Weight Loss and Gastric Bypass

Yesterday I weighed in on the digital scale at the YMCA.  I use that one for my weight loss.  My surgeon's scale gives a different weight, my PCP's scale weighs heavier.  So for practical purposes and my sanity, I mainly go by the Y's scale.  Yesterday I weighed 255.9.  When I had my surgery on August 22, 2012, I weighted 301 pounds.  So that is almost 50 pounds in 3 1/2 months.  But the real story is that I am not sure how much weight I have actually lost since my highest weight.  That is because the school nurse's scale did not go above 350 lbs.  I have no pictures from that time.  I hate having my picture taken at that time, an avoided it like the plague.

So, unofficially, almost 100 pounds lost.  I lost 50 pounds after I lost my right kidney to cancer.  I had decided to try to eat more wisely than I had in the past.  The problem is that I have historically been unable to maintain or continue loosing weight over time.  Hence, after my mother left me some money, I used it to jump though the hoops erected by my insurance company to have a gastric bypass.  This has not been the easy way out, but a last straw to keep from dieing earlier than I should.  This hasn't been easy, it is not simple, and I will have to live with it for the rest of my life.