Just Back From

[Islay]

A week away in a hotel also it was my birthday so lot of celebrating going on!
Sooo I stepped on the scales with bated breath and guess what??
I lost 11 pounds!!
I am truly shocked!
So had to stop off at M&S on the way home and buy a few bits and pieces as clothes I bought to go away with no longer fit!!
Yaaay

[jackthehat]

Whereas I usually have to do it the other way round.... :o)

Well done you!!

[ethandron]

Well done you :)
It appears we're both Virgos...

[ummmm]

Well done, You'll be a skinny blinky with big banana feet before you know it xx

[Islay]

Are we eth? - mine was last saturday.

[Islay]

Lol Thanks all but I don't have big feet - i have dropped 2 sizes in shoes so far!!

[ethandron]

Mine was yesterday, not much celebrating though as I'm a bit under par.

[Islay]

Oh no - happy birthday for yesterday x
Hope you feel better soon xx

[ethandron]

Thanks Islay, and the same to you for last Saturday. You haven't half done well with your weight loss, I'm almost tempted to join Facebook so I can see your before and after pics, assuming that's where you decided to put them.

[Islay]

Yes but we have a mutual friend who can copy and paste them if you ask her nicely

[mallyh]

well done you xx i'm dreading the next weigh in after my hols next week xx

[Islay]

mally i am really surprised - I know I swam everyday and walked loads but it has taken me by surprise.

[albaqwerty]

belated hippo birdies for yesterday Eth xx

Islay am so chuffed for you!
Definitely going in the right direction, well done lass! xx

(wish I had a mutual friend -( )

[Islay]

Oh Alba so do I

[DTCwordfan]

Congrats, you're coming down the slope quicker than Eddie the Eagle did in Calgary! xx

[chelle7272]

Well done, fabulous progress, you must be feeling great!

[Bazile]

So how does this work - have you got a target weight you are aiming for ?

[ethandron]

Thanks Alba.
Oh ho, will defo get said person on the case ;)

[Islay]

Yes Bazile, I have a weight that I discussed with the surgeon that he thought was my max weightloss possible, then I am looking at further ops for the excess skin which will take me down a futher couple of stone.
Lets put it this way its a fraction of what I weighed in January!

[Bazile]

So what happens when you reach that weight ?
Doesn't the Gastric Band reduce the amount you eat - so if you cant eat a lot , wont you just continue to lose weight ?

[Tilly2]

As an aside, there was a really interesting article in this week's Observer magazine which tells of a young French woman, Gabrielle Deydier, who has had a lifelong battle with 'Grossophobia', discrimination and abuse in her native country. Some of the things that have happened to her are, to me, unbelievable but then I'm not French.

The book is entitled 'One is Not Born Fat' but the English-language rights to the book have not yet been sold.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/sep/10/gabrielle-deydier-fat-in-france-abuse-grossophobia-book-women