Need to Lose 100 LBS -Robins Thread !
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Hi everyone! I don't have a lot of time for personals, so just a quick check-in tonight.
Tuesday Goals:
My main goal right now is to make sure I'm logging every bite I eat as accurately as possible. If not, I won't know if my new method is truly working. Today that was a bit difficult b/c we went out after work to celebrate a colleague's birthday. I did my best to log some appetizers and pizza we all shared, but I'm not sure how accurate it is. According to my logging, I am about 150 over for today. Not terrible, but I know I can do better in the future. Also, I had to skip my gym visit today b/c of the outing. I completely forgot it was on my calendar until someone sent a reminder email, but I will move the workout to tomorrow.
Grading Goals:
1. 8/40 AP quizzes
2. x/40 AP writing screeners
Fitness Goals for the month of August:
Run 1 mile at my fastest pace 1x/week: Week 1 = 10:32; Week 2 = 10:14, Week 3 = 11:35 (yikes!)
Run 2 miles in 23 minutes 1x/week: Week 1 = 25:33 & 24:46; Week 2 = 22:37; Week 3 = 25:54 & 26:14
Run a 5 k in <36 minutes by month's end Week 3 = 38:14
You vs Year Challenge:
256 k done/ 744 k to go
PAST the 25% mark!!
Exercise Goals:
Sun-- walk gunner DONE + run outside DONE
Mon-- walk gunner DONE
Tues-- walk gunner DONE + gym or run outside NOT DONE
Wed-- walk gunner
Thurs-- walk gunner + gym or run outside
Fri-- rest day
Sat-- walk gunner + gym or run outside0 -
Food is so-so, exercise has increased since I've been working out at PT, but still no movement in the scale. I guess I should be glad it's staying steady instead of going up, but I really wish it would start going down again.
Tracy
TX
Does your scale measure body fat %? It might be that you are losing fat but gaining muscle, due to the increased exercise.
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Wednesday Wish ...that my niece T has a very happy day celebrating her 51st birthday ... or not celebrating as it's her wish the day was not fussed over by anyone ... except she requests chicken wings for dinner!0
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My Wednesday wish is that Anya will be well today. She had an upset stomach all day yesterday, followed by a fever and seizure last night. She seems fine today. I hope it stays that way.
Everyone have a great day.
Onward and downward. Kaye0 -
@trinati2001 - unfortunately I don't currently own a scale, I weigh either at PT or at the nurse office at work or at Dr office. 3 different scales so sometimes 3-4 lbs difference, but all three agree that I have been within the same 10 lbs since July of 2015. Grrr. No other markers to indicate fat loss (clothes don't fit better, etc) and truly, I feel more weighted down now than I have since I first started recovering from the cancer treatment. I'm run down and not working out enough, and I'm pretty sure I'm not being very accurate with my tracking. We had a luncheon tonight and I tracked everything I ate as best I could, and it was over 2000 calories. And I thought I was doing ok... until I ate the cake, and the queso, and the cocktail wieners, and guacamole, chips, etc etc etc......
The chicken tacos and salad would have been fine, if I could have just stopped there!
Tracy
TX
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@tracy-- Hopefully, now that you are on part time hours, you will get more rest and feel better. Even if that doesn't translate to more time at the gym, it will still likely translate into better health overall. I know what you mean about those social gatherings with food. Most of the time I can limit myself, but occasionally I just end up binging away. I hate the lack of control I feel when that happens.
@pinkstarberry -- Yes, the difference in your photos is definitely noticeable. Your face looks much slimmer.
@kaye-- hope Anya is feeling better.
AFM-- I'm still doing okay with my new calorie allowance. Yesterday, I forgot to put my tracker on when I got out of the shower. I had already decided if that were to happen, I would have to just eat my BMR the next day so I stuck to that rule today. Hopefully I will learn a lesson and remember it from now on. Even with no additional calories from activity, I feel pretty full tonight and am still almost 70 calories under goal.
