Well I took today off.  I was  off Monday too… I love my job.  Monday I called in Tired.

I’m working on a post for the blog at work but I wanted to get this up here today.  Today was my 6 month check up.  I was 6 months out on the 22nd.  I know that I’ve lost 63 pounds since surgery date according to my scale.  Maybe I need to count it the way the doctor does.  According to the doctor I had 143 pounds of EWL which means I’ve lost 88.66 pounds so far from the pre-op weight at the office.  Makes sense to count from their scale.   I weighed 193.5 today.  that means that I weighed  282.16  from the countdown.  that’s 62% lost at 6 months where 50% is the goal so I’m doing great.   It also means their goal for me is about 139.  I will NEVER get there and they know it.  They don’t plan for me to.  I would like to see 146 for a while.   If I lose 125 pounds that would put me at 157.  I can do that.  I can even live with that.  That means that I would want to weigh about 153 on my scale and that means that I’m a mere 37 pounds from GOAL.   Umm that’s scary.

Even Better NEWS:   my blood work was FREAKING PERFECT

Glucose was 84  just where I wanted it.  it was 100 last time

IRON:

85 this time up from 64 last time

TIBC is 266 down from 273

% saturation is 32 last time it was 23

UIBC is 181 down from 209 last time

Ferritin was 125 down from 145 last time

not too sure about these IRON numbers that are going down.  I need to ask Andrea

My Cholesterol is 127 it was 129

Prealbumin is 21.4 up from 19.2

my vitamin d was 78 up from a piddly 23

my A1C went down to 5.8 from 5.9 basically no change

my triglycerides are down to 90 from 92

so I’m very pleased with my blood work

the doctor is pleased with my weight loss

he will see me in September

the LCSW will see me in June…

all is right with the world.

Tags: blood work, surgiversary