At any rate, everything looks good. The doctor scale has finally met up with my scale at home and the numbers match exactly. A little overboard on my part, but I weighed my clothes at home before leaving so I know exactly how much 'added' weight (2 pounds for today's clothes) to factor in when I got on his scale. And once I subtracted for the clothes, the resulting # matched up with my weigh-in I did before leaving.
I asked questions about my progress, and he said things are going fine. I also asked about calorie goals daily, and once again what he told me surprised me. Contrary to what i've read online, and heard from other friends post op, he told me NOT to worry about not getting enough calories. He almost made it sound like the less the better. I'm only averaging around 800-1000 calories a day if i'm lucky, and I was wondering if that was hindering my process because my body would be constantly in starvation mode (even though physically, i don't often get hungry at all)...but he said NOT to add in calories to hit a magical calorie hot spot, just eat till i'm full then stop, and if that's only 600-800 a day, then so be it. He also told me once again to stop the protein shakes, because they are unnecessary calories. But truthfully, if I don't do the protein shake or a protein bar, I doubt I can get to my 80+ grams of protein a day. I don't know, I may stick with the shakes for a while, we'll see.
Another tid bit of info that I found out. My highest weight (Recorded anyway) was not 354, it was actually 361 when I started out 2+ years ago with the 1st doctor who left the practice (and caused me to start all over with the new doc, lol). So then when the new doc came along, I was down to 342. But during that 1 year process, I fell off the wagon due to some personal issues (layoff, etc), and my weight jumped back up to the 354 that I was quoting originally as my highest weight (December 2008). It was at that point that I started fresh with the pre-op diet again right before my insurance approval, and then got down to 311 by the day of surgery.
Looking back, I see now that it took me over 2 years to drop 50 pounds before the surgery (due to fluctuating up and down and not being able to maintain it). But yet in 5.5 months post op, i've lost 76 pounds. Amazing. Really puts things into perspective. I needed this tool, and I'm going to work it for the rest of my life to ensure I never see 361 again!
Although it's only a 7 pound difference between 354 and 361, I don't think I should short change my self a single pound. My highest was 361, not 354, so that's what my progress updates will reflect from now on. Starting today! :) I've updated the tracking from monday's weigh-in to reflect the correct highest pre-op weight. That means, in total weight loss, i'm down 126 freakin pounds! Wow.
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