Today I burned over 1100 calories between work, mowing the lawn, and walking the dog. That means I will have about 2200 calories to eat tomorrow which is a lot. I'm not going to force myself to eat them all if I'm not hungry, and I also want to make sure I don't just eat a bunch of junk to use them all up. I'm taking some dirty rice my DH made for lunch which is a little higher in calories than my usual choices, but all my other snacks and breakfast items will be my typical healthy(ish) fare. I figure if I end up under goal it will compensate for any errors in my guestimate for the pizza yesterday.
Wednesday Wish:
I don't really have a wish for me, so I will wish for positive progress for all of us.
Grading Goals:
1. 40/40 AP quizzes DONE
2. 5/40 AP writing screeners
Fitness Goals for the month of August:
Run 1 mile at my fastest pace 1x/week: Week 1 = 10:32; Week 2 = 10:14, Week 3 = 11:35 (yikes!)
Run 2 miles in 23 minutes 1x/week: Week 1 = 25:33 & 24:46; Week 2 = 22:37; Week 3 = 25:54 & 26:14
Run a 5 k in <36 minutes by month's end Week 3 = 38:14
You vs Year Challenge:
256 k done/ 744 k to go PAST the 25% mark!!
Exercise Goals:
Sun-- walk gunner DONE + run outside DONE
Mon-- walk gunner DONE
Tues-- walk gunner DONE + gym or run outside NOT DONE
Wed-- walk gunner DONE + Mow lawn DONE
Thurs-- walk gunner + gym or run outside
Fri-- rest day
Sat-- walk gunner + gym or run outside1 -
Thursday Truth- I ate over 4,000 calories yesterday.
so maybe tracking doesn't keep me from eating too much and maybe MFP is a waste of my time. Maybe I won't ever lose my excess weight and maybe I will die painfully fat and lonely. Is that what I want? ... Then why do I eat and live like it is? 0 -
@MermaidPrincessRach Don't give up! MFP can be a great tool for analyzing your intake, but it's only part of the picture. Would you be able to talk to your therapist about this soon? In the meantime, I can only suggest what helped me and hope it could be useful to you too.
I've always dealt with my emotions with food - are you also an emotional eater? Try to think about how you were feeling before eating a large meal, then also how you felt afterward. It might also help to begin keeping a personal diary of your feelings, especially on binge days; you could do it separately from MFP or use the notes section on your food diary here. If it turns out that you are eating because of stress or other emotions, we can find healthier ways to deal with those emotions
Also if you haven't seen your primary care doctor about this yet, I would urge you to make an appointment soon. Having guidance from a doctor, and maybe even a nutritionist, can help a lot! Your doctor/nutritionist might be able to give you a structured meal plan, which would take a lot of guesswork out of planning meals. I was intimidated about going to my doctor while I was at my heaviest weight, and it might be difficult or emotional to hear what they have to say, but ultimately they're here to help and want their patients to be as healthy as possible!
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Thursday Truth ... I had egg noodles with my dinner lasst night. My dinner was a pork chop, green beans, mushrooms and egg noodles. I weighed everthing and the noodles weighed in at 68 grams dry (a serving is 50 grams) ... but my blood sugar was 16 points higher this morning than yesterday and i wonder if it was the carb grams that made the difference. The day before, I had 29% of calories as carbs and yesterday it was 43%. Of course, i also had a banana at breakfast yesterday and didn't have an evening snack so that might also be why.
Today is weigh-in day for one of the challenges I'm in, and my weight is down 7 pounds from last Thursday and 0.6 pounds down from 2 weeks ago ... so that extra weight I gained from the bad week of overeating has finally found it's way out of me. I'm back on track trying to break out of the 240's and can feel the inner struggel beginning to want to eat some high carb comfort foods. I am praying for strength to maintain my course while my brain's pleasure zone fights with my goals.
