Naked Saturday: 281.4 (-73.2)
Celebrating: New Year’s, and a fresh (if artificially imposed) start. Also celebrating: Losing 20% of my body weight in 2009.
Grateful for: A blissfully uneventful procedure on Wednesday. Aside from trouble with the IV and a 3-hour wait on the gurney, after 6 pricks, 2 hematomas, and struggling to wake up from the general anesthesia just to sloppily demand, “But, do I get to go home this time?” all seems well. My duct injury and liver bile leak have healed better than they expected, they did NOT have to re-place a new stent on the duct, and I have been sent on my merry way for now. I’ve slept off the anesthesia and my throat and voice are nearly back to full functionality (the procedure was endoscopic — a tube through the throat to the intestines). All in all, it is the best possible outcome for the time being.
Starting weight: 354.6 pounds (well, that was my 2/2008 weight)
Last week: 287.2
This week: 281.4
Change this week: -5.8
Total change: -73.2
Next milestone: 80 pounds gone (I already crossed the 75-pound milestone when I weighed after getting home from the hospital).
Current goal: 275 by Valentine’s Day, 227 by the end of 2009
This week’s mantra: The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
January 4th, 2009 at 9:12 am
so glad you are doing well!
and it was fairly uneventful!
one week your Mantra might be
NO MORE DRAMA!
I love that ‘journey of a thousand miles’ quote – it is one of my favorites! My psychiatrist has quotes printed and under the glass on his desk so that the patient can read them from their side. any that I am interested in – he prints. You will see many of them on my blog side bar. (he is also a yoga person and a whole foods person) I really like/relax into his simplicity.