A Good Day :)

First-I'm sorry it's been so long!

Second-yesterday was an eventful day!  It was full of doctor appointments and my favorite day...weigh-in!

I stepped on the scale yesterday and I have officially lost 51 pounds! Over 20 pounds of lost weight since December 7 (surgery day).  It's amazing.  I feel and am starting to look like a whole new person!  Even more than the pound, I can feel the inches dropping off of me, which is just as good!  I am waiting until 2 months post surgery to do an "inches-in".  I'll keep you all posted :)

So the major catalyst for my having weight loss surgery was my knee.  My right knee has more than 50% cartiledge missing (on the inner part of the knee).  I'm in pain daily-so exercise is not a ton of fun for me-but I do it, because I need to.  A year ago the specialist basically told me they couldn't do anything for me unless I lost weight and my BMI was under 30--which seeing I started this journey with a BMI over 45 -- I felt hopeless.  So I started to look into my options and settled on lapband surgery.  Now that is done, it was time to check back in with the specialist.

I spent yesterday morning at the knee specialist and my hopes to run a 5K with Helen this summer are probably pushed back to next summer.  Which is ok. Since my BMI is down to 39 I only have 10 more points to go until I am eligible for restoration surgery :).  I go back in 6 months and they'll let me know if we can start the process.  I'm very excited that the pain may be going away soon!  And I can start to go back to the things I enjoy -- like hiking my pups! :)

My second doctors appointment was with my weight loss surgeon and I had my first band fill.  For those of you wondering what that means, I have a band around my stomach that restricts the amount of food that I can eat.  The band is adjustable.  To adjust it, I have what they call a port just under my skin, diagonally across from my belly button.  They put a needle through my skin (it felt like a shot) and into my port.  Then they pull the needle out and it creates a suction cup feeling right in my belly.  It was so weird!! I'm back to a liquid diet for the next few days, to make sure that everything passes through my band appropriately and they didn't add too much saline to the band.  But it's well worth it!

All in all, yesterday was full of great news for me.  I'm getting closer to options with my knee and I'm down 51 pounds.  What more could a girl ask for?