5 months post op

5 months post op.
Current Weight: 222lbs
Total Weight Lost: 98lbs.
Exercise: I have just joined Las Vegas Health Club and planning on going 4 to 6 times a week.
Calorie Intake: still around 500 – 700 a day supplementing with protein drinks

I have gotten to the point of trying to update the blog monthly now and I have reached the 5 month mark. I am so close to making a major goal but I could not put off posting any longer. I am down 98 pounds, only 2 pounds from my 100 pound goal.

I am only 20 pounds from my final goal. I have joined a local health club in hopes of toning up some of the loss skin and regaining a little of the muscle lost in the last 5 months.

I still don’t like eating. I continue to feel nauseous after eating just a couple of bites of nearly anything. It sure keeps me from over eating. Thank God my love for cooking is satisfied by cooking for others.

I am celebrating the weight loss by buying some nice clothes from The Men’s Warehouse. I have to admit, the change is shocking!

Some of the misleading information I got before surgery or at least the things that affected me differently are as follows:

1) “Can’t drink carbonated drinks”. Well, high carbonation is definitely can’t be tolerated but a fountain diet coke or sprite seem to be fine and if you dilute a can of coke with some rum I have no problem with it.

2) “Hunger pains no longer exist”. no, I still get hungry occasionally but just a couple of bites of anything or even some water knocks it right out.

3) “The feel of Nausea will go away in 2 or 3 months”. It’s been 5 and I still feel like crap when I eat but at least that is the only time I feel that way.

Some of the expected things that have happened:

1) “The weight loss will make you feel better”. Yeap, I am feeling good.

2) “It will change your life”. That is for sure, I feel much better about myself.

3) “it will take care of some medical problems”. I am off all my meds for blood pressure and cholesterol
The true love of food is to eat to live, not live to eat and cook to please others.