8 months out
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, 11-21-2017 at 06:07 PM (1822 Views)
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! On Friday, day after thanksgiving day, will be my 8th month anniversary since surgery.
I have lost 102 and am holding steady. I am very happy with this amount lost, so if this is it... this is it and I am MORE than OK with it.
I know 'they' (surgeons/nutritionists) said that MOST of the hunger hormone -ghrelin- gets removed, but mine must have used google maps to find it's way back home to me. My appetite has increased drastically over the past couple of months but I have been good about it. I have caved occasionally with a few town house flatbread crisps but haven't reverted back to my former fat-way-of-eating... and don't plan on it. But I notice I am hungrier. I attributed a lot of it to the jogging I started doing (and had to stop 2 weeks ago due to my hip killing me) and I am at zumba 4 days a week and burning calories. So I understand needing some more caloric intake. But the craving for carbs seem to be inching in and I am doing my best to go for the protein bar, or protein drink, or eating a chicken breast.
All in all, I do not feel like I am now 60 years old (turned it on November 8th) and my hip feels better so I may jog tomorrow morning and on Thanksgiving morning to see how it's doing. I am still learning with my new tool and it's a work in progress. I am a work in progress.