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@niki-- congrats on losing the 7 lbs from last week. When I'm feeling the carb cravings, sometimes it helps if I eat some nuts or a bit of peanut butter. They have a sort of comforting feel, but not the heavy simple carbs of bread or pasta.
@rach-- pinkstarberry gave you some great advice. Also, I know it can be hard when we have a bad day--it's easy to feel like it's a futile effort. Once thing I try to do when I have a bad day is think about how my "normal" has changed. Before I started MFP, my normal was to eat way too many calories as a normal part of my life. Of course, I would occasionally go on a "diet" which would last a few days or maybe weeks (if I was lucky); then, I would go right back to my "normal" higher calorie lifestyle. Now, my "normal" is to eat at or below a deficit (or at least maintenance) on a daily basis. Sure, I might stray from that and have a really high calorie day, or even couple of days, but then I go right back to my "normal" healthier food intake. I can't see your food diary, but I'm guessing your "normal" has already changed, or you are in the process of changing it. Don't let a bad day or two negate all your progress so far.
Thursday Truth:
I'm already prioritizing grading over working out. I'm hoping to get ahead with the schoolwork during the upcoming 3-day weekend and get back on track with the exercise plan. My Amazing Race challenge is over, but my team has decided to do our own for the month of September. One challenge is to stay within my personal calorie allowance 6/7 days per week with one day at maintenance. The other is going to be a combination of push ups and planking. I can't do the true 30-day push up or plank challenge b/c of reduced strength in my shoulder, but I can try every other day and see how my shoulder holds up.
Grading Goals:
1. 40/40 AP quizzes DONE
2. 6/40 AP writing screeners
Fitness Goals for the month of August:
Run 1 mile at my fastest pace 1x/week: Week 1 = 10:32; Week 2 = 10:14, Week 3 = 11:35 (yikes!)
Run 2 miles in 23 minutes 1x/week: Week 1 = 25:33 & 24:46; Week 2 = 22:37; Week 3 = 25:54 & 26:14
Run a 5 k in <36 minutes by month's end Week 3 = 38:14
You vs Year Challenge:
256 k done/ 744 k to go PAST the 25% mark!!
Exercise Goals:
Sun-- walk gunner DONE + run outside DONE
Mon-- walk gunner DONE
Tues-- walk gunner DONE + gym or run outside NOT DONE
Wed-- walk gunner DONE + Mow lawn DONE
Thurs-- walk gunner DONE + gym or run outside NOT DONE
Fri-- rest day
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Once again I have stopped checking in and like a few other have said- Kelley and Karen- it is hard to get this process started again. I have been very busy with work the past couple of weeks plus a personal life that is filled with meetings for other projects I am working on. It truly needs to stop and I need to get control. My weight has been flucuating again and it is mostly up. I need to get it under control and back on the downward trend.
Tonight I am exhausted came from a long day at work then a meeting for the Zombie run.
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New here. This weekend, God willing, I am going to be under 300lbs for the first time in a decade. I have lost 35 lbs since I got serious in April and really really serious in June when it started working. Supervised 1200-1500 calories a day 3 mile walks 4-5 times a week. I need all the support, prayers and encouraging words I can get some days. My food diary and stepping on the scale every morning have been indispensable. If I hadn't started the diary I wouldn't be here. I just endured the most horrible thing, a week and a half plateau. I wanted to give up. I couldn't let myself. I'm still here. I am going to do it. I am changing my life.5
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MermaidPrincessRach, tracking doesn't make you do anything. It shows you things. It showed me when I was having problems and what I have problems with (mumbles Ice Cream and cheese crackers (cheese crackers???? Seriously)). It let me know if I was wandering into the kitchen at 9:00 I was up to no good. It made me aware. It helped me turn around. Some days I just have to leave the house because it's too strong, others I eat the veggies I chopped and stuck in the fridge or I turn around other days I indulge myself with a couple of tablespoons of yogurt dip that I like at 25 calories a spoonful. Some days It makes me look harder at food labels. It's a tool, use it how it works for you. Don't give up. Get mad if it works for you or not if it doesn't. It was one day. Use the information it gave you. I had peanut butter today, too much. I have a sinus infection and for some stupid reason crunchy peanut butter makes me feel better, methyl prednisone too. I had 3 tablespoons, I know because the tool makes me hold myself accountable, no lying to me, even on horrible days. Mine are becoming less frequent. I had veggies for dinner, steamed, salted and, my indulgence, buttered 25 calories of heaven. I made my goal by a narrow margin. I make it more frequently now, I'm learning. Don't give up-learn. I didn't get this fat overnight, I'm not going to wake up skinny tomorrow. I am going to walk farther or easier or just walk tomorrow, log my food and be brutally honest with my worst critic.me (he understands me) . Tomorrow I am going to Love my wife, do my job and be the best dad I can be, not necessarily in that order although wife does come first.
