9/13/10: 423.6 pounds (all time high)
8/16/11: 358.2 pounds (lowest since May, 2009)
65.4 pounds lost in 11 months
An accomplishment to be proud of… and just a drop in the bucket… almost 1/3 of my goal…
It’s interesting that I weighed 410.0 on 6/13/11… so I lost 51.8 pounds in the last 63 days!
The majority of the weight loss (37.0 pounds to be exact) has been lost in the last 42 days (since I started on Weight Watchers) and partially due to my recent hospital stay for Gall Bladder removal. Other than that I really don’t know what to attribute the second most dramatic weight loss I have ever had (I lost 73 pounds in one year back in 1982) to… I did start taking Prozac (as a possible way to help me lose weight – 60 mg a day) back in December 2010 at a weight of 415 pounds… I did lose about 20 pounds from that point by March 2011 when my weight leveled off, but then it started climbing again… until it was at 410 in June 2011…
So what is making the difference now? Well I started not feeling very good… I haven’t felt great in quite awhile, but it just seemed worse than normal… and I got tired (again) of being fat. So I started dieting and lost a little weight.. then my friend Stuart asked me to join Weight Watchers and that has been the perfect thing for me right now… I don’t know if it will remain the perfect thing, but for now it is.
So what changes have I seen? Well the most drastic one was having gall Bladder issues that ended up with me spending 5 days in the hospital. I believe that the Gall Stones were triggered by the weight loss as there is some information about that available on-line.. so while this was a bad thing related to the weight loss, it is over and I am feeling good now… As for the positive things I have seen since losing some weight… I don’t have pain in my knee when walking or going up stairs anymore… it had been getting pretty painful and now it’s like nothing was ever wrong with it. I feel better… not as tired all the time… I feel like I look better.. .I feel ‘taller’ (I have had this same feeling before when losing a lot of weight and couldn’t figure out why I feel taller when I am thinner… but I think that when I lose enough weight in my belly so that when I am standing, looking forward, I no longer see it, that makes me feel taller)… My wife and kids think I look better… My clothes are fitting better… I have a feeling of accomplishment (not that I am done yet)… I am getting some confidence back and looking forward to being more active.
So for the next 60 pounds.. I am shooting for February 2012 to hit 298.2… that is 6 months from now and will be the first time under 300 in a REALLY long time… as for the actions that it will take to get there, I know I need to stay on the WW program but I also need to start being more active… so my activity goal this week is to walk everyday… that means at least a half mile each day… and my food goal is to just stay under my points each week.