Great going, Chuck! May you continue on to your chosen ideal weight and keep
dropping medicines along the way. Atta go, guy!
Paul A
Charles Christ wrote:
> ok gang here it is a long awaited 5 month post surgery update on my
> progress.
> as of today i am now oficially free of all my diabetic medications! (blood
> tests earlier this week were reported tome via phone by the Dr's nurse this
> morning!)
> also i weighed myself this morning and the digital scale read exactly
> 284lbs! that is 100lbs lost in 5 months since surgery.
> my only remaining medication besides vitamins is my inhaler for my asthma.
> this is needed far less than i ever remember since i have been using the
> same medication for well over 20 years now!
> if i stopped loosing weight tomorrow i'd still classify this as a complete
> sucess! i have lost a total of 169lbs over the last year and a half and am
> free of the blood pressure and diabetic medications. i have about 60-70lbs
> left to loose to get to my personal goal weight , but the Dr. has done the
> age/height thing and determined i'm to be around 176lbs! no way!
> 200-220lbs and i'd be happy! i fear that down to that ideal weight i would
> look drawn and unhealthy. as it is now people are telling me i
> look"right". i have no intentions of going too thin and becoming unwell or
> unhealthy. i was just there on the other end of the spectrum and do not
> choose to go there.
> so protien, water and some veggies/fruit are the order of the day here as it
> will continue to be.
> i do thank evryone for their support! this is not easy and with many
> considered a very bad thing to do(gastric bypass surgery). but it is
> working for me and that is all that matters.
>
> chuck
> formerly the world's largest sprite driver......heading for a degree of
> normalcy(what ever that might be?...LOL!).......c. :)
>
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