Friday the 16th of October marks four months since surgery, today I got on the scale, and it read 272. I did not anticipate losing one hundred pounds within the first four months. Before surgery when I was doing my research, it was fairly common to lose one hundred pounds in six months. However, I knew this is just a number the real number that matter is the percent of excess body weight lost. So far, I have lost 51% of my excess body weight.
Today also marks the day I completed my second goal. My first goal was to weigh less than 300 lbs. and my second was to lose 100 lbs. Now I’m working on my last goal which is to lose 75% of my excess body weight or to weigh 225 lbs. The one goal I am not setting for myself is to weigh 177 lbs. or to lose 100% of my excess body weight.
I have two reasons for this, the first being my surgery is guaranteed to help me lose 75% of my excess body weight and the second is I'm not sure I want to be that thin. I have a feeling the dietary and fitness changes I'm making will gradually keep propelling my weight downward but at this time I'm not setting a goal to lose all of my excess body weight.
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