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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 76 Progress Report: Heading Into the Holiday

Posted on December 21, 2014 | 1 comment

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Well, color me a little surprised.  I knew last week’s weight gain was water weight due to hormones, but I wasn’t expecting all of it to come back off and then some.  I wonder if some of the weight that came off is because I have been on an antibiotic that dehydrates me.  I got diagnosed with strep at the tail end of the week and felt pretty miserable the last few days but am feeling better now. 

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Post-Op Week 73 Progress Report: Vacation Damage

Posted on November 30, 2014 | 2 comments

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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

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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

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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 50: In Which I Plan for Vacation

Posted on June 22, 2014 | 2 comments

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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 5 Progress Report and Eating While Traveling

Posted on August 11, 2013 | 2 comments

We were on the road for the better part of the afternoon so I wasn’t able to take progress pictures today.  I’ll take them tomorrow and post them then.  I was, however, able to weigh since we took the scale with us.  I am glad to note that I had a 2.4 pound loss, bringing my total to 61 pounds gone since June 17 and 24 pounds gone since my surgery on July 8.  This loss puts me just out of The Range.  I’m not going to feel comfortable until I’m at least 10 pounds away from the bottom end of The Range, which is 9 pounds away.

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