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Thanksgiving and beyond
20 hours ago
Well Thanksgiving has come and gone and I think I did pretty well.  We had our Mexican spread.  No temptation there.  This is food that goes down easily for me and not food I tend to gorge on so it's all good.  The one bad thing was butterscotch pie.  I made it on Wednesday and did great until Saturday.  I've had two pieces now and I know that's holding the weight in place.

My son worked out with me last night at the gym.  I love working out with him but he tries to kill me.  My arms are already hurting but I know I got a good workout in.  I also ran on the treadmill for a very short period of time.  I mostly walked but threw in a couple of trots here and there.  He also very non-chalantly told me to go do 100 crunches.  I stared at him like he was on drugs then he said to break it up.  Surprisingly I got my 100 crunches in at 4 intervals of 25 crunches each.  I was very pleased and surprised at how easy it actually was.  I will do that again!  I need to do something with my legs soon.  I just walk and do upper body for the most part because I worry about my knees but I'll have to do something.  I also started walking with 1.5 lbs weights on each arm now (will try it on ankles this afternoon).  3 lbs total.  Something has to work and get this weight loss going right???  Someone tell me it will.

I am holding at 206.  I go to 207 and down to 203.  I am thinking of switching to a liquid diet for a couple of days.  I want to get below 203 and see if my toggling will stay in lower numbers when I hit food again.

Update:  I have done 2 walks today.  One with the weights attached to my wrists and one with them attached to my legs.  It's much harder with them on the legs so that's the plan from now on.  3 extra lbs attached to my legs.  Of course the wind helped make it more difficult as well but I know I'm lacking in the leg department as far as exercise goes.
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Up and down
on November 21, 2008 9:53 am
Well I haven't weighed today and worry it will be up.  My caloric intake yesterday was fine but while I was waiting for dinner to cook I kept munching on  cheese.  I will weigh this afternoon and see where I am.  I've named my band Felicia and stated in a post that I hope she'll speak to my metabolism and talk it into waking up and joining the weight loss bandwagon.  Here's hoping!

Exercise is continuing.  It was a little more difficult today as the weather was colder and windier but I made it thru.  I need to try for another walk tonight or some exercise of some other kind.  My son is on a college visit so I have tonight to myself.  I am going to go home and get my exercise in immediately.  Take a long, hot bath, read, get into my nightgown and pile up in the bed with the dogs and get some sleep.  Tomorrow I need to get up and finish up/or continue weeding thru rooms, cleaning, etc.  I want the house to be in order before Thanksgiving.

I don't think Thanksgiving will be an issue for me.  We are making regular Mexican food which I can eat in normal portions and not be tempted to gorge.  As long as I continue witht he exercise and switch it up every now and then I think I'll be good.  I've started making a little mini-gym in my room.  I have a few more things to bring up.  I am planning to start getting up just a little earlier in the morning so I can get a little weight lifting in.  I hope small additions will trick my metabolism into continuing to work and really starting to work better.  Weight loss is weight loss but this slow up and down stuff really is depressing....but again....better than nothing.

Here's to Felicia and her continued success and even more success in the future.
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Hello, Goodbye, hello, goodbye
on November 19, 2008 6:47 am
In my previous post I mentioned that I'd said goodbye to 208.  Well I've said hello and goodbye a few times since that post.  This thing makes no sense.  When I'm at my tightest (2 weeks out of the month) I seem to gain, when I'm loose and eating more (week before and of TOM) I lose.  Had a nice talk with my surgeon and was told to alter my caloric intake more but to stay around 900 cals a day, and up the protein.  I have done that and I also attempted and completed a walk/run the other day.  One of those things or perhaps a combination sparked something becasue my weight did start to drop back down to the 203-205 range.  I was toggling in the 206-208 range.  Let's hope whatever it is continues.

I have rearranged my room and now have a little gym area.  I'm hoping to incorporate some exercises in the morning.  I'm going to have to get up much earlier but I hope getting a little exercise in at that time will kick off my metabolism. 

Everything is going well right now.  Slow but no complaints.
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I have finally said goodbye to 208...........hopefully for the
on October 28, 2008 6:14 am
Well yesterday I woke up and weighed myself and was upset to see the scale reading 209.  That afternoon I had a doctors appointment that I'd forgotten about and was wearing heavy black jeans and a sweater.  I got on the scale and it read 205.  I shrugged it off thinking their scale was wrong.  When I got home I weighed on my scale and it showed 205.   I immediately threw off the jeans and sweater and put my "weighing clothes" on (nightgown) and the scale said 203.2.  This morning when I weighed it was up to 203.8 but I had some pizza last night.

