Gastric Bypass | Interesting Fun Facts

May 31, 2007

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Here’s some what I’m considering interesting facts that have come up since my gastric bypass surgery:

Surgery Date – Feb. 7th, 2007

Highest Weight – 299 lbs.
Current Weight – 224 lbs.
Goal Weight – 200 lbs. (but anything with a 1XX would be better!)

Total Weight Lost (so far) – 75 pounds
Weight Loss per month – 18.75 pounds per month
Weight Loss per day – .67 pounds per day

Old Pants Size – 42″ (probably should’ve been 44″)
Current Pants – 36″

Old Wedding Ring Size – 11.5
New Wedding Ring Size – 10

Minimum Links removed from all watches – 1

Percentage of clothes that are too big of thrown away – ~90%

Sports jackets that I now currently own – 0 (all 6 jackets I can’t even tailor down enough)

Number of times yesterday somebody commented or asked about ’something being different’ – 2 (never gets old)

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I wanted to write this stuff down for multiple reasons starting with the fact that yes despite my above successes I still have times where I feel down on myself. Yesterday was one of those times, my weight hadn’t moved in about a week and I was getting discouraged already. I also lay it out for you guys and gals that are just coming out of surgery or are considering it.

Here are some pictures from this weekend when I was trying on the sports jackets and my one lone suit. This is the suit I wore on my wedding day! Crazy for me to imagine.