{"id":8459,"date":"2012-06-03T11:15:52","date_gmt":"2012-06-03T09:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/?p=8459"},"modified":"2015-12-07T06:41:20","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T05:41:20","slug":"101-list-one-hundred-pounds-lost-4-month-update-with-pics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/archives\/8459","title":{"rendered":"Bucket List – ONE HUNDRED POUNDS LOST! (4.5 Month Update with Pics!)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"100\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Yup, you read that right!\u00a0 I have lost ONE HUNDRED FREAKING POUNDS!! Well, 100.7 to be exact!\u00a0 I thought about waiting a day or two so I could make the title 101 lbs for my 101 list<\/a> but I just couldn\u2019t wait!<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t believe it! Years ago when I made my 101 list one of the things that I made sure was on there was to lose 100 lbs, even though deep down I didn\u2019t really feel like it was ever a possibility for me\u2026 but it has happened!<\/p>\n

Now?\u00a0 I feel like anything is possible, and that\u2019s not a feeling I\u2019ve had in a long time.<\/p>\n

It has taken me a lot of years of yo-yo dieting, a lot of heartache and frustration and even a surgery to finally get here but every single minute of it was worth the feeling I have right now!\u00a0 I can\u2019t believe I can actually say that I have lost a hundred pounds!\u00a0 That\u2019s something people on TV and the internet do, not people like me!<\/p>\n

Well, a Project Fatass<\/a> goal update wouldn\u2019t be the same without a fish!<\/p>\n

\"100lbfish\"<\/a><\/p>\n

There you have it, a 100 lb fish complete with a dude with his barn door open!<\/p>\n

You know what else I lost?<\/p>\n

\"Pearly\"<\/a><\/p>\n

An entire aunt Pearly, who I\u2019m pretty sure didn\u2019t even weigh 100 lbs soaking wet.\u00a0 Man, I miss her\u2026 crazy ‘ol\u2019 bird!<\/p>\n

\"newfoundland_dog_wallpaper\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The average female Newfoundland dog.<\/p>\n

\"100lbbutter\"<\/a><\/p>\n

400 sticks of butter!<\/p>\n

Yeah you get the point!\u00a0 It weighs a lot and I can really notice the difference not dragging it around anymore.<\/p>\n

Now, on to my 4.5 month update.\u00a0 Yes, it\u2019s 4.5 months because this month totally got away from me. I was busier than usual, I had a horrible stall which\u00a0 made me not even want to think about taking photos and writing blogs and I just generally couldn\u2019t be arsed.\u00a0 I\u2019ll try to get it on time next month.<\/p>\n

Anyhoo\u2026 I\u2019m going to try to sum up what it has been like for me and what has changed in the past month.<\/p>\n

The Physical Bits<\/strong><\/p>\n

I seem to have gotten my B12 under control, which has been great.\u00a0 After taking it for 5 weeks I foolishly tried to go without and my doctor told me not to do that again.\u00a0 So I am now taking it as ordered and I haven\u2019t had any more really dragged out, all systems down type of tiredness since.<\/p>\n

My energy levels have been pretty good. I\u2019ve gotten in a fair bit of exercise and am out and about more in general.\u00a0 A lot of this still relies on the weather for me, when it\u2019s sunny I just want to be outside doing things and being active, when it\u2019s rainy I want to get under a blanket with a book or a movie and take naps. Sunshine makes me happy, like\u2026 crazy<\/em> happy.\u00a0 The rain doesn\u2019t make me sad, but it leaves me more blank than anything. I\u2019m not sad, I\u2019m not super happy and gung ho, I\u2019m just sort of there not feeling much of anything either way.<\/p>\n

