Gastric Banding Surgery: 2nd Adjustment & Shopping

I had a 2nd adjustment on September 26th.  I had only lost 2 pounds in the last 2 weeks and I knew that I've been eating too much.  Mark went with me to my New U appointment and watched the RN do the adjustment.  I have never watched, I don't like needles.

Shopping trip on September 28th at Macy's in the City Creek Mall in Salt Lake City, Utah.

 

  

I went to the third floor to the large women's section.  When the 0x were fitting just fine, I decided to go to the regular women's clothes section and try on the XL size clothes.  But, I discovered that the clothes in regular women's covered the ENTIRE 2nd floor of the store.  Holy cow, I couldn't find  anything on sale.  I had found a dress that I liked, but couldn't find pants and was about to give up and leave when I asked a sales clerk for assistance.  She was so kind, and helped me find just the right clothes.  She found a cardigan to go with my dress and then found 3 styles of pants in 4 different sizes, since I had not shopped for new pants since my surgery.

 

 

Gastric Banding Surgery: New U appointment on September 12th

It has been 3 months since my last appointment at New U.  I haven't been in Idaho Falls on a Thursday for 3 months!

My weight loss was only 4 pounds - way to little for 3 months, well that is my opinon.  But they encouraged me.

I have been excited to wear clothes that I haven't been able to fit into since 2011.  A dress that I almost waited too long to wear,

( my upper hand is holding the edge of the fabric that goes way past the center where it should button)

and a pair of capris that I don't even have to unzip to pull them down.  I love feeling thinner, but then I see a picture of myself, and I still look so FAT!

And I've grown tired of trying to keep track of how much I weighed the morning of surgery, how much I weighed when I started the liver shrinking diet before surgery, and how much my highest weight was this year.  So my weight loss numbers are just going to be from my highest weight in January of this year.  So here it is..........I weigh 50 pounds less than I did in January!

Feeling Sick

I've had a couple times that I've felt really sick after I started to eat.  I think I was eating too fast or was it that I tried to eat one of my favorite old foods: french fries.  I would gag and spit for over an hour and feel horrible.  It happened on July 6th and then again one day in August.