September 26th: 351.5 (Dr's office scale)
Well I'm down exactly 60 pounds from the 411 that I was at the beginning of June. I'd say that's not too bad for a little less than four months. I had an appointment with Dr. Simpson last Thursday, and he was extremely happy about my results. He says I'm doing wonderfully.
I can eat almost anything now, just not very much of it. I try to avoid breads and starches too much. The one food I can't seem to handle at all is pizza. I've had a couple bites of thin crust pizza a couple times, and I usually end up throwing it up. I find that I'm not very hungry very often, but I do find myself eating out of boredom a lot. Like, if I bring food to my office, I usually eat it all. But if I forget to bring anything, I am usually OK until I get home. It makes me realize how bad it was before to just be eating all the time, because I was bored and eating A LOT more than I do now.
My clothes are getting big. I have some size 30 jeans that I haven't been able to wear for a long time now (they were even a little too big before the surgery), but now my jeans that I have never been able to dry in the dryer if I wanted to wear them; now I HAVE to dry them after a couple wears. That's nice. Most of my shirts are fitting OK, mostly because they were just plain to small for me a few months ago.
No one really says anything about me looking like I'm loosing weight (other than Daron, who says it all the time). I was home in August, and at that time I was down about 40 pounds, and no one said anything. I figure it's because my sisters have been loosing weight too, and they both looked a lot better than me. I didn't tell anyone about the surgery, other than my family and Darons mom. She never says anything to me about looking skinnier, but Daron says she has mentioned it a few times to him. She said she doesn't want to say anything to me because I told her before I had the surgery that I wasn't going to tell many people about it because I didn't want everyone asking me all the time how much I lost, or what if the surgery didn't work, then I wouldn't want everyone wondering why I was still fat. Oh well, I'm not doing it for the recognition, just to feel better and be healthier. Which I am. My ankles do not swell up anymore like they used to (probably mostly because I was drinking a crap ton of soda everyday).
So....only good things to report so far!