Under 300 this weekend, 260 for Christmas 200 by July. Pray for me, it's hard almost every day. It's worth it. I walked 100 miles last month. In April I did 25. A1C down, BP down, resting and max heart rate down. Not every day is roses but that's ok.5 -
skinnyjeanzbound wrote: »@niki-- congrats on losing the 7 lbs from last week. When I'm feeling the carb cravings, sometimes it helps if I eat some nuts or a bit of peanut butter. They have a sort of comforting feel, but not the heavy simple carbs of bread or pasta.
Thanks @skinny-- I have a vegan meal at least one day a week and do have pasta on that day. Which was yesterday. The pork chop and egg noodles was planned ... so I've had a noodle 2 days this week, but I didn't have any other 'flour' product in those 2 days. My BGC was back down this morning, even with the spaghetti noodles yesterday. Probably what helped there is that I am out of fruit so didn't have my usual 2 servings even though my total carbs were 39% of calories yesterday. I think the magic number of carbs for me is to stay under 150 grams a day.
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Friday Fitness
I hate checking in on Fridays because then I have to admit how I have not done anything fitness wise and it shows because my weight has not gone down this week, fortunately it has not gone up. Now to make it worse either my allergies are in an uproar or I am getting sick. I hate being sick. Nurses and Doctors make the worst patients. So I am off now to take some medicine to help stop my nose from running and it always puts me to sleep. Will check in tomorrow.0 -
I missed my Thursday truth so I'll report now that I have lost 4.8# since I started tracking again about 10 days ago. That tells me that my body was really ready to shed that weight. I had just been grazing all the time. It feels good to be back to paying attention to what I eat.
Friday fitness: Cathy and I are getting our walks in daily. It's about 3.6 miles so that is good. It is starting to cool off, too, so that makes it easier. I love this time of year when it is cooling off but not too dark to walk in the early evening. We'll have to find ways to adjust our schedules as the daylight and weather change. I'm signed up to walk a 10k at the end of the month in Boise's FitOne celebration to benefit the local children's hospital. There is a local 5k next Saturday to benefit a local support group for cancer survivors. I will probably do that one, too, but haven't committed yet.
Have a busy Friday. It burns calories.
Onward and downward. Kaye4 -
I thought I would just check in. I'm trying to keep up with the board, but I've been pretty sleepy. I had Gastric Sleeve surgery on Monday morning. Got home on Wednesday. They said everything went well and I just need to heal. It gets a little bit better every day but certainly not ready to do laps yet. Good thing I have Netflix. Just focusing on my fluids and protein right now. I am on clear fluids for the first week and then will graduate to full fluids. I look forward to my chicken stock as it is the only thing that isn't sweet or boring right now. Man, I hate Protein Ice but watered down, I can handle it.
My Friday fitness is to make sure I get a couple of walks in. I live on a hill and I can't manage that so I'll need be driven somewhere that I can do some walking on flat land.
