Purchased a Treadmill Today!

I am officially 5 months and a few days post-op. I still have some physical restrictions, but I am anxious and motivated to get moving. Since I am still limited to exercising based on my injuries and pain, I purchased a treadmill so I can at least began walking every day in an effort to get back into physical shape, as well as, get the pounds coming off again.

Today my weight was 170.4. I have been sitting here and bouncing up a pound or two now for last couple of weeks. I WANT THAT LAST .05 OUNCES TO GO SO I CAN SAY . . . I am finally in the 160's.

It is now 34 days until we fly to Hawaii for 12 days and I hope to drop at least 10 pounds. That means I need to keep my goal at 2 pounds a week for the next 5 weeks.

Wish me luck.

It’s Official, I have finally lost 62 pounds!

Fives month post-op and I am finally down 62 pounds today. I am very happy to finally break the 50 pound weight loss mark, but I still have 55.6 pounds to go to reach my goal.

I have switched up my diet and added back into it a daily protein shake in order to get the scale to move again, and BINGO, it did. I will continue with the shakes for a while and see how far it will take my weight loss.

It is apparent that I am still not able to do any intense exercising in the next month and therefore my weight loss is slower than normal. I am hoping that my side will be healed soon so I can go back to my normal very physical lifestyle.

Until that time, I will continue life, one day at a time.

Keeping my eyes fixed on full recovery.

As I am getting thinner I have noticed that sleeping again on my sides is becoming a problem as it did when I first tried to sleep on my sides. It is true the extreme soreness is finally gone, but it is still sore in the deep tissue. Now that I am thinning around my abdomen I can feel my ribs again when I poke my body with my finger. The problem now is I do not have the fat support to protect my side when I lay on it. Not to mention my belly still sags as it did immediately following my C-section. I was hopeful that I would not need a tummy tuck, but the C-section is so saggy that it appears I will need to have it done at a later point to support my muscles and abdomen again.

I still have sharp pains on my insides in the general area where my rny broke loose and leaked. It still hurts to take a deep breath and my incisions are still rather deep pink and purple.

One thing that has changed about me since having the surgery is realizing how short life can be. I was awake one moment telling the nurse inserting my pic line that I wasn’t feeling quite right to seeing all black and white lights that then begin to spin and then I was code blue. Not breathing, no heat beat, my life was over in a flash until I recall hearing music in my head and my mind feeling so peaceful and relaxed. I wasn’t aware of my surroundings or feeling any pain, I felt a jerk and someone pulling my arms and calling my name. Then it all became real when I opened my eyes and I fell back against the bed, my head was forced up and a doctor was holding an oxygen mask on me, the room was full of doctors and nurses out into the hallway. As the doctor began to ask me questions and they did an x-ray and continued oxygen, I was happy to hear I was a code blue full resuscitate.

Yes, I was alive to see another day, but I was changed. With the crucial immediate healing behind me and working towards full recovery I have more of an urgency to want to complete my bucket list.  I have always put things off that I really wanted to do for another day. I would make a sacrifice so others could have more, but I don’t want to be on my death bed someday full of regret for all the things I never did that I always wanted to do. 

This new year my husband and I will strive to get our business off the ground so the rewards will eventually pay off and I can knock off the items on my bucket list one at a time.

Feeling Tired.

I have been feeling tired the past two days. I am unsure if it is that I am not sleeping enough or eating enough protein. I still have not followed through with my labs that the doctor gave me the slip for in November, but I am uncertain where I placed it. I thought I had put it folded it and put it in my purse, but it was not there. I may have to look through the glove compartment of the car to see if may I put it in there so I can go have those labs done. I need to know if I am deficient in any of my vitamins.

My memory is slowly getting better from  my death experience, but it is still not what it was prior to this incident. I am looking at it from a positive aspect and that is, it is getting better so in the long run it can only get better and return to it's former state.

I am encouraged to keep losing weight and finally be thin again.

58 pounds lost, 59 to go!

Today when I weighed myself I was pleasantly surprised: I weighed 174.6, a weight loss of 58 pounds since the day I went to Mexico to have surgery. I did not expect to drop any more weight this week since I usually only lose one to two pounds per week. It is so early in the week to have already lost 2 pounds. I only hope I can maintain this weight today throughout the rest of the week so my Friday weekly weigh in which I keep my weekly totals will still reflect this.

I am more determined this new year to do many more things than I had previously. I have never been one to make resolutions, but this year was the first and I intended to accomplish the goals I have set for this year.

Good luck to all my followers and readers to keep up the good work in accomplishing the goals you have set for yourself in this new year.

New Year, New Me!

Out with the fat old Robyn, In with the thin Robyn. That is my motto for 2014. This year will not be another year that I was unsuccessful at dieting and exercising to lose weight, this year, I will lose the rest of the weight and I will be thinner, and happier, and healthier.

I look forward to doing all the things I used to do before I developed diabetes and gained all the weight.

I am looking forward now to going to Hawaii in March and seeing if my shoulders are still achy all the time. Since I have moved here I have had problems, but I assumed it was due to gaining weight, until I left for vacation and the pain went away and only returned when I arrived back home.

This will be a good little test to discover it is truly the gravitational pull and barometric pressure here or if I need to make an appointment with a surgeon and have my shoulders operated on. It isn't easy to exercise when you cannot raise you arms above your head or you wake up at night in pain because you moved and it hurts. If surgery is what it takes to help me also get to the new me, then surgery it is.

This picture was taken on New Years Eve. Weight loss to 12/31/2013  -  45 pounds!