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Post-Op Week 82 Progress Report: Even Steven

Posted on February 1, 2015 | 1 comment

No change this week, and I am more than good with that. This past week was a bit rough, and I fully expected to be up a lot this week as my week saw me eating so many things I don’t normally eat. Cookies, brownies…my students brought these things in as part of a class project and I was not strong enough to say no to any of them until the end of the week when I was just flat tired of eating them. I didn’t want the taste of them in my mouth, and I didn’t like the way they made me feel. So the fact that the scale didn’t budge this week is actually a relief to me. It could have been much, much worse.
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Edited: Post-Op Week 77 Progress Report: Riding the Struggle Bus

Posted on December 29, 2014 | 1 comment

This week, my photo post is going to be late as I’ve been out of town for the holiday. I’m still on the road at the moment–we are stopped for the night in Louisiana.
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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 50: In Which I Plan for Vacation

Posted on June 22, 2014 | 2 comments

Slightly up on the scale this week. I think it’s probably due to the eating out that happened this week. I need to dial that back this week as much as possible since we will be heading out of town at the end of the week, and eating out is mostly what we’ll be doing. We will be at my mother in law’s for part of the time we’re gone, which is good because we’ll be eating at home pretty much all that time. When we go visit, I generally do all the cooking because my MIL is arthritic and spending long periods of time on her feet, bending and stooping is really painful for her. So I help out by cooking for all of us while we are there. I also load up her freezer with pre-cooked meals so that all she has to do is reheat them.

But spending time there is also a bad thing because the only thing we tend to do while we’re visiting is sit, sit, sit, and sit some more.

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Post-Op Week 43 Progress Report

Posted on May 4, 2014 | Leave a comment

This week’s progress was pretty okay given that:
1. I ate more carbs than usual
2. I ate more calories than usual
3. I am retaining water (thanks, Nature, you suck)

I’m good with losing just shy of a pound–I’m just glad the scale keeps trending downward. I’ve learned to accept this mantra lately: I don’t care how long it takes me to get to my weight goal so long as I get there. This process is not a race. I am 12 pounds from my surgeon’s goal, and hopeful I will hit it before I see him again in July. I’m going to go hard at it these next 6 weeks. I will keep my eating the same, but my exercise has to increase. That’s where I’ve been lacking and I know it.
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Post-Op Week 42 Progress Report

Posted on April 27, 2014 | 2 comments

This week’s progress: back on track. I’m pleased with the loss of almost 2 pounds this week, given the fact that I fought hunger all week long. Some of it was head hunger, some was stress-related, and some was just genuine hunger. I am starting to wonder if I should eat more calories, but am hesitant to try going too far above 1000 daily. I think I’m going to stick with what I’ve been doing for a couple more weeks and then reevaluate what I need then. I’m getting better at listening to my body and figuring out what it needs.

Today’s weigh in also sees me crossing from “morbidly obese” to just “obese” per the BMI chart. I know a lot of people don’t put a lot of stock in that thing, but when your doctor bases his goal weight for you on it, you pay attention to it. Since my doctor’s goal weight places me squarely in the obese category, I revised my personal goal to place me at the upper end of overweight. I know I will never have a “normal” BMI, and I’m okay with that. Besides, if I did, I would look sick and not healthy. I am aiming for looking healthy and feeling good about how I look. I’m nearly there. 62.6 more pounds to go.

I can do this.

This week, I’m focusing on starting to get ready for my next 5k in July and just staying the course. Trying not to let the stress of recent events (gallbladder ultrasound, stepmother’s passing, end of the school year, WORK) take its toll on my efforts, but these next few weeks, that’s going to be tough. Just gotta remember not to eat the feels.

I’ll write more later…right now, it’s bedtime.

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Post-Op Week 41 Progress Report: Buckling Down and Filling a Void

Posted on April 20, 2014 | 2 comments

Slight gain this week, but I am not surprised. Given that I lost nearly 6 pounds last week, this pound up doesn’t surprise me. I also had a bit more sodium than usual yesterday and didn’t drink as much water as I normally do. I’ve also eaten a little more starch than usual lately, which is not something I normally do either.

I know what I need to do; I just need to buckle down and do it. Sometimes self-discipline is tough. Believe it or not, self-discipline is something I’ve sorely lacked where eating is concerned. The lack of self-discipline in my eating is what got me to 440 pounds. So when I say that this new normal of mine has been more than challenging, I’m not exaggerating one bit.

I need to get back to my Daily Bite photojournaling. I log everything I eat and drink in MyFitnessPal, but I’ve fallen off the photojournaling for the past month. I really need to get back on that train, because I think it helps me add yet another layer of self-accountability, something else that I lacked for so long.

I won’t lie, I’ve slacked off in a lot of little ways. But the little things do add up to big things if you let them. So it’s time to tighten the reins, dial back the carb intake, increase my exercise, and get back on track. These last 64 pounds aren’t going to leave my body without some real hard work, and I’ve gotta put in work to get them gone. NOW.

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