30 August, 2017
WHMP: 30 August 2017
Weigh in Wednesday has rolled around again! Wednesday seems to come around so quickly….
This week – 1.5kg
Since surgery – 53.1kg
Total – 72kg
Loving life, loving my changes, loving my progress, loving the way I am feeling, loving the way I am looking, loving my sleeve!
After yesterday epic gym session I was pleasantly surprised that I felt fine and well enough even to rock out in my heels again at work today.
I had a follow up appointment at lunchtime today with Lilian’s clinic, Lilian was away overseas so I had my follow up with my Bariatric GP (Kiki) so I off I went in my lunch break, I caught a taxi there which was my first little win of the day. I haven’t caught a taxi since February this year and last time I did I had to pretend to do up the seatbelt in the backseat as it didn’t physically fit. Today I clicked it in easily without any dramas at all….NSV victory.
My appointment went really well. It’s started off with her being in awe of my physical transformation asking me to do a twirl of my outfit on the way in so she could see how fantastic I was looking and then went on to compliment me on my new style and confidence she can see in me.
She is very happy that my acute episodes of pain have completely gone and that I am managing with the residual tightness and discomfort without any pain relief. I need to continue with the management plan of lactulose and coloxyl/sennalax at the double dose that I am currently in until I am have daily movements and then gradually scale it back until I find a regular routine. After a fortnight if I still aren’t regular I will need to exchange the oral tablets to movicol but not yet as this can be harsher on my tiny little pouch.
She also did my updated measurements. Since 15 November 2016 I have lost 64cm off my waist and 58cm off my hips and she no longer needed to double up on the tape measure with one length now being around to get around me.
As I was about to leave Kiki then decided to round up all the other staff to show me off on how well I am doing. My heart is full of appreciation for the amazing team at Adelaide Bariatric Centre and full of pride of my own achievements.
As I left I had a whim moment and thought Norwood isn’t that far away from the city, I don’t need to get a taxi back to work…..I’ll walk back instead. It was only 2.3km however I was wearing high heels and I may have gotten slightly lost and ended up walking an extra km than i needed to walk. I wouldn’t have even considered with 1 month ago let alone 8 months ago…..another NSV, even if my feet were screaming WHY HOLLY WHY at me for the rest of the afternoon.
Even with my unplanned walk this afternoon I was intending to go to the gym tonight, unfortunately the little guy didn’t go to bed until nearly 9pm so by then it was way too late for me to go to the gym. There is always tomorrow night.