Did It!

Well, I hit my 50 lb goal going back to work...Just a little later than anticipated...It is 3 weeks into school already and I am down 53 lbs! I am losing rather slowly, these days...only 5-6 lbs per month and in September, I haven't lost anything. I guess this is what they call a stall...It is discouraging to lose more slowly now but I am not losing any sleep over it, just as long as I lose the other 37 lbs by March 30, 2010, the 1 yr anniversary of my surgery...That is my ultimate goal...and if I don't meet that, perhaps by my birthday in May or by the end of the school year in the first week of June. I just need to be patient with my body, I guess. I am doing all things according to plan, exercising, watching carbs, fat and sugar...so it will come off in time.

I WAS VERY PROUD of myself last week, when I had to sell a box of candy for the Sophomore Class and did not find myself in the box buying or eating any of it. I also resisted the temptation to eat any of the goodies brought in by students who did demonstration speeches this week. Some of them baked things and I just passed. I didn't have to think twice about it either. I wasn't tempted and know how to use those two letters, N-O! No one was offended I didn't eat their food. In the past, before WLS I would have mowed on everything brought in and put in front of me, and then eaten lunch on top of that!

Today, I did go shopping at Kasper's in the Birch Run Mall and picked up a really nice dressy pant suit for work in a size 12. This is a big deal for me since I have not been a size 12 in about 12 years! I am not at goal yet, but am currently half the woman I used to be since I started out in a size 24 and am now in a size 12!