It's the small milestones that matter sometimes...

[elforman 234]

So I'm two months into my three month pre-op diet (doing Keto, no liquid diet required for me pre-op) and weighed myself on the bathroom scale this morning. It read 249.4, which means I can officially express my weight as being less than an eighth of a ton. Getting under 250 wasn't the big deal to me per se, it's that fractional comparison to put the weight in perspective that did it. That's just how my mind works, I think in numbers. Also, I know my bathroom scale is not an accurate reflection of reality. When I see the nutritionist tomorrow afternoon her scale will likely read around 254 as I'll be fully dressed and my cargo pants laden with, well, cargo, but that will still be a drop of 23 in the two months thus far. (BTW, the cargo pants are pretty much a requirement as I screwed up my back pretty good by carrying my wallet in my rear pocket for a couple of decades. Fashion and style be damned.)

And speaking of pants, the better part of this morning was realizing I should finally go back into my closet and pull out some older pants that haven't fit well for a year or so. One of the things that made me finally decide to look into surgery was knowing I'd have to keep spending on ever-larger clothes. Part of my decision one day was to stop buying any new clothes at all, which unfortunately left me with just three pairs of pants that fit. It's taken a while, having to do laundry what felt like every other day, but now some of the older ones fit again. Of course, the older ones look identical to my biggest ones because I just bought the same ones online in larger sizes, so nobody is going to notice a thing. Then again, at work everyone knows I'm colorblind so I told them I usually buy multiples of everything that I know will match so I don't have to worry about picking clashing clothes each day. I think they bought that...

Edited March 26, 2018 by elforman

[FluffyChix 17,418]

Congrats!!!

[Kay07 734]

1 hour ago, elforman said:

the better part of this morning was realizing I should finally go back into my closet and pull out some older pants that haven't fit well for a year or so.

Woohoo! That must have felt ahhhhmazing!

[elforman 234]

2 minutes ago, Kay07 said:

Woohoo! That must have felt ahhhhmazing!

Eh, I take these things in stride and don't get overly emotional. I think at best I had a bemused smirk on my face for a few moments. I think I'll be happier when some of my t-shirts featuring carnivorous bunnies will fit me once again.

https://shirt.woot.com/offers/its-okay-its-organic?ref=cnt_ctlg_dgn_30

https://shirt.woot.com/offers/meatatarian?ref=cnt_ctlg_dgn_9

https://shirt.woot.com/offers/you-have-to-try-this-guys?ref=cnt_ctlg_dgn_30

[Kay07 734]

A bemused smirk is still better than nothing! I hate how I can lose like 25lbs, and my clothes won't fit any differently.

[Abrial 23]

Eh, I take these things in stride and don't get overly emotional. I think at best I had a bemused smirk on my face for a few moments. I think I'll be happier when some of my t-shirts featuring carnivorous bunnies will fit me once again.

https://shirt.woot.com/offers/its-okay-its-organic?ref=cnt_ctlg_dgn_30

https://shirt.woot.com/offers/meatatarian?ref=cnt_ctlg_dgn_9

https://shirt.woot.com/offers/you-have-to-try-this-guys?ref=cnt_ctlg_dgn_30

Those shirts a funny. I might have get one (or all).

I agree is the small things like fitting in old cloths again. My scale and I have decided we don’t get along (I decided I hated it since it decided to not lie about my weight, especially when I would gain weight lol). I use small milestones like cloths fitting better instead of yelling at my scale.

Congrats on the weight loss!

[Kay07 734]

6 minutes ago, Abrial said:

My scale and I have decided we don’t get along (I decided I hated it since it decided to not lie about my weight, especially when I would gain weight lol). I use small milestones like cloths fitting better instead of yelling at my scale.

LOL scales are evil, most definitely!

[frust8 963]

Like the 50s song "Little Thing Mean A Lot" Even a NSV when things are stalling.[emoji13]

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