It's me, can you believe it.
Hello all! Can you believe in two short months we will be at six years post op? I can't believe it and even at 42, I have to wonder if I were still tipping the scales at 500 pounds if I would be alive today.
Anyway, I just don't come back here enough and to be honest I haven't even been lurking, but not posting much. It has been a crazy year and I don't know that 2010 will be any different. Work is a mess, but I won't whine too much as the reality is that work is a mess for most people. My family life is nuts as keeping up with three girls ( 14, 12 & 12) is interesting to say the least. But overall, I'm doing pretty good. I have again set the goal of competing in a sprint triathalon. I didn't get it done last year mostly because the swim part scared me. For those that are wondering a sprint tri is, it is a 750 meter swim, 12.1 bike ride and a 5K ( 3.1 mile) run. Last year I didn't belong to a gym that had a pool and while I'm not concerned about my swimming, I am concerned about not being able to train for the swimming. So, as a gift we purchased a family membership at a very nice health club. It has all the tools I need to train so that I can complete this sucker on May 22.
I have no misconceptions about setting some record or anything. It is just my old gym shut down, the one I joined was one of those 24 hour, very small jobbers so I quit that one and without a gym, I added unwanted weight. But, I made several changes prior to the new year with the thought of making them changes I wanted to make for 2010. I found I was headed back towards some habits that were not productive towards staying at a healthy weight so I have:
1.) Given up Diet Pepsi again for good
2.) Quit drinking alcohol in any form
3) Stopped deviating from the protein first mentality
4) Become a gym rat again
I didn't do this all at once, but rather I made changes starting in November and I have to say I pleased with the results. I'm so far from where I want to be, but at least I'm back on the right path.
Anyway, I have to go now. I'll come back to check in on all of you. Take care and here is to a great 6th year anniversary.
Anyway, I just don't come back here enough and to be honest I haven't even been lurking, but not posting much. It has been a crazy year and I don't know that 2010 will be any different. Work is a mess, but I won't whine too much as the reality is that work is a mess for most people. My family life is nuts as keeping up with three girls ( 14, 12 & 12) is interesting to say the least. But overall, I'm doing pretty good. I have again set the goal of competing in a sprint triathalon. I didn't get it done last year mostly because the swim part scared me. For those that are wondering a sprint tri is, it is a 750 meter swim, 12.1 bike ride and a 5K ( 3.1 mile) run. Last year I didn't belong to a gym that had a pool and while I'm not concerned about my swimming, I am concerned about not being able to train for the swimming. So, as a gift we purchased a family membership at a very nice health club. It has all the tools I need to train so that I can complete this sucker on May 22.
I have no misconceptions about setting some record or anything. It is just my old gym shut down, the one I joined was one of those 24 hour, very small jobbers so I quit that one and without a gym, I added unwanted weight. But, I made several changes prior to the new year with the thought of making them changes I wanted to make for 2010. I found I was headed back towards some habits that were not productive towards staying at a healthy weight so I have:
1.) Given up Diet Pepsi again for good
2.) Quit drinking alcohol in any form
3) Stopped deviating from the protein first mentality
4) Become a gym rat again
I didn't do this all at once, but rather I made changes starting in November and I have to say I pleased with the results. I'm so far from where I want to be, but at least I'm back on the right path.
Anyway, I have to go now. I'll come back to check in on all of you. Take care and here is to a great 6th year anniversary.
Your post is like a breath of fresh air that we all needed!
i've started back at my gym in November but over the holidays have let it slide to once in a while again. Reading what you;ve written has got me strongly motivated again!
tonight instead of rushing home to sit at my desk playing facebook games i am going to rush home take care of my homely duties (let the dog out) then rush to the gym!
if you can do work at doing that super thing then i can get my self back on track with excersizing.
thank you and congratulations on working so hard!
i've started back at my gym in November but over the holidays have let it slide to once in a while again. Reading what you;ve written has got me strongly motivated again!
tonight instead of rushing home to sit at my desk playing facebook games i am going to rush home take care of my homely duties (let the dog out) then rush to the gym!
if you can do work at doing that super thing then i can get my self back on track with excersizing.
thank you and congratulations on working so hard!
Hi Ken, so good to hear from you! I truly believe your focus on physical fitness is the key to managing successful maintenance of the original weight loss this far out from surgery. I certainly find myself struggling these days with a 22 lb. weight gain from my lowest point. What about you (I hope you don't mind my asking) - have you gained any of your weight back? Where atre you at with that? And how your blood workup results looking for you - any issues there? Really, so very good to see you posting! Be well, Ken. Maureen
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I don't mind you asking because I don't feel as if I going to be judged here, just as I don't judge anybody else in their efforts.
In regards to my weight, I have put on just over 40 pounds over the anticpated uptick from the surgery. It has caused me to move up one shirt size and added four inches on my waist. My blood work has not changed much othen then my Graves has come back a little, but not enough to be medicated.
I'll discuss what I see as the cause of my gain. These I don't see as excuses, rather I had to look back to see what I could do to make changes. Four years ago we moved into assist my mother-in-law as she was no longer able to live alone. As she got worse, I found finding workout time very difficult and I began to slowly gain. As things got bad for her, the gym that had been so instrumental in my sucess shut down. I had a huge support system there and a workout buddy whom was a city police officer as well as an Air Force Reservist that pushed me. As my mother in law became more demanding, I didn't join another gym until after her passing. At that point, I had gained 30 pounds over my low.
