4 Months 1 Week Post-Op

Wow! A lot of time has passed since my last update! I have been so busy with moving and deployment and spending time with family to notice! to those of you who read often, I apologize. Since my last update my wound is completely healed! It healed enough the day that my husband deployed for me to stop packing it! It was very lucky timing for us! God was definitely watching out for us and gave me and my husband just the amount of time we needed together before his departure. He has been gone a little over a month now. I have also gotten a membership to the YMCA and have been working out with my sister. I have started doing upper body workouts to focus on the loose skin that I am beginning to accumulate on my arms. I am also doing cardio exercises and got a sweet pair of Dr. Dre Beats headphones for working out. I will be scheduling my second personal training session this week to learn about which lower body workouts will be best for me and in a few weeks I will begin focusing on my abdomen. I am still a little sensitive when doing crunches and things of that nature with my incision site, so I don't want to push it too early. I had to get a doctors clearance for my Y membership and I was so happy the day that they allowed me to start my personal training! At this point I have hit a bit of a plateau, maybe it was the stress from moving, or my husband's absence, but I am sitting on a loss a little under 60 lbs at the moment and I am finally below 200 lbs! I feel good about myself and I am gaining more confidence. My scars are starting to fade and I am noticing that I have more endurance when it comes to walking long distances and uphill. I can even climb stairs without getting winded! I also had quit taking my vitamins for a few weeks because they were making me sick, but I found a new one that I like much better and I began taking them today. I got the Strawberry-Pineapple multivitamin, the Grape Iron, and the Berry calcium from Celebrate Bariatric Vitamins and they are really good. I also got the Chocolate protein and vitamin powder, but it's not as good as others I have had. Mainly due to the fact that they make you mix it with milk as to not add extra calories and fat. It is tolerable though. I will post some photos of my progress at the bottom of this posting and will be sure to update more frequently!

3 month 3 week comparison photo:

You can see my "pucker" where my incision was and also very vague scars, I am also accumulating some loose skin at the bottom of my stomach:

This is a view of my incision all healed up!