncing up and down. I continued to go on "diets" for anywhere for 2 weeks to a month, continuously cycling between dieting and "not dieting", which generally meant eating whatever bad sh*t I felt like. I probably did this 30 - 40 times, and the most success I'd ever had was about 20 lbs. Only 1 time did I get down to 360, and I have no idea why, but I saw that and decided to quit my diet. In the entire time, I never hit 359. Then in my last year or so before surgery I took on an extra 50 lbs or so, just for good measure! :)

So freakin' A! 359, here I come!!!!