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Sending positive vibes to you @NewCaddy for a full and speedy recovery from your surgery. Please keep us informed how the protocol progresses if you don't mind ... some of us (me?) may still end up thinking about it. As a matter of fact, I now recall that at one time I made a phone call to the hospital that does that procedure here ... it was the only one back then, and they told me I'd have to first prove I couldn't lose weight any other way ..., that was before they lowered the overweight guidelines for the surgery, and it was a full bypass instead of a sleeve. I heard the sleeve is reversible. Is it?
Any way ... that's one of the things that got me trying to seriously lose weight in the first place, and then it became sheer stubbornness that I will do it on my own that has kept me going, still morbidly obese many years later, but slimmer than when I started.0 -
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Friday fitness. Last Friday I left work early drove down to Galveston and walked on the beach for an hour and gave myself blisters the size of quarters on the balls of my feet so Saturday was a slow motion busy day but not much exercise. Sunday was electronic free and I can't remember anything and no records exist Must have been a good day. Monday not home til 9. Long day. Tuesday 1 hour 3 miler. Wednesday UTMB obesity support group first try then mowed the lawn for 40 minutes. Thursday a 20 min walk 1 mile. Today 3.6 miles in an hour even. May have hurt the dog. He hasn't moved in an hour except to wag his tail. Almost 8 miles and a lawn trim. Not bad not great.3
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Friday Fitness ... so far this week I am on track to have 7 sessions of workouts done by Sunday. Today I mowed the front lawn with the push mower for 30 minutes, tomorrow I need to cut the back lawn. I cannot believe how my 'dead' grass is coming back to life with the rain we had last week and this week, and the cooler temps. I cut on Monday for 90 minutes (not all at once, did the front in the morning and the back in the afternoon). I'm hoping that the core stability and leg/foot/shoulder range of motion exercises I'm doing will keep me walking. It scares me something silly when I'm standing still at the kitchen counter and both my legs fall asleep on me; I almost fell down from it the other night.0
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Week, my husband and I headed to Target. It was slow walking for 30-40 minutes but by the end I was exhausted. Well go again tomorrow for another one.1
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Hello Everyone,
So sorry I have not been around! I have been logging my food in.
I just didn't cause I was so burned out not sure what I had to offer.
My husband and I are reaching a turning point in our relationship! In the past we had issues but I had thought those days were past us. But reality came hitting me in the face! I know I need to pick us up My daughter and I get out of here! Money is tight so we stay just a vacation to clear our heads mine more than hers I need clarity.
More info than you need! My food is ok.
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@liz-- I hope you can get some time to reflect for yourself and your daughter.
@tracy-- glad to hear the surgery went well. Don't try to do too much too soon.
@kaye-- glad you are seeing progress after getting back on the wagon.
@cj-- Yes, and teachers make the worst students.
I hope you feel better soon.
@pneschich -- welcome to the thread. Good point about logging making us more aware of what and when we are eating. Congrats on your progress so far and not giving up due to your plateau.
@laurie-- good to see you back. Hope the meetings let up soon and you get some time for yourself. Sometimes we just have to say no to more and more commitments.
AFM--Calories have been okay though today I'm nearly at goal (due to joining friends for drinks) and still hungry. Tomorrow will be my maintenance day. I'm going to try to get to the gym or at least run outside in the morning. I'm going to see Prophets of Rage tomorrow night. I wanted to go when I first heard they were touring, but my one friend who wanted to join me is out of town for a wedding. Then today after work a colleague said he is going and has 3 extra tickets, so 2 other work friends and I are going--spur of the moment. It's a little over an hour from my house, so we got a hotel near the venue. Should be a lot of fun.
Friday Fitness:
It was a very slow week for me fitness-wise. Other than walking Gunner, the only real calories I burned was mowing the lawn. I will be re-doing my running goals. Though I made progress, I didn't make my goals and sort or fizzled out the last week. I'm doing a strength challenge and logging challenge on my other group thread.