As most of you know, the leaner you are the more efficient your body becomes. So, a little effort goes along way when you are more fit. In addition, I began to drink energy drinks quite often because I was so exhausted. When my mother in law passed, I quit the energy drinks and joined a gym again. I have found that my eating habits are much better when I'm working out. Unlike my non obese friends that workout so they can pigout, I find I end up thinking if I want to blow thirty minutes on the treadmill for the instant gratification of food. Just as I was getting back into stride and getting back into shape, I had to have my sports hernia at an incision sight repaired and another surgery at the tailend that I don't care to discuss. The Dr. that completed my bypass did the other two. Lets just say I was a rare case regarding the other surgery and his words were of all the surgeries he does, the recovery of what I had done was the worst. I had to return to him every two weeks for three months for stiches removal and the pain was far worse then the bypass or the belt lipectomy. So, as I was by Dr. orders not allowed in the gym for 15 weeks post op, I gave up my membership. So, I gained everything I had lost again and gained 15 more.
I returned to the gym and then in part due to being the ex football stud weight lifter and a fall, I injured my rotator cuff. That began a path towards yet another surgery, another stoppage of progress and weight gain. I stayed off the energy drinks, but began with Diet Pepsi. And that put me to where I was this fall. Oh, and while I didn't have any pattern of drinking, I was drinking more often then before and usually in excess. So, I sat down and wrote some things down. I talked to other people that had sucess in getting through adverse issues. I researched on the internet. What i came up with was a goal of getting more fit. I then wrote down the three things that were road blocks for me and I numbered them one through three with three being the hardest for me and one being easier. For the month of November I worked on the thing that was hardest for me, then in December I worked on the next hardest and now in January I'm working on the item that was easiest. So in other words I'm trying to make my weakness my strength. At the end of the month, I re-evaluate where I'm at and come up with three more issues.
As I'm one of the few men around here, so I can say I'm sorry ladies, but men do just tend to lose quicker. I know it sucks, but my point is I don't think you are fair to yourself if you compare yourself to others all of the time. Like it or not, there was a reason we got to be obese and you need to work on that if you want to refrain from being obese. For me, being physically active seems to be the key. My eating habits that have fueled my gain haven't been so much that they have changed vastly, but that I ate a little more then I did at my low each meal and I ate bigger meals more often. Plus, I found I was getting away from the protien first though process.
I'll continue in an additional post.
In regards to my weight, I have put on just over 40 pounds over the anticpated uptick from the surgery. It has caused me to move up one shirt size and added four inches on my waist. My blood work has not changed much othen then my Graves has come back a little, but not enough to be medicated.
I'll discuss what I see as the cause of my gain. These I don't see as excuses, rather I had to look back to see what I could do to make changes. Four years ago we moved into assist my mother-in-law as she was no longer able to live alone. As she got worse, I found finding workout time very difficult and I began to slowly gain. As things got bad for her, the gym that had been so instrumental in my sucess shut down. I had a huge support system there and a workout buddy whom was a city police officer as well as an Air Force Reservist that pushed me. As my mother in law became more demanding, I didn't join another gym until after her passing. At that point, I had gained 30 pounds over my low.
As most of you know, the leaner you are the more efficient your body becomes. So, a little effort goes along way when you are more fit. In addition, I began to drink energy drinks quite often because I was so exhausted. When my mother in law passed, I quit the energy drinks and joined a gym again. I have found that my eating habits are much better when I'm working out. Unlike my non obese friends that workout so they can pigout, I find I end up thinking if I want to blow thirty minutes on the treadmill for the instant gratification of food. Just as I was getting back into stride and getting back into shape, I had to have my sports hernia at an incision sight repaired and another surgery at the tailend that I don't care to discuss. The Dr. that completed my bypass did the other two. Lets just say I was a rare case regarding the other surgery and his words were of all the surgeries he does, the recovery of what I had done was the worst. I had to return to him every two weeks for three months for stiches removal and the pain was far worse then the bypass or the belt lipectomy. So, as I was by Dr. orders not allowed in the gym for 15 weeks post op, I gave up my membership. So, I gained everything I had lost again and gained 15 more.
I returned to the gym and then in part due to being the ex football stud weight lifter and a fall, I injured my rotator cuff. That began a path towards yet another surgery, another stoppage of progress and weight gain. I stayed off the energy drinks, but began with Diet Pepsi. And that put me to where I was this fall. Oh, and while I didn't have any pattern of drinking, I was drinking more often then before and usually in excess. So, I sat down and wrote some things down. I talked to other people that had sucess in getting through adverse issues. I researched on the internet. What i came up with was a goal of getting more fit. I then wrote down the three things that were road blocks for me and I numbered them one through three with three being the hardest for me and one being easier. For the month of November I worked on the thing that was hardest for me, then in December I worked on the next hardest and now in January I'm working on the item that was easiest. So in other words I'm trying to make my weakness my strength. At the end of the month, I re-evaluate where I'm at and come up with three more issues.
As I'm one of the few men around here, so I can say I'm sorry ladies, but men do just tend to lose quicker. I know it sucks, but my point is I don't think you are fair to yourself if you compare yourself to others all of the time. Like it or not, there was a reason we got to be obese and you need to work on that if you want to refrain from being obese. For me, being physically active seems to be the key. My eating habits that have fueled my gain haven't been so much that they have changed vastly, but that I ate a little more then I did at my low each meal and I ate bigger meals more often. Plus, I found I was getting away from the protien first though process.
I'll continue in an additional post.
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