WOW…where does the time go…

I cannot believe it has been this long since I have written a blog. SHAME ON ME!! I will try to do better in the future. I went to the doctor in November and I lost another 5 lbs, which puts me at 40 lbs lost so far. He told me that because I am doing so well that I did not need another fill. He was happy with a 5 lbs loss and told me as long as I continue to lose between 5 to 8 lbs a month I would be fine. I was glad I did not get another fill. Why? Well, because it gives me time to lose the weight slowly and leaves more room in my band to add fill later when my weight lose slows down. He did tell me I need to do more exercise!

I am not a big fan of exercise. I have done my fair share and hated it. I actually do not hate exercising; I just hate trying to find time to do it. However, if you plan on having this surgery, then you better damn well plan on working out. IT IS A MUST…so yes, I will be doing it soon. I plan to start after the holidays, yeah, yeah…you hear that all the time, but I am different. The last time I worked out I lost 40 lbs on my own, so I am curious to see what will happen now!!

SCALE ATTACK…or rather lack of it. Like everyone else, I get a lot of use out of my scale. However, for some weird reason, I just could not force myself to weigh in for almost three weeks. It was the weirdest thing, but I avoided the scale like crazy. It was not because I was gaining weight because my clothes were getting looser. I still don’t know, but after talking some other bandsters, it is a phase you might go through during your weight loss on lap-band.

Well, I was supposed to go back to the doctor next week, but I decided to push it off for another month because I am keeping on course. I am down another 5 lbs, which makes it a total of 45 lbs lost, but I will not update my on-line scale until I get weighed by my doctor. I am a little sad because I don’t think I will meet my Christmas goal of losing 50 lbs, but it is okay.

I am going to end this blog here because I don’t want them to get too long. I have another in mind that you will need to read because it involves how people around you will react to your weight loss…