Grading Goals:
1. x/82 Short stories
2. 17/40 AP writing screeners
Fitness Goals for the month of September:
Run 1 mile at my fastest pace 1x/week:
Run 2 miles in 23 minutes 1x/week:
Run a 5 k in <36 minutes by month's end:
You vs Year Challenge:
256 k done/ 744 k to go PAST the 25% mark!!
Exercise Goals:
Sun-- walk gunner DONE + run outside DONE
Mon-- walk gunner DONE
Tues-- walk gunner DONE + gym or run outside NOT DONE
Wed-- walk gunner DONE + Mow lawn DONE
Thurs-- walk gunner DONE + gym or run outside NOT DONE
Fri-- rest day WALKED GUNNER
Sat-- walk gunner + gym or run outside
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@Nikion901 the sleeve is not reversible but it does not alter your anatomy. The sleeve has the possibility of stretching back out to the original size of your stomach if you don't change your eating habits. This means that your stomach wall is thinner and can lead to all sorts of complications to include mal-absorption and ulcers that can become serious. The gastric bypass and Lap band are reversible but the lap band can sometimes cause necrosis and often makes the pt vomit if they eat too fast or too much. The gastric bypass, even though it changes your anatomy it is reversible and usually gives the best results but that depends on the surgeon and how big of a pouch he makes for your pseudo-stomach. If he he makes it too big you can eat more and may not loss the weight you desire, and if he makes it too small then you mal-absorption issues and vomiting.
I am by no means an expert on these surgeries, I too have considered having the surgery. I have had my Sister-in-law, my brother and my Mother have the gastric bypass and all three are great success stories. My mother was the last to have it in Sept 2015 and she has lost over 150 lbs she now weighs in at 195 (less than me) and she is still continuing to lose. Both my brother and his wife have reached their goal weight and as my brother says look great in clothes but neither likes the way they look naked. They both have such stretched, sagging skin that hate the way their abdomen and arms sag. They both wish they could afford the plastic surgery to remove their excess skin, but unfortunately insurance paid for the gastric bypass but won't pay for the removal of excess skin.
@NewCaddy please don't take any offense at anything I wrote. Like I said I have considered and I am seriously still considering having the surgery, so I admire your courage to have it done. I hope that you have the same success that my family has had. Just remember to continue taking your vitamins and keep your protein high.2 -
I'm here & I've started this long silent journey but I am determined to get to my destination and hopefully be the wiser and a few friends wealthier when I get there.3
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Saturday Success ... I've taken an inventory of my food 'stores' ... and realize that I have a huge stockpile of food.
I needed to do this today because I didn't make it to the grocery store yesterday; my cars power steering line busted on the way there and the car is in the repair shop waiting for service, which won't happen until after the holiday weekend is over and the new supply line comes in. I had the AAA Auto Car Center courtesy van driver stop at a gas station stop'n'go and picked up a gallon of milk so I would have staple on hand. Made yogurt from half of it yesterday, half of which is draining to make Greek Yogurt, (I prefer the regular yogurt, but like to have some Greek style on hand also).
The only issue with my food supply is it is all 'whole' ... meaning that I have to cook as there is nothing that is grab and go or put together in a jiff. Now to figure out a menu plan! ... and get defrosting proteins and cooking.
I hope everyone has a nice weekend as this is the one that traditionally ends the summer season. My sis will celebrate her 75th birthday but I won't be able to visit her 'cause of the car situation.
Welcome to the new posters ... newbies ... I hope you find a 'home' here during your weight-loss journey.
@CJ.... thanks for the info on the stomach surgeries. I still want to try to get to a better weight on my own, but if I don't make significant strides ... like break out of the 200's, then I will have to revisit it next year. My goal for my 72nd birthday next March is now out of reach, but I can still work on breaking the 2's by then ... as I lose weight very slowly and regain it very quickly, in part thanks to my insulin resistance and poor physical condition, and in part because I still sporadically overeat often enough that I keep stalling my forward motion.0 -
@cjbrummet ...I'm not offended because its such a personal choice, but I do want to make a correction. The gastric sleeve removes the stretchiest part of the stomach. So while you can stretch it a bit by eating too much, you can never go back to having a stomach as large as before. From talking with my doctor and the research I've done, maybe you can stretch it to hold 2 cups instead of the intended 1 cup at a time.
