She fancy, huh?

Today I'm wearing dress pants that are suddenly super comfy - because they're a bit baggy. I've paired them with a sweatshirt and flip flops cause it's an overcast Saturday and it just feels right.

It's been a little over 2 months since the surgery and I've lost 45 pounds. I track my weight loss in a google doc every Thursday. I weigh myself every morning. Sometimes I get frustrated since the scale usually goes 2 steps forward and 1 step back. I have to be reminded how quickly I'm losing when I get impatient with the numbers.

I only have one pair of jeans that still fits. The rest are so baggy that I can take them off without hands - how's that for sexy?

I'm still learning how to eat and thanks to a recent personal encounter with Jamie Oliver Food Revolution, I'm on a cooking from scratch kick. My hubby and I have also been talking about gearing a lot more toward a plant-based, non-processed diet due to recent research (The China Study, Paleo, etc.). We plan on reading up and moving forward from there. Not sure how the plant-based stuff will affect the doctor-recommended protein focused diet I'm supposed to follow. I plan to make an appointment with the dietician to find out how it'll work.

In the mean time, I'm enjoying making veggie chili and cornbread sans cans or mixes. And Jamie Oliver's whole wheat pancakes with fruit compote.

I'm still surprised when I can only eat half a roll of sushi before I'm stuffed. I still usually eat one bite too many at my meals and am sorry for an hour or so afterward.

Just trying to enjoy the journey and give myself a little grace for the bumps along the way.