Monday morning weigh in occurred again today. Having scales that work is a bonus and they showed me I finally cracked the 100kg mark . I am 99.5 for the first time in about 12 months
. I was doing really well with my weight loss but personal issues threw me off track last year.
My goal for this week was to beat the 100 kgs and I am so happy I did it. I am really starting to feel good about my increasing fitness and seeing some real progress with getting this weight off. I would love to be going into GCS being under 90 Kgs (198lb) which is my ultimate goal. I only have to be under 96kgs (211lb) for the surgeon so only 3.5kgs (8lb) and I will have met GCS requirements.
My understanding from the information I was given is that the surgeon is not happy to operate on anyone over 100kgs(there will be exceptions to this I am sure) and prefers your BMI to be under 30 so being under the 100kgs meets the first of his two requirements and I have 141 days 22 hrs 1minute (not that anyone is counting
) to reach the 90 Kgs which is my ultimate goal and well within requirements for surgery. If I keep losing at my current rate of about 800 grms (2lb) per week I will be at my goal weight of 90ks(198lb) by 24 September...which when you break it down feels pretty achievable lol I slipped off the diet wagon a few times late last week and need to be a little more vigilant this week.
I have asked for a referral to the voice therapist again but with a view this time to getting a further referral for some surgery. I may end up after Nov with just enough funds to have a couple of smaller procedures. For example I would have enough to get a boob job and maybe some more hair implants...or maybe some minor cosmetic facial surgery and a voice tune up. I won't have enough for FFS but close. So my dilemma is where am I going to get my "best bang for bucks"...breast augmentation is probably at the top of my list but the idea of silicone implants scares the "bleep" out of me but then my understanding is there are not too many choices and they are fairly safe.
My current focus will remain on the weight loss as I have 3 surgeries coming up in the next 8 months two of which are major. It all starts in august where I get my implanted medication pump replaced. This is probably the easiest of the surgeries requiring the shortest recovery time. Because the meds from the pump go directly into the spinal fluid there needs to be an entry point to deliver them. When this point is accessed a certain amount of spinal fluid is lost...the result?...so imagine your worst hangover headache lasting for 24-48 hrs and you don't get to have the fun of boozing before hand. Apart from that, the wound will take about 3 weeks to heal. Following that we have GCS in Nov and then finally a hip replacement as soon as my skin integrity is intact again probably some time after January. Add in a possible augmentation and it could easily be 4 surgeries in the next 12 months. This makes the next few months really important in preparing for this. Getting fit and losing the weight is going to make each one of these surgeries so much easier to recover from with an added bonus that I get a new wardrobe of clothes once I reach my goal.
Enough blathering for one day
Take care
Liz