Plus with any WLS, you can keep all the weight off or you can go back to your old habits and eat "around" the tool. I have to make good choices. If I choose to fill my 1 cup (eventually -- right now just small sips at a time) with protein and healthy choices, I'll do fine. if I choose to fill it with Doritos or ice cream, i'll be right back where I started. That's why I'm glad my insurance and my doctor believe in the nutritionist as part of the plan. The insurance required 6 months before approving it but my doctor includes a lifetime of nutritionist visits with the cost of the surgery. So if I want to meet with her monthly, I can. Or if i hit a tough spot down the road, I can meet with her then too.
@Nikion901 congrats on the 7 pounds! That's awesome. Have you tried the egg noodles with whole wheat? I haven't but it might be worth it for you. Like I said before, one of the things about the sleeve is that the weight comes off a bit more slowly than the by-pass. I'm hoping that will allow my skin to adjust to lower weights better than such a drastic change. Time will tell.
@Karen...you have such a heavy grading schedule. all that writing. Amazing you can keep up at all. I am trying to take it easy. It's funny because the range of how people bounce back from this surgery ranges so drastically. I met a lady at the store one day that was 6 days out of surgery (heavier than me) and she had energy to spare, a pep in her walk and was in love with life. Others I hear take up to 4 weeks to get back to work. I'm in between. Right now any twists cause me a lot of pain but I can get up and down by myself with a small grimace. I just have to keep pushing myself enough to get up and walk a bit -- slowly but surely.
@Laurie...nice to see you here again. Busy schedules can be killers to our goals. How to find a right balance -- good luck with that and when you do, sell it for millions.
@pneschich Good luck on the less than 300 --- that would be a fun level to pass. You can do this. And the support definitely comes from this thread.
@Liz...sorry to hear about your problems with the hubby. Been there done that and I hope things become clear on exactly what you need to do and the means in which to do them.
@lufnell...welcome! This is a great thread. Very helpful people.
Saturday Success: I'm below 250 for the first time in many, many months.
AFM...I felt hunger for the first time this morning. Nothing I can really do about that yet as I still have 3 days on clear liquids before I get something a bit more filling. I'm drinking my water but I have to actually focus on that. in the past, I was a "oh yeah, drink some water" and guzzle for a while. Now it has to be small sips all day long and i'm still getting used to that. My doctor said to focus on water over protein right now because I run a bigger risk of getting dehydrated. Next week will be a bit easier to add in protein and meet that goal. My goal is 48 oz this week and so far I've hit 40 (which according to some support groups is actually pretty good but my goal is to hit that 48 yet this week).
Well, hope you all have a great Labor Day weekend!!!
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Happy Saturday!
We are enjoying very nice weather right now. It is cooler out more Fall like! I am not ready for Fall but i do admit that the cooler weather gave me more of a boost of energy! Able to get extra stuff done around here. Went to the Y no Pickleball class so I walked the indoor track.
Went into Boise meant some friends for coffee! Went to one of our favorite places The Lift love that place such a nice environment. We sit around the fire pit and just had nice conversation it was nice to listen to and focus on others.
That is my Saturday hope you all have a nice one!
Thank you!
Liz
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Saturday success, not the one I wanted. Maybe tomorrow, but it's ok. I feel great. I kayaked for an hour and a half walked over 3 miles in under an hour and only had 1300 calories of healthy food. 18624 steps too! Made a new grilled chicken recipe with a balsamic and Ketsup BBQ sauce at under 300 calories for the whole breast, i had half, and steamed broccoli a 150 calorie roll too.0
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