Tag Archives: keepin’ it real

Post-Op Week 88: A Confession

Posted on March 15, 2015 | 4 comments

Forgive me, body, for I have sinned. A lot. So I’m starting over.

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Post-Op Week 79 Progress Report: It’s Not All Sunshine and Roses, Y’all

Posted on January 11, 2015 | 2 comments

First week back at it and not too shabby, considering that I am now 18 months post-op. If I can lose this amount or more each week, I will see my goal weight by Christmas. I’m definitely learning patience right now!

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Post-Op Week 73 Progress Report: Vacation Damage

Posted on November 30, 2014 | 2 comments

Up 4.4 pounds this week but I know exactly why. I ate way more starchy carbs than usual while on vacation last week. This was a conscious choice I made, and I’m not sorry I did it. I knew what would happen if I did it, and I knew what the consequences would be. So I’m not surprised that I saw a jump on the scale this morning. I am surprised it wasn’t greater! But I’m also glad it wasn’t greater.

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Post-Op Week 71 Progress Report: Is This Real Life?

Posted on November 16, 2014 | Leave a comment

Surprised by this week’s progress. I traveled out of town for a conference, so planning for meals was tough because I didn’t know what would be available. I did work out two of the three mornings of the conference as my hotel had a fantastic gym in the bottom of it. I also ended up walking nearly 15000 steps each day I was away. I think that helped stave off any potential weight gain I could have had. Given how I did eat while I was away, I was shocked it didn’t show up more on the scale this morning. I dreaded stepping on it this morning but knew I needed to hold myself accountable, so I put on my big kid pants, sucked it up and weighed.

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Post-Op Week 70 Progress Report: 5K Finisher and Being Tired

Posted on November 9, 2014 | 3 comments

Not terribly pleased with the scale this week, but it’s all my own doing. And it needs to stop.

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Post-Op Week 63 Progress Report: Legs

Posted on September 21, 2014 | 2 comments

This week’s progress is surprising. I didn’t expect to lose this much! Guess I am finally off the plateau I was on for so long. Perhaps it is all the stairs I now take, or the fact that I’ve changed my supplementation a bit (I now take a potassium tablet and have increased my magnesium intake), or the fact that I walk so much more each day, and that when I walk, I walk very fast.

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Post-Op Week 45 Progress Report: Complacency is a Dangerous Thing

Posted on May 18, 2014 | 1 comment

Slightly up on the scale this week, but not surprised. The week following my period, I am always up a pound or two. This is the pattern of lose-gain that I’ve noticed that my body slips into each month. I think I may cut calories back to 1000-1100 this week since my hunger isn’t as intense the weeks after my period ends. It’s only during that week that I feel like a bottomless pit. I did also have a few too many calories yesterday (I was at nearly 1400) and a lot of sodium, so I know those two things didn’t help me today.

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Does Your Food Love You As Much As You Love It?

Posted on January 3, 2014 | 2 comments

There is something that’s been eating away at me for a couple of weeks that I finally decided I needed to write about.

One of the things that you come to realize as a WLS patient is that head hunger is a very, very real thing and that it is something you have to fight Every. Single. Day.

Folks who have never had food issues don’t understand this.

My head hunger is something I’ve been fighting with over the past few weeks.

And right now, I think I’m winning. Let me explain.

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What Discipline, Determination and Drive Look Like

Posted on December 27, 2013 | Leave a comment

What do discipline, determination, and drive look like to you?

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