37 days after (but who's counting)

So I went to my 1 month follow up appt today with my surgeon. I brought up the non changing scale issue and he was surprisingly not concerned about it.. He said he could see that I had already lost a lot and just to keep doing what I'm doing. I also got released to full activity, YAY!! Now I can start my new exercise routine and hopefully watch the scales start moving again soon. I know muscle weighs more than fat, so when I start working out I will probably not loose numbers on the scale as fast as I'd like. Truthfully, at this point, any movement is progress and it shows me than I can do it! I'm very excited to start this new routine in addition to walking a couple of miles a day.

He did have one concern..my vitamin levels! My A, D, E, & K are very low! On top of that, I had just ordered these new multivitamins from Bariatric Advantage that I saw at my support group (required monthly in the pathway). The facilitator of the group uses them and she passed around her bottle for us to look at in case we were interested and I was looking for something I could take easily. So the bottle she passed around was full of very small capsules that looked like they would go down super easy so I thought I'd try them. Well I ordered them and they came in today after I got home from my appt and I went to take one right away.. I opened them up and they're HUGE horse pills! OMG there's no way I can swallow that thing like even before surgery!! So I called the company and of course, they're closed until tomorrow. Anyway, enough about that for now lol.

My incisions are almost invisible and there is almost no scar tissue underlying (that makes a lump under the incision). This means that after a little while longer, you won't be able to see anything at all!!! My energy level is great! Working on getting my motivation level up there with it but writing to y'all here helps with that! It also helps with the accountability even if only because I'm not going to lie and tell y'all I'm doing something that I'm not. I fail at something every single day. The important thing is that I get up the next day and try to do better than the last. Now of course, it doesn't always happen like that.. sometimes I wake up in a mood and I don't want to do anything but sit around all day and mope about all the things I need to be doing or want to be doing. The best thing for me to do is tell someone in my circle what I plan to do the next day. For example, if I tell me husband I'd like to walk the trail near our house 2 times tomorrow instead of just once, he's going to ask me about it the next day and see how it went. If I didn't do it, I immediately feel like I let myself down. I think we all need someone to hold us accountable to a certain extent.

Unfortunately, I personally do not do well with accountability! More about that and how that affects my daily life in the next post titled What'd You Just Say To Me?

That's all for now. If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to send me a message!! I'd love to chat with y'all about anything and everything!!

Much love y'all! Until next time,

Kay