Last night I took a bubble bath because I CAN now. No really, I couldn't before. I didn't fit in the tub. So I was taking the bubble bath with my hair gooped up with some deep conditioning stuff and covered with a shower cap and when I stood up to shower out the goop I got dizzy. It's happened twice before, once after intense exercise and once after a really hot bubble bath but I just sat/lay down the other times and it went away. Last night however I couldn't lay down right away because I had to rinse that stuff outta my hair. I tried to do it quickly but not quickly enough apparently because my heart started slamming, my vision dimmed, I couldn't breath and I felt like I was gonna throw up. I couldn't stand because my legs were shaking so bad so I sat on the edge of the tub and rinsed out as much as I could, thinking frantically that I just needed to lay down and everything would be ok. I was petrified. I seriously thought I was gonna die. I stood up and remember holding my head sideways to squeeze water outta my hair and the next thing I knew I was on the bottom of the tub bobbing my face repeatedly into the floor. I became aware that I was doing that and that my lip hurt and at first thought I was in bed dreaming but then my daughters voice came from the hallway asking me if I was ok (she said later she heard a big crash so i must have went down hard) and I realized there was water hitting my back. I drug myself outta the tub and got into bed where I stayed until morning.
So today I went to the doctor. She said she's pretty sure it happened because I've lost so much weight I don't need my BP medicine anymore! She said my BP was already low and then went lower when I was in the hot water (heat makes your veins expand thereby lowering your bp) and stood up fast. It was freakin scary, especially since that's the first time I ever passed out but YES! No more blood pressure medicine?!? Wooooooo!
Then she took me down the hall to another doctor she works with because she wanted to run it past him and she introduced us and told him that since May 28th I've lost 104 pounds and quit smoking and he looked shocked and told me I'm amazing and that they should take my picture and put it up to encourage other patients in their weight loss. That made me feel so good.
Also, at the same time I bought the evil bubble bath I bought a size 14 jeans and a medium shirt to put in the closet to work toward. When I got home I tried them on to see how far I had to go to wear them and um.... they fit. I can wear a size 14 and a medium. It almost made me cry. I started in size 28 jeans and a 3x shirt people so I'm pretty excited.
Just a few "non scale victories" as they call them.... one a tad scary but ending on a happy note
I passed out last night.
you're such an inspiration! 
