Nutritionist Visit

So, yesterday was my first time seeing the nutritionist since surgery. Let me start by saying I LOVE my nutritionist. She is 100% awesome, very encouraging and very knowledgeable. She has talked me out of crazy expectations via e-mail a couple of times since surgery. She's taught me about plateaus and how to deal with them. She's taught me how to eat low carb and she's taught me how to exercise. So, yes, she's amazing. Her support and guidance have made this journey happen for me.

They have this super fancy scale there that tells you not only how much you weigh, but what your body composition is. Now, I have no idea how it works, but it's pretty cool. So, I hop on the scale as instructed and wait for the beep. Then this handy little receipt prints out. It has a lot of information on it about your total weight, your fat mass, your fat free mass, etc.

Drum roll please..... I am down 60 pounds since my pre-op visit on 4/1/2015. And ALL of it was fat!! Since I first started seeing her, I have lost 96 pounds of FAT. Shocking! That's a person. That's amazing, stupendous, and more adjectives that I can't think of right now. It's hard to put that in perspective. I know I'm smaller, but I still feel big. So, I found some images to put it into perspective. First up, 100 pounds of fat on a table. Odd, I know, but it puts it in perspective to think I was carrying that around with me.

And then there's this cute web page where you can go put in your weight loss and it compares it to standard objects. So I put in 96 since that is the amount of fat I have lost since February. (I would put in my total weight loss of 120, but it only goes  to 100.) I can't begin to imagine almost 19,000 beer caps. Can you?





She told me I was doing very well with my diet, but that I need to get more consistent with the working out part of it. She said that if I continue being inconsistent, I will start to see muscle loss and other issues. I don't want that, so it's off to the gym I go. I went on Monday and plan to go today, tomorrow, and Friday. I feel better when I go and I sleep better when I go. I know I need to do it, so it's just a matter of making it a habit now.

So, all in all, I got a very good report. The labs on my vitamin levels will be back on Thursday and I will update everyone on those when I get the reports.