CONGRATULATIONS Chuck!!
Great to hear of your success. You've lost more weight than comprises my
whole being. I don't think you need to worry about looking too thin, it may
just take a little while to get used to seeing the "new you".
Keep up the good work.
Gerard
At 1:47 PM -0700 9/30/02, Deikis, John wrote:
>KEEP IT UP, CHUCK!!!!!
>453# to 284# = 169# off. Imagine the effect on your joints, feet, and
>spine!
>You were hefting two good-size bags of concrete mix (by my estimation),
>every day, wherever you went, up and down stairs, in and out of the
>bugeye...even in the sack! ...or you could think of it as carrying an
>overweight woman, piggyback, 24 hours a day. Then maybe the sack is
>excusable, but up and down the stairs?
>You gotta be feelin' great.
>Congratulations.
>--JohnD
>
>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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