Well, I have a few good things to report since last post.

First thing I have is that I had a follow up appointment with my endocrinologist.  As many of you know, I had thyroid cancer in 1994 when I was 19 years old.  I had my thyroid removed and radiation treatment to make sure all tissue was destroyed.  I was lucky to have a wonderful doctor at the time that caught it and was able to catch it all and have it removed before it spread further.  BUT, because of that, I have had some permanent changes to my body, and will be on Synthroid medicine for the rest of my life.  SO – my follow up appointment with my endocrinologist was just a routine visit to check and make sure my medicine levels were correct.

She lowered my medicine again on this visit.  (2nd time since surgery)  She also pricked my finger to check my A1C levels.  Being overweight for so long, I have been “pre-diabetes” for a while now.  Not really bad enough to be treated for it, but enough to have them keep a close eye on me to make sure it didn’t get worse.  Well, since surgery she has told me that I am FAR from pre-diabetes.  She told me this visit that the surgery has solved a lot of problems for me and she was happy I had it.  She said that I’m so far from pre-diabetes now that she’s not even going to monitor me for it any more.  She said also, with my cancer, that it’s now been so long and all my tests and full body scans have come back negative that she’s going to stop being so aggressive with that also.  Sounds like I’m in the all clear there!  Of coarse, I’ll go back yearly to check and make sure I’m on the right dose of medicine, but things are looking good there.

Second thing I have to report is that I have hit my second goal!!  I have reached ONEderland.  In the Weight Loss Surgery community, that means that I have gotten under 200 lbs now.  I hit a stall for like two months, or close to that, and it was just right above my second goal, so it’s been driving me crazy!  I have no idea how people get such good picture of their scales, because mine all sucked, but here it is:

I haven’t been this weight for a LONG time.  Probably since high school.  Of coarse I don’t look as good as I did when I was younger, but hey, I’m starting to show my age now.  I really don’t know when I became an old lady, it just happened.  I am still fat and feel fat, but I’ve also come a long way from where I was.

I get amazed about how the same weight looks SO different on different people.  When people say how much they weigh in the groups I just look at them and think “I wish I looked THAT good at that weight!”  Right now my husband and I are the same weight, but of coarse he’s a stick figure.  BUT he has a foot of height on top of me.  I have a little under 60 lbs left to lose before I hit my final goal.  I have about 20 more lbs to lose before I hit my next goal.  It’s slowing down a lot now though, so it’s going to take a lot longer than it did for me to get to this point.

I appreciate all the support and kind words people have given me.  I’m very lucky to be surrounded by many loving friends and family.  I have a great circle of people around me.