Week 8 Post Op and another 6 lbs gone! I am now down to 402 lbs and it feels great. This week I had got a fill on Monday so there is a slight bit more of restriction but I am also continuing to push to make the right food choices and continuing to push to walk more and make sure I get healthier.

Since I have had my fill I have noticed that I do get fuller faster but my hunger isn't lasting any longer then before. I need more protein in my diet to help combat the hunger. It's something I am struggling with. One day this week I had a 1 egg omelet with bacon, mushroom, and cheese but that gets old very quickly. As we do our grocery shopping this weekend I am going to work to get other foods that I can mix up to give myself other food choices for breakfast. I like cottage cheese so I think that's going to be added to my breakfast choices as well.

My clothes are really starting to show a big change. Most of my pants are pretty much to big now and so I am going to have to start wearing smaller pants. I do have a couple pairs of pants from when I was a little smaller but I will still need to get another pair or two. I have two pairs of linen pants that I really like wearing here in Florida but they are starting to make me look like a genie with big poofy pants. LOL So they have just about outlived their life with me.

Most of my shirt are still fitting. They are just loose but that's ok. Shirts usually can last a little longer then pants can when losing weight so that works for me. It expensive to start buy new clothes all over especially when you know your going to continue to lose weight and don't want to spend to much knowing that you will not be fitting those clothes before to long either. So I am just learning to make do for now.

Karen and I have really lengthened our walks which has been great. We're getting close to walking a mile and a half in 30 minutes time. We have a few different routes that we walk through our neighborhood which gives us a different change of scenery. We also have a backup plan for when it rains to go walking at the Palm Beach Gardens mall. We know that walking the mall one loop each floor is 1 mile. So I think at this point in time if we need to go over there again we're going to have to make 3 loops to help us continue to push futher.

Well it's been another good weight loss week and I am proud to say this has been 40 lbs since surgery that I have lost. Can hardly believe it at times! So now it's time to push forward for another great week!

Way to go Pete! 40# WOW..Why can guys lose so fast...sigh (jealous). Time for a new pic here! -BG

Oh don't get me wrong. It hasn't been an easy road to lose this weight. It took a lot of work long before getting banded to get myself to even start losing weight. Now that I am on track with losing weight it actually has started to come off pretty quickly but also in chunks at a time. Like yes I have lost 40 lbs in 8 weeks but I had lost 32 lbs the first 4 weeks then put 5 back on and then dropped the rest to finally get down to 40 at the 8 week mark.

Still thanks a lot for the WOW :blushing: It feels great!

congrats! n best of luck to u!!

yoco28

Wow!!! That's great Pete. Keep it up. Anything good always takes hard work, but that's what makes it so Great! Best of luck to you. A good way to get some protein is makes your own shakes. I use powdered protein, ice strawberries a little bananas, a lil 2% milk, add 1 splenda and put it in a blender. I use v-60 vanilla protein. It taste like a regular strawberry shake, and it's great for a sweet attack.....lol