I actually have an appointment on Friday with my surgeon for a followup/fill.  Don't think I'll be doing the fill.  I went for 2 weeks after this fill being really tight and restricted, then 2 weeks of not much restriction and now back to being pretty tight.  I'm having to be exceptionally cautious with my eating or I'll get stuck.  Not complaining.  I picked up a shirt I bought 2 years ago that SAID it was a size 2x but if it's closer to a very tight 1x.  I tried it on this morning for grins and it's hanging on me!

Now I don't want to be one of these whiners who moans and groans about their body but I'm just going to say that I'm getting very jiggly.  I am going to be happy with jiggly.  I will try to work harder at getting in some conditioning exercises in addition to the walking I'm doing now in hopes that it will firm some of this up.  In the end that jiggle represents fat that's no longer gumming up my body so it's all good.

I am 3.8 lbs away from a very major goal.  I hope the weight loss continues and I don't go into a 3 month stall like I did at 208.  I would absolutely love to see my scale scream 199 at me.

Loving my band right now. 
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We are loosening up a bit!
on October 8, 2008 9:29 am
I'm going to take it as a good thing.  I was able to eat 1/4 c cottage cheese at lunch and a tamale and some re-fried beans yesterday for dinner.  I appear to have a soft stop now.  At some point during the meal I seem to just get tired, I drop the fork and make a really big sigh for lack of a better description.  I just don't seem to have the desire to eat anymore after that.  Last night it hit me during the tamale and I stopped, fortunately, because a couple of seconds later later I was burping and had a full feeling.  I think if I'd eaten more I might have been overly full. 

Unfortunately, the scale refuses to respond positively.  I got down to 207 on all liquids and the day I tried to eat a solid I soared back to 210.  I'm back at 208 today but this up and down business is wearing on my nerves.

I have upped my exercise.  I measured my routes and I try to alternate them each time I go out and add a little to each walk.  Today I think I pushed my long route to close to 2 miles.  It's cooler outside so I can walk at a pretty good pace now. 

I think my legs are getting smaller.  I usually sit Indian style and it's difficult to get into the position and stay there for long periods of time.  Today it seemed easier to get there and I feel like I'm tucked in tighter.  I must be losing there but I admit I haven't measured in quite a while.  I guess I should make a trip to the gym and have her measure me.  That might be a good break for me tonight to go there and swim.  That usually relaxes me.  I also need to get my son to take some updated pictures of me and download them so I can date them.  The last batch of pictures I didn't date and they're still in my camera so I don't remember when they were taken.  I haven't lost that much weight so it's not really a big deal, I figure they're about 10 lbs ago.

I' m worried about being able to eat now, I just hope the restriction stays where it is and limits me to very small portions.  Crossing fingers!!!
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 I'm a 49 year old single parent of a wonderful 20 year old son who is incredibly supportive of this decision.

My weight gain began about 17 years ago.  At first it was very slow but it seemed to gradually pick up as each year passed.  One factor that seemed to start the weight gain ball rolling was life getting busier when my son entered sports so fast food stops increased.  At the worst point we were eating out 6 out of 7 nights a week.  I finally quit smoking 9 years ago and that was all she wrote.  The weight just started packing on.  I went on diet after diet.  I'd lose maybe 10 lbs; get frustrated and gain back 20.  Each diet was different but the results were all the same.  I resolved last year to finally make a dent in this problem.  I switched gyms and joined LA Weight Loss.  The results were amazing for the first 3 months, I lost a total of 28 pounds.  Then it completely stopped.  I hadn't changed the diet, my exercise decreased a little because it was summer in Texas but not enough to completely stop the weight loss.  Gradually 1 pound here 1 pound there and I'm back up 11 pounds.  And here we are!!

I had actually checked into the bypass 2 years ago (thus the member since date of 2006) at the suggestion of a friend who had the bypass..and a neighbor...and a co-worker.  The practice I went to expected me to pay for everything upfront and then file my own claim on the insurance company, even though they already knew my insurance company would pay.  In addition they were really the only game in town for this surgery and as such they had way too many patients which gave me the feeling I was just another boat payment.  Needless to say I decided against it.  That's when LAWL came into the picture.  Now I'm back to square one (though I am lighter).

I am thankful that everything happened the way it did because now the 3 people who recommended the bypass to me are a few years into it and all 3, while benefiting from significant weight loss, have now all started to gain it back.  I figure if that's a possibility anyway might as well go for the least invasive method!

I need help.  I've tried on my own and sometimes I'm my own worst enemy.  The diets work for a while, stop working, I get frustrated and start eating normally again so they really fail.  Time to stop it.  I pray the lap band will be the tool I need to make this work.  I want the old me back.  To get back to a human size and be the person I am now with the experience I have under my belt will be a great adventure. 


 


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