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Today has been what a day, I tell ya! I was talking to this guy at work today about weight loss, and told him I have about 25 more pounds that I want to lose, he looked at me and said he can't see where I'm going to find 25 more pounds LOL. Then I found that video and sat there and watched it like 10x in row because like I said in an earlier post today, I now see the difference. We get so used to seeing ourselves as fat that we tend not to "see" it when it starts to fall off. I was looking at the BMI chart and I am officially no longer obese, I am now overweight. I didn't think that would affect me as much as it did because I believe the BMI chart is a bunch of BS lol, but I was just so happy about that, that I had to joke about it and tell everyone that would listen to me.

The best of all is I got my blood results back from my surgeon. Pre op when not on meds, my triglycerides would range in the 1000's, no meds for the past 4 months and they are 433. Still high and I'll have to take a pill for that but I knew that going into this. My cholesterol, on medication would range about 250ish, now no medication for 4 months and it is 236, my doc said it is so close to normal that she is going to wait until my next test to determine if I need anything for that. And the best of all, my A1C was 6.4 withouth medication for the past 4 months. And that number is skewed because when I tried to quit smoking I was taking Chantix and that spikes the blood sugar big time. So we both figured that had I not taken the Chantix, my A1C would have been around 5.5-5.8 which is amazing because I used to take 4 pills a day for this and now, nada!

It has been a day of wonderful, fantastic, awesome, brilliant (for my friends across the pond ;) ) tremendous, fabulous, hmmm insert adjectives here LOL, day. Just thouight I would share my happiness with you all.

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Today has been what a day, I tell ya! I was talking to this guy at work today about weight loss, and told him I have about 25 more pounds that I want to lose, he looked at me and said he can't see where I'm going to find 25 more pounds LOL. Then I found that video and sat there and watched it like 10x in row because like I said in an earlier post today, I now see the difference. We get so used to seeing ourselves as fat that we tend not to "see" it when it starts to fall off. I was looking at the BMI chart and I am officially no longer obese, I am now overweight. I didn't think that would affect me as much as it did because I believe the BMI chart is a bunch of BS lol, but I was just so happy about that, that I had to joke about it and tell everyone that would listen to me.

The best of all is I got my blood results back from my surgeon. Pre op when not on meds, my triglycerides would range in the 1000's, no meds for the past 4 months and they are 433. Still high and I'll have to take a pill for that but I knew that going into this. My cholesterol, on medication would range about 250ish, now no medication for 4 months and it is 236, my doc said it is so close to normal that she is going to wait until my next test to determine if I need anything for that. And the best of all, my A1C was 6.4 withouth medication for the past 4 months. And that number is skewed because when I tried to quit smoking I was taking Chantix and that spikes the blood sugar big time. So we both figured that had I not taken the Chantix, my A1C would have been around 5.5-5.8 which is amazing because I used to take 4 pills a day for this and now, nada!

It has been a day of wonderful, fantastic, awesome, brilliant (for my friends across the pond ;) ) tremendous, fabulous, hmmm insert adjectives here LOL, day. Just thouight I would share my happiness with you all.

Raine,

ALL I can say, in my best welsh accent is LUSH!!! What a fabulous day... x

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That's wonderful news! Such an inspiration!!

I can relate on the meds. Just thinking of how much I will save on co-pays monthly makes me smile. Of course I will probably spend it all on clothes :rolleyes:

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