For those of you interested, I still am not in onederland...I weigh 200.2 lbs today and have cramps and am generally annoyed. I have put my scale away because weighing yourself during your period is masochistic. I might miss 199, but 198 or 197 will feel just as good I'm sure.
On to a more exciting topic.... my health insurance confirmed today that they will pay for 70% of a panniculectomy. If you're a bariatric patient, I am sure you know what this is - for those of you who don't, it is the removal of that skin that hangs down over your pubus once you have lost a lot of weight.
I am pretty darn happy about this because I really really hate this part of my body. I can live with anything else, but I cannot live with this pouch of loose hanging skin. I had two c-sections and weighed 313 pounds the day my 12 pound daughter was born. I am so stretched out and surgically altered down there, I just need a reset (aka, fresh start in the tummy area). They want you at a stable weight for 6 months and to be at least one year post-op. This is even more of an incentive for me to lose my remaining 40 pounds by July 27th, which was always my goal. That would be 126 pounds in one year. And it would set me on course for this tummy reset for Christmas - what a delightful present that would be!
I have been thinking of that surgery as well. I don't need it yet of course I am not even close to goal. But that is the one thing I look at with a little disgust. Okay, A lot of disgust. BUT...I haven't had babies yet. I should probably wait until after kids if we have em.
ReplyDeleteI think that you are already in onderland. You are just retaining while pmsing. I wonder if I am doing the same thing?! I haven't lost anything this week. Well maybe .5 of a lb. But I also have been sick, eating junk, and not exercising. I'm placing blame on TOM! :)