:welcome: Hello all from VST. Thank you for stopping by and checking out my blog. I keep this so I can keep track of all my numbers. There is not alot of valuable, self motivation talk in this, but it does show real numbers and real losses. This is just my blurb that I throw down and account for each month so I can remember my journey. This is the kind of stuff I was always looking for before I decided to have surgery so I though I would keep a very detailed log of all my numbers in case anyone wanted to know how it all came off. Plus its great to come back here and check and see how things are going and see that I am losing. Moving on!

:eek2: OMG, can not believe I am four months post of vsg. Time just flies by. When your in the moment sometimes things couldn't go any slower and all you want is the time to get to moving, but once the time does pass us by it seems almost too fast. Life is so short and I am so glad I decided to change mine for the better now instead of waiting till later. I could have lost so many valuable years to my weight. So ok a few things I want to mention I do not think about food the same way. Food is fuel and neccessary for me to live and to do things I need to get done. I don't worry any more about being hungry or what I am going to eat all the time. I do not really have cravings like I used to. I can see a commercial with food and not be mouth watering and go eat even though I probably wasn't even hungry. I do not think about pre eating before I go out. Like say before if I were to go out to a bbq or something like that I would eat first so I wouldn't look like a pig when we did eat or worry that there wouldn't be enough food. I am not embarrassed to eat in front on people now either. I remember alot of the food I would eat was when I was at home alone in my room. Its so great not to have to worry about things like that now. Its fantastic!

:peace: So I have had just about the most amazing summer I can think of. I have never had so much fun and done so many great things. A few things I did were go on a float trip where we went canoeing, Oceans of Fun, state fair, went to the Ozarks twice, family reunion, casino, out with friends to RCs, Polka Dot, and Goodfellas singing karaoke, BBQ, wore a dress/a bathing suit/shorts, oh and did I mention I also lost 53lbs in the process!! Hell yeah. Life couldn't get any better right now I've been saying, but every month I feel better and smile more and simply enjoy life.

:scared0: NUMBERS! That face is what I would have thought before this surgery. Nope this is more like it now :woot: This month was great. I lost another 9 lbs. which seems to be the tread for the past few months. I can hang with that. At that rate I'll be close to 200 by halloween and weigh less than my boyfriend at that point. This month I moved on the bmi scale also. I started this journey in the classification of morbid obesity. I moved down to obesity class 2 the first month out of surgery and just this month acutally this past week I have now moved under a bmi of 35 so that puts me in the classification of obesity class 1. Now some would say woopie big deal your still obese, but truthfully if you haven't been there you don't even know how great this feels to move down this scale and see your progress and know that you are just passing through these classes on your way to a normal bmi and a healthier you. It may take awhile, but the next class is overweight (for me about 190lbs) and I can't wait to get there it will be a great day. I began this journey and set my goal at 157lbs because that would put me in a normal bmi range. All I ever wanted was to be normal so that is still my goal. I know it may be a far stretch, but we will see when we get down to that point. It may come down to more of a jean size that a weight. Personally that may be the more important factor. I am 47% to my goal weight so by next month I hopefully will be over half way there. Which means I will have lost more than I need to so ooo good feeling. The measurement numbers are a little lower than before, but I think its just because I did them a week late last month and a half a week early this month. So next month's numbers on the tape will hopefully be much bigger, well or much smaller acutally! Sweet, thanks for taking a look.

Start Weight: 273

Pre-op: --- 6 lbs. lost

Surgery Weight: 267

1 month: 247 -- bmi 39.0 -- 20 lbs lost

2 month: 238 -- bmi 37.3 -- 9 lbs lost

3 month:229 --bmi 35.9 -- 9 lbs lost

4 month: 220 --bmi 34.5 -- 9 lbs lost

Lost since surgery: -47

Lost Total: -53 lbs.

Overall Goal

Weekly Break Down, lbs. lost

pre-op week: 6 lbs

week 1 -- 8 lbs.

2 --5

3 --3

4 --2

5 --2

6 --3 ~2months

7 --3

8 --1

9 --2

10 --6 ~3months

11 --0

12 --2

13 --1

14 --3 ~4months

15 --0

16 --4

17 --2

Start Jean size: 24/22

Current Jean size: 18/16

Start Shirt size: 3x/2x

Current Shirt size: 1x/xl/ one shirt I have is a L

Inches:

Neck

Start: 16

Last: 14.5

Recent: 14

Loss: -0.5

Total Loss: -2

Upper Arm

Start: 15

Last: 14

Recent: 13.5

Loss: -0.5

Total Loss: -1.5

Forearm

Start: 11.5

Last: 10.5

Recent: 10.5

Loss: 0

Total Loss: -1

Waist

Start: 49

Last: 40.5

Recent: 39

Loss: -1.5

Total Loss: -10

Abdomen (belly button)

Start: 55

Last: 47.5

Recent: 47

Loss: -0.5

Total Loss: -8

Hips

Start: 55

Last: 49

Recent: 48

Loss: -1

Total Loss: -7

Bust

Start: 54

Last: 48

Recent: 48

Loss: 0

Total Loss: -6

Chest

Start: 44

Last: 38.5

Recent: 38

Loss: -0.5

Total Loss: -6

Thigh

Start: 30.5

Last: 27

Recent: 25.5

Loss: -1.5

Total Loss: -5

Calf

Start: 17.5

Last: 16

Recent: 16

Loss: 0

Total Loss: -1.5

1st month loss: -19.5 in

2nd month loss: -9 in

3rd month loss: -14.5 in

4th month loss: -6 in

Total Lost: -49 inches

Labor Day Goal

Ok, so 2 months ago I made this goal and I hope to still reach it. I figure I will post now about it since it is only a week away and I can post about my next goal as well. I have 4lbs and one week. I think I consider this goal a win. I am much closer to this than my 4th of july goal that I missed by like 9lbs. If I miss this by a pound or two it won't ruin my day. I think I am still doing fantastic.

Labor Day Goal 7/5/11 to 9/5/11 -- 2 months or 9 weeks

Start Weight 238

Goal 216

To lose -22

Avg./week 2.44

Next Goal is Halloween :bat:

7/5/11 to 10/31/11 -- 2 months or 8 weeks

Goal is 202 lbs.

***This goal is made by losing 9lbs a month which I have been doing.