I had my first issue with food a few days ago.\u00a0 I am still very careful about what I eat but I think I must have not chewed a piece of something properly (which is odd because I really am quite conscious of my chewing usually) because I spent one night in misery.\u00a0 I think whatever it was must have gotten stuck so anything I drank that night just sat in my stomach and left me feeling like I was going to vomit.\u00a0 It felt really really bad.\u00a0 I had pains in my belly, I felt like I was one bad burp away from throwing up (which put me on the bed in mummy mode for a while) and I just felt blah overall.\u00a0 I eventually had to resort to making myself vomit and whatever it was must have come out because I felt fine afterwards. I went to bed after and the next day I felt fine and have since\u2026<\/p>\n

Can\u2019t complain, it was over four months before I had any issue with food at all and this was pretty minor really.<\/p>\n

The hair loss<\/a> has continued and is going strong.\u00a0 I notice a drastic difference in my hair over the past month but I\u2019m trying not to obsess over it.\u00a0 I am probably going to cut it a bit shorter soon and see if that makes me feel better, and will reassess the situation in a few weeks.\u00a0 Hopefully it will start slowing down and I can move into the regrowth phase soon.<\/p>\n

I am shrinking out of clothes at lightning speed. Even at times when my weight hasn\u2019t changed I still had clothes that became too big, it\u2019s shocking!<\/p>\n

I had a nasty flu for about a week, which was my first illness since the surgery.\u00a0 My husband went out to find sugar free lozenges and cough syrup (which tasted like ass) and I had a nasty cough for quite a while, so needless to say there wasn\u2019t a lot of exercise happening for that week or two.<\/p>\n

The skin, oh lordy haha the SKIN!\u00a0 This is something everyone feels the need to ask me about and inform me of. Yes, things are starting to hang and sag on me.\u00a0 Yes, I am starting to get batwings, saggy thighs and squishy bits.\u00a0 YES, WLS patients get loose skin\u2026 but you know, SO DOES ANYONE ELSE who was obese and lost a large amount of weight. It has nothing to do with how quickly you lose weight and everything to do with how big you let yourself become and how much you stretched your skin out.\u00a0 So in the end, no matter how I went about losing this weight, the skin was going to be there.\u00a0 That\u2019s just the life of someone who got too damn fat\u2026 no matter how they get thin.<\/p>\n

The Food<\/strong><\/p>\n

Other than that minor issue I just mentioned, the food really has not been an issue. I eat a lot of variety and have saved a lot of recipes on my Bypass Friendly Recipes<\/a> board on Pinterest<\/a>.\u00a0 They may not all be bypass friendly already but can easily be tweaked to cut out fat and sugar.\u00a0 I\u2019ve made a lot of them and we have more variety in our diet now than ever.\u00a0 I feel far less restricted now after weight loss surgery than I have in the past when dieting, which I find sort of crazy.<\/p>\n

To be honest, food has been the least of my concerns through this process.\u00a0 I am still never hungry, I eat a lot of yummy food and have a lot of variety and don\u2019t really ever feel deprived or like I miss the things I can\u2019t have.\u00a0 Other than when I am at a restaurant I don\u2019t feel like my life revolves around trying to find things I can or can\u2019t eat, but I don\u2019t go to restaurants very often anyway.<\/p>\n

All is well in the food department!!<\/p>\n

The Exercise<\/strong><\/p>\n

The exercise has been going pretty well. I still basically follow a \u201cWhat I can, when I can\u201d mentality and it seems to be working well so far.\u00a0 I do try to push myself to go sometimes when I don\u2019t feel like it but I haven\u2019t set myself a strict xx times a week and do xx kilometers type of regimen.\u00a0 I know from my past issues that if I do that and don\u2019t live up to my own expectations I get defeated and pissed off and that ends up being totally counterproductive.\u00a0 This seems to work really well for me so far and it keeps the enjoyment there for me which is hugely important.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve started tracking my exercise on Endomondo<\/a> which I really like. It\u2019s nice when I come back from a walk or a bike ride to see all the stats on what I\u2019ve done.\u00a0 I don\u2019t track it when I go on a normal walk with the dogs, go shopping or anything like that, just when I am heading out for an exercise outing.\u00a0 You can see some of my workouts below\u2026<\/p>\n